[OLPC-Chicago] OLPC-Chicago Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
kayiwa fred
kayiwafred at gmail.com
Thu May 22 16:28:33 EDT 2008
Hello to the Chicago OLPC group
Hi Friends
Am Kayiwa Fred of Uganda East Africa and am on of the Directors of the
Young soccer Team as well as a person who struggles to ensure that
there is development among Young People in Africa
How ever to my concern there are few kids here in schools who have
computer knowledge and yet it is so important.
I want to work with you and convince some schools which i can connect
with to get the XO but how can they be got In Uganda?
And i have a suggestion that we there can be a strong base for OLPC in
Africa may be in UGANDA and the rest like in Sudan can easy get them
what about that?
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> 1. Hello to the Chicago OLPC group - and a question (Michael Hurd)
> 2. Re: Hello to the Chicago OLPC group - and a question (Kevin Crews)
> 3. Re: [sugar] On the Naming of Sugar (Edward Cherlin)
> 4. Re: [sugar] On the Naming of Sugar (Edward Cherlin)
> 5. Re: Hello to the Chicago OLPC group - and a question
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:47:52 -0500
> From: "Michael Hurd" <m.d.hurd at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OLPC-Chicago] Hello to the Chicago OLPC group - and a
> question
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> To: Chicago OLPC group
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> From: Michael Hurd
>
> Hello,
> I'm on the Board of an Illinois nonprofit and 501c3 whose mission is to
> build schools in Southern Sudan. I'm the Technology Coordinator. The
> organization's name is *The Lost Boys Rebuilding Southern Sudan*.
> www.rebuildingsouthernsudan.org. We are based in the western Chicago
> suburbs. Our first school in Southern Sudan will be finished later this
> year and I'd love to get some XO's into it.
>
> Do you have any ideas on how we can make it happen? Any information would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Michael Hurd
> Secretary and Technology Coordinator
> The Lost Boys Rebuilding Southern Sudan
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> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:45:46 -0500
> From: "Kevin Crews" <kcrews at imsa.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] Hello to the Chicago OLPC group - and a
> question
> To: "Michael Hurd" <m.d.hurd at gmail.com>
> Cc: olpc-chicago at lists.laptop.org
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> Michael;
> I am so glad that you have consulted the list here. I know that our chapter
> at the Illinois Math and Science Academy [[IMSA]] is looking to travel this
> Winter, between our first and second semester specifically to do something
> like this. I am not sure of the details at all right now, but I can say
> that it would be a possibility to come and help train your teachers and
> students how to use some of the XOs.
>
> As for actually getting XOs, there are two ways to look at it: find a
> donation of a few XOs, or find a donation of money to purchase many XOs.
> The Give Many program allows for the donation of at least 100 XOs to
> schools and organizations just like yours. The cost is $300 a piece.
>
> Please let us know what we can do to help and how you wold like to proceed
> with this collaboration, because we are located in Aurora and part of our
> mission is to 'advance the human condition,' and I know here at IMSA we have
> a number of resources for you beyond our OLPC chapter. The pioneering minds
> that started our school (Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall and Dr. Leon Lederman)
> continue to give back to the field of education world wide and are very
> connected to your mission.
>
> Anyways, hope this helps.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hurd <m.d.hurd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To: Chicago OLPC group
>>
>> From: Michael Hurd
>>
>> Hello,
>> I'm on the Board of an Illinois nonprofit and 501c3 whose mission is to
>> build schools in Southern Sudan. I'm the Technology Coordinator. The
>> organization's name is *The Lost Boys Rebuilding Southern Sudan*.
>> www.rebuildingsouthernsudan.org. We are based in the western Chicago
>> suburbs. Our first school in Southern Sudan will be finished later this
>> year and I'd love to get some XO's into it.
