Popular Science article on OLPC project.

2013-07-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
The following mostly-critical article was mentioned on IRC: http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-07/one-laptop-childs-de-evolution It's worth keeping the criticisms in mind while working to invalidate them. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net )

OLPC Project

2009-04-02 Thread Angule Gabriel
Hello iEARN Kenya has interest in this project and would do with as many laptops as you would practically be able to provide in its endeavour to initiate the ICT integration in education programme within Kenyan schools. We would like to start with some schools in Western Kenya then move on

Re: [Grassroots-l] OLPC Project

2009-04-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Angule Gabriel angule2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello iEARN Kenya has interest in this project and would do with as many laptops as you would practically be able to provide in its endeavour to initiate the ICT integration in education programme within Kenyan

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
[cc += sugar-de...@] Victor Lazzarini wrote: Thanks. Walter has kindly replied to me already, so it looks like sugar labs is my destination. Hope to be able to clear up all my marking by the end of next week and by then I think will also know where I actually fit into this new scheme of

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Bernie Innocenti wrote: [cc += sugar-de...@] Victor Lazzarini wrote: Thanks. Walter has kindly replied to me already, so it looks like sugar labs is my destination. Hope to be able to clear up all my marking by the end of next week and by then I think will also know where I actually fit

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-25 Thread Bastien
C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org writes: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes: [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the project. +1 Please have some consideration for the

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-25 Thread Bastien
Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com writes: just wanted to know who is taking care of what now. that's fair enough, but it'll take some time to settle. Maybe post to de...@l.o and the sugar devel list and hope whomever is looking after component X to answer? It's now two weeks since

status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Hi everyone, I have not been able to work on anything new for OLPC for the past four months, given my heavy teaching schedule. However, now I am just about to go on research leave and one of my goals was to do some work on the music/sound side of things for the XO. So I am now wondering whether

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone, I have not been able to work on anything new for OLPC for the past four months, given my heavy teaching schedule. However, now I am just about to go on research leave and one of my goals was to do some

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Thanks. Walter has kindly replied to me already, so it looks like sugar labs is my destination. Hope to be able to clear up all my marking by the end of next week and by then I think will also know where I actually fit into this new scheme of things. I'm happy to be back. Regards Victor At

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Ed McNierney
Victor - Thanks! I agree with Ben that connecting with the Sugar Labs community is the right start and an excellent focus. If you do need to have XO-specific conversations as well, I would be happy to be the contact person to do that. - Ed On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Benjamin

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Bastien
Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes: [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the project. +1 -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes: [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the project. +1 Please have some consideration for the recently unemployed. Not everyone wants this

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Ed McNierney
Victor Scott - Sorry - I made a comment about this on an earlier email, but I just realized that that message wasn't sent to the devel list. Scott's quite right. I firmly believe that whenever possible a layoff is handled with a face-to-face conversation with your manager. It isn't fun

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread victor
...@laptop.org To: Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:10 PM Subject: Re: status of OLPC project On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
just wanted to know who is taking care of what now. that's fair enough, but it'll take some time to settle. Maybe post to de...@l.o and the sugar devel list and hope whomever is looking after component X to answer? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

CIPA done (was: OLPC Project suggestions.)

2008-05-07 Thread Albert Cahalan
Child-safe web filtering on XO Regardless of its merits, CIPA requires it for XO deployments in US schools: Here are the requirements: http://ifea.net/cipa.pdf The easy way out is child ownership. The requirements only apply to computers which are owned by schools and libraries. Probably

Re: CIPA done (was: OLPC Project suggestions.)

2008-05-07 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:35:07AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Child-safe web filtering on XO Regardless of its merits, CIPA requires it for XO deployments in US schools: Here are the requirements: http://ifea.net/cipa.pdf The easy way out is child ownership. The requirements only

Re: CIPA done (was: OLPC Project suggestions.)

2008-05-07 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is totally half-assed. As a parent, I would be pissed off when I became aware of the quality of such an OLPC web filtering solution. How about if we place a DansGuardian transparent proxy on a public IP

Docs, Help tickets (was Re: OLPC Project suggestions.)

2008-05-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Docs to go w/ builds: http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/ http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.py http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/joyride-1477-api/epydoc.config

Re: OLPC Project suggestions.

2008-05-06 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Another set of ideas and projects could be found at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Some unaccepted students have shown interest on keep on doing the ideas no matter the money ;). On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll list a grab

Teacher Preparation Program for the OLPC Project in Nepal — Part II , Onsite training

2008-05-04 Thread Bryan Berry
Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta posted the review of the second week of teacher training, which took place on-site at the schools http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/283 We have just completed Part II of our teacher preparation program. The complete teacher training consisted of two segments:

Re: Teacher Preparation Program for the OLPC Project in Nepal — Part II , Onsite training

2008-05-04 Thread Bryan Berry
The stuff that needs to be translated is the 65 page teacher training guide. I believe that Prabhas Pokharel is interested in working on it but I don't know how much time he has had for it as of late. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:OLENepal_Trainer%27s_Manual.pdf I still need to post it in

Report about Peru Deployment of the XOs/OLPC project

2008-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_*Report about Peru Deployment of the XOs/OLPC project*_ March, 6. 2008 Today I have met Mr. Oscar Becerra, he is the person in charge of the DIGETE or Direccion General de Tecnologias Educativas (General Management of Educative Tecnologies). This area depends directly of the Vice Minister

Report about Peru Deployment of the XOs/OLPC project

2008-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_*Report about Peru Deployment of the XOs/OLPC project*_ March, 6. 2008 Today I have met Mr. Oscar Becerra, he is the person in charge of the DIGETE or Direccion General de Tecnologias Educativas (General Management of Educative Tecnologies). This area depends directly of the Vice Minister

Re: [OLPC library] Report about Peru Deployment of the XOs/OLPC project

2008-03-06 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Report about Peru Deployment of the XOs/OLPC project I also posted some of my notes from Peru, and particularly from a visit to Arahuay: http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org

helping the OLPC project with ejabberd

2007-11-26 Thread Robert McQueen
Hello Ejabberd Community, I'm one of the people at Collabora Ltd (www.collabora.co.uk) working on the collaboration stuff in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child, www.laptop.org) project. We're using our Telepathy (telepathy.freedesktop.org) framework to present the same APIs to the shared activities