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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Arjun Sarwal <<a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org">arjun@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">SJ<br>Chris also recently posted about such related events on the Health<br>mailing list, and I believe he might be going to one/some of them...<br>
<br>best<br>Arjun<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Chris Leonard <<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM<br>Subject: [Health] Serious Gaming conferences (not what you think)<br>
To: <a href="mailto:health@lists.laptop.org">health@lists.laptop.org</a><br><br><br>I just came across these interesting conferences.<br><br>Games for Health Fourth Annual Conference 2008<br>May 8-9, 2008, Baltimore MD<br>
(yes I know it's crazy short notice, but I just came across it)<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><a href="http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html" target="_blank">http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html</a><br><br></div>and<br><br>Games for Change<br>2008 Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival<br>
Parsons the New School for Design in NYC<br><br>June 3<br><a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php</a><br><br>and/or pre-festival workshop, June 2<br>
<a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php" target="_blank">http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php</a><br><br><br>An OLPC presence at one or both of the conferences below looks like<br>too good an opportunity to pass up for meeting/recruiting other game<br>
developers with compatible goals and for showing off the XO as a<br>really cool platform that they should consider porting. I posted the<br>info for "Games for Change" to etoys, devel and games lists. It's<br>
still within a reasonable timeframe to organize an "official OLPC"<br>presence for that one and SJ has expressed some interest in that idea.<br><br>It's less realistic to expect that anyone will be going to Games for<br>
Health, but I passed notice along to OLPC Learning Club DC, just in<br>case. In any event, the list of presenters makes for some excellent<br>leads on identifying potential developers/projects with similar goals.<br><br>
There is a certain sad irony in the fact that a number of the games in<br>development seem to be about getting over-nourished kids to put down<br>the game controller and get active when malnutrition is such a great<br>concern for the developing world. That's not to say that a little<br>
economic development won't bring all of the ills of the first world to<br>others in time or that exercise messaging isn't suitable in any<br>environment, but I think those particular materials would need<br>substantial reworking for use by OLPC. To a great extent OLPC<br>
represents the first time there will be a channel/platform for<br>reaching the developing world with such games, so it's perfectly<br>pragmatic that there has been little work there to date. I very much<br>want to think that some introduction to OLPC's efforts would bring the<br>
passion of these folks for electronic health message delivery to bear<br>on a wider world audience.<br><br>cjl<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br> Health mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Health@lists.laptop.org">Health@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com">meta.sj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks for the update, Ixo! There's a Games for Health event in Baltimore<br>
> May 8-9. Did you meet any people there who might like to go?<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html" target="_blank">http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html</a><br>><br>> SJ<br>><br>
><br>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Alan Claver <<a href="mailto:alc@psu.edu">alc@psu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> > On 4/28/08 3:57 PM, "Ixo X oxI" <<a href="mailto:ixo@myna.ws">ixo@myna.ws</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>> > > lol. :)<br>> ><br>> > Oh, sorry, you're the sorry looking one.. 8-)<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>
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><br>><br><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>--<br>Arjun Sarwal<br>Intern, One Laptop per Child<br>Email: <a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org">arjun@laptop.org</a><br>IRC: arjs on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net/" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar<br>
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