[Community] fast tracking scelinux Bolivia
Christoph Derndorfer
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Jan 8 20:49:40 EST 2009
Yama, I certainly support your request!
SJ, will there be a contributor's meeting tomorrow (Feb. 9) evening?
'cause I probably won't be able to make it... Would it be okay for me to
simply look for the most recent submissions and send you the thoughts
per e-mail?
Christoph
Samuel Klein schrieb:
> 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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