I finally got Sugar (the front-end for the OLPC) running on my laptop. I say finally not because it was particularly difficult (it’s just a few steps to get it running on ubuntu) but because I thought it made sense to do a bunch of other things first: buy an external hard drive, backup [...]
Archive for June, 2006
I’m back in Connecticut, and getting slowly settled in. I don’t have a desk, but I’ve got two boxes next to my bed that I can put my laptop on, so at least I have somewhere to work. And I’m starting to get a good sense of the constraints, goals, and problems that [...]
Education in Nigeria
12Jun06One of the great things about being at the University is that there are knowledgeable people in almost every area of inquiry you could think of within a 1 mile radius, and there doors are almost always open.
Today I met Dr. Shittu R. Akinola, who is visiting IU as part of the Workshop for Political [...]
Disposable camera study
09Jun06Some of the people who read Planet Gnome will remember Nat Friedman’s disposable camera study from 2004, when he gave disposable cameras to a bunch of kids in one of the Favelas near Rio. This seems like a good example of the urban poor in Brazil, and is the kind of environment that OLPC [...]
Kids, Education, Brazil
09Jun06In my continuing quest to answer the question: who will be using the OLPC?, I interviewed Andrea Siqueira at the Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies yesterday about kids and education in Brazil, which is one of the first countries the OLPC is likely to hit. Here’s what I learned:
There is a lot [...]
Planet Infor… [Unicode Error]
08Jun06I recently had some trouble with Planet Planet, the software that runs Planet Informatics, and Kevin and Amy’s entries haven’t been showing up.
But they’re showing up now, and they’re awesome, and you should scroll down now and ready all the old BlogSchmog entries back to June 2.
Planet Informatics addition
04Jun06I just added the first non-IU informatician to Planet Informatics: Mathias Klang , a PhD student at the Dept of Informatics at Göteborg University. His interests definitely overlap with the kind of work we are doing here, so I think everyone will find his blog interesting.
It calls into question though: who is Planet Informatics [...]
Who is this thing for?
01Jun06To everyone out there on the various Planets Summer of Code: Hi. I’m Erik Pukinskis, and my project is to redesign the AbiWord user interface to be more appropriate for the OLPC (MIT’s $100 Laptop). My sponsor is the AbiWord project, rather than OLPC or Gnome, but hopefully the other SoCers with those [...]
