[Olpc-za] comic content :-)

[Jeff]

Heather Ford wrote:

> yes, this was an awesome project :) wish we could have more!

Oh please can we?  Here's a paste from an email Antoine sent me off- 
list on the 26 August:

"
a) The XO ebook viewer already supports a format for encoding comics  
into very small files.

b) A _lot_ of comic book material has been produced by various ZA  
NGO's since the election.

Suggestion: Create a project for making this happen on the olpc-za  
wiki so that folk with more bandwidth and telephone than you can  
organize around materializing it.

Some ideas for action items to list on the page:

* Draw up a list of people who have produced educational comics for  
ZA rural folk.
* Contact the copyright owners with a proposal to re-license under  
creative-commons.
* Get copies of the comics
* Scan them in.
* Create a repository for the project on the official OLPC git server.
"

Do you have any other suggestions for us, Heather?

> btw, jimmy wales (founder of wikipedia) will be coming to Cape Town
> next weekend and we're going to be throwing a party for him on
> Saturday the 15th -- it would be awesome if we could make this a
> meetup of some of the OLPC SA Interest group folks as well :)


Sounds great. I can't make it unfortunately. . . but you guys should  
have the after-party on the Wild Coast.

;-)

-- 
Jeff Brown
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Blog: www.wildcoast.com/jeff
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