[Olpc-za] comic content :-)

[Heather Ford]

this sounds like a really great project!

in fact, we're going to be running a heritage day campaign later this  
month to focus on getting people to upload and freely licence photos,  
audio stories etc under an open content licence for wikimedia commons  
- we can link to http://www.laptop.org.za/drupal/wiki/ProjectContent  
(or anything more specific that would be helpful to OLPC?)

best idea is to focus is on a limited time duration campaign and for  
there to be a physical station where people can come to find out more/ 
discuss/get technical help etc.

we're doing our heritage day event at rosebank mall in johannesburg  
on a really tight budget, but for the comic book campaign you might  
want to do it at a relevant conference/event?

Best
heather.

On 05 Sep 2007, at 7:29 AM, Jeff wrote:

> 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.
>
> ;-)
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