Here's a roundup of the later part of my 2007:

I've been a full-time unofficial/unauthorised/unpaid volunteer for One Laptop Per Child since september when I moved to Nepal to help the local effort there. I reckon OLPC will cause a real revolution in education: it'll create the environment in which knowledge spreads naturally between humans (kids, adults, experts) and we'll marvel at the results. With hindsight we'll think that tens of thousands of hours of rigid and sterile instruction is a bit of an insult to human dignity.

But enough about that for now. It's fun to be able to play a tiny part.

We've done a lot while I've been in Nepal. We learned Squeak and found a practical way of working, wrote our initial demo software, found kids to work with, cultivated ties with local schools, created excellent jobs for Nepali programmers, recruited really inspiring people, found help from really generous experts (one of whom even came all the way over to visit us), and started sewing the seeds of really interesting skills that can grow in Kathmandu and then spread out from here. The project continues at a pretty rapid pace.

But there's a lot left to do and lots of things to think about! In particular we need to work on our relationship with the OLPC mothership in Boston. If you're one of them and you're reading this then please get in touch with me and let's find a way to drink beer and talk shop!