[Grassroots-l] Uganda

[Edward Cherlin]

We have an OLPC Uganda page on the Wiki, and several projects in
Uganda that would like to get laptops. Please introduce yourselves to
each other.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:37 -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote:
>> eer?  If you start a page for your group on the wiki, OLPC will make a
>> mailing list for you.
>
> i-network is a over >900 people mailinglist. Much more then olpc only.
>
> sure for olpc-ug then wiki/mailing list will work. To find interesting
> and interested people I suggest to subscribe to what already is.
>
> kind regards,
> Marten
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl>
>> wrote:
>>         Jon,
>>
>>         You may want to meet/get friends on the i-network mailinglist.
>>         I forwarded your question.
>>
>>         http://www.i-network.or.ug
>>         http://www.dgroups.org/groups/i-network/index.cfm?op=main&cat_id=1520
>>
>>         kind regards,
>>         Marten
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:09 +1200, Jon Chamberlain wrote:
>>         > Howdy,
>>         >
>>         > I am moving my family to Uganda, and one of my goals for the
>>         trip is
>>         > to use my skills and knowledge for community-development
>>         initiatives.
>>         > I have already made a few good contacts in Uganda through
>>         the
>>         > nabuur.com community project site, but many of them seem to
>>         focus on
>>         > 'recycling' old computers for community-based projects
>>         across the
>>         > country.
>>         >
>>         > However, as someone with a good technical background, a
>>         pro-'open
>>         > source' attitude and a career in IT project management, I
>>         wondered if
>>         > there an opportunity to become an advocate for the OLPC
>>         programme in
>>         > Uganda?
>>         >
>>         > Is anyone working on OLPC in Uganda? If not, how would I get
>>         something
>>         > off the ground?
>>         >
>>         > Cheers
>>         > Jon
>>         >
>>         >
>>
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>>         Marten Vijn
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> Marten Vijn
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