[OLPC library] [support-gang] Health Jam 2008 (article and pictures)

[Arjun Sarwal]

Chris

I totally agree with you. Sorry I misunderstood your email to think
that you might be able to attend one of these.
Even if no one 'officially' from OLPC might be able to present there,
any OLPC project Health volunteers who can present there on behalf of
OLPC Health  would be more than welcome.

SJ: thoughts ?

best regards
Arjun


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Chris Leonard
<cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> arjs,
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not likely to be able to attend, but having found these,
> I did think that OLPC (SJ et. al.) should consider an "official presence".
> I also thought that some of the participants on some of the lists might find
> them sufficiently interesting to consider attending on their own, and so I
> pinged a note to SJ and a few lists at about the same time.
>
> Didn't mean to create an echo, but I do think that these present very
> interesting opportunities to promote XO as platform/channel and possibly to
> recruit like-minded developers to port/adapt their projects.
>
> cjl
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > SJ
> > Chris also recently posted about such related events on the Health
> > mailing list, and I believe he might be going to one/some of them...
> >
> > best
> > Arjun
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM
> > Subject: [Health] Serious Gaming conferences (not what you think)
> > To: health at lists.laptop.org
> >
> >
> > I just came across these interesting conferences.
> >
> > Games for Health Fourth Annual Conference 2008
> > May 8-9, 2008, Baltimore MD
> > (yes I know it's crazy short notice, but I just came across it)
> >
> > http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html
> >
> > and
> >
> > Games for Change
> > 2008 Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival
> > Parsons the New School for Design in NYC
> >
> > June 3
> > http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php
> >
> > and/or pre-festival workshop, June 2
> > http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php
> >
> >
> > An OLPC presence at one or both of the conferences below looks like
> > too good an opportunity to pass up for meeting/recruiting other game
> > developers with compatible goals and for showing off the XO as a
> > really cool platform that they should consider porting.  I posted the
> > info for "Games for Change" to etoys, devel and games lists.  It's
> > still within a reasonable timeframe to organize an "official OLPC"
> > presence for that one and SJ has expressed some interest in that idea.
> >
> > It's less realistic to expect that anyone will be going to Games for
> > Health, but I passed notice along to OLPC Learning Club DC, just in
> > case.  In any event, the list of presenters makes for some excellent
> > leads on identifying potential developers/projects with similar goals.
> >
> > There is a certain sad irony in the fact that a number of the games in
> > development seem to be about getting over-nourished kids to put down
> > the game controller and get active when malnutrition is such a great
> > concern for the developing world.   That's not to say that a little
> > economic development won't bring all of the ills of the first world to
> > others in time or that exercise messaging isn't suitable in any
> > environment, but I think those particular materials would need
> > substantial reworking for use by OLPC.  To a great extent OLPC
> > represents the first time there will be a channel/platform for
> > reaching the developing world with such games, so it's perfectly
> > pragmatic that there has been little work there to date.  I very much
> > want to think that some introduction to OLPC's efforts would bring the
> > passion of these folks for electronic health message delivery to bear
> > on a wider world audience.
> >
> > cjl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Health mailing list
> >  Health at lists.laptop.org
> >  http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/health
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for the update, Ixo!  There's a Games for Health event in
> Baltimore
> > > May 8-9.  Did you meet any people there who might like to go?
> > >
> > > http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html
> > >
> > > SJ
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Alan Claver <alc at psu.edu> wrote:
> > > > On 4/28/08 3:57 PM, "Ixo X oxI" <ixo at myna.ws> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > lol.  :)
> > > >
> > > > Oh, sorry, you're the sorry looking one.. 8-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> >
> > --
> > Arjun Sarwal
> > Intern, One Laptop per Child
> > Email: arjun at laptop.org
> > IRC: arjs on irc.freenode.net in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar
> >
>
>



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Arjun Sarwal
Intern, One Laptop per Child
Email: arjun at laptop.org
IRC: arjs on irc.freenode.net in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar