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join us Right Now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects
over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Friday)<br>
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Then type at bottom:<br>
/join #olpc-meeting<br>
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AGENDA:<br>
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?!<br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a><br>
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* Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please<br>
join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:<br>
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1. Ambulant (W3C Smile 3.0 implementation) - Netherlands<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46574">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46574</a><br>
(project needs to provide public URL!)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpc.ch"></a><br>
Requests 2 XO-1's and 1 XO-1.5 over 12+ months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
The goal is to be able to verify that the Ambulant software
incorporated<br>
in the Smile activity operates properly on the XO with Sugar and to<br>
reproduce reported problems.<br>
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2. South Tyrol Lending Library - Italy<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46582">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46582</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_South_Tyrol">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_South_Tyrol</a><br>
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Requests 10 XO-1's over 12 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
<ul>
<li> Helping Italian speaking schools from a sugar soas environment
to a XO/Sugar one
</li>
<li> Italian schools are already using Sugar in thier Linux
computer classrooms in some cases, the logical next step is to convince
teachers to experiment with XOs.
</li>
<li> Translating the manual to Italian language
</li>
</ul>
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3. Palaver Project - Liberia <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43624"></a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46632">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46632</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Kathypuente">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Kathypuente</a><br>
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Requests 2 XO's over 6+ months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Objective 1: To gather interest in the community by teachers,
parents and students in having laptops as learning tools.<br>
Objective 2: To have a laptop for each student and teacher at
Virginia
Christian Academy in the Lower Virginia community in Liberia. There are
approximately 150 students.<br>
Objective 3: To increase literacy in the community by having ebooks
available for the children and their families to practice and enjoy.
Liberia has only a 40% literacy rate. <br>
Objective 4: To break down tribal barriers and create an atmosphere
of
collaboration through the use of technology and a network.<br>
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4. Aura OS, STS SpreadSheet, LittleJect File Compressor -- India<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46764">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46764</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://phoenix-team.tk">http://phoenix-team.tk</a><br>
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Requests 2 XO 1.5's over 24+ months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
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PHOENIX AURA:<br>
Aura is an open source operating system which is based on OpenSuSE<br>
11.1 platform. Some members of Phoenix Team had recently proposed
that<br>
it would be nice if we can work our way towards running Aura in XO
and<br>
XO-1.5 netbooks. We are currently designing this project in 2 sub<br>
streams:<br>
<br>
-BASE PROJECT -- which is intentionally designed for low power<br>
machines, like old Intel P3 or Celeron which will install well
inside<br>
the limit of 700 MiB. The XO is a good target for this type of
stream.<br>
-Phoenix Aura-X -- Normal, full functional operating system designed<br>
specifically for home or developers' usage.<br>
<br>
Phoenix Aura will be:<br>
<div class="message-stanza-depth-1"> = Free of Charge, including
every release<br>
= Open to modify its design and kernel<br>
= We are thinking to ship Aura free to every country for only
shipping<br>
</div>
and handeling charges.<br>
<br>
OBJECTIVES:<br>
=To provide free, interactive and full functional OS to youth.<br>
=Provide operating system for developer schools in India,,,(Some<br>
developers working for schools)<br>
=To increase the potential of FOSS.<br>
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Spread-The-Sheet<br>
<br>
Spread-The-Sheet or STS is open source SpreadSheet program similar to<br>
Microsoft Office Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc... but it is simple and<br>
interactive, allowing even children to use it.<br>
STS is aimed clearly for children(or more specifically, youth) to
use it.<br>
<br>
LittleJect<br>
<br>
LittleJect is a codename of a project which Phoenix-Team is currently<br>
developing in addition to BoomingBang(Codename Imperius)<br>
It is a file compression utility which is aimed to compress higher<br>
than 70%. We are in early development phase of this project which has<br>
just started in August.<br>
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5. OLOGO (OLPC Logo), Education game(s), Photo Editing - New York, USA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46913">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46913</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eecs.usma.edu/olpc">http://www.eecs.usma.edu/olpc</a> (not active yet)<br>
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Requests 2 XO-1's and 2 XO-1.5's over 12 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
<br>
The overall program objective is to enhance the OLPC and increase its<br>
value to the end users as a fun and educational tool. <br>
<br>
-The OLPC Logo program will allow the users to create graphics, and<br>
also learn how to write small scripts that can produce spriograph
type<br>
images<br>
<br>
-The educational game(s) will be decided during the project, but aim
at<br>
being addictive (ex. The incredible machine), and support learning
as<br>
well. <br>
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-The photo editing program is aimed to inspire the users by taking<br>
photos from the internal camera, and allow quick modifications and<br>
filters with an easy to use interface. </div>
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