On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I spoke with Ryan on the phone at his request. We talked about changes<br>
needed to the bill, and assistance that will be needed with teacher<br>
training, experiment design, and some related matters. The main topic<br>
was the expected progress of the bill. It originated in Lt. Governor<br>
Pat Quinn's office, and passed the Illinois House shortly after our<br>
conversation, with minor amendments. The Senate gets it next, and Ryan<br>
expects the Senate Education Committee to hold hearings on it.<br>
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I assumed that OLPC would want to be involved in the hearings, but I<br>
have been told otherwise.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Now that I know whom to talk to, no problem. The frustration was that<br>
nobody told me anything helpful. Quite the opposite until just a few<br>
minutes ago.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Understood.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, there is one more thing. I e-mailed Darah Tappitake<br>
<<a href="mailto:countries@laptop.org">countries@laptop.org</a>>, as I was instructed to, and got a form letter<br>
back telling me to write to the same address. This is not encouraging,<br>
but I did as I was told.<br>
<br>
There is a serious management problem at OLPC, and I intend to do what<br>
I can to get it addressed. Not just complaining, but asking people to<br>
do things.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Sincere efforts to address problems you see are always welcome. (Okay, sometimes your target audience doesn't need more drama, so tone is important)<br>
<br>I think more than one of the autoresponse messages need to be fixed.<br>Perhaps they should pull on demand from protected wiki pages...<br><br>Regards,<br>SJ<br></div></div><br>