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=== This is the Wiki for the Notes, Proceedings and Intellectual Gestalts/ Ruminations of the OLPC Content Working Group and its members. ===
Ideas for the ''OLPC Content Working Group'' and members.


== Notes, Proceedings and Ruminations ==


TODO: Find regular meeting times. Next weekend : Sunday gathering @ 1700 EST.
Table of Contents [create here]:


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=== Meeting Notes ===
'''30 Nov 2006'''


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attending: SJ Klein, Matthew Steven Carlos
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==== OLPC Meeting Notes (30 Nov 06) ====
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attending: Samuel Klein and Matthew Steven Carlos


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* Identify Human Resource Hubs/Nodes for each Community/ Country (and the reasons these particular people are important to the success of OLPC). These include:


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* Human Resource Hubs/Nodes for each Community/ Country (and the reasons these particular people are important to the success of OLPC) will include:
** Kids
** Kids
** Artists
** Artists
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** Teachers
** Teachers
** Librarians
** Librarians
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*** Christine Madsen (Open Collections Program, Manager @ Harvard University Library)
** Non-profits
*** Cathy Casserly (Hewlett Foudation)
*** Cathy Casserly (Hewlett Foudation)
*** Mike Smith (Hewlett Foundation)
*** Mike Smith (Hewlett Foundation)
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*** Christine Madsen (Open Collections Program, Manager @ Harvard University Library)


** Global Academics
** Global Academics
** Scholars at Liberty (eg. McArthur Fellows)
** Scholars at Liberty (eg. McArthur Fellows)
*** Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)
*** Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)


**Other HR Nodes
** Other HR Nodes
*** Edward Tufte, Harvard Faculty
*** Edward Tufte, specialist in visual representation of information/data (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/)


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* What people/ organisations might help us identify and contact these HR Hubs:


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* People/ organisations to help identify and contact HR Hubs:
** United Nations
** United Nations
** Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (http://www.hprt-cambridge.org/) (who have created tools for working with healthcare practitioners in developing nations). See their page on "Cultural Competence" http://www.hprt-cambridge.org/Layer3.asp?page_id=13
** Harvard Centre for Refugee Trauma (who have created stories with developing world populations).
** Area-Specialist Librarians at the Harvard Libraries
** Area-Specialist Librarians at the Harvard Libraries
** Poverty Lab at MIT
** Poverty Lab at MIT
** African Virtual University (http://www.avu.org/default.asp)
** African Virtual University
** Widernet http://www.widernet.org/ See their eGranary project for distribution of library content over LANs http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm


=== Questions ==
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# How to present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?
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# When OLPC kids produce content, how is that shared / uploaded (with both other OLPC communities and the industrialized world)?
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#* 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).


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* How do we present the mission and method to these various persons/institutions?


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* When OLPC kids produce content, how is that content shared / uploaded (with both other OLPC communities and the industrialized world)?

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** 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 public relations (enumerate: ). What kinds of copyright will be employed by default? (include this as part of the briefing OLPC communities receive).


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* How might OLPC communities download / access tremendous content repositories during brief/ sporadic (eg. satellite) internet connections?


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* 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.
** Work (who?) with communities and content repositories (eg. NYTimes, BBC, etc) to craft downloadable packages of content, indexes of significant global content.


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

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* Note not only what are the questions, but what are the 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?
* 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.
** 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.
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** 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.

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** Acquire copyright for text adventures; cf. .Z readers/editors.
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** Gather the OLPC stories about what did not go as planned during the research and initial implementation of the project (wrong, imperfect, etc) and find a way to combine them into one story OLPC might share with other organisations and the communities where this technology will be dispersed.
** Encourage stories about writing & publicly-reading stories, writing interactive fiction, &c.

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** Acquire copyright for text (story) adventures.
** Write story about writing these sort of text adventures.

Revision as of 20:23, 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

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:
    • Kids
    • Artists
    • Storytellers
    • Teachers
    • Librarians
      • 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)
      • Aaron Lansky (National Yiddish Book Center, Founder)
    • Other HR Nodes
      • Edward Tufte, Harvard Faculty
  • People/ organisations to help identify and contact HR Hubs:
    • United Nations
    • Harvard Centre for Refugee Trauma (who have created stories with developing world populations).
    • Area-Specialist Librarians at the Harvard Libraries
    • Poverty Lab at MIT
    • African Virtual University

= 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 readers/editors.
    • Encourage stories about writing & publicly-reading stories, writing interactive fiction, &c.
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