[Grassroots-l] weekly OLPC.at status report #3

[Aaron Kaplan]

Note: please send your own weekly reports to this mailing list!
It would be very interesting what you / your group has managed to do  
in this week.

Ok, here is the Austrian report


1. Ministry of education
2. Germany's OLPC group
3. Activity/Sugar handbook
4. Dr. Lozanov's DE-suggestobpaedia ;-)
5. presswork preview
6. we need more dev laptops


1. Ministry of education
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We had another talk with the Austrian ministry of education  
concerning how the Austrian pilot can and how it should be handled.
Just one comment: getting there... be patient .

2. Germany's OLPC group
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We had some talks with Bert Freudenberg, Joachim Wedekind, Yokoy  
about the founding of a german OLPC grassroots group.
Seems like we were able to pull something off... Germany, now it is  
your turn! ;-) Create an e.V. or so hm?

3. Activity / Sugar handbook
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We all met on Saturday on our almost weekly jam session night.  
Christoph and Daja (Daniel Jahre) were continuing to write on the  
Activity / Sugar handbook. The others were busy planning, hacking on  
the a very nice embedded board (more about that later when it is  
ready), upgrading the XOs, coding , etc.
Christoph got SIM City running: http://christoph-d.blogspot.com/ 
2007/11/simcity-running-on-olpc-x0.html
He also tested and documented the current state of video streaming:  
http://christoph-d.blogspot.com/2007/11/some-more-xo-testing.html


4. Dr. Lozanov's DEsuggestopaedia ;-)
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Tano and /me went to Dr. Lozanov. He was one of the most famous  
bulgarian educators. Dr. Lozanov invented superlearning, a method  
which enables you to learn languages quicker. We wanted to talk with  
him if he could imagine some sort of audio .ogg files on the XO for  
language learning. But alas! he was not here. A big fat sign on his  
door showed us that he was not interested in his own suggestopaedia  
method. It read "Dr. Lozanov. International Institute for  
DEsuggestopaedia" wow!

5. Press preview
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Tomorrow we will meet with FM4 (most famous youth radio station  
in .at) and the day after with ORF konkret (TV).

6. we need more dev laptops
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Lindsay , Walter, SJ? Please, in case you have a few extra C1s or  
B4s... Jaume is stuck with coding XOTv. He is stuck waiting until the  
other XOs are free. So we need another one or two XOs to speed up.



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