Dear Isabella,
Can we have an OLPC dinner in Santo Domingo early evening Saturday Oct
30? I arrive from OLPC's Boston office that afternoon, and will be
working with OLPC's volunteer coordinator for the Dominican Republic
(Ivan, himself also a volunteer). We would love to see you and others
if so!
We'll be discussing OLPC/Sugar-like opportunities in the DR and Haiti
first and foremost, inviting anybody you and Ivan feel will contribute
to the discussion.
While also sharing details from the OLPC/Sugar Community's largest ever
contributor/volunteer summit, taking place just 1 week prior in San
Francisco:
http://olpcSF.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php
Thanks for considering! Please invite the people you believe take
modernizing education most seriously, no matter their age -- or all 28
million from the Caribbean's most populous island if you prefer, where I
can't wait to set foot ;)
--Holt (OLPC Community Support Manager)
/PS I'm paying for this 2-week Haiti exploration myself, as my 1st ever
vacation from OLPC in 3 years, trying to rebuild this Port-au-Prince
school (http://blueTarpSchool.blogspot.com) with a group of close
friends, and very strongly welcome suggestions from all./
On 10/5/2010 3:05 PM, Isabella Linares Barrientos wrote:
Thanks! i will contact them! Thanks!!
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Bastien <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Isabella,
I would recommend you taking a close look at this program:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
You can get XO for small projects through it, this is a good step
toward larger deployements.
OLPC talks with governments: contacts between Dominican Republic
and OLPC need to be quite formal at some point, depending on how
much the country is prepared to commit into a deployment.
But the larger OLPC community (essentially made of volunteers like
me) is always here to provide advice and help at any scale, so feel
free to start your own project and to let things blossom from there.
All the best,
--
Bastien
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