laptop.org #09371 OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri Sep 28, 11:15AM EDT)
Dear Mr. Leonard, Mr. Holt, Mr. Battley, Catalyst for Hope Project - Sri Lanka - UPDATE Answers to questions brought up via e-mail and Sep 28 LiveChat: 1) *Sinhala translation of Sugar UI*: We have found a great volunteer, Pahan Charithanga in Sri Lanka to help with that. This is what he said regarding the e-mail from Mr. Leonard. I contributed OLPC during my internship period and I am ready to contribute again. We conducted some teachers workshops and provided technical assistance for them. I can talk to people who worked with me and get their involvement as well. For the translation of the UI we can get sinhala blogging community, and university student's contributions. All we have to do is make aware about the project. Pahan's contact: *pahan...@gmail.com* 2. Dr. Jayantha has talked in depth with the local school staff: here are her comments - -- We can get the maximum support from the school staff. One or two dedicated teachers are possible to get trained. -- Internet access is also possible. -- Graders 8 and 9 (12-14 years old) are better suited for the project - for now. 3. Electricity is available at school. We are eager to move forward with this. Please let us know what the next step is to get OLPC laptops to Sri Lanka. Thanks Yohan On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.comwrote: If you or your friends could help complete the translation of the Sugar UI that runs on the XO laptop into: Tamil: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/ or Sinhala: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/ It would be a very nice way of giving back in a manner that would help both your kids and others in Sri Lanka. cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri Sep 28, 11:15AM EDT)
Hi all, Thanks so much for considering my project Catalyst for Hope to bring laptops to Sri Lankan youth in the elephant conflict village school. I have noted your points and will be contacting Mr. Battley at this e-mail ( mbatt...@ucc.on.ca). If this e-mail is not correct, please let me know, as I would like to move on this soon. Thanks again for your time looking into supporting this project. I look forward to working with you. Yohan Sumathipala On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: All 5 positive verdicts posted below! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/October_28,_2011 For the 1st time ever (I think) all were approved, in full or in part, across 4 continents -- affirming the unwavering strong heartbeat of our deployment/learning conrtibutor community. Hot News: our favorite parts shop ( http://iLoveMyXO.com in Wisconsin ), sorely missed at our SF global community summit last week due to a hosting glitch, is Now Back Online!! Contributors Project Leaders: plz be patient working with your mentor in coming weeks until shipment's possible, confirming your blog/site is posted to http://olpcMAP.net, http://planet.laptop.org, http://planet.sugarlabs.org etc :) On 10/28/2011 11:15 AM, Holt wrote: * Fast Review of the [5] latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals. Plz join us advocating for reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC Sarbhan - Gujarat, India 2. Catalyst for Hope - Kandiyapita Kanishta, Sri Lanka 3. The Haiti Empowerment Project - Ohio State Univ 4. NYSAIS OLPC Initiative - New York 5. XO to Aid Teaching of English/Literacy Skills - Eshibinga, Kenya -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
