[OLPC library] Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

[Samuel Klein]

Hello, and thanks for your interest!

On Feb 5, 2008 4:53 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Copied to OLPC mailing lists and Librarian Chick, cataloguer of free textbooks.
>
> On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Joshua Waitzkin <joshwaitzkin.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Edward, Many thanks for following up. Jack Hidary told me about this
> > program over dinner a couple weeks ago. I think it is just wonderful and I
> > will be thrilled to help. Question--would you prefer to have an audio or
> > text version of my book? We'll make it happen either way.

I'll agree with Ed : having both audio and text versions of a book is
best of all.
It is both more accessible to a disabled audience and provides a tool
for literacy.

> > I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of
> > Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well.
>
> Outstanding.

Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to
work out...

SJ


> > On Feb 5, 2008 5:53 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > We spoke last week when you were on Forum with Michael Krasny. I asked
> > > about licensing The Art of Learning for use on the One Laptop Per
> > > Child XO computer in developing countries. We would want to work out a
> > > license for free distribution to poor students in developing
> > > countries, without disturbing your copyright and sales in richer
> > > countries. We would also want permission for people in developing
> > > countries to create their own translations, in the same way the XO
> > > laptop software is localized, and other content translated. See, for
> > > example,
> > >
> > > http://dev.laptop.org/translate/ for software
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Translators for books and other content
> > >
> > > The educational philosophy of the Laptop project, called
> > > Constructionism, emphasizes learning by doing and collaborative
> > > discovery. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructionism The XO software
> > > supports multiple users writing in the same document (with separate
> > > cursor for each), drawing together, playing music together, playing
> > > games, and so on.
> > >
> > > The countries where XO laptops are currently being deployed are
> > > Uruguay, Peru, Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and
> > > Mongolia. Birmingham, Alabama has ordered 15,000 XOs for its public
> > > schools. Languages needed in addition to English thus include Spanish,
> > > French, Haitian Creole French, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, Tigrinya, Khmer,
> > > Dari, Pashto, Hazaragi, and Mongolian. See http://www.ethnologue.org/
> > > if you want to know more about any of them.
> > >
> > > Please let me know what you think of these ideas, and how we can start
> > > the process.
>
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