Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat
Then type at bottom:
/join #olpc-meeting
AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Open Solace - Haiti / New York, Los Angeles
2. NACIF OLPC-Lending Library in Gomoa-Dasum District of Ghana - New York
3. OLPC Pilot Education Project at Alamparai - India
4. Project Success Links: 3 Projects For Change - Los Angeles
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
1. Open Solace - Haiti / New York, Los Angeles
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55379
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 1,680 (or 25 initially) XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
To provide compelling 2 way video communications between Haitians and the
compassionate communities inside the US and around the world that include
Haitian communities, church groups, Media organizations
Our objective is to establish a method for American Haitian
communities to
send video messages of love, compassion, and inspiration to their
relatives,
friends and citizens of Haiti. We also plan to get video messages out of
Haiti and deliver them to the American Haitian communities. We will
encourage anyone to compose video postcards of hope to be sent to
Haiti, by
means of new media, News organizations, PR and word of mouth.
Setting up residence in a secured Haitian NGO camp. Recruiting
*5* bilingual locals instructors then educating those instructors on
the value of the interviews and their intended use. Then train the
instructors how to
use the video recording app and the list of list of interview
questions then
role playing those questions. measure, adjust and repeat until we have
*25* instructors. Once done We will set up our projector in the evening
and show american messages of inspiration and use that moment to
announce the Open
Haiti project. 25 is the appropriate number because we have 25 portable
solar powers tested and approved by manufacturer on OLPC. And 25 is the
maximum number that can be managed by a worst case scenario of one
available
instructor.
May cache to a local server and then "broadcast" the data to the public
server as communications allow.
2. NACIF OLPC-Lending Library in Gomoa-Dasum District of Ghana - New York
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55294
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 4 XOs over 3 months
Project Objectives:
Objectives Our goal is to build a number of "paperless" libraries in
which OLPCs replace paper books. NACIF is a charitable organization
dedicated to helping young girls obtain a great education and,
towards this
goal, is building or equipping a number of libraries in remote
villages in
Ghana. The cost of supplying books to these libraries is however
prohibitive
and NACIF has decided it can provide serve more girls by using
e-books. The
OLPC is the perfect medium for such a project in the areas in which NACIF
works. Most importantly, we want to encourage girls to create and share
content about their community, something they cannot easily do with
books.
The content will include creating diaries, news articles, and
photo-albums.
Thus, the OLPC provides these girls with the "active" educational
experience
as opposed to the passive education they will gain through reading paper
books.
3. OLPC Pilot Education Project at Alamparai - India
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55284
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 35 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Introducing the OLPC as a pilot project for 30 to 35 children at the
Panchayat Union Alamparai Middle School with intention to expand to
surrounding schools, organizations, and experts to adapt this XO
technology for the successful achievement of the Educational goals.
Assessment of the initial success of the project will then inform the
rate of progress on expanding OLPC to the wider community.
Fully equipping school teachers by rendering appropriate training in the
use of the new technology for instructing their students.
Improving the standard of Education with the aegis of new intervention
and pave the way for attaining the self goals of each and every children
targeted under this project.
Creating conducive environment with the help of the XO technology to
elicit the children?s interest in learning the Science and English
subject.
Initiating the knowledge revolution among the children and the youth in
the community.
4. Project Success Links: 3 Projects For Change - Los Angeles area,
California
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54975
http://cocosouthla.org
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 15 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Our project objective is to inspire and educate elementary school
children
to take an active role in their community by utilize technology tools
for 3
Projects for Change.
This project-oriented program will also act as a professional development
program, which can help kids identify personal skills and develop career
interests. The success of these projects will introduce different
positive
activities that can be emulated by other children.
_______________________________________________
Olpc-open mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
