[Grassroots-l] NON-TECHY Indivual beginning a program in Kyrgyzstan...

Thu Apr 24 16:57:59 EDT 2008

Let's get to work.....

I  have three (3) OLPC's as I call them...I am 63
years old with NOt an inkling of what you all talk
about.

I am taking/donating my three (3) GOGO OLPC's to
KYRGYZSTAN  this JUNE.  They will reside in an
elementary school in a farming community in the
eastern most corner, up in the mountains betwen
Kazakstan and China. I ill only be bringing them.  I
have no idea what they will be able to do....

There is no internet access up there but there are
internet cafes in the town about 2 hours away.  And we
need a Cyrillic keyboard until they kids/teachers
learn some english... which is part of what I hope
they will get out of this adventure...

I am looking for someone help us get started.  I want
to put together an OLPC Kit to bring with basics so
the kids/teachers can just start them themselves
without the internet part. 

I hope to find someone who lives nearby to be the
go-between with the school, the internet, and you
folks.... someone who can downoad programs and bring
them up and teach them.....

I am in New York City.  

HELP!!!!! OUT THERE... PLEASE HAVE PITY ON US NON TECH
FOLKS

NANA

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>    1. Re: [sugar] This project is rolling, so should
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> From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Grassroots-l] [sugar] This project is
> rolling, so should
> 	OLPC
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> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Bryan Berry
> <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Our pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools
> start this Friday and I
> >  couldn't be more excited.
> 
> I wish I were there.
> 
> >  I find this discussion about the future of OLPC
> frankly *annoying* and
> >  tiresome.
> 
> Ivan and Walter found the reality far more annoying
> and tiresome than
> our account of it is.
> 
> >  The future of OLPC isn't at 1CC. It's at pilot
> schools around
> >  the world. It's in the hands of kids. The
> software and hardware on the
> >  XO are at mature point where we can really see
> the impact on education.
> >  Sugar needs a lot of work but it is functional
> now, thanks to the heroic
> >  efforts of many on the Sugar team.
> 
> You are exactly right, and Nicholas and the
> naysayers are dead wrong.
> I'm looking forward to the time when the kids can
> take over most of
> the programming, most of the localization, and
> pretty much all of the
> strategy.
> 
> >  The key question about participating in OLPC
> shouldn't be what
> >  Negroponte or Bender are up to, it should be what
> Arjun Tamang uses his
> >  XO for on Monday in Nepal or what Marisol
> Gonzalez does w/ it in rural
> >  Peru.
> 
> Yes, it should be. But Nicholas doesn't see it that
> way, and he has
> interfered quite severely in getting the work done
> here.
> 
> >  As Bert says, Onward. There is much work to do.
> Debating the future of
> >  OLPC as an organization does little to advance
> OLPC as a global movement
> >  - which it very much is.
> >
> >  Roll up your sleeves folks, let's make this
> happen.
> 
> They won't go any higher. This is a work smarter,
> not harder, moment.
> If Nicholas is determined to pull resources off
> Linux development and
> turn them to Windows, disaster looms for OLPC. But
> Sugar will be fine,
> regardless, because most of the volunteers are
> ignoring the kerfuffle
> and continuing to code, test, and tweak. I'm still
> recruiting
> localizers and thinking about the design
> possibilities for textbooks
> and manuals for use on a ubiquitous hardware and
> software platform.
> And recruiting artists for one of them that I have
> mostly worked out.
> 
> >  Edward Cherlin: If OLPC the organization isn't
> meeting your needs, start
> >  your own. We started our own here in Nepal and it
> was the best thing we
> >  could have done.
> 
> That's funny. I thought that's what _I_ said, about
> forking Sugar.
> Well, I haven't given up on Nicholas yet, so you're
> going to have to
> either put up with it or filter it. We're not
> stopping the argument
> until we get answers one way or another.
> 
> Walter is currently thinking about what to create
> and how. Mary Lou is
> in the middle of Pixel Qi's A funding round with the
> venture
> capitalists. I don't know what Ivan is doing. But
> I'm still here,
> trying to get it through Nicholas's skull that _he_
> is the problem
> here. Right now he is dangerously close to, "When I
> want to hear
> _your_ opinion, I'll *tell* it to you."
> 
> Thank you for your support.
> 
> >  --
> >  Bryan W. Berry
> >  Systems Engineer
> >  OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
> >
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> >
> 
> 
> 
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> Edward Cherlin
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