Ragi,
I am sending Alan Kay your response. And I will get back to you when I get a
reply.
Donna
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From: Ragi Y. Burhum
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Subject: Re: [909linux] FYI: the OCPL project / Peru (do...@hawcenter.org)
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:31:57 -0700
From: " do...@hawcenter.org" <do...@hawcenter.org>
Subject: [909linux] FYI: the OCPL project / Peru
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I sent the following message out to the LUGIE list just now and Randall
Whitman suggested I also post it here - Donna.
Hi All,
Some of you have expressed an interest in the "One Laptop Per Child"
project being spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte, fromerly the head of the
Media Lab at MIT.
As some of you know, I am the founder of the Hawthorne Center (located
behind my house in the Fontana area) and am supporting several projects - such
as building a robotics interface - being developed by Ben Cooper in Squeak, a
free version of Smalltak - the pure OOP language first developed by Alan Kay in
the 70s-80s.
For the last 5(?) years Alan has been intimately involved with Negroponte
in developing the OLPC project. Particularly, he has been working to have his
baby - EToys - ported to this machine. Go to www.squeakland.org to read more
about EToys.
The following message was just sent to the Squeak Smalltalk Developers list
by Alan Kay:
Hi Folks --
Peru is starting to show a lot of interest in the OLPC project and
(because Squeak and EToys run on the OLPC XO) Nicholas has asked me if we
know of any Peruvian Squeakers (or South American Squeakers who might be
interested in visiting Peru).
????
Cheers,
Alan
====================
If anyone wants to get more info/ know more about Squeak, get back to me
and I will take it from there.
Thanks,
Donna
909-350-0311
do...@hawcenter.org
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I am not a "squeaker", but one of the (many) things in my agenda for my
December visit to Peru is to get in touch with some local Linux groups in Lima
and try to see what the landscape is like. I have been thinking about setting
up a peruvian non-profit org to improve local schools... I tried sending many
e-mail to the OPC ppl about2 years ago (when it was hot in the press) but I
never received any response from them.
- Ragi
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