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all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:<br>
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Then type at bottom:
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AGENDA:
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* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/">http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/</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. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia<br>
2. Charikar, Afghanistan
- New York<br>
3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and
diaspora - Renmark, Australia<br>
4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona <br>
5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia<br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!<br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a><br>
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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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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a><br>
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1. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54734">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54734</a><br>
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href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58992"></a>
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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Requests 10 XO's over 3 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
The objective of this initial review is to assess the utility of<br>
the laptop for use in social networking / crowdsourcing initiatives.<br>
The specific details for the pilot study which will be done if we
decide<br>
the platform is suitable are currently being developed. If the pilot<br>
study goes forward a detailed list of metrics and objectives will be<br>
provided with our application for 10-25 additional laptops.<br>
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2. Charikar, Afghanistan
- New York<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59330">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59330</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
]<br>
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Requests 1-30 XO's over undetermined months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Last year I worked on an Internet documentary on the Afghanistan
Centre<br>
at Kabul University, founded by Nancy Hatch Dupree.<br>
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The organization provides books and school libraries for new literate<br>
Afghans. While visiting a high school in Charikar I asked a few
students<br>
what they wanted. One student, Mohammad Sharif, said he and his
classmates<br>
wanted computers. They are tired of war and want computers "to be
their<br>
teachers." For your information I have included a link to the short
video<br>
interview. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTdxKunWf4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTdxKunWf4</a><br>
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Our objective is to deliver 300 computers to the Hazrat Noman, the
boy's<br>
school in the video listed above and 100 laptops each to Hura Jalali
and M<br>
alalai, both girl's school. We would like to establish computer labs
in<br>
rural Charikar, about a 90-minute drive from Kabul City. We will
designate<br>
local teachers who will maintain the computers, teach the students,
and<br>
develop a curriculum.<br>
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I have also included the link to the ACKU videos shot in 2009. I
would<br>
like to make the same for the OLPC-Charikar, once the computers are
secured.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dupreefoundation.org/afghanistan-videos.htm">http://www.dupreefoundation.org/afghanistan-videos.htm</a><br>
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3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and
diaspora - Renmark, Australia<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59359">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59359</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
]<br>
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Requests 1 XO over 3 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Get my initial Vietnamese XO software localization working on the XO<br>
(Vietnamese is a test case for Unicode support, due to its combined<br>
diacritics and very wide range on the Unicode plane; so far most
accented<br>
characters are not inputting, and number/symbol characters are
inaccessible:<br>
we have an almost complete localization but people can't use it!);
test and<br>
review the Vietnamese localization on the XO (I've never seen my
localization<br>
in action); support OLPC project staff in Vietnam in using our
localization<br>
(I made contact with two projects in Vietnam and found that they
didn't know<br>
there was a Vietnamese localization, didn't know how to enable it,
and once<br>
enabled, couldn't use it!)<br>
While it would be cool to play with any new gadget ;), this is an
urgent<br>
need to get a key localization working. I can't believe we deployed
XOs in<br>
Vietnam without a working localization! :S<br>
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4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59534">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59534</a><br>
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Requests 1 XO over undetermined months <br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Laptop is to be used to support end users questions and problem
tickets<br>
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5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59560">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59560</a><br>
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
]<br>
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Requests 10 XO's over 18 months <br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
This project is for a rural, one-room<br>
public school in Honduras. This school has no access to any kind of<br>
technology at the moment. The purpose of this deployment is to
introduce<br>
students to the activities on the XO and use the XOs to help the
students<br>
achieve their learning goals. This project can field test how to use
the<br>
Honduran curriculum with the activities now available on the XO. This<br>
school has thirty 1st-6th graders, so there will be a good age range
of<br>
laptop users and a variety of learning applications.<br>
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