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all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a><br>
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Then type at bottom:<br>
/join #olpc-meeting<br>
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AGENDA:<br>
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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 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please<br>
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:<br>
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1. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project - Jefferson, Maryland<br>
2. Fedora Security Lab - India, Germany, USA <br>
3. Lubuto Library Project - Zambian Literacy Programming Project -
Silver Spring, Maryland<br>
4. Language Documentation on Ambrym, Vanuatu - Berlin; Paris<br>
5. Laptops Uganda<br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!<br>
<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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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:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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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* Meeting results will be posted here very shortly:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings</a><br>
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1. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project - Jefferson, Maryland<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>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/">http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61094"></a>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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Requests 7/10 XOs over undetermined months<br>
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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>
I have created a quick-start guide that can be used on deployments<br>
world-wide. The information being put in it can be found here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates/moreworkdone">http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates/moreworkdone</a>.<br>
I have put all of this information into a nice booklet that can be
printed<br>
at someone's own home and can be distributed when they are doing
their own<br>
deployments. It is currently in the process of being translated into<br>
Spanish. Note: this is NOT yet completed. In three weeks after AP
exams, I<br>
will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.<br>
<br>
You can track the progress of the project using the project updater,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates">http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates</a>.
It has<br>
all kinds of information, as does all of the sidebar.<br>
<br>
<br>
2. Fedora Security Lab - India, Germany, USA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61414">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61414</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.hiemanshu.in">http://blog.hiemanshu.in</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.laptop.org">http://planet.laptop.org</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>
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<br>
Requests 2-4 XOs over 6 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
We are planning to use the XOs for testing the <br>
Fedora Security Lab which is to be used as a Learning platform for <br>
budding Security Professionals. We would like to test the
compatibility <br>
with the laptops and its hardware, and if something does not work
right, <br>
we would even be happy to write/make changes to the
hardware/software <br>
and contribute it back to the community.<br>
<br>
<br>
3. Lubuto Library Project - Zambian Literacy Programming Project -
Silver Spring, Maryland<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61571">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61571</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lubuto.org">http://www.lubuto.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.olpclearningclub.org">http://www.olpclearningclub.org</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>
<br>
Requests 6 XO-1.5s over 24 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
There is a critical need for means to teach all Zambian children to<br>
read in their original language that the educational system cannot<br>
meet. Lubuto libraries reach out-of-school children and can help them<br>
toward reading by read-aloud and storytelling programs, but tools for<br>
reading teaching in Zambian languages are not available. Youth who<br>
have been using the One Laptop Per Child XO laptops in Lubuto<br>
libraries and experienced Zambian reading teachers will together be<br>
trained in the OLPC application Etoys and create early reading<br>
programs in Zambian languages. The programs will then be made<br>
available on laptops in the libraries and via the Lubuto.org website<br>
to inspire creation of similar programs in other African countries
and<br>
languages.<br>
<br>
Being able to approach learning to read in their native tongue will<br>
literally mean development of reading fluency for hundreds of<br>
thousands of out-of-school and vulnerable children and youth who do<br>
not have access to adequate reading education. The Zambian-language<br>
reading programs can be used in under equipped classrooms as well as<br>
in Lubuto and other libraries, and programs can be adapted to<br>
accommodate other African languages of similar structure (primarily<br>
Bantu languages), potentially bringing literacy to millions of<br>
children in Africa. It is also expected that programs to introduce<br>
reading in Zambian languages will inspire more advanced local
language<br>
computer content as well as writing of children’s books in Zambian<br>
languages to advance fluency.<br>
<br>
There remains no question of the central importance of literacy in<br>
African development and the spread of literacy is considered
necessary<br>
to achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals. Illiteracy<br>
in Africa has been shown to underpin extreme poverty, the spread of<br>
disease and the health and safety of girls and women, and endemic<br>
underdevelopment on the continent. The central importance of learning<br>
to read in one’s original language has been long understood, yet<br>
solutions that would make this universally possible have long eluded<br>
Zambian society. The potential social and economic benefits of this<br>
straightforward innovation, then, are profound.<br>
<br>
An additional, narrower benefit to the young Zambians who will
develop<br>
programming and educational product design skills can be expected to<br>
not only benefit them but may set them on a course to develop more<br>
useful educational tools in Zambian languages.<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Language Documentation on Ambrym, Vanuatu - Berlin; Paris<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61574">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61574</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>
<br>
Requests 1 XOs over 6-12 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
The participants are currently documenting several<br>
languages in the Southwest of the island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The
project<br>
work involves audio and video recordings, which will lead to the
production<br>
of dictionaries, story books and grammars for the previously
undocumented<br>
and undescribed languages. Due to the lack of devices with the
capacity to<br>
display accustic and visual information, however, local communities
will<br>
hardly have access to the audio and video recordings. Also, the<br>
opportunities for speakers to actively participate in the
documentation of<br>
their languages and traditional knowledge themselves are very
limited. The<br>
laptops provided by the OLPC project would help to make recordings<br>
accessible to the communities as well as empower the youngest
generations to<br>
use modern technologies to explore and record the traditional
knowledge<br>
which is in acute danger of being lost. The objectives of a
collaboration<br>
with the OLPC would therefore be the distribution of laptops to local<br>
schools, storing the data collected during the documentation work on
the<br>
laptops and training children -- and their teachers -- to use the
laptops<br>
for documentation. The country of Vanuatu has already shown interest
in the<br>
OLPC and is very adamant about the importance of language
documentation so<br>
that we expect a collaboration would be welcome.<br>
<br>
<br>
5. Laptops Uganda<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61631">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61631</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>
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<br>
Requests 20 XOs over 24 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
- Impart computer knowledge to the young. since my country 75% of the<br>
population are the young people<br>
- To bring unity by appreciating diversity, my country has more than
90<br>
tribes, divided into 85 districts and has been affected by wars
for the<br>
last 30 years that’s has caused too much tribal difference yet we
are<br>
all Africans. So, I bringing kids of different tribes together
sharing<br>
the same computers it brings a sense of love and peace through
sharing<br>
hence unity.<br>
- To fight computer illiteracy in the youth, many youth in Uganda
have<br>
never had an encounter with computers so weather I use an OX
laptop or<br>
any other brand of computers it will be the same to them. They
need the<br>
skill no matter the type of computers being used.<br>
- Prepare the young for the future ,this 21st century the use of<br>
computerized digital peripherals has became part of life in the
world ,<br>
me volunteering to reach out to the kids and the youth am
preparing them<br>
for the future time so as to make the world a global village</div>
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