by | | Culture & Society, Health & Wellbeing
Although some of the urgency has died down, bushfire smoke continues to permeate where we live, work and play. As a chronic asthma and allergy sufferer, personal necessity has prompted me to research air quality extensively. What follows is a...
by | | Culture & Society, Education, Hardware, OLPC, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
From the “I should have posted this months ago” vault… When I led technology development at One Laptop per Child Australia, I maintained two golden rules: everything that we release must ‘just work’ from the perspective of the user (usually a child or...
by | | Culture & Society, Education, FLOSS, Interviews, OLPC, Open standards, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Talks, Work
Adam Holt and I were interviewed last night by the Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network about our not-for-profit work to improve educational opportunities for children in the developing world. We talked about One Laptop...
by | | Culture & Society, Education, FLOSS, OLPC, Publications
Engineers Without Borders asked me to write something for their Humanitarian Engineering magazine about One Laptop per Child. Here is what I wrote. The school bell rings, and the children filter into the classroom. Each is holding an XO – their own...
by | | Culture & Society, Education
This has been making the rounds lately and is an absolute gem: Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do — babysit! We can get that for minimum...
by | | Childhood, Culture & Society, FLOSS, OLPC, Open standards, Personal, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Adobe is dropping Linux support for their Adobe AIR development platform. To be honest, I don’t really care. Why? Because I’ve been careful enough to not tie my efforts to a proprietary platform. I’ve had several groups offer to write...
