Interview with Elana Langer of OLPC
Yesterday I had the great privilege of capturing a conversation I was having with Elana Langer about her involvement in the One Laptop Per Child program by the MIT lab. This is grassroots broadcasting at its best - done quietly in a friend’s pantry because another live webcast was being videotaped in the living room and we can hear Dave Cormier’s toddler son, Oscar, getting grumpy before lunch time.
Elana is an instructor at SUNY in New York and is also the videographer documenting the Living Archives Project in Prince Edward Island. A few months ago she began work with the OLPC at the invitation of David Cavallo. She describes a bit of her own thesis work with him.
Elana mentions the new Get One/Give One program from OLPC. Guess what is top of my Christmas wish list? 
My iPod hard drive that captured the conversation was spinning for some reason during the capture, so I apologize for the annoying whining noise in the background. If anyone has suggestions on what to do about that, please let me know!
Download Interview with Elana Langer of OLPC
Could you provide a .ogg vorbis version of the interview, please?
I’m really interested by this specific interview, but am in an experiment (of my own): How would a kid with an XO laptop access the web by default and in keeping is freedom of software on the XO intact? Yep, no mp3, and no flash seems to be the biggest hurdles (unless they are aditionally installed of course).
Comment by Eduardo Silva — October 1, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Thank you! Although clicking the .ogg link made my browser (konqueror) display it inline (imagine pages of funky writting), I could download it with right-click option “save link as”. The sound is pretty good as well, and I’m about to begin listening, to which I’m looking forward to.
Again thank you for getting back so fast in answering!
P.S.-In gnu/linux there is a simple mp32ogg command line to convert mp3 to ogg. It exists in most distribution repositories. But I haven’t really tested it myself yet (maybe in the future, I’ll convert the mp3 myself and provide it to the podcaster whose show I’m interested in).
Comment by Eduardo Silva — October 1, 2007 @ 5:09 pm