Hello Bastien, On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi SJ and all, > > Here in France, Free Software organizations like APRIL or AFUL already > have good contacts with educational-IT NGOs that might locally help with > the deployment of XOs -- both and the technical and pedagocial side. > Yes; OLPC France can certainly help with this. > OLPC France just applied to become a repair center. > > We also applied to get XOs through the Developers Program. > Your developers program applications were approved; they should ship out early next week. And I really hope we will be able to be a repair center, because we have > many IT students waiting to be part of it; and I really hope we will be > able to get new XOs, as it will help us bring up new content in french, > both because of possible implementation in France and in the countries. > This will also help us convince NGOs working in the countries that we > can work together on this. > Yes, I do too. Having an active repair center in each country with devoted developers is important. > Having a community website is all good, but delegating part of the > "social implementation" to people who already deal with it might be > useful as well. > bien sûr... SJ
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