Please join us (right now!) reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, 2PM EDT Boston Time Friday, right here right now :) http://forum.laptop.org/chat
Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27 * Fast Review of the 2 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC-ADNEN Cameroun - Cameroon Capacity reinforcement, Monitoring and evaluation of primary schools equipped with XO by PAQUEP Project in environmental and computer literacy in the context of pedagogical integration of ICT http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43257 http://upennuac.blogspot.com Requests 10 XO's for 12 months General Objective: Contribute to the promotion, the pedagogic integration of XO and the participation of pupils and teachers in the protection of the environment in 12 primary schools of the the PAQUEB project an 6 other motivated schools of Adamaoua region. Specifique Objectives: 1. Acquire one mobile library suitcase equip with 10 XO and 10 guides which can be use simultaneously in several schools to spreading IT education by the project team. 2. Contribute to the spreading of XO and Sugar environment in 12 primary schools an initiate about 6351 pupils from class 1 to 6 of the PAQUEB Project and in 6 other motivated schools of the region. 3. Not less than 6351 pupils and not less than 130 Teachers will be IT literate and will participate to the protection of the environment specifically the climate change in their council. 4. Not less than 6351 productions (photos numeric, mini project, posters, point of view, small articles on the environmental protection and participation of pupil in projects…) are shared with students and pupils of others schools of our country and other countries via Internet and other means of spreading knowledge. 5. Reinforce the pedagogic skills of teachers and the head masters of the 12 schools of the PAQUEB project and the 6 other motivated schools of the region. 2. REVISED - Wind Shear Detection for Small Airports - Northridge, California, USA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43173 http://www.csun.edu/~rmehler Requests 4+ XO's for 12 months REVISED - Project Objectives: Both grad students and local public schools should contribute to the development and testing of an array of inexpensive sensors that, when placed around an airport, will automatically organize themselves into a mesh network that can detect and report wind shear: July 2009: determine hardware platform and peripherals, obtain same August – December 2009: work on network data exchange protocols, wind shear detection algorithms January – May 2010: system integration, testing, demonstrations June 2010: write, publish, wrap up. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
