Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:
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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. Steppe by Steppe / Side by Side - Kazakhstan, Australia
2. Costa Atlantica - Managua, Nicaragua
3. Sugar Polishing 0.84 - Berlin, Germany
4. Free E-Tutoring in India for the Village Child - Tamilnadu, India
5. Fedora on XO - London, United Kingdom
6. eBook creation and sharing website - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
7. Broken XO-1s/parts Community Repair - Sao Tome & Principe
8. eKindling - OLPC Philippines
9. Collaboration Testing & Documentation - Vienna, Austria
10. XO-1.5 Hardware QA - Indianapolis, Indiana
* 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:
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* Meeting results will be posted here very shortly:
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1. Steppe by Steppe / Side by Side - Kazakhstan, Australia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60323
http://www.steppebysteppe.com.au/schools.html
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Requests 10 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
...Our aim is that by providing access to [OLPC] resources in remote
villages, will allow the students to expand their educational
prospects without having to leave their village, traditional
lifestyle, village traditions and customs, or family, for the city –
something which the community often finds very damaging in this
rapidly changing and globalised world.
Throughout our project, we have visited many schools in very remote
rural areas, these schools are often very under resourced – lacking
sporting equipment, proper toilets, libraries and many other
facilities that we ourselves take for granted today. Adequate phone
lines/reception is often non-existent in these areas also – let alone
the internet. Most people in these remote villages have never even
seen a computer, let alone used the internet.
In these rural areas (where hardly anyone has seen a computer), there
are very limited prospects for further education. We hope that by
providing a few laptops, internet access (along basic training) and
software, to a school, we can increase their chances of continued
higher education. Access to global information will greatly enhance
their awareness, understanding, and knowledge of the larger community
that we are all apart of, resulting in greater empowerment at both a
communal and personal level, thus greatly increasing their
developmental prospects.
Our other goal is to partner each participating school in Kazakhstan
to a sister school in Australia, it will allow students in these
distant regions of the world to learn and grow together with open
minds. This can only be done however once these schools have access to
the internet (and thus telephone lines, electricity, and computers).
The partnered schools will then be able to keep in regular contact
with each other, learning about each others traditions, lifestyle, and
culture...
2. Costa Atlantica - Managua, Nicaragua
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60386
http://www.fundacionzt.org/fzt/index.htm
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Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Get 2 XO 1.5 for start the training with the new hardware and software,
and to have the experience to support the proyect at Atlantic Zone.
3. Sugar Polishing 0.84 - Berlin, Germany
http://erikos.sweettimez.de
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
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Requests 1-2 XO-1.5s over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Polish Sugar 0.84 on XO 1.5
Find hardware related issues with Sugar on XO 1.5 hardware (e.g.
keys, camera). Backport 0.86 and 0.88 bugs to 0.84.
4. Free E-Tutoring in India for the Village Child - Tamilnadu, India
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60525
http://twitter.com/rajindia_4
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Requests 50 XOs over 48 months
Project Objectives:
Remote area (village) Students can acquire
knowledge of their homework help and curriculum help of the Text book
using
XO’s laptop. They can learn comfortable without any fear in one-one
session
with the teacher in