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=== Meeting Notes ===
=== Meeting Notes ===
'''30 Nov 2006'''
'''30 Nov 2006''' <small>([[User:Sj|SJ]] & Matthew Steven Carlos)</small>

attending: SJ Klein, Matthew Steven Carlos


* Human Resource Hubs/Nodes for each Community/ Country (and the reasons these particular people are important to the success of OLPC) will include:
* Human Resource Hubs/Nodes for each Community/ Country (and the reasons these particular people are important to the success of OLPC) will include:
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*** Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)
*** Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)


** Other HR Nodes
** Other Nodes
*** Edward Tufte, Harvard Faculty
*** Edward Tufte, Harvard Faculty


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** [http://www.widernet.org/ Widernet] and the [http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm eGranary project] (distribution of library content over LANs)
** [http://www.widernet.org/ Widernet] and the [http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm eGranary project] (distribution of library content over LANs)
=== Questions ==
== Questions ==
# How to present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?
# 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)?
# When OLPC kids produce content, how is that shared / uploaded (with both other OLPC communities and the industrialized world)?
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** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** Acquire copyright for [http://www.ifcomp.org/ text adventures]; cf. [http://www.ifcomp.org/comp06/download.html Z-code interpreters/editors and the like].
** Encourage stories about writing & publicly-reading stories, writing interactive fiction, &c.
** Encourage stories about writing & publicly-reading stories, writing interactive fiction, &c.

Revision as of 20:28, 5 December 2006

Ideas for the OLPC Content Working Group and members.

Notes, Proceedings and Ruminations

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

Meeting Notes

30 Nov 2006 (SJ & Matthew Steven Carlos)

  • Human Resource Hubs/Nodes for each Community/ Country (and the reasons these particular people are important to the success of OLPC) will include:
    • Kids
    • Artists
    • Storytellers
    • Teachers
    • Librarians
      • Christine Madsen (Open Collections Program, Manager @ Harvard University Library)
    • Non-profits
      • Cathy Casserly (Hewlett Foudation)
      • Mike Smith (Hewlett Foundation)
    • Global Academics
    • Scholars at Liberty (eg. McArthur Fellows)
      • Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)
    • Other Nodes
      • Edward Tufte, Harvard Faculty

Questions

  1. How to present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?
  2. 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-code interpreters/editors and the like.
    • Encourage stories about writing & publicly-reading stories, writing interactive fiction, &c.
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