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Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks
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|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
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
* his training as a mathematician, classroom teacher, amateur musician and linguist, philosopher, and Buddhist priest
* his training as a mathematician, classroom teacher, amateur musician and linguist, philosopher, and Buddhist priest
* plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode and Free Software.
* plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode and Free Software.
|[[Image:Cherlin-xo.jpg|Ah haz teh bestest toyz]]
|[[Image:Cherlin-xo.jpg|Ah haz teh bestest toyz]]
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==Mokurai's Vision==
==Vision==
End Poverty at a Profit all around by educating children to collaborate and not be helpless.
End Poverty at a Profit all around by educating children to collaborate and not be helpless.
==Mokurai's Mission==
==Quotes==
*Epictetus - "Only the educated are free."
*Aristotle - "All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses."
[[User:Mokurai/Quotes|More quotes]]
==Mission==
The mission is whatever planning, funding, research, development, and deployment is needed to make that happen, with a focus on Management by Exception in order to keep on top of what is needed in changing circumstances and make sure that nothing gets missed that we must have.
The mission is whatever planning, funding, research, development, and deployment is needed to make that happen, with a focus on Management by Exception in order to keep on top of what is needed in changing circumstances and make sure that nothing gets missed that we must have.
* Teach children how to create sustainable international businesses together using their new knowledge and skills.
* Teach children how to create sustainable international businesses together using their new knowledge and skills.
==Current Projects and Partners==
OLPC and Sugar Labs, of course, within the scope of their own missions to provide hardware, software, content, and teacher training materials. In each case, the intention is to expand to a comprehensive, integrated program including infrastructure, education, community development, and economic opportunity. Volunteers, donors, and partners welcome.
By country
* Ghana
** Nana's House (school and orphanage), computers, Internet, and accessories for students and teachers
** Winneba Linux Users Group, Linux+Sugar Installfests
** Catch IT Young youth computer training
** University of Education, Winneba, research, curriculum, teaching materials, localization
** OneVillage Foundation Ghana, Winneba wireless broadband project
* Nigeria
** Fantsuam Foundation microfinance project and Cisco Network Academy
* Kenya
** Asante Foundation Maasai schools and cultural preservation
* Uganda
** Bunabumali Good Shepherd Orphanage and School, computers, accessories, electricity, Internet
** Mt. Elgon coffee growers co-operative equipment and training
** School programs and the rest
* Tanzania
** Mt. Kilimanjaro coffee growers co-operative equipment and training
** School programs and the rest
Components
* 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
* Electricity generation and storage, Engineers Without Borders
* Broadband Internet, OVF Ghana
* Microfinance, Fantsuam Foundation
* Economic opportunity, education program to be developed at EduForge, social entrepreneurial investors welcome.
==Analysis==
==Analysis==
My version of the mission is: Whatever turns out to be needed. My self-appointed task is to find the holes in current programs, and fill them, first with my own efforts and second by recruiting others to do the work, research further solutions, and plan where we might go next. Among the critical tasks are village electricity and Internet, redesigning curricula and textbooks, and bringing all of this together into target communities with microfinance, with a flexible, integrated business plan for whole societies to advance societal infrastructure (education, health, clean water, and other essentials), and the private sector (sole proprietorships, sustainable international companies, producer and consumer co-operatives), and shared values.
My version of the mission is: Whatever turns out to be needed. My self-appointed task is to find the holes in current programs, and fill them, first with my own efforts and second by recruiting others to do the work, research further solutions, and plan where we might go next. Among the critical tasks are village electricity and Internet, redesigning curricula and textbooks, and bringing all of this together into target communities with microfinance, with a flexible, integrated business plan for whole societies to advance societal infrastructure (education, health, clean water, and other essentials), and the private sector (sole proprietorships, sustainable international companies, producer and consumer co-operatives), and shared values.
It is no longer practical to impose the illusion of shared values on a society. They must grow out of the situation. The report on OLPC's early [http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/ethiopia.pdf effects in Ethiopia] gives a glimpse into where we are going. Within a few months, in a highly traditional society that has valued teaching politeness and obedience over subject matter in schools, and where asking questions of a teacher was considered insulting, the XO and its software have opened up a new, collaborative relationship between teachers and students. This is in no small part attributable to the collaborative nature of the XO's Sugar and other software. Access to the information riches of the Internet is another important factor. See [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_Papers Academic Papers]] on the OLPC Wiki for this and other recent reports.
It is no longer practical to impose the illusion of shared values on a society. They must grow out of the situation. The report on OLPC's early [http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/ethiopia.pdf effects in Ethiopia] gives a glimpse into where we are going. Within a few months, in a highly traditional society that has valued teaching politeness and obedience over subject matter in schools, and where asking questions of a teacher was considered insulting, the XO and its software have opened up a new, collaborative relationship between teachers and students. This is in no small part attributable to the collaborative nature of the XO's Sugar and other software. Access to the information riches of the Internet is another important factor. See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_Papers Academic Papers] on the OLPC Wiki for this and other recent reports.
There is more, but that will do to begin with.
There is more, but that will do to begin with.
