Why Fix a Clock
Monday, January 28th, 2008Just added a little config management perspective on the OLPC New Users wiki page. I hope to cover a CM perspective on electronic voting software here tomorrow.
Archive for January, 2008
Just added a little config management perspective on the OLPC New Users wiki page. I hope to cover a CM perspective on electronic voting software here tomorrow.
My “Tour of OLPC” at NoVaLUG on Feb. 2
Sunday, January 27th, 2008I'll be giving a presentation on the OLPC XO laptop on Saturday morning at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group, at the same swanky Oracle auditorium we met at the last time. I'm hoping that Jonathan Blocksom will be there to talk more about the developer end of things; I'm ...
Visibility, Visualization, and Knowledge Gardening
Saturday, January 26th, 2008When you want lots of people to contribute specific kinds of content, how can you encourage them?One can always try to influence the culture (storytelling, glory boards, begging). One can give individual incentives (rewards for best contributors, points systems). One can send out reminders ... or put reminders ...
Community and Ownership issues for Knowledge Gardening
Sunday, January 20th, 2008What happens when an organization tries to foster a community, but there's disagreement between them (and/or within the community) over priorities, principles, and procedures of knowledge management? Not that most of them are quick to identify them as knowledge management issues, but many of the recent organization-community conflicts I'm aware of ...
Poker: Verboten
Monday, January 14th, 2008I'm interested in games and game theory, and poker can be used for illustrating points about human behavior, but as of now, any comment containing the word "poker" is now headed to /dev/null. I won't even see it. Next month I may get around to updating my blog software to ...
Liveblogging the January NoVaLUG meeting
Saturday, January 5th, 2008This morning I'm at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group meeting. The topic is photo management software for Linux (presentation by Theodore Ruegsegger), but they also asked anyone with an XO to bring it along, so Jonathan Blocksom put the word out on the One Laptop Per Child Learning Club ...