Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Fadel
the numbers on the flags in the google map 
(http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/index.shtml 
) is the most current data (last week). it has not made it to the wiki  
(yet as of yesterday).

these numbers reflect orders not deployed but that data is coming in  
too...

best
r/
On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:44 PM, John Watlington wrote:


 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries is old.
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments, while not exactly up
 to date in certain areas, is better.

 Cheers,
 wad

 On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Xander Pirdy wrote:



 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy  
 xander.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Caroline-
 I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they  
 already have a dataset on olpc deployments: 
 http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1
  
 , though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by  
 country basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for  
 instance because it should really be labeled as part of the United  
 States Deployment), though it wouldn't take much editing to get  
 this to work. If anyone has any idea on reliable sources to verify  
 these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of extra time into  
 correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think that it is  
 something important.
 -Xander

 Sorry for the double post - I just came across this as well: 
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries 
 , does any one know if this data is more current/correct (no  
 sources for this are cited)? It might also be worthwhile to include  
 countries that have pilots or that have shown significant interest?  
 Also perhaps a state by state one might be interesting as well 
 (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_United_States 
 ).
 -Xander


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com 
  wrote:
 Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.

 If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out  
 Manyeyes to make the map.

 Thanks!


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka  
 yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
 Bolivia
  • 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or  
 less are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best  
 efforts, they don't seem willing to accept help)
  • an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo  
 Claure, CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he  
 owns and in raffles during games his team plays.
  • 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,  
 mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization  
 people connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to  
 get through customs on several trips.  Most of those used for  
 lobbying and grassroots work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers  
 come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the biggest impact so  
 far in gaining some government goodwill despite.  As they were  
 repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas  
 Center for the blind.
  • Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different  
 independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed  
 info on.
  • 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city  
 orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my  
 closet here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am  
 foolish enough to brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish  
 me luck)
  • an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs  
 including the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of  
 them dating back to B1 models
  • Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish  
 NGO.
 Dominican Republic
  • apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President  
 Lionel at some public function.  No further anything is known of  
 this, except that apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that  
 came as gifts from Carlos Slim of Mexico when Slim was apparently  
 handing out 3.000 lots all over Central America and the Caribbean.   
 Note that Lionel was very connected with NN early on (maybe even an  
 MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were given to  
 Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the  
 first places to really take off)
 OT, enjoy this comic
 http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

 - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
 - Why is that, Mr. Minister?

 - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
 - yeah...

 - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they  
 found out they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister  
 Ridiculous!

 - 

 - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


 (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously  
 sees computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and  
 other 

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Sean DALY
Really nice prez, the zooming is very original

* I believe Project Ceibal is 396,000 XOs

* You might want to mention collaboration and the XS school server

* site address is www.sugarlabs.org, not .com

* you mention two ways to run Sugar: XO or Sugar on a Stick; may be
worthwhile mentioning Ubuntu Sugar project too (Ubuntu officially
supported on Dell Latitude 2100 and Intel Classmate PC, so installed
Sugar a real possibility for a deployment where XOs not feasible)

* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations for other
presentations, under 2010 is the one I did March 3rd (PDF in French,
but some visuals you could use)

Sean


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
 I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to
 mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
 The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
 I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone has
 done one.
 Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
 Thanks!
 Caroline
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Walter Bender
One other typo:

http://www.sugarlabs.com - http://www.sugarlabs.org

-walter

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
 Really nice prez, the zooming is very original

 * I believe Project Ceibal is 396,000 XOs

 * You might want to mention collaboration and the XS school server

 * site address is www.sugarlabs.org, not .com

 * you mention two ways to run Sugar: XO or Sugar on a Stick; may be
 worthwhile mentioning Ubuntu Sugar project too (Ubuntu officially
 supported on Dell Latitude 2100 and Intel Classmate PC, so installed
 Sugar a real possibility for a deployment where XOs not feasible)

 * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations for other
 presentations, under 2010 is the one I did March 3rd (PDF in French,
 but some visuals you could use)

 Sean


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Caroline Meeks
 carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
 I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to
 mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
 The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
 I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone has
 done one.
 Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
 Thanks!
 Caroline
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 Solution Grove
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi Caroline,

this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
that ever have been done on Sugar!