>>
>> Do you have any ideas on how we can make it happen? Any information would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Michael Hurd
>> Secretary and Technology Coordinator
>> The Lost Boys Rebuilding Southern Sudan
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> OLPC-Chicago mailing list
>> OLPC-Chicago at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago
>>
>>
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> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:53:29 -0700
> From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] [sugar] On the Naming of Sugar
> To: "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Cc: bens at alum.mit.edu, sugar at lists.laptop.org,
> olpc-chicago at lists.laptop.org
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> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe we need to adopt the late great Walter Payton, "sweetness" as
>> our official mascot.
>
> http://www.payton34.com/ Walter and Connie Payton Foundation
>
> We could ask the Foundation if they would be interested. Organ
> donations, cancer funding, and toys for underprivileged children would
> fit right into our mission. Particularly in the context of Illiniois
> HB 5000, The Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act, now before the Senate. I
> want a poster of two Chicago South-Side children with XOs saying, "Us
> haz teh bestest toyz." With Sweetness beaming on them from above.
> Although we would have to explain the concepts of leet-speak and
> lolcats to a lot of the public. And the lOLPCat photo on Flickr.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Payton
> "Payton's legacy continues through the charitable Walter and Connie
> Payton Foundation. His own appeals for greater awareness of the need
> for organ donations, and after his death, his foundation's, are widely
> credited with bringing national attention to the problem.[30] After
> his appeal, donations in Illinois skyrocketed, and the regional organ
> bank of Illinois was overwhelmed with calls.[31] In response, the City
> of Chicago inserted organ donation requests into city vehicle
> registration mailings in early 2000, and by August 2000, 13,000 people
> had signed into the program.[32] The foundation continues to run a
> program that Payton organized to donate toys to underprivileged
> children across the Chicago area each Christmas.[33] The family
> established the Walter Payton Cancer Fund in 2002.[34]"
>
>> I've posted your taxonomy here:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
>> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think this is brilliant!
>>>
>>> Marco
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Nice carbohydrate lesson as well!
>>>>
>>>> --Frederick Grose
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
>>>> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Sugar has a naming problem. There are a lot of different digital
>>>>> objects being produced by this project, and referring to all of them as
>>>>> Sugar is becoming increasingly confusing. For example, the discussion
>>>>> about "Sugar on Windows" has been all but incomprehensible, because each
>>>>> author means something entirely different by the term "Sugar". Similarly,
>>>>> the recent proposals for "inclusion in Sugar" are extremely confusing,
>>>>> since these components will not be required to run Sugar.
>>>>>
>>>>> To resolve this, I am going to attempt to list a number of important,
>>>>> distinct digital objects that this work has produced. I will also
>>>>> introduce cutesy codenames. I hope that the Sugar developers will adopt a
>>>>> clear set of distinct names, and I do not care if they choose these names
>>>>> or other names.
>>>>>
>>>>> Component: The abstract design of the interface
>>>>> Codename: Sweet (the taste of sugar)
>>>>> Description: "Sweet" is the abstract design of the interface's appearance
>>>>> and behavior, independent of any code actually implementing this style.
>>>>> The mockups at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs represent this
>>>>> component's second major release, or perhaps 2.0-alpha.
>>>>>
>>>>> Component: The base Sugar environment
>>>>> Codename: Glucose (the fundamental, simple sugar used by all life forms)
>>>>> Description: Glucose is the minimal system that must be added to a
>>>>> standard Linux distribution in order to enable Activities to run. This
>>>>> includes all the python code and graphics files that implement the shell,
>>>>> as well as the Journal. Glucose's dependencies may include xorg-server,
>>>>> xulrunner, squeakvm, rainbow, etc. Some of these dependencies may be
>>>>> marked optional by distributions. Glucose does not include any Activities
>>>>> except those like the Journal that are non-optional.
>>>>>
>>>>> Component: A set of demonstration activities
>>>>> Codename: Fructose (the main sugar in fruit, which is how we're supposed
>>>>> to get our sugar.)
