Why XO?: views from an OLPC volunteer

A blog about one person’s work with One Laptop Per Child project and the XO.

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Wiki admin!

February 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Rock!
I am now an Admin on the OLPC wiki!
Now I can move pages and block people and stuff!
Mohahaha!  And now the world!

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OLPC + CC Hackathon : submit books & music to LiveContent

February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One Laptop per Child + Creative Commons are gathering free books, music and media for the LiveContent DVD CC is mastering this month. Join us in Cambridge and San Fran this Saturday, or choose materials on your own ( see http://olinolpc.org and http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators ).
It’s Mel and Nicole’s OLPC group at OLIN throwing a […]

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OLPC Community News: Weekly Zine! Issue 0

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

The first issue of the Weekly Zine has been posted to the wiki.  Expect more from this project.  It’s awesome licious!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Weekly_zine/0 

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OLPC Support, one great response

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

The OLPC Support Gang gets tons of abuse. We’re the people who answer all of the emails that come into help@laptop. We’re all unpaid, and just want to help people. When we can’t solve a person’s problem, or if the XO doesn’t go to all of their Flash websites, or isn’t […]

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Where is my donation going?!

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

That’s a very valid question. Where did your Give One half of the G1G1 go?

I’m part of a volunteer group at OLPC called the Support-Gang. We answer the great majority of user support questions that are sent to Help@laptop.org, Support@laptop.org, the OLPC Forum and on the IRC channel. Because of […]

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