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

[Adam Holt]

And how could I forget http://HaitiDreams.org where so much of our
earlier/foundational post-earthquake work is written up, from earlier this
decade!

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
>
> --
> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>
> --
> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>
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