OLPC Content Working Group: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:26, 5 December 2006

Ideas for the OLPC Content Working Group and members.

TODO: Find regular meeting times. Next weekend : Sunday gathering @ 1700 EST.

30 Nov 2006

attending: SJ Klein, Matthew Steven Carlos

How to present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?
When OLPC kids produce content, how is that shared / uploaded (with both other OLPC communities and the industrialized world)?
- Thoughts: OLPC/Partner Not-for-Profit manages a domain and content team ... blogs.laptop.org / podcasts.laptop.org ... that every/anyone recognizes as the first place to go for this content genre. Benefits of this initial approach for OLPC & partner PR (enumerate: ).
- What kinds of copyright will be employed by default? (include this in community briefing).

How might OLPC communities download / access large content repositories during brief/sporadic/asynchronous (eg. satellite) internet connections?
- Work (who?) with communities and content repositories (eg. NYTimes, BBC, etc) to craft downloadable packages of content, indexes of significant global content.

Note both questions and values to inhere within the answers (eg. durability, timelessness, robustness).

What stories might one tell children to help them teach others (children and adults) about this technology?
- Communicate to the communities that the content they produce is valuable to the industrialized world. To to see how we are the same and different; to provide new paradigms for human interaction, as well as the uses of technology, etc.
- Gather OLPC stories about what did not go as planned during research and initial implementation of previous related projects (wrong, imperfect, unexpected results) and find a way to combine them into a story OLPC might share with other organisations and communities where laptops will be dispersed.
- Acquire copyright for text adventures; cf. .Z readers/editors.
- Encourage stories about writing & publicly-reading stories, writing interactive fiction, &c.

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 ** Teachers
 ** Librarians
+*** Christine Madsen (Open Collections Program, Manager @ Harvard University Library)
+** Non-profits
 *** Cathy Casserly (Hewlett Foudation)
 *** Mike Smith (Hewlett Foundation)
-*** Christine Madsen (Open Collections Program, Manager @ Harvard University Library)
 ** Global Academics
 ** Scholars at Liberty (eg. McArthur Fellows)
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 * People/ organisations to help identify and contact HR Hubs:
 ** United Nations
-** Harvard Centre for Refugee Trauma (who have created stories with developing world populations).
+** [http://www.hprt-cambridge.org/ Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma] (who have created tools for working with healthcare practitioners in developing nations). See [http://www.hprt-cambridge.org/Layer3.asp?page_id=13 their page on "Cultural Competence"]
 ** Area-Specialist Librarians at the Harvard Libraries
 ** Poverty Lab at MIT
-** African Virtual University
+** [http://www.avu.org/default.asp African Virtual University]
+** [http://www.widernet.org/ Widernet] and the [http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm eGranary project] (distribution of library content over LANs)
 === Questions ==
 # How to present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?