[OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 75, Issue 1

[Carol Ruth Silver]

2014 March 12 Wednesday Dear Sameer, Aaron, and OLPC SF friends:
      I hope all are well.  Unfortunately, I am traveling and will not 
be able to join our monthly meeting on the 15th of March.
      I am very sorry not to join you, because there is an important 
issue I would like to discuss.
      The circulation by OLPC News of a headline -- GoodBye OLPC --is an 
unfortunate negative  exaggeration of the current OLPC situation.  We 
spent some time at the last meeting of OLPC SF analyzing and projecting 
this.
       My suggestion was and is that we must acknowledge the 
redefinition of OLPC as the OLPC Movement, and ourselves as the OLPC 
Community.
       The OLPC Movement may not last forever but is certainly at 
present lively and happening -- as shown on OLPC Map.  The fact is that 
many experiements under the OLPC banner have succeeded, some have 
failed.  The projected failure -- of the Florida based effort to create 
an OLPC Android based tablet for developed world children -- will not 
affect the ability of Haiti teachers to use the XO to teach math in 
Creole -- unless we let it.
      Many members of the OLPC Community had said that the Florida 
effort would fail.  Now it may have. Time to list the issues we need to 
work on, and begin to deal with them:  spare parts for XO's, volunteer 
deployment, fundraising for individual deployments,  copyright creative 
commons issues, etc.  Let's get to work.
Carol Ruth Silver



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> olpc San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, March
> 15th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market Street,
> Room 553.
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> Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be
> discussing the latest in olpc events and give updates on our local (and
> global) projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest
> builds to play around with, too.
>
> This month we're going to kick off our meeting with project "needs
> requests". Do you need help with your project? Do you have skills or
> areas of expertise to help a project in need? Let us know and we'll
> announce it at our meeting. We're hoping to get a temperature for what
> needs our community is looking for and match people up with projects.
>
> In addition, we're going to reserve some time at the end of the meeting
> to break out into working groups, so feel free to bring your project and
> recruit some volunteers!
>
> Agenda
>        * Meet and greet
>        * Needs requests announce
>        * Project updates
>        * Blog topics
>        * April meeting planning
>        * Working groups
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> Please post with any additional agenda items.
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Carol Ruth Silver
Attorney at Law (retired)
68 Ramona Av San Francisco 94103
415 861 5802 carol at FreedomRiderDiary.com