[IAEP] interviews for community building

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 20:55, Wayan Vota | OLPC News<wayan at olpcnews.com> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> I would love if you'd post anything you feel OLPC-relevant on OLPC News
> Forum http://olpcnews.com/forum  If you have the time/ability to make it
> into a full-sized post, I'm happy to put it on OLPC News.

Well, I was looking for volunteers to take the full job from
conception to realization to publication.

Maybe someone knows a journalism student who would be interested?

Regards,

Tomeu

> Wayan
>
>
> s.boutayeb at free.fr wrote:
>>
>> Hi Christoph,
>>
>> The effort toward the demostration of the solutions provided by the free
>> software community is very actual in relation to the Sugar/OLPC
>> communities.
>>
>> The interview of Tiago Casal the Orca contributor is an brillant example
>> of it,
>> which might interest wider deployments such as in Uruguay, where the LATU
>> is
>> coordinating the digital inclusion of scholars with visual disabilities.
>>
>> See:
>>
>> http://latu21.latu.org.uy/es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=607:se-distribuyen-las-primeras-xo-para-ninos-con-discapacidad-visual&catid=36:noticias-de-ceibal&Itemid=262
>> If I reckon correctly, the solutions implemented by the LATU are windows
>> based
>> software/hardware solutions. Do they are aware of the solutions cited by
>> Tiago
>> Casal?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Samy
>>
>> Selon Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>:
>>
>>> Tomeu,
>>>
>>> thanks for bringing this idea up I again - I wish I had a cent for every
>>> time I've discussed such a project with someone. (Then again, I deserve
>>> to pay a penalty for never following through...)
>>>
>>> While I'd love to work on something like this my other commitments
>>> realistically won't allow me to do this anytime soon. However I would
>>> assume Wayan and Yama (CC'ed) would also be okay with making such an
>>> interview a regular feature on olpcnews if that were deemed useful;-)
>>>
>>> I'd also suggest experimenting with different media, it needn't always
>>> be a text interview. After some practice it should be reasonably easy
>>> and quick for someone to compile something nice based on a Skype audio
>>> or even video call for example.
>>>
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>> Tomeu Vizoso schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> from time to time interviews to contributors are published in
>>>> GNOME-related media. I think this is very useful for achieving a
>>>> coherent community in which nobody is totally unaware of the activity
>>>> of other teams/subgroups. In this one a translator interviews another
>>>> translator with an emphasis on accessibility:
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> http://leonardof.org/2009/08/09/interview-with-brazilian-orca-translator-tiago-casal/en/
>>>>
>>>> I think this is even more relevant for us than for most other FOSS
>>>> projects because we have a very varied community and we really need to
>>>> integrate people with very little initial technology knowledge and
>>>> that have never heard of FOSS.
>>>>
>>>> So, do we have anyone with the skills and inclination to start
>>>> publishing short interviews that reflect how contributors work in our
>>>> community?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Tomeu
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>> co-editor, olpcnews
>>> url: www.olpcnews.com
>>> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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>>
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