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== Tweets / Dents ==
== Tweets / Dents ==


* India unveils prototype for $35 tablet http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10740817
* An interview with award-winning journalist Maureen Orth about her #OLPC work in Colombia http://tiny.cc/uqz70
* An interview with award-winning journalist Maureen Orth about her #OLPC work in Colombia http://tiny.cc/uqz70
* Live in the DC area? Mark your calendar for Sugar Labs DC's Turtle Art Day on August 7th! http://tinyurl.com/2a677nr
* Live in the DC area? Mark your calendar for Sugar Labs DC's Turtle Art Day on August 7th! http://tinyurl.com/2a677nr

Revision as of 15:33, 23 July 2010

The following are dents/tweets suggested for the OLPC microblog. Please help by suggesting posts here. For questions/comments, email adam at holt at laptop.org.

If you can help with long-form writing, please help the similar effort now underway to give OLPC's official blog a far stronger voice.

accounts

future idea - use trickle post to build up a list of tweets ready to go http://github.com/zcopley/tricklepost

Proposed dents

Tweets / Dents

needs work / research

interviews

nah

  • Upper Canada College, Toronto took laptops and solar panels to Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya, now collaborate shared curriculum http://tinyurl.com/yhqpsv4
  • East African Community Secretariat 10 Yr Anniversary Involves OLPC #OLPC (QUESTIONABLE ASPECTS, FACT CHECK FIRST) http://www.eac.int/component/content/320.html?task=view
    All of the detail about OLPC is wrong here. We will be participating in those events; speaking on the 20th; but we haven't received details about the campaign, and the quote about the laptop cost and donation matching were apparently extrapolated from G1G1 2007 text?? without contacting us.
  • XO Laptop (picture of Walter) as one of 7 inventions that are changing the world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/7-inventions-that-are-cha_n_337877.html?slidenumber=Yz0ixx9YXBg%3D#slide_image

I saw this but thought the comment in the middle of the article about XOs not being an option to most people and its suggestions of the Intel Classmate as not being a very good. What do you think?

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