OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by metasj.
Categories: Uncategorized.

Share the love with One Laptop per Child, the Creative Commons, Textbook Revolution, and the entire world.

Update 1: As I have just learned, one should always beware rogue content editors on romantic holidays who have a special affinity for exclamation marks…

Update 2: We’ve been slashdotted!  Thanks for all the interest… among other things, it led to contributions from Ben Crowell, who has single-handedly covered most of basic university physics with his carefully laid-out libre publications.

Take action:

  • Submit the free books you know of
  • Share CC-licensed songs, movies, and more
  • Bookmark-books with del.icio.us tags: “ftbp”
    for books and “livecontent” for quality CC works that should make the LiveContent DVD
  • Publishers, authors, and editors - consider putting your works
    under a Creative Commons license so we can spread them around the world

Join us:

We are collecting all the free books, movies, music, and other content that we can in the next five days. Then, on Tuesday (2/19) the Creative Commons will be burning a LiveDVD as part of LiveContent 2.0 with the selection of CC licensed materials being gathered — this DVD will be distributed to events like South by Southwest and elsewhere. The bundle of books and educational resources we collect will be used by One Laptop per Child to send all over the world for children, families, and schools. And textbookrevolution.org will compiling and reviewing the best college-level resources they can find for the re-launch of their new, community driven site.

On Saturday, there will be a hackathon/jam at Olin college. We hope others will setup their own jams and barcamps, and we will be adding them to the list above as they do.

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19 comments.

OLPC + CC Hackathon : submit books & music to LiveContent

Comment on February 14th, 2008.

[...] to go. But that’s not going to happen since it’s across the country. Maybe this summer?read more | digg [...]

OLPC + CC Hackathon - Creative Commons

Comment on February 14th, 2008.

[...] out the OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon going on this weekend. From SJ: Share the love with One Laptop per Child, the Creative Commons, [...]

will

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

Hi SJ!

We met at a dinner a while back–I work for PCF. I added a children’s book my wife and I wrote and are distributing under a CC license to the book list. If there are any issues, I’m happy to spend some time to fix them.

dmoynihan

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

Hi, would the books on this site be helpful?

http://www.boysbooks.org — it’s PG texts plus stuff I’ve scanned.

I can do any format you want, waiting on my OLPC to arrive before, you know, deciding what reads best.

/Also have other “CDs” sorted by categories, though I think PG is doing this as well.
//Five years ago, I sold “300 Mysteries on CD” on ebay, but I’ve long since moved on to other things. If that’s any help, let me know.

JA

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

It’s a bit risqué, but how about this:

http://www.sancairodicopenhagen.com/tbpmd.html

Kriston

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

Logistically, internet delivery of e-books will remain a huge technological and economic problem.
To address this, Worldspace satellite radio at http://www.worldspace.com/ donates up to 128 kbps for the common good.
This means that expensive internet connections and equipment are not needed for delivery of electronic books. The beneficiaries of the OLPC project can receive electronic textbooks via satellite using an inexpensive Worldspace receiver.
I encourage you to solicit this service from Worldspace at http://www.worldspace.com/. Their footprint covers Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Jacob

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

How are these books going to be distributed with the XO? Are they going to be pre-loaded on the XO’s small hard drive? Perhaps a USB Keychain Drive distribution of the books would be more appropriate.

Conheces “coisas” sobre Creative Commons? at Liberdade na era tecnológica?

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

[...] Seja ele de outrem ou próprio, basta sugerir conteúdo a incluir neste pacote. [...]

Ed Montgomery

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

A godsend for all English teachers, language teachers, ESL teachers…heck, anyone who wants to learn something from MP3 files!

Free audiobooks!? :-) at:

http://libravox.org/

Trader’s Diary » Music Credits

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

[...] derivatives licenses. The Podiobooks authors working to support the OLPC project by having our work included as source content for educational purposes. The problem, of course, is that we have to change the license to Attribution-ShareALike and my [...]

SJ’s Longest Now » OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon | wrevolution.org

Comment on February 15th, 2008.

[...] SJ’s Longest Now » OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon [...]

metasj

Comment on February 16th, 2008.

@Jacob : they will be distributed both on the XO’s drive and on USB keys. Schools that have school servers will hold a digital library with many of the available collections. (though even there modern drives run out of room before including all the great images and media that are available).

@Ed : funny to note that librevox, libravox, and librivox are all owned by people committed to similar causes (and not, say, squatters).

@JA : Thanks for the link. Anything with footnotes like that can’t be entirely bad.

metasj

Comment on February 16th, 2008.

and will : thanks; Awesome Blossom makes me smile… the drawings look good on my XO! You might want to make a version with a blank 2d page, and no last page, to make more sense as a digital book.

Szabad oktatás? - Worldshots

Comment on February 17th, 2008.

[...] minden vele kapcsolatos terv úgy kezdődik, hogy ”(…)kimászunk a nyúlból.” A mostani partit viszont különösen nem értem. Addig megvan, hogy egy raklap klasszikus, néhány [...]

Picando Código

Comment on February 19th, 2008.

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