iXO, let me think about how much I can contribute. I am pretty maxed out working on Nepal's deployments.
I highly recommend you guys talk w/ Greg Smith for a structured project plan. He can also funnel info to you guys from what the latin American pilots need. I probably won't be in the US for another 10 months. I doubt you want to wait that long :) Bryan Kathmandu best of luck On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:13 -0700, Ixo X oxI wrote: > Bryan, > Great ideas ! > Let's continue this health related discussion over on the OLPC > Health mailing list (we are veering off the general grassroots topics > here), and see about bringing your ideas to the next Health Jam... > maybe someone can speak up and propose a time/place on the east coast > instead of the west coast. *hint* *hint* > > Sorry that you are so far away, it would be great to have you there. > (Maybe align the jam to the next time you are in the area ? :) > > -iXo > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > absolutely, > > Start w/ some simple goals for Health > > 1 activity for first aid > 1 activity on nutrition > 1 activity on the causes of disease > > 1 good pdf on the causes of disease > > Then do some work on them to get started. After you have some > prototypes > __then__ go look for help. The argument is "Here are our > goals, here is > what we have so far, please help us improve what we have. > However, if > you are think you could create better content yourself by > starting from > scratch, please do so." > > If you ask the larger community for help w/out having any > existing > prototypes or precise goals, everyone goes off in different > directions. > > Martin Langhoff's e-mail motto sums it up quite well > > "don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first" > > Since you have an all-volunteer team on OLPC Health, you need > projects > where folks can contribute a few hours a week. I recommend > avoiding > architecturally complex or esoteric technical projects, it > will be hard > for folks to put in the necessary time and for others not so > acquainted > w/ that obscure platform to contribute. We are running into > this problem > w/ EPaati since it is coded in Squeak. > > If you could get some of Greg Smith's time, he could help you > put > together a project plan. He has been very helpful to me. He is > also > resident in Boston > > hope this helps > > > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 00:01 +0530, Arjun Sarwal wrote: > > > Why didn't the Health Jam focus on getting folks to help > w/ the > > > development of these activities that you described? > > > > > > Too many OLPC content projects are characterized by > > > 1) Lots of great ideas > > > 2) Lack of focus > > > 3) Lots of excitement, wiki pages, and e-mails > > > 4) Not much output in terms of finished activities or > activity bundles. > > > > > > Sorry to be blunt but we need to change this. > > > > > > > Ideas on getting started with this change ? > > > > (just trying to push the conversation forward in this > direction as I > > agree with your point to some extent) > > > > best > > Arjun > > > > > > From: Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Grassroots-l] Health Jam 2008 > > To: Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: olpc-open <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Games for the OLPC > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > >There's no contradiction between activities that are fun, > or with > > >complex ideas behind them, and those that teach the most > basic health > > >and survival skills to children. > > > > Teaching basic health and survival skills to kids is > actually quite > > complex. > > > > EKG's w/ the XO or the VistA healthcare suite are neat apps > but not what > > is needed by most deployments. > > > > When I refer to "complex" I more precisely mean problems > that are > > technically interesting but not directly not related to > education for > > kids ages 6-12, OLPC's primary focus. > > > > Why didn't the Health Jam focus on getting folks to help w/ > the > > development of these activities that you described? > > > > Too many OLPC content projects are characterized by > > 1) Lots of great ideas > > 2) Lack of focus > > 3) Lots of excitement, wiki pages, and e-mails > > 4) Not much output in terms of finished activities or > activity bundles. > > > > Sorry to be blunt but we need to change this. > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:47 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote: > > > There's no contradiction between activities that are fun, > or with > > > complex ideas behind them, and those that teach the most > basic health > > > and survival skills to children. > > > > > > There are three health-related games being proposed and > worked on at > > > the moment that are good examples; all of which could use > further > > > specific input. Food Force is closest to having something > playable... > > > pehaps Muriel and Deepank can say a bit more about its > recent status. > > > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Water_Wonders > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Malnutrition > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force > > > > > > SJ > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