* We can confidently predict an explosive growth of civil society organizations worldwide, among other things.
* We can confidently predict an explosive growth of civil society organizations worldwide, among other things.
==AKA ==
==AKA ==
==Contact==
==Contact==
* [mailto:echerlin@gmail.com My e-mail]
* [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
* [http://flickr.com/photos/toepfer/2254179681/ At SCALE x6] Sixth SoCal Linux Expo
* [http://livingdirectory.net/FF/ Friendly Favors] I'm FF10136 - Edward Cherlin
* [http://livingdirectory.net/FF/ Friendly Favors] I'm FF10136 - Edward Cherlin
* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury My Digital Earth wiki page]
* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury My Digital Earth wiki page]
* [http://globalchildparticipation.ning.com/profile/EdwardCherlin Global Child Participation]
==Background==
==Background==
Mokurai has extensive experience in every aspect of computers, as a tech writer, editor, and publisher, global market analyst, and software developer. Previous work includes math software and textbooks, Computer Science papers, [http://www.openvoting.org/ Free Software for voting], [http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc31/program-d.htm#ses6_2 Unicode support on the XO], [http://www.cauce.org/ fighting spam around the world], and [http://unicode.org/iuc/iuc24/a345.html earlier anti-poverty projects]. He can sometimes get people to stop talking past each other and answer the ''real'' questions (though not necessarily [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Controversies Nicholas] %-[ ). See, for example,the [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1997Apr/0003.html IETF discussions on multilingual URIs].
When I wrote a guide for new Internet users at Newbie.Net, there were three questions I couldn't answer:
When I wrote a guide for new Internet users at Newbie.Net, there were three questions I couldn't answer:
* How to get everybody on the Net. So here I am. I have previously worked on [http://www.barwn.org/ wireless networking], satellite internet, and the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simputer Simputer].
* How to get everybody on the Net. So here I am. I have previously worked on [http://www.barwn.org/ wireless networking], satellite internet, and the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simputer Simputer].
I'm contributing information on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries countries] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Languages languages] on the OLPC Wiki, including [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Vriting_Systems writing systems], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fonts fonts], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_Layouts keyboard layouts], sources of [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Literature literature], and other items of interest, and administering [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ Localization localization] projects. I will be adding material on education and on the other impacts of the Laptop. It will have major effects in social development, [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health health], economic opportunity, politics, and other important areas.
I'm contributing information on [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries countries] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Languages languages] on the OLPC Wiki, including [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Vriting_Systems writing systems], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fonts fonts], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_Layouts keyboard layouts], sources of [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Literature literature], and other items of interest, and administering [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization localization] projects. I will be adding material on education and on the other impacts of the Laptop. It will have major effects in social development, [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health health], economic opportunity, politics, and other important areas.
==Contributions==
==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.
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.
==Social Networks==
I'm on too many of these networks. If you want to connect with me, please use LinkedIn, Wiser Earth, or Flickr for photos.
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherlin LinkedIn]
* Wiser Earth, in particular [http://www.wiserearth.org/user/cherlin my page] and [http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/c0517a0a7b8ec94f2440668e64eb667d the Sugar Labs page].
* [http://www.flickr.com/people/mokurai/ Flickr]
* [http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1574679 Goodreads] Share reading lists.
* [http://livingdirectory.net/display/my_profile.php?&new=1223677380&tab=profile Friendly Favors]
* [http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gxJ7c my.barackobama.com]
* [http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward_Mokurai_Cherlin/613831268 Facebook]
* [http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/profile/show/60147225135?pk=e4ec91d212c76a3d7ec3af84c82eb63df0bbebb9 Plaxo Pulse]
* [http://www.myspace.com/echerlin MySpace]
* [http://twitter.com/Mokurai Twitter]
* [http://www.naymz.com/search/edward/cherlin/2035203 Naymz]
* [http://www.grouply.com/member.php/cherlin Grouply]
==Wikis==
There are too many of these, too.
* Here, of course
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai OLPC]
* Frequent contributor to [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]
* [http://isde5.pbwiki.com/Earth_Treasury ISDE5] (International Symposium on Digital Earth)
* [http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage Python] PyCon Bid Chair for SF Bay Area, 2010
* [http://impeach.wikia.com Impeachment Wiki] Founder
* [http://www.obamapedia.org/ Obamapedia Wiki]
* [http://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Finnegans Wiki]
==Generalist==
==Generalist==
[http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html Geek code] GAT d-- s+:+ a+++ C++ UL++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N+++@ o+ K++ M+ b+++ e+++ h---- r+++ w--- APL++++ House, MD+++
[http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html Geek code] GAT d-- s+:+ a+++ C++ UL++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N+++@ o+ K++ M+ b+++ e+++ h---- r+++ w--- APL++++ House, MD+++
Basic level in Korean, Chinese, Swahili, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German<br>
Basic level in Korean, Chinese, Swahili, Japanese, Spanish, German<br>
Intermediate level in Russian, French
Intermediate level in Russian, French
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[[Category:Education Team]]
[[Category:Earth Treasury]]
[[Category:Earth Treasury]]