{"id":821,"date":"2008-02-14T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/02\/14\/olpc-bookdrive-and-hackathon\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T03:37:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T07:37:25","slug":"olpc-bookdrive-and-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/02\/14\/olpc-bookdrive-and-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC book &amp; music drive and XO hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Share the love <\/strong>with One Laptop per Child, the Creative Commons, Textbook Revolution, and the entire world.<\/p>\n<p><u>Update 1<\/u>: As I have just learned, one should always beware <strong><em>rogue content editors<\/em><\/strong> on <em>romantic holidays<\/em> who have a special affinity for exclamation marks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Update 2<\/u>: <em>We&#8217;ve been slashdotted<\/em>!\u00a0 Thanks for all the interest&#8230; 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.<\/p>\n<h3>    Take action:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Books\">Submit the <strong>free books<\/strong><\/a> you know of<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.creativecommons.org\/LiveContent_2.0\">Share<\/a> <strong>CC-licensed songs<\/strong>, movies, and more<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookmark<\/strong>-books with <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\">del.icio.us<\/a> tags: &#8220;ftbp&#8221;<br \/>\nfor books and &#8220;livecontent&#8221; for quality CC works that should make the <strong>LiveContent DVD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Publishers, authors, and editors &#8211; consider putting your works<br \/>\nunder a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/license\/\">Creative Commons license<\/a> so we can spread them around the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Join us:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/repairkid.com\/\">OLPC Jam in Boston<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Throw your own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcamp.org\">barcamp<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Jams\">jam<\/a> (leave a comment here)<\/li>\n<li>On IRC: <strong>#olpc-content<\/strong> on <strong>irc.freenode.net<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/a> will be burning a LiveDVD as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.creativecommons.org\/LiveContent_2.0\">LiveContent 2.0<\/a> with the selection of CC licensed materials being gathered &#8212; this DVD will be distributed to events like <a href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/\">South by Southwest<\/a> and elsewhere. The bundle of books and educational resources we collect will be used by <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\">One Laptop per Child<\/a> to send all over the world for children, families, and schools. And <em>textbookrevolution.org<\/em>  will compiling and reviewing the best college-level resources they can find for the re-launch of their new, community driven site.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, there will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/olinolpc.org\">hackathon\/jam at Olin college<\/a>. 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