A story I could write: an alternative timeline where the #OLPC (One Laptop Per Child AKA as the 100 dollar laptop) became the global default for education and created, with its mesh network, a decentralised approach to a true Internet Of People.
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Eduardo Mercovich (Êl)replied to Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange: last edited by
Hi @jwildeboer
This sounds super interesting. I'm interested in something like this for @confluencia , our intentional community.
Can you point me to some documentation you believe specially useful or inspiring?
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Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange:replied to Eduardo Mercovich (Êl) last edited by
@edumerco @confluencia unfortunately not a lot besides https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_repeater is publicly available.
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Kehvarlreplied to Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange: last edited by
I wanted some of these so badly. They seemed ideal for collaborating with my dnd group in public places. The transflexive/pixel-qi display is still something I depserately want for a basic productivity device. I wonder where I could source a handful of working or repairable OLPCs.
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Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange:replied to Kehvarl last edited by
@Kehvarl Don't steal them from my 10+ collection of working ones
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Matt Panaroreplied to Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer I'd always assumed mesh-networking was way lower-bandwidth than the alternatives: and that's why it never globally caught on?
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Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange:replied to Matt Panaro last edited by [email protected]
@eigen It was a political fight. Mesh networking in countries where mobile networks wanted to make money? Oh no! Not acceptable. Bandwidth for text and voice communication is negligible, even today. And mesh means very cheap to no infrastructure. Given enough nodes. Which can be cheap, solar powered repeaters instead of expensive stations with antennas and surveillance possibilities
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nullr0utereplied to Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer I have a lot to say about OLPC but probably won't do it publicly TBH
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@nullr0ute @jwildeboer It would still be prudent to write up the thoughts up, in case you change you mind one day.
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Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange:replied to Riku Voipio last edited by
@suihkulokki @nullr0ute There are many, many pages, videos, articles out there since many years that focus on all the mistakes made (there were plenty).
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nullr0utereplied to Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer @suihkulokki there's also nothing that really covers the internal back stabbing and undermining of each other that was ultimately what resulted in the destruction of the organisation
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Jan Wildeboer đˇ:krulorange:replied to nullr0ute last edited by
@nullr0ute And you should write that down at some point in time, IMHO. But in a new thread @suihkulokki