On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi SJ and all, > > "Samuel Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> * we have a lot of low-hanging fruit to gather in terms of identifying NGO >> and >> University contacts by country, and helping them get involved / share local >> knowledge about how to get things done / sign up to host volunteers or give >> them projects to work on. > > For deployment of XOs in french speaking countries, this is surely a > task where OLPC HQ should somehow rely on OLPC France.
Would that include Rwanda? Haiti? Cambodia? Trials in French Polynesia or Egypt? I see that La Francophonie has 55 member states, (including all of the above) and 13 observers. http://www.francophonie.org/oif/membres.cfm > 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. > > OLPC France just applied to become a repair center. > > We also applied to get XOs through the Developers Program. > > 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. > > 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. > > Thanks! > > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
