I too will be at PyCon08, I will look you up. avolunteer DrStovallFoundation wrote: > If you want a project in the 3rd world > to be a success, involve the local people from the start and at > every phase possible instead of just handing them something. > I have said it before, Most 3rd world children can learn Python, > but C++ is unrealistic. > > Olpc has inspired the Asus Eee, the classmate, and many other > imitations and innovations. When can we get a group of sword-devel > people to be inspired with what we should have been working > together to do a long time ago? The Bible has plenty of > linguistics, psychology, sociology, and other educational > materials. When can we get a team as interested in these things > as sword-devel has been interested in searching words in commentaries, > and dictionaries? A few suggestions have been made on this list > for text to speech and other things which could be of great benefit > to 3rd world children. Now that we have two versions of the sword > available on Python, let's move on to more important things. > > Pycon.org registration is open for staff now and will be open > for everyone soon. There will be a OLPC tutorial March 13 and > then some talks. From March 15 p.m. until March 20 there will > be OLPC development sprints. Last year I was told that anyone > with decades of experience in the third world was not needed > and that experience in team leadership was plan B. With such > attitudes, OLPC may continue to make less impact than their > excellent technology deserves. Perhaps the same could be said > for many other excellent technologies. > > Anyone who is interested in technology and serving children should > keep on showing their interest on this list. I was able to work > with the Rapier developer one weekend in Paris. Because he knew > a lot of things I did not know how to do and because I understood > some things he did not, we were able to do something that neither > one of us could have done alone. Anyone who can go to Chicago > for pycon.org largest regional meeting in March should do so. > Everyone else who is interested should sprint with us via eMail > and IRC. It costs money to dispose of computers in Europe. It > is better to send them to me in Indonesia. If people will help > to develop the appropriate studies in Python and Scala we can > help many children and adults. OLPC here would be great. But > we can do a lot with other technologies as long as they are not > dependent on C++, huge data files, and things that are not > realistic for the undeveloping part of the 3rd world. BTW please > Google Nias site: TheJakartaPost.com and see how much progress > has been made among the hardest hit tsunami/earthquake victims > after 3+ years and the largest foreign contributions ever given > to a 3rd world country. The Jakarta Post says there is still > traffic of children, 1.2 million children drop out of school > each year, and the majority of the houses have not yet been > rebuilt so many people are still living in tents. Nias, the predominatly > Christian island is worse off than Muslim areas that got more > aid. But I am still working in Muslim areas with people who > live still with great trauma and little hope for the future > although they again have a brick home. > > I will be at Pycon in Chicago. But please contact me and others > who are interested if you really want to do something appropriate > for 3rd world children. > Johnny Stovall - a volunteer > The Dr. Stovall Foundation > > --- "Zachary M. Oglesby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I am still learning Python but I think this is a great idea. OLPC is >> designed for children in developing nations and that would be a great >> resource for people trying to spread God's word to them. >> >> On Jan 14, 2008 12:38 PM, DJ Ortley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Having started at least one of those conversations, I still mildly >>> have an interest. Especially as I've learned Python since then. :) >>> >>> It seemed that the conversation ended with people thinking the intent >>> was to get sword stuck on the the laptops before they ship, which >>> obviously isn't going to happen (and definatly weren't my original >>> thoughts.) >>> >>> As I said, I'm still mildly interested, but I don't know how involved >>> I can be in the short term as I have many other plates spinning (and >>> falling down.) >>> >>> -DJ >>> >>> >>> On Jan 14, 2008 10:02 AM, Jason Galyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> There were various conversations in the past relating to Bible related >>>> software for the One Laptop Per Child or XO project. I would like to >>>> start the discussion back up if anyone is interested. >>>> >>>> At my local Python Users Group meeting (http://dfwpython.org) we had >>>> three of the units and played around with them including messing with >>>> the mesh networking and collaborative activities. >>>> >>>> These are very cool, I can't say enough good about them. >>>> >>>> While large amounts of text are out due to storage (and RAM) is there >>>> interest in developing client or server software for and lesson >>>> management applications? >>>> >>>> For example, you could still have bible reading assignments (including >>>> the follow along in the class) using either the browser or just the >>>> normal pyGTK interface receiving its information from the class (school) >>>> server. >>>> >>>> There have been some great ideas generated already however having seen >>>> some of these, I can say that the potential for teaching the world the >>>> Word is limitless. Combining these with general education setup >>>> missions would be a great boon for witnessing. >>>> >>>> Some resources: >>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home - general website >>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers - development info >>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild - development >>>> checkout of the sugar environment >>>> >>>> note that with sugar, you have the latest development versions available >>>> (my preference) with sugar-jhbuild, downloadable packages for many >>>> platforms, and vm images such as for VMWare, Parallels, and QEMU. >>>> >>>> Download a copy and see what the potential is! >>>> >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >>>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>>> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. 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