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We are testing our Internet connection directly from Khairat school. Though it is extremely slow even with only one XO,...we're looking into it already :)--[[User:Carla|Carla]] 13:25, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
We are testing our Internet connection directly from Khairat school. Though it is extremely slow even with only one XO,...we're looking into it already :)--[[User:Carla|Carla]] 13:25, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
: Great! Which means the XOs are successfully accessing internet through the school server! --[[User:Arjs|Arjs]] 09:50, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
: Great! Which means the XOs are successfully accessing internet through the school server! --[[User:Arjs|Arjs]] 09:50, 29 September 2007 (EDT)

== Marathi, blogging, and translation ==

Moved from [[Talk:Khairat_Today]].

*There is an [http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Marathi wikipedia]. A search for "olpc" didn't find anything. Perhaps a page might be created?
*Re "Rajiv doesn't speak English and the visitors didn't speak Marathi", perhaps he or someone might blog in Marathi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi#External_links suggests there is a blogging community. http://marathiblogs.net/
*Perhaps we can encourage someone to do a crude Marathi->en web page transliterator, perhaps doing "mouse over Marathi word gives Marathi-to-English dictionary entry"?
*On our wiki pages, including school/village/etc names in the original unicode might be helpful. Even when you don't have the fonts to render them, you can still cut and paste for searching.
[[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 16:56, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

Latest revision as of 06:38, 9 November 2007

We are testing our Internet connection directly from Khairat school. Though it is extremely slow even with only one XO,...we're looking into it already :)--Carla 13:25, 29 September 2007 (EDT)

Great! Which means the XOs are successfully accessing internet through the school server! --Arjs 09:50, 29 September 2007 (EDT)

Marathi, blogging, and translation

Moved from Talk:Khairat_Today.

  • There is an Marathi wikipedia. A search for "olpc" didn't find anything. Perhaps a page might be created?
  • Re "Rajiv doesn't speak English and the visitors didn't speak Marathi", perhaps he or someone might blog in Marathi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi#External_links suggests there is a blogging community. http://marathiblogs.net/
  • Perhaps we can encourage someone to do a crude Marathi->en web page transliterator, perhaps doing "mouse over Marathi word gives Marathi-to-English dictionary entry"?
  • On our wiki pages, including school/village/etc names in the original unicode might be helpful. Even when you don't have the fonts to render them, you can still cut and paste for searching.

MitchellNCharity 16:56, 1 November 2007 (EDT)