[OLPC-Chicago] Illinois developments and HB5000

Samuel Klein sj at laptop.org
Wed Apr 23 03:25:10 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I spoke with Ryan on the phone at his request. We talked about changes
> needed to the bill, and assistance that will be needed with teacher
> training, experiment design, and some related matters. The main topic
> was the expected progress of the bill. It originated in Lt. Governor
> Pat Quinn's office, and passed the Illinois House shortly after our
> conversation, with minor amendments. The Senate gets it next, and Ryan
> expects the Senate Education Committee to hold hearings on it.
>
> I assumed that OLPC would want to be involved in the hearings, but I
> have been told otherwise.
>

Thank you for the update.  Larry, have you had any interactions with Ryan
over the same time period?  I assume the wiki can afford to include this
information as well, for the curious.


>
> Now that I know whom to talk to, no problem. The frustration was that
> nobody told me anything helpful. Quite the opposite until just a few
> minutes ago.
>

Understood.


> Well, there is one more thing. I e-mailed Darah Tappitake
> <countries at laptop.org>, as I was instructed to, and got a form letter
> back telling me to write to the same address. This is not encouraging,
> but I did as I was told.
>
> There is a serious management problem at OLPC, and I intend to do what
> I can to get it addressed. Not just complaining, but asking people to
> do things.
>

Sincere efforts to address problems you see are always welcome.   (Okay,
sometimes your target audience doesn't need more drama, so tone is
important)

I think more than one of the autoresponse messages need to be fixed.
Perhaps they should pull on demand from protected wiki pages...

Regards,
SJ
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