Excellent! Thx for introducing the project to the folks at Columbia. Sameer
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Fantastic video, even if I wish they/d credited "Internet-in-a-Box" (all of > us, and our OLPC/Sugar origins) rather than crediting me! I did not know > this video was coming. I've asked Columbia Univ folks(*) to more properly > credit Internet-in-a-Box in future :) > > https://youtu.be/xI3Ed008Mxo > > (*) under the leadership of Columbia School of Journalism Professor Anne > Nelson, whose grad student team did all the hard work in the Dominican > Republic this spring. Very honest mistake on their part, as our > http://internet-in-a-Box.org and http://schoolserver.org web sites are > indeed stale. > > Finally if you too are inspired by what rural health workers are doing for > Haitians' rights-to-survive in the Dominican Republic, and want to build > your very own digital library- please do read this important article at > OpenSource.com (also just published) and feel free to ask us @ > http://iiab.io what you need to make it happen: > > How to create an Internet-in-a-Box on a Raspberry Pi > Learn about this inexpensive device for students with restricted internet > access and people in remote areas of the world not served by broadband. > https://opensource.com/article/17/5/internet-in-a-box-raspberry-pi > > PS developing world hackers & offline content gurus please write me if you > want to attend our larger http://OFF.NETWORK Wikipedia/OpenStreetMap > Hackathon in August for hard-core implementers, --taking "meducational" > humanitarian open content to the next level -- for schools, clinics, > libraries truly everywhere. Yes that means heading further into the hills > than 5G Helicopter Celebrities, beyond even SUNY Potsdam where our hackathon > will be held ;) FYI our "Kiwix + Internet-in-Box + Offliners All" hackathon > will be held in conjunction and right after Wikipedia's own annual community > powwow in Montreal (https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org) co-located right in > the same city with DebConf17 (https://debconf17.debconf.org). Thanks in > advance to open-access librarians / factivist developers all for getting in > touch towards joining us from different corners of the globe!! > > "Always do right, this will gratify some people and astonish the rest." > Mark Twain -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep