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a respeituda jornalista sarah de almeida lacy enfureceu os milhões de brasileiros empreendedores pontocom ávidos por citações no site para o qual ela trabalha.
na expectativa de conhecer o tal desenvolvimento do terceiro mundo, basicamente ela começou a aprender português para não ser trapaceada pelos brasileiros, sequestradores malandros, e meio que entrou total no clima macunaíma, tanto que resolveu deixar tudo pra última hora, como uma indígena tropical, e perdeu o visto e a vacina antifebre amarela.
uma forte machadada no sonho de muitos de entrar para a cena e empreender não uma boa idéia, mas uma startup de almeida qualquer.
NewsChallenge $USD 5m for Free Software news/info solutions
The Knight Foundation deadline for preliminary applications for $USD 5m grants ends Midnight, PST, 1st Nov 2008. Applications must include an actual real-world geographical location where the free-software-based hardware and/or software solution is deployed. I have an urgent request to make: FIND SOMEWHERE. FAST.
This is a golden opportunity to do a One Laptop Per Person project. not just an OLPC. $USD 5m is enough to get a smartphone / pda / netbook / laptop designed, along with wireless mesh networking hardware, and the software done.
If nothing else, it is enough to get a Software-Defined-Radio custom ASIC designed and built (see Gnu-Radio and Wireless 3G 4 Free), on top of which Babel Routing Software can be deployed to give you wide-area (1-3 miles) metropolitan mesh networking.
This is a golden opportunity to deal with the centralised profit-led systems that have sprung up to “serve us”, and set up decent decentralised robust infrastructure that can store and spread news, information and knowledge no matter whether there is one participant or one million.
THE FULL APPLICATION DOES NOT HAVE TO BE DONE RIGHT NOW.
all that is needed is a quick 25-minute frenzied rush to the keyboard.
but part of that application MUST include a village, town, community, region, eco-homes centre, university – SOMEWHERE there have to be REAL people who will have actual REAL hardware put into their hands.
find.
someone.
fast.
