The multi-millions of people I am interested in helping do not have access to the internet. I can give them a 35˘ DVD with thousands of books on it or 2 hours of video and they can play it on a old, used computer. Study for hours. Library for schools, etc. The material is not copyrighted but some which is, I have permission to put on DVDs.
I wrote about the XO in order to expend the use of thousands of DVDs for children. <div><br></div><div>I am not an expert [two friends are] on computers, etc but I am an expert on using them. In simple language, is there a way to make the XO play DVDs? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Ken Hargesheimer<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Ken,<br>
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Are there any licensing restrictions on the material? If not, it could be converted to an XO friendly format (say OOG'ish) and made available via the internet* (I'd suggest in chapters or short clips) so deployments could download, evaluate, and distribute if they thought it valuable for their local community. Is it available online already? Perhaps somewhere like Dailymotion would be good:<br>
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<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs</a><br>
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...as they support XO/Sugar friendly formats.<br>
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--Gary<br>
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* I know you're trying to target folks off grid, but making the material available online would allow others to easily evaluate and distribute it to their local community themselves.<br>
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> There are hundreds, if not thousands, of children's dvds available.<br>
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> ken Hargesheimer<br>
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