Pledge “OLPCwixiNEWS”
"I will invest 100 hours in free wixi software for OLPC XO laptop language learners but only if 1 olpcnews.com reader will take a minute to help make wixi happen."
— friend of wixi (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 25th May 2007
4 people signed up (3 over target)
More details
http://laptopfoundation,org/en/propose
seeks ideas that $100 laptop kids can
use to learn.. a draft wixi proposal is
here: http://wixi.cc/xoproposal
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WiXi proposes
a simple idea that $100 laptop kids can
use to learn languages. 8,000+ pageviews
suggests that someone is interested..
http://twext.cc/go/olpcnewsstory describes
a context for this proposal.. the OLPC
needs educational content which, ideally,
kids can help to create
http://twext.cc/twexter shows a working
demo of the basic wixi tool.. in early
June, a multilingual wixi specified at
http://twext.cc/go/18 should be working
Waqas Hussein, who programmed the demo and
delivering the multilingual version is keen
to create wixi software for the $100 laptop,
which will soon be used in his native country
of Pakistan.
Waqas is a sharp programmer as you can see
by the clean free code he created at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/twexter
our plan is to make an xulrunner/javascript
desktop wixi that can integrate with existing
collaborative authoring activities on the XO..
$2000 can get it done and get it done right.
$1000 delivers wixi for the $100 laptop this summer..
$1000 responds to feedback to improve wixi by fall..
http://laptopfoundation.org may be more
likely to support the project if more of
us share some interest.. with little risk,
you can help deliver a rewarding new tool
benefits may include
* a simple test of "learning learning"
* potential to serve many children
* extend a useful new free software
* a more tolerant, multilingual future
* when wixi works, you get bragging rights
you and your kids may soon enjoy many hours
using free wixi software to learn more language..
please spend a minute to make it happen sooner..
action? simple: write a quick email to anyone
you think might be interested.. invite them
to sign this pledge:
http://pledgebank.com/OLPCwixi10
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Comments on this pledge
- At first, it was a good project, but now, asus is on the market with his 701, less than $299, good quality, design and performance, what is the future of the olpc... don't know, but asus's future will be better.code, 9 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
Current signatories (
= they've done it)
friend of wixi, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Rob van Son
- Carlos Saraiva
- Pascal
- Volkan
