This is from the volcanic island of Nosy Komba, Madagascar. The French chapter of OLPC has supported the island's school for 4 years, and shares updates from there every summer. The community there lives offline; to get a cell connection (say, to blog about their work) they sometimes have to travel to the nearest small town, Hell-Ville. http://olpc-france.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/xoenfant_10.png
The boy laughing is showing off his work with a program that lets you make stories with a series of images. The image being drawn on is a composite of the Sombrero Galaxy, from an offline library of awesome images from Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M104_ngc4594_sombrero_galaxy_hi-res.j...
Thanks to Commonsists everywhere for your beautiful work and curation. It is appreciated far beyond the 'Net!
SJ
* More background: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosy_Komba http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Ville http://olpc-france.org/blog/2012/07/nosy-komba-des-enfants-et-des-xo/
Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com writes:
This is from the volcanic island of Nosy Komba, Madagascar. The French chapter of OLPC has supported the island's school for 4 years, and shares updates from there every summer. The community there lives offline; to get a cell connection (say, to blog about their work) they sometimes have to travel to the nearest small town, Hell-Ville. http://olpc-france.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/xoenfant_10.png
Thanks for sharing the picture, SJ.
For french readers on these lists, here is the last update: http://olpc-france.org/blog/2012/07/nosy-komba-des-enfants-et-des-xo/
And the english version of the post we sent before going there: http://olpc-france.org/blog/2012/06/nosy-komba-2012-were-off-2/
Enjoy!