As KK (as Khürgülek Ondar goes by) gets ready to head back to Tuva, we decided to set up a training session on the Sugar UI, and collaboration between two XOs. I drove up to the rendezvous point (Ralph’s house), and saw a car with license plates “TANU2VA”. I knew I was there.
We also had Isabella Kleider and June Kleider of the Maroantsetra (Madagascar) project to help KK navigate the issues of questions children ask, training the teachers, and overall familiarity of the XO and Sugar. The session went fantastically with Tuvan salt tea, custom pizzas made by the resident pizza chef Nicole, and collaboration sessions with Chat activity, Write activity, and the famous Distance activity. Ralph has some instructional videos that we’ll put up soon.
Onward to Tuva!
olpctuva 
Jan 23, 2012 @ 14:46:31
I got to his blog post after Googling “TANU2VA.” A few months ago I was driving in Daly City, CA, right near the ramp onto 280 North, and to my left I saw a car with that license plate. I knew the license plate had to be related to Feynman and Leighton in some way. I pulled up alongside the car, honked a bit, got the people inside the car to roll down the passenger window, and I yelled “nice license plate!”
Apr 23, 2012 @ 14:10:45
It was probably Ralph 🙂