Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-12 Thread Xander Pirdy
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote: the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of  Nonzero http://www.nonzero.org/ The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to biological and social

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Xander Pirdy
Great presentation... I really like the format. One possible typo that I spotted: Under features it says: Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick not touch the existing hard drive installation. Should read: Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick does not touch the existing hard

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Xander Pirdy
Caroline- I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already have a dataset on olpc deployments: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1, though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country basis (it

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Xander Pirdy
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy xander.pi...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline- I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already have a dataset on olpc deployments: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1

Re: [IAEP] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks

2010-02-01 Thread Xander Pirdy
This wouldn't be as necessary if the distros had strong brands and could promote Sugar. However, unfortunately they don't. In our ecosystem, the strongest brand is the little green $100 computer with the crank, the image most people likely have of the project. Sadly, none of OLPC's brand