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...
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OLPC Australia had a strong presence at linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, two weeks ago. I gave a talk in the main keynote room about our educational programme, in which I explained our mission and how we intend to achieve it. Even if you saw my talk at OSDC...
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Update: my talk has been covered by OLPC News. Here’s the video of the talk I said I’d be giving at OSDC 2011, titled Australia’s Toughest Linux Deployment: In it, I outline our educational programme and how the technology fits into it. Some key points:...
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I am speaking next Thursday at the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2011 in Canberra. The title is Australia’s Toughest Linux Deployment. Yes it’s a play on the ruggedness and flexibility of the XO’s design to meet the needs of remote communities....
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The video of my talk at linux.conf.au is online. You can watch/download it online (OGV format). Overall, I think it went quite well. A personal criticism is that I need to seriously cut back on my use of ‘um’ and ‘ah’ sounds. Suggestions on combating this...
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I will be speaking at linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane about OLPC Australia, with a focus on the technical side. We have been doing some amazing stuff, but thus far we have been very quiet about it in the technical community. It’s time to fix this...
