I totally agree with you on this statement, but the thing that gets me the most exited about this is the great opportunity for missionary work. It would be great if you could go to a place and instead of having to ship a bunch of bibles over you can simple bring a USB thumb drive with a version of the sword libraries designed for the laptop that the state is giving kids for free. Now all of a sudden you can give a bible to every child in the area while spending a lot less. And it's great that if they learn about the Lord and come to know him and it's put on their soul to help develop applications then they can do that too.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>avolunteer DrStovallFoundation wrote:
<br>> If you want a project in the 3rd world<br>> to be a success, involve the local people from the start and at<br>> every phase possible instead of just handing them something.<br>> I have said it before, Most 3rd world children can learn Python,
<br>> but C++ is unrealistic.<br>><br>> Olpc has inspired the Asus Eee, the classmate, and many other<br>> imitatioIt costs money to dispose of computers in Eurons and innovations. When can we get a group of sword-devel
<br>> people to be inspired with what we should have been working<br>> together to do a long time ago? The Bible has plenty of<br>> linguistics, psychology, sociology, and other educational<br>> materials. When can we get a team as interested in these things
<br>> as sword-devel has been interested in searching words in commentaries,<br>> and dictionaries? A few suggestions have been made on this list<br>> for text to speech and other things which could be of great benefit
<br>> to 3rd world children. Now that we have two versions of the sword<br>> available on Python, let's move on to more important things.<br>><br>> <a href="http://Pycon.org" target="_blank">Pycon.org</a>
registration is open for staff now and will be open<br>> for everyone soon. There will be a OLPC tutorial March 13 and<br>> then some talks. From March 15 p.m. until March 20 there will<br>> be OLPC development sprints. Last year I was told that anyone
<br>> with decades of experience in the third world was not needed<br>> and that experience in team leadership was plan B. With such<br>> attitudes, OLPC may continue to make less impact than their<br>> excellent technology deserves. Perhaps the same could be said
<br>> for many other excellent technologies.<br>><br>> Anyone who is interested in technology and serving children should<br>> keep on showing their interest on this list. I was able to work<br>> with the Rapier developer one weekend in Paris. Because he knew
<br>> a lot of things I did not know how to do and because I understood<br>> some things he did not, we were able to do something that neither<br>> one of us could have done alone. Anyone who can go to Chicago<br>
> for <a href="http://pycon.org" target="_blank">pycon.org</a> largest regional meeting in March should do so.<br>> Everyone else who is interested should sprint with us via eMail<br>> and IRC. It costs money to dispose of computers in Europe. It
<br>> is better to send them to me in Indonesia. If people will help<br>> to develop the appropriate studies in Python and Scala we can<br>> help many children and adults. OLPC here would be great. But<br>> we can do a lot with other technologies as long as they are not
<br>> dependent on C++, huge data files, and things that are not<br>> realistic for the undeveloping part of the 3rd world. BTW please<br>> Google Nias site: TheJakartaPost.com and see how much progress<br>> has been made among the hardest hit tsunami/earthquake victims
<br>> after 3+ years and the largest foreign contributions ever given<br>> to a 3rd world country. The Jakarta Post says there is still<br>> traffic of children, 1.2 million children drop out of school<br>> each year, and the majority of the houses have not yet been
<br>> rebuilt so many people are still living in tents. Nias, the predominatly<br>> Christian island is worse off than Muslim areas that got more<br>> aid. But I am still working in Muslim areas with people who
<br>> live still with great trauma and little hope for the future<br>> although they again have a brick home.<br>><br>> I will be at Pycon in Chicago. But please contact me and others<br>> who are interested if you really want to do something appropriate
<br>> for 3rd world children.<br>> Johnny Stovall - a volunteer<br>> The Dr. Stovall Foundation<br>><br>> --- "Zachary M. Oglesby" <<a href="mailto:zoglesby@gmail.com">zoglesby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>><br>><br>>> I am still learning Python but I think this is a great idea. OLPC is<br>>> designed for children in developing nations and that would be a great<br>>> resource for people trying to spread God's word to them.
<br>>><br>>> On Jan 14, 2008 12:38 PM, DJ Ortley <<a href="mailto:djortley@gmail.com">djortley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> Having started at least one of those conversations, I still mildly
<br>>>> have an interest. Especially as I've learned Python since then. :)<br>>>><br>>>> It seemed that the conversation ended with people thinking the intent<br>>>> was to get sword stuck on the the laptops before they ship, which
<br>>>> obviously isn't going to happen (and definatly weren't my original<br>>>> thoughts.)<br>>>><br>>>> As I said, I'm still mildly interested, but I don't know how involved
<br>>>> I can be in the short term as I have many other plates spinning (and<br>>>> falling down.)<br>>>><br>>>> -DJ<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> On Jan 14, 2008 10:02 AM, Jason Galyon <
<a href="mailto:jtgalyon@gmail.com">jtgalyon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> There were various conversations in the past relating to Bible related<br>>>>> software for the One Laptop Per Child or XO project. I would like to
<br>>>>> start the discussion back up if anyone is interested.<br>>>>><br>>>>> At my local Python Users Group meeting (<a href="http://dfwpython.org" target="_blank">http://dfwpython.org
</a>) we had<br>>>>> three of the units and played around with them including messing with<br>>>>> the mesh networking and collaborative activities.<br>>>>><br>>>>> These are very cool, I can't say enough good about them.
<br>>>>><br>>>>> While large amounts of text are out due to storage (and RAM) is there<br>>>>> interest in developing client or server software for and lesson<br>>>>> management applications?
<br>>>>><br>>>>> For example, you could still have bible reading assignments (including<br>>>>> the follow along in the class) using either the browser or just the<br>>>>> normal pyGTK interface receiving its information from the class (school)
<br>>>>> server.<br>>>>><br>>>>> There have been some great ideas generated already however having seen<br>>>>> some of these, I can say that the potential for teaching the world the
<br>>>>> Word is limitless. Combining these with general education setup<br>>>>> missions would be a great boon for witnessing.<br>>>>><br>>>>> Some resources:<br>>>>>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home</a> - general website<br>>>>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers
</a> - development info<br>>>>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild</a> - development<br>>>>> checkout of the sugar environment
<br>>>>><br>>>>> note that with sugar, you have the latest development versions available<br>>>>> (my preference) with sugar-jhbuild, downloadable packages for many<br>>>>> platforms, and vm images such as for VMWare, Parallels, and QEMU.
<br>>>>><br>>>>> Download a copy and see what the potential is!<br>>>>><br>>>>> Jason<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>> _______________________________________________
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