Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nice story of Claiborne with OLPC at FRIAM in the NewMexican. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Connecting_the_world -Stephen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:25 PM To: Friam@redfish.com Subject:

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Owen Densmore
OK, two things re: the XO: 1 - How many of us have or will get an XO, probably via the Give1Get1 program? I have one coming before Jan 15 according to a recent email from them. Claiborne has one. Tom Johnson is getting one. Ditto Carl Tollander. That's 4. Could the rest of us

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread joseph spinden
I just ordered one. No ETA yet. JS Owen Densmore wrote: OK, two things re: the XO: 1 - How many of us have or will get an XO, probably via the Give1Get1 program? I have one coming before Jan 15 according to a recent email from them. Claiborne has one. Tom Johnson is getting one.

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Tom Johnson
I have mine. I have not been able to connect to my home WiFi net because, according to the OLPC website, the software does not yet allow connections to a WAP router. Can that be fixed? Second, is there any Linux software that would turn the device into a touch screen/handwriting recognition

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Joshua Thorp
On Dec 23, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: I have not been able to connect to my home WiFi net because, according to the OLPC website, the software does not yet allow connections to a WAP router. Can that be fixed? Is that a WPA router? If so there looks like there may be progress

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: Could the rest of us getting one shout out too? Yes, another Give1Get1.. (for a young person) The good news is that there is an emulator for folks not having an XO It's also relatively easy to build it from source but the documentation on that process is sketchy. But

[FRIAM] Fwd: OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Joshua Thorp
Begin forwarded message: From: Joshua Thorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 23, 2007 2:06:23 PM MST To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe I received one on Friday afternoon. I am incredibly impressed with the

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Carl Tollander
Same day I got the thing I got a message from them apologizing that they wouldn't be able to deliver til after Christmas. While I appreciate being in their thoughts, the ETA they think they have may or may not correspond to the ETA you experience. Carl Owen Densmore wrote: OK, two things

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Nick Frost
Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Owen Densmore wrote: Could the rest of us getting one shout out too? Yes, another Give1Get1.. (for a young person) I received an OLPC a few days ago (Give1Get1). some hardware information. I find the OLPC not so easy to use, but to their credit, they put a

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC in Santa Fe

2007-12-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Nick Frost wrote: I find the OLPC not so easy to use, but to their credit, they put a Pippy program (snake) icon in there, which is a nice little interface to Python, which hopefully will be incentive for some recipients to learn to program with Python. The TurtleArt activity (Logo) is