<div dir="ltr">And how could I forget <a href="http://HaitiDreams.org">http://HaitiDreams.org</a> where so much of our earlier/foundational post-earthquake work is written up, from earlier this decade!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Nice - the Google Doc is great :) </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Where can I read more about the Haiti deployments? <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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:<br><br> <a href="http://youtu.be/6Tjp5s14CXE" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/6Tjp5s14CXE</a> 6m27s (also at <a href="http://youtu.be/0KymB6QWEXo" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/0KymB6QWEXo</a>)<br> <a href="http://youtu.be/vnJwWLDBIX0" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/vnJwWLDBIX0</a> 4m50s<br></div><div> <a href="http://youtu.be/5up3AyYgbFY" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/5up3AyYgbFY</a> 1h05m25s<br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Haiti" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Haiti</a><br> <a href="http://kidswrite.org/blog" target="_blank">http://kidswrite.org/blog</a><br><br></div><div>Also there are bits and pieces off of certain schools actual postings here:<br><br></div><div> <a href="http://olpcMAP.net" target="_blank">http://olpcMAP.net</a><br></div><div> <a href="http://planet.laptop.org" target="_blank">http://planet.laptop.org</a><br><br></div><div>Likewise we will be releasing an amazing/overhauled 32GB HaitiOS this spring, derived from this foundational work:<br><br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HaitiOS" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HaitiOS</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br>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 ;-)<br></div><div><br></div><div><i>Keep in touch! Send your phone/contact info privately if poss, to meet up in NYC in coming months?</i><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">(I checked and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141007231452/http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20141007231452/http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi</a> is the blog post that I remember, and that calls it as an announcement.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br></div></div></blockquote></span></div><br clear="all"><span class=""><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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