[Charlug] Getting Some Cool Toys - Your Thoughts

[Matt Jones]

I think discussing the benefits of Free Software sounds like a great idea.
Personally, I also like the many complementary efforts looking to provide
educational material.
As ebook reader - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHpXplMK7OQA
Educational projects (for various ages) -
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
http://web.mit.edu/ocw/

Matt

On Nov 29, 2007 6:17 PM, Don Parris <parrisdc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to my biggest sponsor, I'm getting two of the OLPC XOs and one Asus
> EeePC.  I have to review them for Blue GNU, but I get to keep them.  I'm
> just curious what you guys might do with 2 XOs?  Keep and play with them?
> Use them for demos?  Give them to a couple of underprivileged kids?  So f=
ar,
> I plan to keep them primarily for demo purposes, but may at some point
> decide to let an underprivileged child have them.  Maybe they'll get me i=
nto
> some of the schools for talks?  Would be nice to start educating young ki=
ds
> about the benefits of Free Software.
>
> Cheers,
> Don
> --
> D.C. Parris
> Minister, Journalist, Free Software Advocate
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