Lindsey Andrews's Blog (6)

Sorry for the delay, but now I'm back with updates on Virtual Peace! A couple of weeks ago, we had an all-team meeting, which marked the mid-point for the development of the project. Now we've got only a little over a month to launch! While there are still many things to do, and many hurdles to overcome, the meeting made it clear that the technical aspects of the project are well under way. Of course, the most visually compelling part of the meeting was the presentation of avatar development by… Continue

I've been a little slack getting together a longer post on the awesome talks I saw at HOPE this weekend, but in the meantime, I thought I'd put up a link to a rather scathing criticism of the OLPC program, a project whose initial idea seemed good, but whose implementation has been -- according to many… Continue

[CONNECTED 15,600] Before eleven (which is to say, before most people at HOPE even woke up), free access was aplenty. By 12:00, a DDOS is in effect (distributed denial of service), preventing access to the temporary networks set up here. I can’t get online. I can’t even register to be tracked by my RFID tag. What do you expect, I guess, when you put a few thousand hackers in a room? I’ll post whenever I get a moment of connection. Today I’m in NYC at HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) con, being r… Continue

[Please Note: the official blog for Virtual Peace is being moved to the DML Winners HUB. I will continue to cross-post here, but this will primarily be my personal blog.] This isn't VCR related; it's a personal blog post. I'm going to an awesome hacker conference this weekend. It's the last HOPE conference (they've been around for almost 15 years), and the line-up of talks looks amazing. If any… Continue

Last week I posted about the launch of the Virtual Peace website. This week I wanted to add some information about what’s going on with the rest of the DML winning Virtual Conflict Resolution: Turning Swords to Ploughshares project. Basically, we’re working in three different teams, coordinated by the visi… Continue

As our website went live this week, I'm totally stoked to be able to start blogging about Virtual Conflict Resolution: Turning Swords to Ploughshares, one of the winners of this year's Digital Media and Learning Competition. See the website here. Also, our Ning network site should be ready for public joiners soon. I'll update as soon as that's the case. Virtual Conflict Resolution: Turning Swords to Ploughshares brings together digital lea… Continue