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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Testing 1.5 - Greece
2. English for Everybody - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
3. Testing/constructing new Sugar on top of F11 - Munich,
Germany/Massachusetts
4. GeoGebra, world-wide mathematics software - Linz, Austria
5. Promotional XO - The Netherlands / Nepal
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
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1. Testing 1.5 - Greece
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56928
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Requests 1 XO 1.5 "not prototype" over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Alpha testing, debugging, developing and getting "playing" feedback
from an 11-year old
2. English for Everybody - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56932
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Requests 10 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Since we are teachers and not computer experts,
programming our courses will take at least a year. After that and if we
are successful, we will start courses on other subjects.
Why English? The Bolivian government announced two days ago, the new
teaching program for Bolivia. (This government is a Socialist-Indigenous
supporter and is very strong now).
All schools in Bolivia will have to change all history books as
“liberal” heroes will be eliminated, replacing them with indigenous
martyrs and every school will have to teach 3 languages: Spanish, an
indigenous “originary” language (guarani for this region) and another
foreign language, preferably English. Laptops will be of great help as
we can show many other things than through a conventional lesson. If in
the future we can buy a projector, it will close our idea of future
teaching by being able to show films, videos, etc.
We have been contacted by people who represent the future local
authorities in order to know more about our project and we have full
support from whoever wins.
3. Testing/constructing new Sugar on top of F11 - Munich, Germany /
Massachusetts
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57108
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Requests 1 XO over 2 months
Project Objectives:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 ?
4. GeoGebra, world-wide mathematics software - Linz, Austria
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57258
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Requests 2 XOs over 6 months
Project Objectives:
Sugarize GeoGebra to run on the OLPC XO 1.5 laptops under SugarOS. We
already have contacts to SugarLabs (Walter Bender et al.) and they
will help us with Java support. This will involve adaptations of the
user interface of GeoGebra to work with the security system and
journal of SugarOS. Support of collaboration features could be a
follow-up project.
5. Promotional XO - The Netherlands / Nepal
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57262
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Requests 1 XO over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
The objective of the project is: Computer supported education within the
primary school in Serachour, Nepal based on a sustainable model.
Deliverables:
The following deliverables are addressed:
• 40 XO´s used and working at the primary school of Serachour
• A working infrastructure (internet, school server, electricity)
• Trained teachers and children
• A self supporting and self learning school based on local parties (=
sustainable)
• Connection with the existing Nepali educational platform, OLE Nepal
and teachers of other schools
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