Archive for the ‘OLPC’ Category
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
I picked up a Palm Pre the first day it was available, June 6. I'm very happy with it overall. It works very well as a phone (both sound quality and override of other apps), and I love the easy flow and integration between the different apps and underlying software. ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
After my last post, a friend pointed me to usability big guy Jakob Nielsen's online writings on Heuristic Evaluation, and I looked them over and passed specific links on to Mike Lee, organizing our "Code Jam". I've mentioned Nielsen here before. I think the ideas they had did ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
I'm going to my first-ever Code Jam next Saturday. We'll be rating NASA Etoys for One Laptop Per Child. These NASA distance learning activities for children exist already, and the author has offered to adjust them for OLPC if we just step through them on the XOs and ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
At this month's OLPCLCDC meetup,
Mike Lee showed us the BoGo solar lantern/flashlight he got. This Buy One, Give One program benefits people in developing countries, but some US troops in Iraq are also using them (batteries can be harder to come by in the field than sunlight, and these ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I've been busy with work and family, but I thought I'd mention that I've been contacted about more than one CM position in the DC area this month. Both look like interesting work (one from someone I've worked with in the past and would be happy to work with again; ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
See my installing-Firefox comment on the OLPC News Forum for technical notes. Whatever they did re memory management seems very effective on the XO. Yay Firefox 3!
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
A much friendlier term than my previous "laptop shootout"! The Bake-off was held last weekend at a Friends (Quaker) school near Greenbelt, MD. I brought my two OLPC XOs (there were several others set up there already for folks to try out), and got to try out a Classmate 2Go, several Macs, ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
My new job hosts internal blogs (via SharePoint), so I've been blogging there some, and expect that to continue to take up some of my blogging energy (as I come up to speed on various matters). I expect my ConFigures readers will have a better time keeping track of me ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Along with a number of other One Laptop Per Child enthusiasts (software and hardware contributors, Give One Get One participants, wiki/forum answer-givers), I've been a bit dismayed by developments and revelations at OLPC. My experience as a configuration manager and occasional release manager tells me that large-scale deploys ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Benjamin Mako Hill (Penguicon Guest of Honor, OLPC Common Resources developer, and of other fame) joined us, so the roundtable started with a 15-minute Q&A with him (I hope he was ok with that; the panelists (Frank Schreiber, cmdln, and I) hadn't really come up with a game plan for ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Links relevant to the post I will make shortly:
Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill's entry about Penguicon
BMH after Negroponte's remarks
OLPC changes and uncertainty
OLPC developers are not open source fundamentalists
Disruption and Hope
Back to the Roundtable:
cmdln's detailed write-up of Mako's comments at the start
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photo 2
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night. From midnight until past 2 am :
mint irish cream
triple chocolate
cinammon orange creamsicle
vanilla raspberry
another chocolate
soda slushies
Sunday, ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I've used the tag "sustainability" (on Connotea) for close on to two years to organize and track articles about ecology, esources, and other matters concerning living on the earth in the future. A few days ago, without thinking about that, the phrase "sustainable development" popped into my head during a discussion of the future of OLPC. I like my use of that phrase, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Penguicon 2008 is almost here! Guests of Honor include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia), and Vernor Vinge (multiple-Hugo-winning science fiction author, computing visionary). I'll be participating, too! I'm on two panels, both on Sunday, April ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
This Thursday, I helped out at the Tux.org booth at FOSE. Tux is the name of the Linux mascot penguin. TUX is a network of Linux User Groups (like the Northern Virginia group to whom I presented the OLPC XO user interface, journal system, etc. in February). FOSE is the ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
This is from the talk last week:
OLPC RESOURCES
One Laptop Per Child
Website
Wiki
Forums (developers and users, some critics)
OLPC News
not affiliated with OLPC!
Blog
Forums (mainly users, fans, and critics)
OLPC Learning Club - DC
OLPCLCDC Blog
OLPCLCDC Wiki (at OLPC)
OLPCLCDC Forum (at OLPC News)
Email list
Meetings
Me
Tech blog: (here)
Forums and OLPC wiki ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Jonathan Blocksom and I were pretty happy with how our talk went at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group last Saturday. There were over 30 people there, and we got questions throughout (and into the parking lot). I had to slow myself down when I talked too fast or moved the mouse too fast ...
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Monday, January 28th, 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.
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
I'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 ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
What 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 ...
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