<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Such great ideas this morning, added to the minutes here, solidifying both critical paths for 2015:<br><ol><li>hacker club "$100 school servers" eg. solid-state/RACHEL (<b>R</b>emote <b>A</b>reas <b>C</b>ommunity <b>H</b>otspots for <b>E</b>ducation and <b>L</b>earning)</li>
<li>sustainable enterprise "$500 school servers" eg. HDD/Internet-in-a-Box<br></li></ol>Best of all, progress is being made on a new vision for automated pre-flight checklists, such that implementation/support costs(*) for each above become predictable or at least sane. Likewise OLPC required "ramp" production runs (first 1000 units off the line) for a reason, as CTO John Watlington reminded us, given we've quite enough disposable/toxic technology surrounding us already:<br>
<br> <a href="http://youtu.be/DHvfJ9OmH5A" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/DHvfJ9OmH5A</a><br><br>So keep the ideas coming and see you next week! Add to the Minutes/Agenda here:<br><br> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg</a><br>
<br></div></div>(*) Much like the $100 laptop, the $100 server will forever attract Moths To The Flame, shills willfully failing to balance the benefits of digital libraries against their true costs {community training, solar/generator/fuel/grid/wiring, age-appropriate content/localization, physical security, logistics, maintenance/off-site backups/spare parts, admin/mgmt/coordination}. In addition to connectivity/advocacy investments critical to move beyond throwaway hardware and throwaway promises (would you like some Free 4G LTE minutes for your school ;)<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:23 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>For this week's meeting, I've thrown up 7 higher-level challenges, inviting others to free-associate reflecting over George Hunt & Tim Moody's Herculian accomplishments in Haiti of the past 5 weeks(*), so we can derive where different parts of the world want us to go next:<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg</a><br><br></div><div>(*) Their story, laying the foundations for XSCE 5.1, while powerfully putting 3 Haiti schools on their feet, has NOT been written unfortunately, but daily hints keep popping up 5000+ km away at <a href="http://projectrive.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://projectrive.wordpress.com</a> , which is surely a good sign =)<br>
</div><div><br></div>RSVP with Skype username if you can possibly join Thursday's 10AM NYC Time Call! Or chime in likewise on our backchannel #schoolserver at <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net" target="_blank">http://webchat.freenode.net</a> , <i>Thanks All</i>-<br clear="all">
<div><div><br>--<br><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div>
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