>>>>> Description: The Sugar developers will need some example set of
>>>>> activities with which to demonstrate Sugar. This set is Fructose. The
>>>>> packages in Fructose should be selected to make the resulting environment
>>>>> as impressive as possible for a potential client or user. Packages should
>>>>> therefore be stable, polished, and exercise the widest possible range of
>>>>> features. Fructose may also serve as an example for people constructing
>>>>> their own Activity sets.
>>>>>
>>>>> Component: The interface, plus a set of demonstration activities
>>>>> Codename: Sucrose ("table sugar", the kind you buy in the store. It
>>>>> consists of glucose and fructose, combined.)
>>>>> Description: Sucrose consists of both Glucose and Fructose. It therefore
>>>>> represents a complete example Sugar environment, ready to be installed
>>>>> through a package manager. The purpose of Sucrose is so that prospective
>>>>> deployers can install the "sugar-sucrose" package, and immediately say
>>>>> "Wow! Look at all the cool capabilities that this system has!".
>>>>>
>>>>> Component: The base Linux distribution being used by Sugar
>>>>> Codename: Ribose (the sugar used by all lifeforms to control their
>>>>> hardware, in the form of RNA. It's important, but not sweet.)
>>>>> Description: Ribose is the set of hardware-centric software components
>>>>> that have been developed throughout this project. It includes the XO
>>>>> kernels, OHM, any init-script customizations, etc. Ribose should be
>>>>> construed as including all components necessary to boot the system, enough
>>>>> to install Glucose if it has not yet been installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Component: A complete disk image for Sugar
>>>>> Codename: A starch (starch is composed of multiple sugars bonded
>>>>> together.)
>>>>> Description: We often distribute complete disk images for Sugar, ready to
>>>>> boot. These images are composed of multiple elements of the above stack.
>>>>> ~ For example, the current Joyride images are composed of Ribose (the
>>>>> non-graphical work) and Glucose (the shell) but not Fructose (the activity
>>>>> package). Each image series should be named separately, to minimize
>>>>> confusion. For cutesy codenames, we could have a development build
>>>>> ("glycogen", a starch used to produce Glucose) and a stable build
>>>>> ("cellulose", an extremely stable starch).
>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>> Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
>>>>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>>>>>
>>>>> iD8DBQFILdvCUJT6e6HFtqQRAleBAJwP4SdcydEj65jMx+0oFUQo5O23IACfcRbA
>>>>> /eEeP6Lp7k7WachUYxe3uGM=
>>>>> =jvwh
>>>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Sugar mailing list
>>>>> Sugar at lists.laptop.org
>>>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Sugar mailing list
>>>> Sugar at lists.laptop.org
>>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
>>>>
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Sugar mailing list
>>> Sugar at lists.laptop.org
>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sugar mailing list
>> Sugar at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Edward Cherlin
> End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
> http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
> "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:35:27 -0700
> From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] [sugar] On the Naming of Sugar
> To: olpc-chicago at lists.laptop.org
> Message-ID:
> <e574f6eb0805161535k48a7ee95j31408ae2bc53fe4f at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> We had a discussion of naming of Sugar components on the Sugarlabs
> mailing list, including the following exchange. Walter Bender has
> asked me to find out whether anybody here has a contact at the Walter
> and Connie Payton Foundation, or whether somebody local would like to
> give them a call. We would like to invite them to discuss Sugar,
> "Sweetness", and HB5000, for health and for the children worldwide.
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe we need to adopt the late great Walter Payton, "sweetness" as
>>> our official mascot.
>>
>> http://www.payton34.com/ Walter and Connie Payton Foundation
>
> (847) 605-0034
>
>> We could ask the Foundation if they would be interested. Organ
>> donations, cancer funding, and toys for underprivileged children would
>> fit right into our mission. Particularly in the context of Illiniois
>> HB 5000, The Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act, now before the Senate. I
>> want a poster of two Chicago South-Side children with XOs saying, "Us
>> haz teh bestest toyz." With Sweetness beaming on them from above.
