<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Please join in 5.5 hours, at 10am NYC Time! That's our wide-open live video sprint wrapup, reviewing XS Community Edition's rapid evolution over the past 12 months, and particularly the last week, which will be live right off these pages:<br>
</div><br><a href="http://youtube.com/unleashkids">http://youtube.com/unleashkids</a><br><a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cosgiia7et0bvc7mmaeinv1ed40">https://plus.google.com/events/cosgiia7et0bvc7mmaeinv1ed40</a><br>
<br></div><div>As our XSCE 0.4 hacking week here in Canada finishes up, all questions are most welcome, from implementers and educators especially! So many key hacking bits came together during our sprint (see <a href="http://schoolserver.org">http://schoolserver.org</a> and <a href="http://flickr.com/tiayiti">http://flickr.com/tiayiti</a> for just a glimpse!) and yet underlying this are many more future advances like roster/attendance systems EG. <a href="http://schooltool.org">http://schooltool.org</a> or Moodle, as well as business consolidation/franchising tools like ansible/Puppet/OpenVPN. All of which are coming, but some here are of course also interested in genuine community education, catalyzing exciting local solutions -- beyond monetizing yet more students eyeballs for Facebook. Not to mention iPhone Apps for Third World Ministers of Education during their next round of golf ;) So please bring your own driving questions, please! Perhaps:<br>
<br></div>* HOW can free content/activities/servers like <a href="http://internet-in-a-box.org">http://internet-in-a-box.org</a> be high-enough quality for genuine learning?<br><div><div><div>* WHEN will we globally/regionally fund offline digital libraries for developing countries, to provide our kids the local/global best?<br>
</div>* WHO does a School Server really serve: the kids/families or simply the management? <i>O</i><i>r can we "unleash teachers" sitting in between?</i><br></div>* WHAT is an "open LMS" (Learning Management System) beyond the hype? When privacy and copyright issues define so much of education!<br>
</div><div><div>* WHERE exactly can volunteers make an impact installing school servers in Nepal, Haiti, India, Pakistan, Lesotho, South Pacific & beyond?<br></div><div>* WHEREFORE are thou technical support, teacher training and direct community benefit -- EG. unleashing Sugar's Journal for parents' and teachers' holistic embrace of the learning arc?<br>
</div><div>* COULD Amazon/Kindle and similar publishers sabotage "offline cloud" digital library innovations like Pathagar and <a href="http://olenepal.org/e-pustakalaya">http://olenepal.org/e-pustakalaya</a> ?<br>
</div><div>* WHICH learning analytics/stats are inevitably coming (surveillance of child and teacher for God & Country) when the <u>intellectual autonomy</u> of our coming generation is fundamentally under question in the NSA era?<br>
</div><div><br>LEARNING SCENARIO: a 10-year-old girl scout blows the whistle on industrial pollution in her developing country, with an elegant environmental project report -- while her government chooses to protect foreign investment by shutting her up, carefully vacuuming up the digital tracks of progressive eye-opening teachers who made the mistake of asking their students to think. QUESTION: What XSCE-like technologies can protect her civic learning experience that lies at the core of democracy?<br>
</div><div><br></div></div>Write to contact(AT)<a href="http://unleashkids.org">unleashkids.org</a> or Tweet hashtag #unleashkids if you prefer written questions. Advance apologies Google limits us to 10 simultaneous video participants, please be patient viewing the live feed if we reach this limit, and Thanks Much <i>for Attending this Progressive Discussion!!</i><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>This intensive weeklong "XSCE" sprint (School Server Community Edition) is bringing great accomplishments around <a href="http://Internet-in-a-Box.org" target="_blank">http://Internet-in-a-Box.org</a> and Pathagar (<a href="http://olpcsf.org/node/126" target="_blank">http://olpcsf.org/node/126</a>), from those here in Manitoba, Canada and the many participating remotely. Including one celebrated volunteer contributor who flew all the way out here without even telling us of his birthday today! OK, as we conclude in just over 48hrs, we invite all to our open video hangout-on-air, bringing your implementers/educators/volunteers' <b>live video questions 10AM NYC Time, this Saturday July 13</b>, starting right here:<br>
<br> <a href="http://youtube.com/unleashkids" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/unleashkids</a><br></div><br><div>O dear, yes it's true, support requests coming into Facebook already ;) EG. "<span><span><span>xsce -- does it allow internet access from XO?"</span></span></span> I'm really NOT in love w/ FB, but those who can, plz support curious/DIY/ground-up pioneers/educators questions here!<br>
<br> <a href="http://facebook.com/unleashkids" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/unleashkids</a><br><br>Bonus this'll help make implementers and educators' documentation increasingly precise, off of the real documentation Anna Schoolfield & others are starting to crank out @ <a href="http://schoolserver.org" target="_blank">http://schoolserver.org</a>. Those not comfortable with live video, please Tweet your school server questions using hashtag #unleashkids -- or simply write to <a href="mailto:contact@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">contact@unleashkids.org</a>. And the daily techie recap of course:<br>
<br> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-July/006542.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-July/006542.html</a><br> <a href="http://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg" target="_blank">http://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg</a><br>
<br>Most important, thanks to the unsung heroes all for your insanely hard work pulling this together this evolving design (Tony Anderson etc) and community product! Last but not least producer Mike Lee for his <i>biweekly video interviews of the extraordinary unheralded work across the OLPC/Sugar world -- including Ian Thomson & Nick Doiron our South Pacific guest speakers coming Mon July 22nd, 6PM NYC Time, as well as Rita+Bert Freudenberg presenting the full history and future of Etoys on Mon Aug 19</i>.<br>
<br>Sneak Preview: our 1st Latin American presentation of Mon Aug 5 will be announced soon @ <a href="http://twitter.com/unleashkids" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/unleashkids</a> =)<br></div></div>
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