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Apologies for the unusual time as I will be on the road Friday to
FUDCon/Toronto with 15 free XO-1.5 B2's :-)<br>
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AGENDA:<br>
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!<br>
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* Fast Review of the 11 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please<br>
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:<br>
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1. Trade Tech College LULAC XO Laptop Lending Library (Los Angeles)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47537">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47537</a><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/%7Emoss/ghana/"></a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 10 XOs over 18 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
The project objectives are to empower all LATTC students with basic<br>
computer technological skills.<br>
To introduce students to the world of the internet.<br>
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2. Starting a Trial - Nigeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50593">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50593</a><br>
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Requests 3 XOs over 12 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
We are a trusted COMPUTER AND INTERNET service provider for schools<br>
,companies, government sector that are interested in installing or<br>
enhancing network systems, improving computer security, investing in<br>
software and hardware upgrade, outsourcing computer maintenance and<br>
preventive service.<br>
<br>
We analyse, design, supply, install, manage and service network from
start<br>
to finish, from cabling the premises to supplying the workstation
and the<br>
server.<br>
<br>
<br>
3. Middle and High School XO Developers Project - Springfield, MA, USA
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50600">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50600</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
]<br>
<br>
Requests 9 XOs over 12 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
I myself am a middle school student and would like to be involved in
OLPC<br>
and XO laptops, so I thought of this student life project for my
school. I<br>
would like 9 XO laptops so I could have technologically advanced
middle<br>
school and high school students (Age 11 to 18) come in and see how
the XO<br>
works, and try to develop new software, and maybe even hardware, for
the XO<br>
laptop. By the end of November 2010, we shall have a good amount of
software<br>
and hardware available for the XO.<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50626">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50626</a><br>
Ihttp://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/<br>
<br>
Requests (5?) XOs over (undetermined) months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
My project will provide entertainment and a learning experience for
the<br>
children of Los Toscones by providing them with basic computers that
can be<br>
used for both fun and educational purposes.<br>
<br>
<br>
5. Corporate Social Responsibility Programe on Children's Education -
Nigeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50961">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50961</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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Requests 1 XOs over (undetermined) months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
To involve corporates in the sponsorship of IT education for
children from less privileged homes.<br>
<br>
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6. SANKAMAP Software Activities Development/Testing - PNG/Papua New
Guinea, Australia<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51395">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51395</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpc.quodling.name">http://olpc.quodling.name</a><br>
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Requests 4 XOs over 18 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
A. Establish translation of OS/Applications into "Tok Pisin" aka
Neomelanesian Pidgin, the "lingua Franca" of Papua New Guinea. as well
as local Bougainvillean dialects (Primarily Simon) <br>
<br>
B. Porting of "Scribus" - an opensource DTP (Desktop Publishing
application) to the XO. (Primarily Peter) <br>
B1. Porting of Celtx - an OpenSource - media pre-production software
package used for writing and planning documentaries, scripts etc (to
assist in the capture of vocal history). <br>
<br>
C. Integration of scribus with an "Newspaper Management Application"
also under development - tracks news items, formats for web or
broadsheet delivery, and has a workflow component to facilitate
(primarily Peter) <br>
<br>
D. debugging issues around long distance communictions -using
distance line of sight Wifi and also Packet Radio.<br>
<br>
E. Assistance (Testing etc) on GAIABB project.<br>
<br>
<br>
7. XO Advocacy Project - Nigeria<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51437">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51437</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
]<br>
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Requests 2 XOs over 12 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
TO RECEIVE AND INTRODUCE XO LAPTOP IN SOME SECONDARY <br>
SCHOOL IN MY LOCALITY.<br>
TO ADVOCATE FOR THE GENERAL USAGE OF XO LAPTOPS.<br>
TO GET A GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO OWN XO LAPTOPS.<br>
<br>
TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR THE COMPANY OBJECTIVE OF <br>
ENHANCING CHILDREN EDUCATION VIA XO LAPTOPS.<br>
<br>
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8. Help Activity Maintenance - Seth Woodworth, Cambridge, MA, USA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51455">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51455</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_(activity)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_(activity)</a><br>
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Requests 1 XO-1.5 B2 over (undetermined) months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
To update the Help Activity for the XO-1.5 release.<br>
<br>
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9. Conectando El Futuro @ Polytechnic University of Engineering/UPI -
Tegucigalpa, Honduras<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51459">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51459</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.upi.edu.hn">http://www.upi.edu.hn</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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Requests 100 XOs over (undetermined) months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
The Polytechnic University of Engineering, UPI, is an organization<br>
committed to its people, the Honduras people and has placed on its<br>
shoulders social responsibility and the priorities of the poorest
people<br>
in isolated communities. Our priority is Education, and you cannot
talk<br>
about education without children, and these days without digital<br>
technology. That´s why UPI looks at the OLPC as a great opportunity
to<br>
remove the technological gap that exists in Latin America, these<br>
accompanied by the economical and social gaps that sadly define a<br>
generation in Honduras. UPI believes knowledge dissipates all gaps
and<br>
is truly invaluable. That´s why pledge our commitment in helping the<br>
children reach the goals they could’t have dreamed of having.<br>
Giving the children laptops to increase their knowledge in math and<br>
science with the help of software will not only increase their
potential<br>
but will make them comfortable in the areas of digital technology as
we<br>
are in the digital age, it is essential that electronics be part of<br>
their formation. <br>
Teaching the teachers how to use the software is imperative if we
want<br>
to create an extension and a follow up in the generational change.
