[Olpc-open] Getting paper out of schools.

[Edward Cherlin]

Anything under Creative Commons license is fair game for republishing
in an improved format. Go for it. I will be glad to assist with
technical questions.

More to the point on the XO would be to get away from static text
entirely, and to create teaching materials in software, such as Etoys
or SciPy.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Carol Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
> Ed, I think the issue isn't that postscript CAN'T be used to format properly
> for the target device.  It is that it ISN'T being used.  The PDF documents I
> have seen that are made available with and pointed to the XO are NOT
> formatted for the XO display.  Presumably this is because there was an
> attempt to provide pre-existing resources or that OLPC had no access to the
> source documents to regenerate the PDF files.  This would be a good
> volunteer activity, I think.
>
> If we had a structured catalog of the electronic materials being suggested
> for / distributed with the XO, we could systematically go after doing this.
> The Wiki is totally inappropriate for this type of application.  Anyone
> interested in this?
>
> Carol Lerche
>



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