[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMF Staff] [press] CNN on india's $35 laptop

2010-07-23 Thread Barry Newstead
Interesting article. A couple of top of mind thoughts: 1. Wouldn't it be great to have a preloaded version of Wikipedia on all of these computers...and a simple tutorial for how to edit Wikipedia when they get these computers online. Anyone want to coordinate on this? 2. It would be great to me

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMF Staff] [press] CNN on india's $35 laptop

2010-07-23 Thread theo10011
Hello Everyone In response to Mr. Newstead's mail there are a couple of things I wanted to say, First It's an interesting prospect but I do want to point out that its only a prototype developed in response to OLPC, so they've been working on this for more than a couple of years. Press releases lik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMF Staff] [press] CNN on india's $35 laptop

2010-07-23 Thread Arun Ram
Barry, Surely getting Wikipedia on this device would be a great project, especially if we have Indian language content in addition to English. That would be a clincher. As we speak the details about this device seem sketchy. We will all need to check through contacts to see if anyone has contac