[OLPC-NYC] Sugar Font Editor Activity as Google Summer of Code + Next NYC Meetup?

[Adam Holt]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Nice - the Google Doc is great :)
>
> Where can I read more about the Haiti deployments?
>

We spend far more time working on Haiti deployments that writing them up
thankfully, but there are bits and pieces you can read about here:

   http://youtu.be/6Tjp5s14CXE 6m27s (also at http://youtu.be/0KymB6QWEXo)
   http://youtu.be/vnJwWLDBIX0 4m50s
   http://youtu.be/5up3AyYgbFY 1h05m25s
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Haiti
   http://kidswrite.org/blog

Also there are bits and pieces off of certain schools actual postings here:

   http://olpcMAP.net
   http://planet.laptop.org

Likewise we will be releasing an amazing/overhauled 32GB HaitiOS this
spring, derived from this foundational work:

   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HaitiOS

Of course I and others can explain far more in person, or on a call, for
those interested.  What is erroneously known as "deployment" is understood
as a much more sanguine mosaic today a decade alter, as Elaine Negroponte
(Cambodia), Rabi Karmacharya (Nepal) and many others have demonstrated by
Living This rather than tweeting about it.

Thanks David for Ivan Krstić's opinion from his May 2008 blog post below,
which only scratched the surface as he admits -- both "military" models and
FOSS models of implementation are in fact bound to fail -- if they do not
deeply take into account local politics -- of who owns/wants/does what,
community by community.  e.g. barnstorming in with a transparency-or-die
FOSS approach into a Mafia/warzone (and certain parts of Haiti, luckily not
all!) is a true recipe for complete disaster, as should be obvious, but
took many years to figure out in the OLPC/Sugar community -- humility is a
better approach than dogma in all things ;-)

*Keep in touch!  Send your phone/contact info privately if poss, to meet up
in NYC in coming months?*

PS trips to Haiti are very possible, for those who take all such
open/education questions seriously and have the skills to help, fyi we do
arrange such trips regularly when the contribution skillset match is right.

(I checked and
> http://web.archive.org/web/20141007231452/http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi
> is the blog post that I remember, and that calls it as an announcement.)
>
> But really, for me I got the idea that NN was announcing not XP but
> changing policy in numerous ways to adopt the Sugata Mitra position that
> proving hardware is sufficient to induce learning, and XP is just the
> memorable totem for that more abstract shift that I remember all these
> years later.
>


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