Please all join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects
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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 8 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Improving School Attendance Rate and Performance - Kenya and Uganda
2. University Class & Repair Center - Rochester Institute of
Technology, New York
3. Wings Over Haiti - Port Jefferson Station, New York
4. Open 1-to-1 + XO1.5 + Sugar - Needham/Arlington, Massachusetts & Maine
5. Support Volunteer & School Server Development - Buenos Aires, Argentina
6. XO 1.5 Testing & Outreach in Portugal - Aveiro, Portugal
7. OLPC Developer Lab and Repair Center - Bangalore, India
8. Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La
Romana, Dominican Republic
* 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. Improving School Attendance Rate and Performance - Kenya and Uganda
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66013
http://e4nfoundation.blogspot.com
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Requests 18 XO-1s 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.
2. University Class & Repair Center - Rochester Institute of Technology,
New York
http://foss.rit.edu/blog
https://fedorahosted.org/OpenVideoChat/
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/RIT
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66041
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Requests 25 XO-1.5s incl 10 additional (possibly carcasses) for
repair center.
Project Objectives:
On-going Course participation in Sugar Labs Math4 project via classes
at RIT, Co-Op and Summer Research Programs
Addtionally hoping to become a repair center.
3. Wings Over Haiti - Port Jefferson Station, New York
http://www.WingsOverHaiti.org
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66053
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=0&ref=mf&gid=267976059380
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Requests 6 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Open a K-8 School in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, in collaboration with
students and teachers at JFK Middle School in Port Jefferson Station,
NY, to meet the following goals:
1. Teach children in French and English, maintaining Creole as a
language of honor with Haiti’s people.
2. Foster the development of critical thinking skills via an emphasis on
problem based learning (PBL) – minimizing rote memorization.
3. Instill a sense of responsibility for humankind in student body
through cultural exchange and local service to the community.
4. Open 1-to-1 + XO1.5 + Sugar - Needham/Arlington, Massachusetts & Maine
http://itd-usr.blogspot.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66253
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Requests 3 XO-1.5s over 6 months
Project Objectives:
Explore running Open1to1 (from Maine Open Netbook Initiative) on XO-1.5
hardware, develop software solutions to encountered problems, demo
machines to FOSS/ED crowd.
5. Support Volunteer & School Server Development - Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://olpc.nicolascorrarello.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66320
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Requests 1 XO-1.5 (and Active Antenna if avail?) over 24 months
Project Objectives:
* Deliver consistent support for the OLPC platform.
Work on the School server distrubution to stabilize the platform,
and add
resources for teachers and students such as:
* "Proyecto ALBA" or schooltool , which is a platform for School
Administration (Managing students, grades, courses, grade reports,
subjects,
teachers, etc. ...)
* Review and Improve 3G modem support
* Find and adapt a tool to manage centrally a big XS deployement (and
maybe
even XO's)
6. XO 1.5 Testing & Outreach in Portugal - Aveiro, Portugal
http://www.tmarques.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66329
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Requests 2 XO-1.5s and over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Showing among political parties that have strongly opposed the
distribution of the Classmate PC from Intel, sold as the "Magalhães"
laptop (please see http://iniciativa-magalhaes.com/). The Classmate was
attributed to a national computer builder without a public contest and
has gathered much criticism from the media and the political opposition.
The XO 1.5 would be a viable alternative and a cheaper one. No
alternatives have been show up till now and 500k laptops have been
deployed. I'm unsure of the success of this due to the current economical
climate in the country, but if there's will to continue with the
initiative,
the XO 1.5 would be very well positioned to replace the Classmate. I have
some extra XO-1s but they are too slow to provide an impact given the
classmate's superior performance compared to the old unit.
7. OLPC Developer Lab and Repair Center - Bangalore, India
http://olpcsouthasia.org
http://youthforseva.org/our-focus-areas/education/computers-for-schools/
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66334
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Requests 10 XO-1.5s and 10 salvaged/damaged XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
· To create a dedicated developer and volunteer community
· To establish a XO lending library and repair center in Bangalore
to help community in adopting XO as a learning platform
· To train teachers in the Sugar Learning environment to enable them
to make effective use of it in their classrooms
· To prepare and implement a new curriculum for the students in
coordination with teachers(For example: Development of various
mathematical
models for understanding effectiveness of current curriculum and
what steps
can be taken to enhance them and decipher the insights from such
implementation)
· To spread awareness among the youth of colleges and schools
· To raise funds for atleast 1 large scale deployment in 6 months
8. Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La
Romana, Dominican Republic
https://sites.google.com/site/laromanaxo/
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66344
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Requests 2 XO-1.5s and 3 months
Project Objectives:
Our project will serve to integrate the use of computers in the learning
and discovery process of young children in rural and depressed areas of
La Romana, Dominican Republic.
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