>> Although we would have to explain the concepts of leet-speak and
>> lolcats to a lot of the public. And the lOLPCat photo on Flickr.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Payton
>> "Payton's legacy continues through the charitable Walter and Connie
>> Payton Foundation. His own appeals for greater awareness of the need
>> for organ donations, and after his death, his foundation's, are widely
>> credited with bringing national attention to the problem.[30] After
>> his appeal, donations in Illinois skyrocketed, and the regional organ
>> bank of Illinois was overwhelmed with calls.[31] In response, the City
>> of Chicago inserted organ donation requests into city vehicle
>> registration mailings in early 2000, and by August 2000, 13,000 people
>> had signed into the program.[32] The foundation continues to run a
>> program that Payton organized to donate toys to underprivileged
>> children across the Chicago area each Christmas.[33] The family
>> established the Walter Payton Cancer Fund in 2002.[34]"
>>
>>> I've posted your taxonomy here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
>>> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I think this is brilliant!
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Nice carbohydrate lesson as well!
>>>>>
>>>>> --Frederick Grose
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
>>>>> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think Sugar has a naming problem. There are a lot of different digital
>>>>>> objects being produced by this project, and referring to all of them as
>>>>>> Sugar is becoming increasingly confusing. For example, the discussion
>>>>>> about "Sugar on Windows" has been all but incomprehensible, because each
>>>>>> author means something entirely different by the term "Sugar". Similarly,
>>>>>> the recent proposals for "inclusion in Sugar" are extremely confusing,
>>>>>> since these components will not be required to run Sugar.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To resolve this, I am going to attempt to list a number of important,
>>>>>> distinct digital objects that this work has produced. I will also
>>>>>> introduce cutesy codenames. I hope that the Sugar developers will adopt a
>>>>>> clear set of distinct names, and I do not care if they choose these names
>>>>>> or other names.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Component: The abstract design of the interface
>>>>>> Codename: Sweet (the taste of sugar)
>>>>>> Description: "Sweet" is the abstract design of the interface's appearance
>>>>>> and behavior, independent of any code actually implementing this style.
>>>>>> The mockups at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs represent this
>>>>>> component's second major release, or perhaps 2.0-alpha.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Component: The base Sugar environment
>>>>>> Codename: Glucose (the fundamental, simple sugar used by all life forms)
>>>>>> Description: Glucose is the minimal system that must be added to a
>>>>>> standard Linux distribution in order to enable Activities to run. This
>>>>>> includes all the python code and graphics files that implement the shell,
>>>>>> as well as the Journal. Glucose's dependencies may include xorg-server,
>>>>>> xulrunner, squeakvm, rainbow, etc. Some of these dependencies may be
>>>>>> marked optional by distributions. Glucose does not include any Activities
>>>>>> except those like the Journal that are non-optional.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Component: A set of demonstration activities
>>>>>> Codename: Fructose (the main sugar in fruit, which is how we're supposed
>>>>>> to get our sugar.)
>>>>>> Description: The Sugar developers will need some example set of
>>>>>> activities with which to demonstrate Sugar. This set is Fructose. The
>>>>>> packages in Fructose should be selected to make the resulting environment
>>>>>> as impressive as possible for a potential client or user. Packages should
>>>>>> therefore be stable, polished, and exercise the widest possible range of
>>>>>> features. Fructose may also serve as an example for people constructing
>>>>>> their own Activity sets.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Component: The interface, plus a set of demonstration activities
>>>>>> Codename: Sucrose ("table sugar", the kind you buy in the store. It
>>>>>> consists of glucose and fructose, combined.)
