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:
* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/
* Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia
2. Charikar, Afghanistan - New York
3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and
diaspora - Renmark, Australia
4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona
5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia
* 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. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54734
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Requests 10 XO's over 3 months
Project Objectives:
The objective of this initial review is to assess the utility of
the laptop for use in social networking / crowdsourcing initiatives.
The specific details for the pilot study which will be done if we decide
the platform is suitable are currently being developed. If the pilot
study goes forward a detailed list of metrics and objectives will be
provided with our application for 10-25 additional laptops.
2. Charikar, Afghanistan - New York
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59330
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Requests 1-30 XO's over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Last year I worked on an Internet documentary on the Afghanistan Centre
at Kabul University, founded by Nancy Hatch Dupree.
The organization provides books and school libraries for new literate
Afghans. While visiting a high school in Charikar I asked a few students
what they wanted. One student, Mohammad Sharif, said he and his
classmates
wanted computers. They are tired of war and want computers "to be their
teachers." For your information I have included a link to the short video
interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTdxKunWf4
Our objective is to deliver 300 computers to the Hazrat Noman, the boy's
school in the video listed above and 100 laptops each to Hura Jalali
and M
alalai, both girl's school. We would like to establish computer labs in
rural Charikar, about a 90-minute drive from Kabul City. We will
designate
local teachers who will maintain the computers, teach the students, and
develop a curriculum.
I have also included the link to the ACKU videos shot in 2009. I would
like to make the same for the OLPC-Charikar, once the computers are
secured.
http://www.dupreefoundation.org/afghanistan-videos.htm
3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and diaspora
- Renmark, Australia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59359
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 1 XO over 3 months
Project Objectives:
Get my initial Vietnamese XO software localization working on the XO
(Vietnamese is a test case for Unicode support, due to its combined
diacritics and very wide range on the Unicode plane; so far most accented
characters are not inputting, and number/symbol characters are
inaccessible:
we have an almost complete localization but people can't use it!);
test and
review the Vietnamese localization on the XO (I've never seen my
localization
in action); support OLPC project staff in Vietnam in using our
localization
(I made contact with two projects in Vietnam and found that they
didn't know
there was a Vietnamese localization, didn't know how to enable it,
and once
enabled, couldn't use it!)
While it would be cool to play with any new gadget ;), this is an urgent
need to get a key localization working. I can't believe we deployed
XOs in
Vietnam without a working localization! :S
4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59534
Requests 1 XO over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Laptop is to be used to support end users questions and problem tickets
5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59560
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 10 XO's over 18 months
Project Objectives:
This project is for a rural, one-room
public school in Honduras. This school has no access to any kind of
technology at the moment. The purpose of this deployment is to introduce
students to the activities on the XO and use the XOs to help the students
achieve their learning goals. This project can field test how to use the
Honduran curriculum with the activities now available on the XO. This
school has thirty 1st-6th graders, so there will be a good age range of
laptop users and a variety of learning applications.
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