Barry Vercoe at NECC 2006
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Barry Vercoe of OLPC
Barry Vercoe's panel video/audio.
The transcript of Barry Vercoe's panel:
Necc Live, It's called Necc Live
"Good afternoon and welcome back to Necc Live. I'm Chris Walsh from Weston and we are broadcasting live from San Diego, CA the Necc 2006 conference. We've had a great time so far and we are pleased to bring you umm a great segment here on the One Laptop Initiative.
Hope or Height obviously this morning the key note from Nicholas Negroponte got a lot of people excited about the One Laptop Initiative and we have three great, umm, panelist here to kind of talk about that and other issues related to one to one computing today so welcome guys. We have Eon Gukes, Barry Berko & David Thornburg. Why don't we start by just introducing the lot real quick and tell us what you are up to these days and then we will circle back to One Laptop."
"52 time zones in two weeks. Uh Singapore twice, traveling, working on four different books at this time and in my spare time resting on my laurels."
"So, nothing it's a slow month (laughing)"
"Absolutely"
"Well I have been staying pretty close to home. I'm in media lab and developer of the One Laptop Per Child. A lot of my software is running on there and for us owned by the 7 days a week habit."
"Wow, David"
"Umm, I have been umm traveling in countries with state department advisories and doing things like that. Uh our big focus for the last year has been Open Source software and the, uh, fact that the United States is finally starting to pay attention to Linux so large parts of the world are already there now starting to happen here so we are doing a lot of work in Open Source"
"And you got a new book"
"I do have a new book called When the Best is Free: An Educator's Perspective on Open Source. Which I was told is not only the best book on the topic it is the only book on the topic (laughing) ah and which also means it is the worst book on the topic, but in any event yeah, and, and the reaction to Open Source is finally making sense to Americans and, and that is really terrific. We do a lot of work in Brazil, umm, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand you know the usual cast of characters."
"Well Open Source is obviously a key part of the One Laptop Initiative,"
"right, yes"
"so lets turn back to that. Obviously a lot of people are really inspired by the keynote this morning. We were good enough to have Nicholas on the show briefly, umm, and talk about it so tell us from you perspective, umm you know what's at the heart of this project? Why, why are we doing this?"
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