Roadtrip III

This weekend is taking me all over the country - I'm coloring this weekend in blue on the travel map.



Friday was an awesome, field-day like visit in Canelones. On Saturday, I went to Punta del Este (Marker H in the southeast; a tourist-friendly place not unlike Provincetown). I planned a school visit for this Monday, so I'm spending today in Durazno (Marker I). Tomorrow morning I continue up the road to Paso de los Toros (Marker J) and visit a school! There'll be teacher-trainers coming from Tacuarembo as well.

I'm still preparing for the school visit, and the internet connection from Hotel Durazno isn't good enough to upload photos, so I'll write more later this week. The main thing which I found today, while completely lost outside Durazno, was a library with a Braille section. I'm going to try meeting with the librarian tomorrow, seeing what resources they have, and finding out what ñ looks like in Braille.

Project Outreach

Some other things that just happened this week:

• A volunteer at the Las Piedras school asked me to write to her son, who's studying programming in college. On his blog, he posts great resources for the Magallanes Classmate PCs. Argentina, are you seeing this? I told him to check out Hacker News Spanish.


• I started a conversation with WorldReader about hacking eReaders. Then I heard interesting rumors about the next generation of eReaders, so I've put it on the back burner. If I work in Seattle this fall with super secret company then I could follow up.


• I asked Garage48 if their traveling hackathon was going to visit Uganda. Now they're making plans with our OLPC contacts at Kampala University. Hoping there will be education apps and future Ugandan entrepreneurs at this event!


• I was selected for a Code for America 2012 fellowship, so I'll being making plenty of maps and apps for cities next year.