<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ongini! ("How are you?" in Oshiwambo :-)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Ndi philili, enkosi. Kunjani kuwe?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>("I'm well, thank you. How's yerself?" in Xhosa. :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 04/09/2007, Jeff <<A href="mailto:jeff@wildcoast.com">jeff@wildcoast.com</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.schoolnet.na/haiti/index.html">http://www.schoolnet.na/haiti/index.html</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">... and an article about this is in the latest issue of Linux Magazine:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2007/82/funny_pages/(kategorie)/0">http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2007/82/funny_pages/(kategorie)/0</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I must admit that Hai Ti and the NGO comics with a particular educational agenda were not exactly what I had in mind when I said that comics can potentially instill a love of reading in kids. I was thinking more about my own upbringing (before television in SA) with Superman, the Fantastic Four, Spiderman, Richy Rich, Casper and friends, etc..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's good thinking to have technical tips in the context specific comics... but it would be far more effective to simply let kids have access to <A href="http://www.comics.com">www.comics.com</A>. My feeling is that there is a gray area where caching of comic content on the OLPC servers would be fair use, and not technically constitute copyright infringement.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A reward system could be setup to allow a child to download a comic book each week (or strips each day) conditional on the achievement of specific goals.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Jeff </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>P.S. This might be worth a download:</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><A href="http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php">http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>