Weekly zine/Future Topics

Future topics/features

• interview the original core OLPC who are still with OLPC (as per IRC chat on support gang)
• Project of the Day
• Summaries from each of the country News sites.
• Updates from BrightStar and Pariot (what's been happening there...)
• Estimates on current number of 'active' volunteers (i.e. made contact in last week / month?)
  • Encourage registering volunteer hours in database for local volunteer 'hour log'
  • aka. 1-800-volunteer

... other ideas

• Add picture to every section
• Add Feature/Section icons to 'brand' pages.
• Wiki page of the week.

• • 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
  • Spotlight on grassroots groups doing independent OLPC research
    • India
    • Peru(?)
    • Nepal
    • USA (CMU games, MIT Media Lab - Mako et al, IMSA, Olin?)
  • Quick summary of pilot classroom field reports
  • Featured gallery of work done by kids with their XOs