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

[Adam Holt]

Exactly Carol:

About 100 commenters so far at
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/2041251/is-one-laptop-per-child-winding-downmany
of whom increasingly seeing the light beyond Wayan Vota's jaunty
fatalism.

PS http://olpcSF.org has been down for a bit, can someone look into that
this week especially :)


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Carol Ruth Silver <carol at silverlaw.biz>wrote:

> 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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>> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:12:11 -0700
>> From: Aaron Borden <adborden at live.com>
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>> Subject: [OLPC-SF] olpc-sf March meeting
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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.
>>
>> 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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