While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

Afghanistan
Austria
Bhutan
Brazil
Cambodia
China
Colombia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Russia
Rwanda
Senegal
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
 I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
 me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
 
 The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
 
 I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
 has done one.
 
 Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
 
 Thanks!
 Caroline
 
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Xander Pirdy
Great presentation... I really like the format.
One possible typo that I spotted:

Under features it says:
Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick not touch the existing hard
drive installation.

Should read:
Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick does not touch the existing
hard drive installation.

Christoph: Out of curiosity is there somewhere that I could find numbers for
those projects aggregated?

-Xander

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Christoph Derndorfer 
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:

 Hi Caroline,

 this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
 that ever have been done on Sugar!

 While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
 one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
 list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
 please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

 Afghanistan
 Austria
 Bhutan
 Brazil
 Cambodia
 China
 Colombia
 Ethiopia
 Ghana
 Haiti
 India
 Iraq
 Kazakhstan
 Lebanon
 Mali
 Mexico
 Mongolia
 Mozambique
 Nepal
 Nicaragua
 Nigeria
 Niue
 Pakistan
 Palestine
 Papua New Guinea
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Russia
 Rwanda
 Senegal
 Solomon Islands
 South Africa
 Sri Lanka
 Thailand
 United States
 Uruguay
 Vietnam

 Cheers,
 Christoph

 Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
  I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
  me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
 
  The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
 
  I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
  has done one.
 
  Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
 
  Thanks!
  Caroline
 
  --
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  Solution Grove
  carol...@solutiongrove.com
 
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  505-213-3268 - Fax
 
 
 
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 08.04.2010 19:25, schrieb Xander Pirdy:
 Great presentation... I really like the format.
 One possible typo that I spotted:
 
 Under features it says:
 Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick not touch the existing
 hard drive installation.
 
 Should read:
 Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick does not touch the
 existing hard drive installation.
 
 Christoph: Out of curiosity is there somewhere that I could find numbers
 for those projects aggregated?

In general http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments is the place to go for
this type of information.

Unfortunately the page was outdated for a long time but I've repeatedly
pushed some folks at OLPC to get back to updating it regularly. Now
looking at the page's history you can see that SJ updated it on March
31st and while the page itself still talks about info being from August
or December 2009 (depending on where you look) I would assume that it
more or less reflects the current state of things.

@SJ: Please let me know if my assumptions here are wrong! :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Christoph Derndorfer 
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:

 ...
 In general http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments is the place to go for
 this type of information.


http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8hl=enmsa=0msid=107887635573341686661.00045a8f74844ef1681f8z=2

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8hl=enmsa=0msid=107887635573341686661.00045a8f74844ef1681f8z=2from
that page has an overview.

Unfortunately the page was outdated for a long time but I've repeatedly
 pushed some folks at OLPC to get back to updating it regularly. Now
 looking at the page's history you can see that SJ updated it on March
 31st and while the page itself still talks about info being from August
 or December 2009 (depending on where you look) I would assume that it
 more or less reflects the current state of things.

 @SJ: Please let me know if my assumptions here are wrong! :-)

 Cheers,
 Christoph

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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka

Bolivia

   * 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
 are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best
 efforts, they don't seem willing to accept help)
   * an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
 CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and
 in raffles during games his team plays.
   * 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
 mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization
 people connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to
 get through customs on several trips.  Most of those used for
 lobbying and grassroots work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers
 come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the biggest impact so
 far in gaining some government goodwill despite.  As they were
 repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas
 Center for the blind.
   * Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
 independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed
 info on.
   * 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
 orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in
 my closet here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I
 am foolish enough to brave customs again (last time it was messy,
 wish me luck)
   * an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
 the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating
 back to B1 models
   * Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.

Dominican Republic

   * apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
 at some public function.  No further anything is known of this,
 except that apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as
 gifts from Carlos Slim of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing
 out 3.000 lots all over Central America and the Caribbean.  Note
 that Lionel was very connected with NN early on (maybe even an MIT
 alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were given to
 Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the
 first places to really take off)

OT, enjoy this comic
http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

- Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
- Why is that, Mr. Minister?

- You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
- yeah...

- when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found 
out they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!


- 

- so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


(what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees 
computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other 
authorities to the children :-( )


On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

Hi Caroline,

this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
that ever have been done on Sugar!

