<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear members, volunteers, and friends of </span><a href="http://olpc.ch/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">olpc.ch</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As vice-president (or co-president) of the Swiss section of the</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">One Laptop Per Child project, I wanted to update you a little</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">bit with our work in progress and achievements so far.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
This year, I will not be able to be present physically in Bern,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">because I am in Paris. Therefore I am proposing to tune in</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
using Skype video, at some point during the meeting.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My Skype ID is : levstudiom.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
It would be terrific to be able to follow the entire meeting</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">remotely, but I imagine that such a webcast has to be</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
prepared well in advance in order to function properly.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Some of the topics I wanted to address are :</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Contacts with other associations involved with children</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
education : OLPC France, Janusz Korczak Gesellschaft,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Le Cube (Issy-les-Moulineaux)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Participating in the ACM Interaction Design for Children</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">conference</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Validating our official Manifesto</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Python training</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Academic principles (a 2004 paper by Minsky and some</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thoughts on the classification of ludic activities by Caillois)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- the support we have of Chris Mburu, from the UN Human<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Rights Council in Geneva</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Looking forward to hearing/seeing some of you later !</div><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br></div><div>Michael.</div></font></span></div>