[WikiEN-l] [FYI] OLPC mailing list about content

[Mathias Schindler]

Hi,

you will find a newly created mailing list about the OLPC programme at 
http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/content which is described as 
follows:

Content -- Discussions of OLPC content, both software and booklike.

We expect content to be both pretty conventional ebooks, but also 
educational software to encourage/enable children to construct 
interesting things that will engage them in the learning process.


If you go through the archives, you will both find favourable comments 
about wikipedia from Negroponte and if I remember correctly, Jimmy has 
also expressed his support for the OLPC.


I am pretty certain that Wikipedia might be one interesting piece of 
content that could be included into the OLPC. While there are technical 
issues (for example for some languages due to space problems), all the 
other debates about child-safe-correct-npov-aspects also apply.

I would love to see some Wikipedians, Wikibookians, etc. who are 
interested in joining this list if they want to participate in this project.

There are more mailinglists at 
http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo which might also be 
interesting for other aspects, such as technical stuff or 
portugese/brasilian related things.

Greetings,
Mathias