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|Founder, [http://www.earthtreasury.org/~~worknet~~ Earth Treasury], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business. See [[User:Mokurai/Plans and Essays|Plans and Essays]]

|Founder, [http://www.earthtreasury.org/ Earth Treasury], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business. See [[User:Mokurai/Plans and Essays|Plans and Essays]].

NEW PROJECT: [[Translation Team/Pootle Projects#Replacing Textbooks|Replacing Textbooks]] XOs and other netbooks cost much less than printed textbooks, so as soon as we replace enough of the textbooks with Open Education Resources, we can explain that OLPC + Sugar delivers better education while saving money. Mokurai has received permission to set up a server for this purpose at Sugar Labs, and is also raising funds to support it.

[[File:Crowdrise_logo_51x51-1.gif]] [http://www.crowdrise.com CrowdRise Fundraiser donations]

Mokurai volunteers at OLPC and Sugar Labs as a volunteer coordinator, localization administrator ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khmer Khmer] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kreyol Kreyòl]), and general knoker (an especially Yiddish know-all, the kind who did math homework in pen), based on

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* plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode and Free Software.

[http://www.linux.com/feature/147070 Video of Mokurai at Linux World] talking about his take on OLPC and its potential to end poverty. Along with a few other requisites that we can work on. ([[User:Mokurai/Transcript|transcript of video]])

|[[Image:Cherlin-xo.jpg|Ah haz teh bestest toyz]]

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==Vision==

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Components

* Interactive [[Creating textbooks|digital textbooks]], with Lots of partners.

* Interactive [[Education Team/Creating textbooks|digital textbooks]], with Lots of partners.

* Free computers for schools, two per pupil: one at school, one at home. Possibly Computers4Africa

* Flash drives for carrying software and work, so that students can use them on any computer

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==Contact==

* [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]

* AIM chat: mokurai

* ICQ chat: 441484252

* 812 764 0552 New phone number in Indiana

* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin LinkedIn profile]

* [http://www.wiserearth.org/user/cherlin Wiser Earth]

* Twitter: Mokurai

* [http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/edward.cherlin?ref=profile Facebook page]

* [http://mokurai.dailykos.com/ My Daily Kos Diary Entries]

* [http://flickr.com/photos/toepfer/2254179681/ At SCALE x6] Sixth SoCal Linux Expo

~~AIM chat: mokurai~~

~~ICQ chat: 441484252~~

~~408 219 4178~~

* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin My LinkedIn profile]

* [http://livingdirectory.net/FF/ Friendly Favors] I'm FF10136 - Edward Cherlin

* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury My Digital Earth wiki page]

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==Contributions==

I started to work on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Publications OLPC documentation], but then I discovered that even more pressing needs were being ignored. So now I have appointed myself Shadow Chairman & CEO of OLPC. Don't tell Nicholas.

~~==Articles==~~

~~[[User:Mokurai/Plan|Plan]]~~

==Social Networks==

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-|Founder, [http://www.earthtreasury.org/worknet Earth Treasury], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business. See [[User:Mokurai/Plans and Essays|Plans and Essays]]
+|Founder, [http://www.earthtreasury.org/ Earth Treasury], an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business. See [[User:Mokurai/Plans and Essays|Plans and Essays]].
+NEW PROJECT: [[Translation Team/Pootle Projects#Replacing Textbooks|Replacing Textbooks]] XOs and other netbooks cost much less than printed textbooks, so as soon as we replace enough of the textbooks with Open Education Resources, we can explain that OLPC + Sugar delivers better education while saving money. Mokurai has received permission to set up a server for this purpose at Sugar Labs, and is also raising funds to support it.
+[[File:Crowdrise_logo_51x51-1.gif]] [http://www.crowdrise.com CrowdRise Fundraiser donations]
 Mokurai volunteers at OLPC and Sugar Labs as a volunteer coordinator, localization administrator ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khmer Khmer] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kreyol Kreyòl]), and general knoker (an especially Yiddish know-all, the kind who did math homework in pen), based on
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 * plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode and Free Software.
-[http://www.linux.com/feature/147070 Video of Mokurai at Linux World] talking about his take on OLPC and its potential to end poverty. Along with a few other requisites that we can work on. ([[User:Mokurai/Transcript|transcript of video]])
 |[[Image:Cherlin-xo.jpg|Ah haz teh bestest toyz]]
 |}
 ==Vision==
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 Components
-* Interactive [[Creating textbooks|digital textbooks]], with Lots of partners.
+* Interactive [[Education Team/Creating textbooks|digital textbooks]], with Lots of partners.
 * Free computers for schools, two per pupil: one at school, one at home. Possibly Computers4Africa
 * Flash drives for carrying software and work, so that students can use them on any computer
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 ==Contact==
 * [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]
+* AIM chat: mokurai
+* ICQ chat: 441484252
+* 812 764 0552 New phone number in Indiana
+* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin LinkedIn profile]
+* [http://www.wiserearth.org/user/cherlin Wiser Earth]
+* Twitter: Mokurai
+* [http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/edward.cherlin?ref=profile Facebook page]
+* [http://mokurai.dailykos.com/ My Daily Kos Diary Entries]
 * [http://flickr.com/photos/toepfer/2254179681/ At SCALE x6] Sixth SoCal Linux Expo
-AIM chat: mokurai
-ICQ chat: 441484252
-219 4178
-* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin My LinkedIn profile]
 * [http://livingdirectory.net/FF/ Friendly Favors] I'm FF10136 - Edward Cherlin
 * [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury My Digital Earth wiki page]
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 ==Contributions==
 I started to work on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Publications OLPC documentation], but then I discovered that even more pressing needs were being ignored. So now I have appointed myself Shadow Chairman & CEO of OLPC. Don't tell Nicholas.
-==Articles==
-[[User:Mokurai/Plan|Plan]]
 ==Social Networks==