>>>>>> Description: Sucrose consists of both Glucose and Fructose. It therefore
>>>>>> represents a complete example Sugar environment, ready to be installed
>>>>>> through a package manager. The purpose of Sucrose is so that prospective
>>>>>> deployers can install the "sugar-sucrose" package, and immediately say
>>>>>> "Wow! Look at all the cool capabilities that this system has!".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Component: The base Linux distribution being used by Sugar
>>>>>> Codename: Ribose (the sugar used by all lifeforms to control their
>>>>>> hardware, in the form of RNA. It's important, but not sweet.)
>>>>>> Description: Ribose is the set of hardware-centric software components
>>>>>> that have been developed throughout this project. It includes the XO
>>>>>> kernels, OHM, any init-script customizations, etc. Ribose should be
>>>>>> construed as including all components necessary to boot the system, enough
>>>>>> to install Glucose if it has not yet been installed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Component: A complete disk image for Sugar
>>>>>> Codename: A starch (starch is composed of multiple sugars bonded
>>>>>> together.)
>>>>>> Description: We often distribute complete disk images for Sugar, ready to
>>>>>> boot. These images are composed of multiple elements of the above stack.
>>>>>> ~ For example, the current Joyride images are composed of Ribose (the
>>>>>> non-graphical work) and Glucose (the shell) but not Fructose (the activity
>>>>>> package). Each image series should be named separately, to minimize
>>>>>> confusion. For cutesy codenames, we could have a development build
>>>>>> ("glycogen", a starch used to produce Glucose) and a stable build
>>>>>> ("cellulose", an extremely stable starch).
>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>>> Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
>>>>>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> iD8DBQFILdvCUJT6e6HFtqQRAleBAJwP4SdcydEj65jMx+0oFUQo5O23IACfcRbA
>>>>>> /eEeP6Lp7k7WachUYxe3uGM=
>>>>>> =jvwh
>>>>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Sugar mailing list
>>>>>> Sugar at lists.laptop.org
>>>>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
>
> --
> Edward Cherlin
> End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
> http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
> "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:54:06 -0700
> From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] Hello to the Chicago OLPC group - and a
> question
> To: "Michael Hurd" <m.d.hurd at gmail.com>
> Cc: olpc-chicago at lists.laptop.org
> Message-ID: <e574f6eb0805161654i6603667ycd8662d20a88bd at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Michael Hurd <m.d.hurd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To: Chicago OLPC group
>>
>> From: Michael Hurd
>>
>> Hello,
>> I'm on the Board of an Illinois nonprofit and 501c3 whose mission is to
>> build schools in Southern Sudan. I'm the Technology Coordinator. The
>> organization's name is The Lost Boys Rebuilding Southern Sudan.
>> www.rebuildingsouthernsudan.org. We are based in the western Chicago
>> suburbs. Our first school in Southern Sudan will be finished later this
>> year and I'd love to get some XO's into it.
>>
>> Do you have any ideas on how we can make it happen? Any information would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>
> Earth Treasury would be delighted to help. We work on linking schools
> around the world, and we try to fill some of the gaps that OLPC has
> left in the mission.
>
> It is quite difficult to deal with the GiveMany program, which quotes
> terms of cash in advance, with a delivery date to be provided 60 days
> later, for sometime in the next ten months or so. We can put you in
> touch with other organizations that have created programs, so that you
> can ask them how they went about it.
>
> You should also contact some of the usual sources and media
> personalities, such as Oprah, who finances a school in Africa. Barack
> Obama is pledging to double US foreign aid, and there is strong
> interest in some quarters in creating a Global Marshall Plan. A lot of
> us need to get together to make some of these things happen.
>
> There are opportunities now for non-profits to tackle whole global
> issues, rather than targeting single locations, with a combination of
> Internet outreach and microfinance instead of constant begging for
> funds.
>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Michael Hurd
>> Secretary and Technology Coordinator
>> The Lost Boys Rebuilding Southern Sudan
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> OLPC-Chicago mailing list
>> OLPC-Chicago at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago
>
> --
> Edward Cherlin
> End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
> http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
> "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay
>
>
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