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This page is for general community discussion and feedback. You can also post ideas and comments to the olpc-open mailing lists or check one of our IRC chat channels.

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Where to submit country feedback?

Nicholas Laughlin notes on the globalvoices blog about olpc in uruguay:

I don't know enough about the OLPC project. Is there some kind 
of mechanism in place for the XO users' comments and criticisms 
to be collected and forwarded to the developers?

How should people choose between help@laptop, this page, and adding questions to the general OLPC FAQ? I recommended emailing help, but would like people to be able to post here for more transparency. Passing the idea on to the support gang... --Sj talk 13:47, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

OpenID

Anon editing

Since OpenID makes login and account creation so much easier, do we really need to allow anonymous editing? --Myrtonos PM 00:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

New accounts

There is also evidence that requiring OpenID for new accounts significantly reduces new account page spam. See Special:Log/newusers for an excess of new users, and Special:Log/delete for all the junk pages that they produce. Such spam seems to exceed anonymous editing spam. I recommend that we require OpenID for all new accounts. (Existing accounts would be unaffected.)

  • Could User:Myrtonos help itemize here how OpenID is so much easier in order to make the case for these propositions very clear?
User:Sj would be the primary decision maker. Perhaps, with a bit more of a case we could, at least, conduct a trial. --FGrose 03:03, 29 November 2011 (UTC)