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Aug6

#rdc2009 Hacker Wednesday – Back to the Basics

Unpacking the BookMobile at RDC Headquarters. Video by Nathan Malamud. You can track the BookMobile’s northerly migration and view video outtakes on our interactive map.

The big news this week – we are getting set up for our Second Annual Launch Party (which is essentially a fun way for us to demo all of the cool [...]

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Jul15

#rdc2009 Hacker Wednesdays – Upgrades, Extensions, Outreach

The RDC created these bookmarks for our 2007 BookMobile Tour. Design by Levi Thompson
Greetings! We had a great #rdc2009 Hacker Wednesday – we successfully downloaded our target collection of books in DjVu format, and took a close look at the current state-of-the-art in bundle creation and content collections at http://wiki.laptop.org/. We realize that what we [...]

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Jul12

#rdc2009 Hacker Wednesday – Goin’ Mobile and Creating Bundles

The BookMobile visited the Port Orford Library in November 2007. We are swinging by next week to pick up their XO so we can share our work with kids in the area!
This week it was Scotty’s turn to be on the road, so in the absence of our DA (Designated Adult), the RDC crew [...]

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Jun24

#rdc2009 Hacker Wednesday – General Brainstorming and Coding

We had a productive #rdc2009 Hacker Wednesday on-site at 246/Point B Studio. Steven and Scotty are plugging away, writing a Python app to download the books we need for the XOs. Ideally, we want to store these books as a collection or list that everyone can share on the web. We are also calculating [...]

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