While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

Afghanistan
Austria
Bhutan
Brazil
Cambodia
China
Colombia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Russia
Rwanda
Senegal
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
   

I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?

The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/

I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
has done one.

Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?

Thanks!
Caroline

--
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Solution Grove
carol...@solutiongrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.

If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes
to make the map.

Thanks!

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:

  Bolivia

- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less are
still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they
don't seem willing to accept help)
 - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles
during games his team plays.
 - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet
here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough 
 to
brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
 - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to 
 B1
models
- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.

 Dominican Republic

- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel at
some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except that
apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
 Slim
of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central
America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one 
 of
the first places to really take off)

 OT, enjoy this comic
 http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

 - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
 - Why is that, Mr. Minister?

 - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
 You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
 - yeah...

 - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
 they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!

 - 

 - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


 (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
 computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other
 authorities to the children :-( )

 On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

 Hi Caroline,

 this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
 that ever have been done on Sugar!

 While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
 one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
 list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
 please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

 Afghanistan
 Austria
 Bhutan
 Brazil
 Cambodia
 China
 Colombia
 Ethiopia
 Ghana
 Haiti
 India
 Iraq
 Kazakhstan
 Lebanon
 Mali
 Mexico
 Mongolia
 Mozambique
 Nepal
 Nicaragua
 Nigeria
 Niue
 Pakistan
 Palestine
 Papua New Guinea
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Russia
 Rwanda
 Senegal
 Solomon Islands
 South Africa
 Sri Lanka
 Thailand
 United States
 Uruguay
 Vietnam

 Cheers,
 Christoph

 Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:


  I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
 me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?

 The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/

 I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
 has done one.

 Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?

 Thanks!
 Caroline

 --
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 Solution grovecarol...@solutiongrove.com

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 505-213-3268 - Fax



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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Xander Pirdy
Caroline-
I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
have a dataset on olpc deployments:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
that it is something important.
-Xander

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote:

 Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.

 If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes
 to make the map.

 Thanks!


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:

  Bolivia

- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, 
 they
don't seem willing to accept help)
 - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in 
 raffles
during games his team plays.
 - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet
here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough 
 to
brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
 - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to 
 B1
models
- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.

 Dominican Republic

- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except 
 that
apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
 Slim
of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central
America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one 
 of
the first places to really take off)

 OT, enjoy this comic
 http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

 - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
 - Why is that, Mr. Minister?

 - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
 You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
 - yeah...

 - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
 they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!

 - 

 - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


 (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
 computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other
 authorities to the children :-( )

 On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

 Hi Caroline,

 this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
 that ever have been done on Sugar!

 While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
 one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
 list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
 please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

 Afghanistan
 Austria
 Bhutan
 Brazil
 Cambodia
 China
 Colombia
 Ethiopia
 Ghana
 Haiti
 India
 Iraq
 Kazakhstan
 Lebanon
 Mali
 Mexico
 Mongolia
 Mozambique
 Nepal
 Nicaragua
 Nigeria
 Niue
 Pakistan
 Palestine
 Papua New Guinea
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Russia
 Rwanda
 Senegal
 Solomon Islands
 South Africa
 Sri Lanka
 Thailand
 United States
 Uruguay
 Vietnam

 Cheers,
 Christoph

 Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:


  I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
 me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?

 The draft of my presentation is here: 

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Xander Pirdy
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy xander.pi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Caroline-
 I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
 have a dataset on olpc deployments:
 http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
 though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
 basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
 should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
 wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
 reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
 extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
 that it is something important.
  -Xander


Sorry for the double post - I just came across this as well:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries, does any one know if this data is more
current/correct (no sources for this are cited)? It might also be worthwhile
to include countries that have pilots or that have shown significant
interest? Also perhaps a state by state one might be interesting as well (
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_United_States).
-Xander



 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
  wrote:

 Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.

 If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out
 Manyeyes to make the map.

 Thanks!


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:

  Bolivia

- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, 
 they
don't seem willing to accept help)
 - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in 
 raffles
during games his team plays.
 - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my 
 closet
here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish 
 enough to
brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
 - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back 
 to B1
models
- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.

 Dominican Republic

- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except 
 that
apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
 Slim
of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over 
 Central
America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being 
 one of
the first places to really take off)

 OT, enjoy this comic
 http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

 - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
 - Why is that, Mr. Minister?

 - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
 You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
 - yeah...

 - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
 they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!

 - 

 - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


 (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
 computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other
 authorities to the children :-( )

 On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

 Hi Caroline,

 this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
 that ever have been done on Sugar!

 While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
 one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
 list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
 please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

 Afghanistan
 Austria
 Bhutan
 Brazil
 Cambodia
 China
 Colombia
 Ethiopia
 Ghana
 Haiti
 India
 Iraq
 

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread John Watlington

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries is old.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments, while not exactly up
to date in certain areas, is better.

Cheers,
wad

On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Xander Pirdy wrote:

 
 
 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy xander.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Caroline- 
 I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already 
 have a dataset on olpc deployments: 
 http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
  though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country 
 basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it 
 should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it 
 wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on 
 reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of 
 extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think that 
 it is something important.
 -Xander
 
 Sorry for the double post - I just came across this as well: 
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries, does any one know if this data is more 
 current/correct (no sources for this are cited)? It might also be worthwhile 
 to include countries that have pilots or that have shown significant 
 interest? Also perhaps a state by state one might be interesting as well 
 (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_United_States).
 -Xander 
 
 
 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com 
 wrote:
 Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.
 
 If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes 
 to make the map.
 
 Thanks!
 
 
 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
 Bolivia
   • 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less are 
 still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they don't 
 seem willing to accept help)
   • an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure, CEO 
 of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles 
 during games his team plays.
   • 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers, 
 mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people 
 connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through customs 
 on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots work by the 
 valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the 
 biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill despite.  As they 
 were repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas 
 Center for the blind. 
   • Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different 
 independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
   • 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city 
 orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet 
 here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough to 
 brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
   • an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including the 
 President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to B1 
 models
   • Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
 Dominican Republic
   • apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel at 
 some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except that 
 apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos Slim 
 of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central 
 America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN early 
 on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were 
 given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the 
 first places to really take off)
 OT, enjoy this comic
 http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png 
 
 - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you! 
 - Why is that, Mr. Minister? 
 
 - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation! 
 You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on? 
 - yeah... 
 
 - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out 
 they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous! 
 
 -  
 
 - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price? 
 
 
 (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees 
 computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other 
 authorities to the children :-( ) 
 
 On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
 Hi Caroline,
 
 this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
 that ever have been done on Sugar!
 
 While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
 one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
 list of countries with 

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
Nice find. I decided to use a tag cloud. That gets around the nonstandard
place names and it gives a relative idea without listing numbers that we
know are out of date.

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/word-cloud-of-olpc-xo-deployments

Thanks

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy xander.pi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Caroline-
 I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
 have a dataset on olpc deployments:
 http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
 though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
 basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
 should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
 wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
 reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
 extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
 that it is something important.
  -Xander


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com
  wrote:

 Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.

 If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out
 Manyeyes to make the map.

 Thanks!


 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.comwrote:

  Bolivia

- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, 
 they
don't seem willing to accept help)
 - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in 
 raffles
during games his team plays.
 - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my 
 closet
here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish 
 enough to
brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
 - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back 
 to B1
models
- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.

 Dominican Republic

- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except 
 that
apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
 Slim
of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over 
 Central
America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being 
 one of
the first places to really take off)

 OT, enjoy this comic
 http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

 - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
 - Why is that, Mr. Minister?

 - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
 You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
 - yeah...

 - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
 they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!

 - 

 - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


 (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
 computers as being presented as a gift by the Minister and other
 authorities to the children :-( )

 On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

 Hi Caroline,

 this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
 that ever have been done on Sugar!

 While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
 one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
 list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
 please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

 Afghanistan
 Austria
 Bhutan
 Brazil
 Cambodia
 China
 Colombia
 Ethiopia
 Ghana
 Haiti
 India
 Iraq
 Kazakhstan
 Lebanon
 Mali
 Mexico
 Mongolia
 Mozambique
 Nepal
 Nicaragua
 Nigeria
 Niue
 Pakistan
 Palestine
 Papua New Guinea
 Paraguay
 Peru
 

[IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

2010-04-07 Thread Caroline Meeks
I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to
mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?

The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/

I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone has
done one.

Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?

Thanks!
Caroline

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