I just joined this list, am exploring OLPC now... Here is a video I did with Michail Bletsas last month at the Netsquared Conference in Santa Clara: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnho9jDnUGo"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnho9jDnUGo</a> that I thought the group might find interesting. By way of introduction, I was one of the chief software architects of both the VA and the DoD hospital information systems (DHCP and CHCS); took early retirement to see what I could do to use technology to make the world a better place; became a fellow at Stanford's Digital Vision Program; started a thinktank called the Uplift Academy ( <a href="http://upliftacademy.org">http://upliftacademy.org</a>), have been holding workshops in Boston (<a href="http://upliftacademy.org/reed">upliftacademy.org/reed</a>) last year, Paris (<a href="http://upliftacademy.org/parisnotes"> upliftacademy.org/parisnotes</a>) last April. I am particularly interested in "viral" models of uplift, looking for scalable small things that can make a large difference through scale. The model I am chasing now is to use a pattern language model, focusing on patterns of things that work and how to amplify them, based loosely on Christopher Alexander's work on patterns. I've been trying to load Sugar on my MacBook, but have not had much success... I got stuck trying to load the py-GTK software with Darwinport... is this worth even doing, or should I just scroung an old Pentium box and load Fedora?