Kids<br>
with small resources or no resources at all can learn and the
teachers<br>
can teach the next generation thus forming a chain for the better of
our<br>
nation. <br>
UPI is member and representative of Engineers Without Borders<br>
International EWB-I and has founded its chapter EWB-Honduras, and<br>
receive support of the California State University.Chico, The<br>
Honduran-German Chamber of Commerce, The Honduran Foundation for<br>
Integral and Technical Education, FEITH,.and ECOMAC an engineering
company.<br>
<br>
<br>
10. Sao Joao School - Sao Tome and Principe<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51471">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51471</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bethstepsup.wordpress.com">http://bethstepsup.wordpress.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bethsantos.com">http://www.bethsantos.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://letsgogirl.wordpress.com">http://letsgogirl.wordpress.com</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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<br>
Requests 4 XOs over 12 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much<br>
more likely to result in a laptop than "it would be cool to play
with<br>
these and demo them".<br>
<br>
1. In planning future use of the laptop computers with the students
at<br>
São João, I need to have computers of my own so that I may master
the<br>
Sugar platform and the use of the XO laptop so that I may teach it
to<br>
my students. I am asking for four computers of my own so that I can<br>
effectively connect within my own network best understand the<br>
mechanics of one. We currently have classes every Saturday, and
during<br>
summer vacation we will also have classes three days per week. I am<br>
leaving the island for a period of time to go back home to
Washington,<br>
DC, where I will not have regular access to these computers like I
do<br>
in São Tomé. I need regular access to them so that I can not only<br>
master the computer for myself, but also learn important<br>
troubleshooting tactics, and to make lesson plans.<br>
<br>
2. I am also helping to translate the OLPC manual into Portuguese.<br>
Given this, it is important that I have a computer with me so that I<br>
can be sure that false translations can be corrected with real life<br>
experience.<br>
<br>
3. Finally, I am hoping to raise money for São João so that they can<br>
purchase enough computers for their entire 612-student 6th grade.
The<br>
government of São Tomé and Príncipe is very poor and simply does not<br>
have the money to sponsor this program without help. I am hoping to
be<br>
able to use the computers in my fundraising initiatives by showing<br>
interested individual and organizational donors the mechanics of
this<br>
powerful little computer, encouraging them to support the education<br>
and growth of children at the São João school.<br>
<br>
<br>
11. Expanded Roadshow In A Box with XO-1.5(s) - Los Angeles / Simi
Valley, CA, USA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51489">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51489</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
]<br>
<br>
Requests 2 XO-1.5's over 18 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
<br>
A. The Roadshow In a Box has already been a rousing success with
many
new volunteers and projects resulting from people seeing the XO-1 at
exhibits and presentations we have done using Roadshow In A Box
machines we already have.<br>
<br>
It is time to add the XO-1.5 to the mix so we can show it at SCaLE
8X
in February and CUE 2010 in March. Hundreds of people will be attending
these events, so we are asking for 2 machines to better serve the
people who will visit our exhibits.<br>
<br>
B. Testing of the XO-1.5 is an equally important objective. Having
experienced educators in the mix of testers is very important. We will
also assist in making the documentation of the machine and its software
easy to understand for educators.<br>
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