from: <a href="http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/05/were-looking-for-volunteers-for-this.html">http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/05/were-looking-for-volunteers-for-this.html</a><br><br>As you may read in the previous Post "
<a href="http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/04/amazing-educator.html">An Amazing Educator</a>,"
a fantastic educator has joined our group. We are looking to work with
her very intensely this summer to implement many of her existing
learning activities and add as many cool activities as we can. In the
fall we plan to visit many, many schools to figure out how kids and
teachers react to these materials.<br><br>Right now we have three full-time <span style="font-style: italic;">volunteer</span>
developers, all of them Nepali. We would love four (4) foreign
volunteers to come work with us this summer in Kathmandu. We will pair
each foreign volunteer with a Nepali intern. That should bring our
content strike force to 11 people. That would really help us to advance
OLPC in Nepal.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Requirements:</span><br>We
are looking for experienced programmers. Your age and # of university
degrees are less important to us than your passion for software
development. We seek individuals with significant software development
experience on Linux, ideally in Python, PyGames, C, etc. You should
have already run the OLPC image in an emulator.<br><br>You should
expect to stay in Nepal for a minimum of 6 weeks. You can stay a
maximum of 5 months due to Nepal's complex visa rules. If your
application is selected, you can start as soon as you can get here.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Compensation:</span><br>We
are prepared to offer a generous salary package of $0 per month,
reimburse you for a full 0% of your airplane ticket cost, and offer no
health plan. We don't have any $ :) Our office, bandwidth, and
computers have all been donated. We can offer comfortable lodging for a
total of four volunteers. We can accept additional volunteers if they
are willing to find and pay for their own accommodation.<br><br>We <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">can</span>
offer you an opportunity to work w/ a very passionate team of engineers
on one of the most exciting projects in the world. If you are
interested please send an e-mail with your C.V. and a brief description
of what you have done w/ OLPC so far to bryan at olpcnepal dot org<br><br>Unfortunately,
summer is monsoon season so Nepal aweseome trekking isn't a good idea.
Still, it's been a weird year weather-wise. We'll try to get you out
for a trek near the end of the summer.<br><br>We'll take you
running/hiking in the hills surrounding Kathmandu if you are so
inclined and subject you to Ankur's bad jokes (and they are very bad).<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Work:</span><br>You
will work closely with our lead developers Shankar, Ankur, and Himali
Kiran and our lead educator Christine Stone. You will help implement a
series of activities based on PyGame and/or GCompris. That means
writing a lot of Python, possibly some C, working with sound libraries,
and more. If you have some exciting ideas for power management or mesh
networking, we may find some time to work on them w/ you. However, you
should expect to spend most of your time building Sugar activities,
getting feedback from Christine, revising, showing to kids and
teachers, repeat.<br><br>We will expect you to train the Nepali intern
assigned to you. The intern will most likely be an undergraduate
computer science student.<br><br>The development team will frequently interact with kids and teachers over the course of the summer.<br><br>We intend to recruit education volunteers at a later date. I'll save that for a future blog entry.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Bryan W. Berry<br>Volunteer<br>One Laptop Per Child Nepal<br><a href="http://www.olpcnepal.org">www.olpcnepal.org</a>