1. We have decided to intensively work on 3 activities for our first generation of Mero Sano Saathi, our Nepali-language curriculum for the XO laptop. We intend to have the first version of those activities completed by the last week of February. Ankur and Shankar are the primary developers and Rabi will be the project manager. We will need extensive help from the curriculum team. This first phase will target Grade One activities.
- Gyankosh -- a wiki (open-source encyclopedia) targeted to children. We intend to have all of the stories and poems for Grade One implemented in this first phase. - Jotpad -- A basic tool that allows children to write in free-hand with a stylus and even draw pictures. We hope this tool will eventually recognize the text and grade the quality of the child's penmanship. For this first phase it will only record the child's writing. - Basictivity Maths -- Basic math lessons. We intend to port and localize the Gcompris math tools (www.gcompris.net) for this first phase. Please read more about the first generation of Mero Sano Saathi on our wiki. We welcome everyone to contribute their ideas and to help us develop this first generation of Mero Sano Saathi. http://wiki.olpcnepal.org/index.php?title=Generation-1_Activity 2. Himali Kiran has agreed to manage both the OLPC Nepal wiki and our planned software repository mirror. This software mirror, located in Kathmandu, will stope a local copy of all the software code from the main OLPC project and software code that OLPC Nepal develops. This mirror will allow Nepali developers to download OLPC code substantially faster than downloading it from the server located in Boston. We are very lucky to have Himali as a member of our group. He is not only generous with his time but a genuinely nice guy. 3. OLPC Nepal's next general meeting will take place at 6 PM on Wed. Jan 31. The meeting place will be Himalayan Techies. There will be a developers meeting earlier in the week on Monday at 6 PM. Bryan OLPC Nepal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
