[OLPC India] Important

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Saurabh Adhikari<adhikaris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Seth,
>
> I had a simple query. Effectively, I was trying to  understand, is anyone
> allowed to take the name of OLPC India? That can create a confusion. I do
> not know the person and there is no question of malice. The immediate
> context was a googlegroup called "OLPC India". It seems Gogna has just
> started that.

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First post, Feb. 12 Hattie
Amit Gogna posted about his group OLPC Pune, on Feb. 14.

> In any case, anyone responsible, I presume, would avoid creating confusion.
> I could not find anything on Digital Bridge Foundation on the net. Except the
> Boston Digital Bridge Foundation. Is there an organization by that name?
> Where is it? What does it do? Again, its not about malice. Its a simple
> clarification.

http://www.olpc.co.in/olpcindiaday/schedule.html
Schedule for OLPC India Day on 4th Aug 2008

Video conference: In major cities

An opportunity for everyone across the country interested in the OLPC
project to participate.
2.00 to 2.15 pm 	Sumit Chowdhury
Introduction to Digital Bridge Foundation and OLPC INDIA
2.15 to 2.45             	

Nicholas Negroponte OLPC VISION
2.45 to 4.00           	Q and A
4.00 to 4.20            	

Presentation: David Cavallo: Chief Learning Architect
4.20 to 5.00pm         	

Q&A

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Sumit Chowdhury, Reliance Communications

> In any case, for the sake of avoiding confusion, any enthusiast or supporter
> must avoid taking on official names. That is a generl practice. Unless, of
> course, OLPC is organised a bit differently and it does not matter what name
> anyone takes.
>
> Thank you for your effort to clarify.
>
> Sincerely,
> S Adhikari
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:41:27 -0400
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Important
> From: seth at laptop.org
> To: adhikaris at hotmail.com
> CC: india at lists.laptop.org
>
> You should not attribute to malice what can be attributed to
> misunderstanding.
>
> The (rather poor) convention of groups who are doing forming OLPC
> deployments or interested groups etc is to call themselves OLPC $Country.
> At this point it is the default, and rather hard to avoid.
>
> For instance, there was an OLPC India group well before Satish officially
> started the OLPC India office.
>
> According to this page:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Mumbai
>
> Amit has an @laptop.org email address and is a member of the digital bridge
> foundation.  He seems to also been involved in the Khirat Pilot in
> mid-2007.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Amitg
>
> Can you cite what exactly you're talking about? Webpage, blog, news article,
> wiki page?
>
> --Seth
>
> 2009/7/13 Saurabh Adhikari <adhikaris at hotmail.com>
>
> Just noticed that someone called Amit Gogna has formed a group by the name
> of OLPC India.. Does he have any authority to do that? In any case it is
> creating confusion for no reason. Does anyone here know about who this
> person is and why is he doing this?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> S Adhikari
>
>
>
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