Weekly zine/0/Whatnot

(Everything else which doesn't fit nicely in current feature sections. Reccuring themes, will generate future feature sections)

Sections

• Media/Press updates
• Summarize of various active areas.
  • OLPC Mailing lists
  • OLPC Wiki updates
  • OLPC news
  • OLPC forum
  • OLPC chat
  • Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.
• Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.
• Personal focus: interview, background
• Education/research projects
• XO photo of the week.
  • only 1 or 2
  • Sized to fit side-by-side on page)
  • Or scattered on the page(s)

(See Discussion page for details on what's to come !)

notes and interest

• design thoughts (christian)
• workshop blog-links (elana/jul)
• squeak ideas from nepal jam (bryan b)
• story from the lines (adam)

Education/Research

• Intro to Papert's work
• Reprint of the canonical "Negroponte + rural kids with laptops" story that inspired OLPC years and years ago
• Reprint (try to get author permission) of the India computer-in-the-wall story
• Introducing grassroots groups (possibly spotlight 1-2)
  • India
  • Peru(?)
  • Nepal
  • Philippines
  • Austria (case-sewing party)
  • Taiwan
  • USA
    • SeaXO
    • CMU games
    • MIT media lab (Mako, etc.)
    • Olin?
    • IMSA?
• Quick summary of pilot classroom field reports over the last year
• Teacher comments