[Community] fast tracking scelinux Bolivia

[Yama Ploskonka]

Point taken...

My fault.  Will get it run through db and subpage

Will also start working on what I agreed to do yesterday.

Thanks!

Yama

Samuel Klein wrote:
> Was there a contributors' program request I missed?  Please submit
> one, in one of two ways, and note the timing needs there:
>  * still using projectdb.olpc.at until we have another form up
>  * by creating a subpage of [[Projects]] (say [[Projects/SCELinux]])
> and sending the snail mail info & any private details to
> developer at laptop.org
> 
> SJ
> 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Yama Ploskonka <yama at netoso.com> wrote:
>> The "Sociedad Científica Estudiantil" of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés
>> in La Paz, Bolivia, are the greatest, most self-sacrificial people I've ever
>> met among Open Software types.
>>
>> When you talk about running on a shoestring, well, talk about running an
>> Open Software congress on /half/ a shoestring as they've done a couple times
>> already.
>>
>> Five of them were among the best support I had during the Aymara translation
>> effort.  Two young ladies during the evening, and the gentlemen who actually
>> were the only non Scouts who overnighted, working continuously and also
>> doing a great job in teaching the Scout kids about Linux, Squeak and OLPC
>> (instant experts...)
>>
>> I would want to request 15 XO laptops for them.  I would provide background
>> support and accountability, and they would be able to hack activities and
>> keep working the Aymara thing, as first-step projects, and focus mostly on
>> developing and testing activities to deliver educational content, probably
>> with me as advisor.
>>
>> As I get to talk with them we would be more definite as to what to do with
>> the things.  It's been something I haven't thought until today, for before,
>> a chance for them to work on actual XOs was unthinkable.
>>
>> Of course these guys would be the first I will hire when I get funds for
>> deployment, but that seems still a bit far off.
>>
>> I am rushing this for it appears I will be in Bolivia January the 19th, and
>> I dunno how long it takes Brightstar to send things.  Another possibility is
>> that you send them to me here at Austin and I add a piece of luggage, at
>> $100 for 50 pounds it is not that bad actually.
>>
>> Yama
>>
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