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Sabine Hengeveld-Auer
Sabine Hengeveld-Auer


Started the Dutch OLPC grassroots together with Bastiaan Bakker in fall 2007, but am inactive since end of March 2008 for at least a couple of months, due to the upcoming birth of my second child. If you write to contact@olpc-nl.org, certainly someone can help you further with questions regarding OLPC NL.
Started the Dutch OLPC grassroots together with Bastiaan Bakker in fall 2007, but am inactive since end of March 2008 for at least a couple of months, due to the upcoming birth of my second child. If you write to "contact at olpc-nl dot org", certainly someone can help you further with questions regarding OLPC NL.



I'll have to see where the changes in vision and mission will lead the OLPC project as a whole, since crucial points for my initial engagement in the project seem to be subject to radical changes. I support the project as one of a new and outstanding vision for a concept combining open source, open knowledge/content, open community/world, open learning, providing so far unkown chances to children around the world. I support the so far developed hardware as being the best suitable for the target-group of young children, especially in developing countries. I do not support a project as a volunteer, that is not community driven but a mere bulldozer owned by an industry to push into new markets and using the community image merely as a marketing gag. I hope I'm wrong with this scenario, but I'll see where OLPC is heading at when I find time again besides my extended family to get engaged into fascinating volunteer projects.
I'll have to see where the changes in vision and mission will lead the OLPC project as a whole, since crucial points for my initial engagement in the project seem to be subject to radical changes. I support the project as one of a new and outstanding vision for a concept combining open source, open knowledge/content, open community/world, open learning, providing so far unkown chances to children around the world. I support the so far developed hardware as being the best suitable for the target-group of young children, especially in developing countries. I do not support a project as a volunteer, that is not community driven but a mere bulldozer owned by an industry to push into new markets and using the community image merely as a marketing gag. I hope I'm wrong with this scenario, but I'll see where OLPC is heading at when I find time again besides my extended family to get engaged into fascinating volunteer projects.



I wish all the best to all the people engaged in the OLPC NL grassroots community and a lot of success for the OLPC projects that they've developed.
I wish all the best to all the people engaged in the OLPC NL grassroots community and a lot of success for the OLPC projects that they've developed.

Latest revision as of 00:02, 15 May 2008

Sabine Hengeveld-Auer

Started the Dutch OLPC grassroots together with Bastiaan Bakker in fall 2007, but am inactive since end of March 2008 for at least a couple of months, due to the upcoming birth of my second child. If you write to "contact at olpc-nl dot org", certainly someone can help you further with questions regarding OLPC NL.


I'll have to see where the changes in vision and mission will lead the OLPC project as a whole, since crucial points for my initial engagement in the project seem to be subject to radical changes. I support the project as one of a new and outstanding vision for a concept combining open source, open knowledge/content, open community/world, open learning, providing so far unkown chances to children around the world. I support the so far developed hardware as being the best suitable for the target-group of young children, especially in developing countries. I do not support a project as a volunteer, that is not community driven but a mere bulldozer owned by an industry to push into new markets and using the community image merely as a marketing gag. I hope I'm wrong with this scenario, but I'll see where OLPC is heading at when I find time again besides my extended family to get engaged into fascinating volunteer projects.


I wish all the best to all the people engaged in the OLPC NL grassroots community and a lot of success for the OLPC projects that they've developed.

bine at olpc-nl dot org

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