Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia
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 evolution, that in some way, we will be fulfilling our destiny if we become one globalised culture. While watching the video I came to the understanding that many people would take this as neo-social-darwinist, but I thought that the main narrator was trying to make a very different point, one that could just as easily be called social-darwinism, but was distinct in meaning from earlier uses of the term. From wikipedia(www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism): Social Darwinism is a pejorative term used in criticism of ideologies or ideas concerning their exploitation of concepts in biology and social sciences to artificially create political change that reduces the fertility of certain individuals, races, and subcultures having certain undesired qualities[dubious – discuss]. It has very rarely been used as a self description. I don't think that this film attempted to accomplish any of these things, nor did it promote them. I think that he was discussing the evolution of a species as a whole, instead of pushing the evolution of the species through homogenization, and elimination of diverse culture. I am fairly sure that he was describing the human species as a diverse group that in some ways could be seen as a giant organism, and that this view is becoming increasingly correct as the interenet and interconnectedness becomes more and more universal. I thought that his statments were more in line with Kevin Kelly's use of the word technology, then social darwinism (http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_tells_technology_s_epic_story.html), in that self-organization and interconnectedness are increasing and that technology itself leads to the increase of: Differences, Diversity, Options, Choices, Oppurtunities [and] Freedoms. Giving laptops to children in these cultures is going to have an effect. What that effect is has yet to be fully determined, but I don't think that it will lead towards the extinction of their culture in fact I think that it might allow it to spread and become more widely understood, by allowing these children to share their world-view. Just some thoughts. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation
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 drive installation. Christoph: Out of curiosity is there somewhere that I could find numbers for those projects aggregated? -Xander On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi Caroline, this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones that ever have been done on Sugar! While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone, please let me know if this needs to be updated!): Afghanistan Austria Bhutan Brazil Cambodia China Colombia Ethiopia Ghana Haiti India Iraq Kazakhstan Lebanon Mali Mexico Mongolia Mozambique Nepal Nicaragua Nigeria Niue Pakistan Palestine Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Russia Rwanda Senegal Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Thailand United States Uruguay Vietnam Cheers, Christoph Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks: I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people? The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/ I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone has done one. Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides? Thanks! Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation
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 has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think that it is something important. -Xander On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos. If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes to make the map. Thanks! On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote: Bolivia - 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they don't seem willing to accept help) - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure, CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles during games his team plays. - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers, mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through customs on several trips. Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill despite. As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind. - Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on. - 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city orphanage, through OLE Bolivia. 10 more from the same origin in my closet here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough to brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck) - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to B1 models - Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO. Dominican Republic - apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel at some public function. No further anything is known of this, except that apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos Slim of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central America and the Caribbean. Note that Lionel was very connected with NN early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the first places to really take off) OT, enjoy this comic http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png - Juanelo! I am so angry with you! - Why is that, Mr. Minister? - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation! You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on? - yeah... - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out they were made out of sticks! I was like Mister Ridiculous! - - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price? (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other authorities to the children :-( ) On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi Caroline, this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones that ever have been done on Sugar! While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone, please let me know if this needs to be updated!): Afghanistan Austria Bhutan Brazil Cambodia China Colombia Ethiopia Ghana Haiti India Iraq Kazakhstan Lebanon Mali Mexico Mongolia Mozambique Nepal Nicaragua Nigeria Niue Pakistan Palestine Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Russia Rwanda Senegal Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Thailand United States Uruguay Vietnam Cheers, Christoph Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks: I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people? The draft of my presentation is here:
Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation
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, though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think that it is something important. -Xander Sorry for the double post - I just came across this as well: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries, does any one know if this data is more current/correct (no sources for this are cited)? It might also be worthwhile to include countries that have pilots or that have shown significant interest? Also perhaps a state by state one might be interesting as well ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_United_States). -Xander On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos. If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes to make the map. Thanks! On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote: Bolivia - 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they don't seem willing to accept help) - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure, CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles during games his team plays. - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers, mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through customs on several trips. Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill despite. As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind. - Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on. - 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city orphanage, through OLE Bolivia. 10 more from the same origin in my closet here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough to brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck) - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to B1 models - Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO. Dominican Republic - apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel at some public function. No further anything is known of this, except that apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos Slim of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central America and the Caribbean. Note that Lionel was very connected with NN early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the first places to really take off) OT, enjoy this comic http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png - Juanelo! I am so angry with you! - Why is that, Mr. Minister? - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation! You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on? - yeah... - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out they were made out of sticks! I was like Mister Ridiculous! - - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price? (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other authorities to the children :-( ) On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi Caroline, this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones that ever have been done on Sugar! While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone, please let me know if this needs to be updated!): Afghanistan Austria Bhutan Brazil Cambodia China Colombia Ethiopia Ghana Haiti India Iraq
Re: [IAEP] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks
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 equity leverages Sugar, which is always absent from press releases, absent from the boot screen, given short shrift on the OLPC website, etc (cf. http://laptop.org/en/laptop/software/index.shtml with screenshots but not even a link to the Sugar Labs website). I just want to interject that there is a link to the sugarlabs website from there, it is right under the screenshots. Maybe not very prominent but it is definitely there. Also if you click, try sugar for yourself, it takes you right to the sugarlabs wiki. -Alexander Sean ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
