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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 10 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. XO-1.5 for "Getting Started" guide - New Orleans, Boston & South Africa
2. Improving School attendance rate and peformance - Kenya
3. XOphoto - Stillwater, MN & NYC, New York
4. The Chaucer Education Project - Canterbury, Kent, UK
5. Liga Masiva Coffee without Borders - Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
6. Water Scarcity Awareness Project - Africa, Australia, Europe/UK,
Americas
7. Remapping LA - UCLA / Los Angeles
8. 2nd Grade Special Ed Class, after school study - Arlington, Virginia
9. OLPC Armenia - San Francisco
10. Maasai Connection - Kenya & Prescott, Arizona
* 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
* Meeting results will be posted here very shortly:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings
1. XO-1.5 for "Getting Started" guide - New Orleans, Boston & South Africa
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62353
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 1 XO-1.5 over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Revising http://laptop.org/start for XO-1.5
DRAFTing english revisions for:
http://teach.laptop.org/~holt/laptoporg-refresh/10.2.0/gettingstarted/index.shtml
2. Improving School attendance rate and peformance - Kenya
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62399
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49832
http://e4nfoundation.blogspot.com
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 8 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more
likely to result in a laptop than it would be cool to play with these
and demo them .
1. Equip teachers and pupils with basic computer skills using the XO
laptop.
2. Improve understanding and performance of science subjects.
3. Actively engaging children in their learning process.
4. Increase school attendance rate in rural schools.
5. Introducing another medium of learning and communication using XO
laptop
3. XOphoto - Stillwater, MN & NYC, New York
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62466
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xophoto
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
The first release of XoPhoto will incorporate the following features:
1. Import from SD or USB flash drives into the XO Journal.
2. Create subsets of the images from the journal (imported or from
the Record Activity) into album subsets.
3. Provide limited capability to rotate, or crop images.
4. Export albums to folders that are accessible to Browse, and
thereby, to online destinations.
5. Some limited slideshow capability
4. The Chaucer Education Project - Canterbury, Kent, UK
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62619
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 3 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
The concept model for The Chaucer Education Project evolved from
evaluation
of the difficulties encountered in understanding the theoretical concepts
in Chemical Physics, where theoretical principles have traditionally been
taught before demonstrating applications in projects. This approach
subsequently led to considering how best to research and develop
discovery
based teaching methods, to innovatively raise enthusiasm and academic
achievement from Entry to Postgraduate, preferably imminently leading to
the founding of Chaucer University as an open and distant learning
University of Technology improving basic skills. The Chaucer Education
Project website includes examples of real-time data sampling used within
teaching methods.
5. Liga Masiva Coffee without Borders - Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62662
http://www.ligamasiva.com/blog
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 10 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
This project will benefit a community of organic coffee farmers and their
families in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, improving their ability to
profitably and sustainably direct their livelihoods. These farmers are
part of an innovative social business called Liga Masiva, a company that
works to promote a new direct trade model between the organic coffee
farmer
in Jarabacoa, and the roaster and consumer in New York. Liga Masiva cuts
out the middlemen in the transnational coffee trade, creating a direct
and mutually beneficial partnership with the farmers. A premium price
for the farmers' coffee is assured and Liga Masiva partners with the
farmers on long-term coffee, community, and environmental projects.
The affected communities are in remote areas with very little access
to communication. The farmers and their families have acknowledged
their lack of computer access as an impediment to their education
and livelihood. The computers will be family tools, creating a
synergy between the child's use of the computer for educational
ends and the farmer's use of the computer for coffee-related ends.
The computers will give the farmer access to:
World coffee prices
Weather reports
Better agricultural practices
Communication and connections between themselves and other actors
in the coffee supply chain.
The computers will give the children of the farm families access to:
Basic computer literacy
Communication with people outside of their community
Internet-based resources (like Wikipedia) that can enrich and
facilitate their educational goals.
6. Water Scarcity Awareness Project - Africa, Australia, Europe/UK
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62681
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 1 XO over 6 months
Project Objectives:
- To teach children about the challenges faced by water scarcity in the
world.
- To educate children of the need for water conservation and to raise
awareness of products that require high water usage for their
production.
- The outcomes would involve children learning about regions in the world
where water scarcity is a problem as well as to inspire them on the
scientific progress in water conservation and drought resistant
farming.
- This will also include basic advice on water treatment and sanitation
methods.
7. Remapping LA - UCLA / Los Angeles
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62709
http://bigriver.remap.ucla.edu/remap/index.php/Remapping_LA [NEEDS
UPDATE]
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 10 XOs over 6.5 months
Project Objectives:
Currently, students, artists and researchers from UCLA has been tasked
with creating individual and collective interpretive media works to be
publicly shown at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) in the
summer
of 2010. They will be focusing on new forms of social media, community
experience, and historical memory, including locative narrative,
interactive
storytelling, interpretive databases, physical interfaces, mobile
devices,
Wi-Fi environments, media-rich installations, etc.
The XO Laptops offer a unique tool to use in these projects at LASHP. The
dual-mode screen is perfect for developing creative applications on its
full-color mode, and for outdoor viewing while in the Park on it's
black-and-white mode . The built in microphone and camera could allow
for recordings of soundscapes of the City, interviews with its
inhabitants,
and photographic montages of its streets. The ability to program
applications (Scratch, EToys) on this device offers endless possibilities
for these projects.
UCLA and California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) have been
actively engaged with research and community development collaboration
since 2006. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UCLA
Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, LASHP has
served as a “living laboratory” for research in the use of media,
audio-visual and other technologies in a public space setting to
document, explore, and express the histories and identities of
communities. LASHP has only been open since 2006 and is still in the
formative stages of park wide design and construction. This project
will build from the previous MOU to provide additional outreach,
research, testing, and prototypes to support media-rich, technology-
based programs to facilitate interpretation and community involvement
for LASHP.
8. 2nd Grade Special Ed Class, after school study - Arlington, Virginia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62713
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 5-10 XOs over 3 months
Project Objectives:
Create wikis on OLPC and a blog on Blogger with:
1 - detail how we integrated study hall and the students homework
assignments
2 - lessons learned from teaching
3 - ideas for teaching each sugar application
9. OLPC Armenia - San Francisco
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62721
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~levine
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~sverma
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Translation of Sugar into Armenian. Dr. Levine will carry the XOs to
Armenia in June, where the activity of translation will be set up in
the Computer Science program at the American University of Armenia.
http://www.aua.am
10. Maasai Connection - Kenya & Prescott, Arizona
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62722
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 10 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Our project objective is to create equality for the Maasai in Kenya.
One of
our main ways of doing this is through education in the following ways:
- Provide online tutoring to rural Maasai students to enable them to
pass
the Kenya Certification of Primary Education (KCPE) test and thus
achieve
entrance into secondary school.
- Provide a digital library to Maasai students, helping to alleviate the
desperate need for books.
- Give the resources to match students’ excitement to learn.
- Establish a laptop lending library for students to use them at
home and
outside of school.
- To enable webcam communication for pen-pal programs between rural
Maasailand and “western” societies.
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