[Grassroots-l] [laptop.org #14765] Volunteer opportunities

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Bastien <bzg at altern.org> wrote:
> Hi SJ and all,
>
> "Samuel Klein" <sj at laptop.org> writes:
>
>>  * we have a lot of low-hanging fruit to gather in terms of identifying NGO and
>> University contacts by country, and helping them get involved / share local
>> knowledge about how to get things done / sign up to host volunteers or give
>> them projects to work on.
>
> For deployment of XOs in french speaking countries, this is surely a
> task where OLPC HQ should somehow rely on OLPC France.

Would that include Rwanda? Haiti? Cambodia? Trials in French Polynesia
or Egypt?

I see that La Francophonie has 55 member states, (including all of the
above) and 13 observers.
http://www.francophonie.org/oif/membres.cfm

> Here in France, Free Software organizations like APRIL or AFUL already
> have good contacts with educational-IT NGOs that might locally help with
> the deployment of XOs -- both and the technical and pedagocial side.
>
> OLPC France just applied to become a repair center.
>
> We also applied to get XOs through the Developers Program.
>
> And I really hope we will be able to be a repair center, because we have
> many IT students waiting to be part of it; and I really hope we will be
> able to get new XOs, as it will help us bring up new content in french,
> both because of possible implementation in France and in the countries.
> This will also help us convince NGOs working in the countries that we
> can work together on this.
>
> Having a community website is all good, but delegating part of the
> "social implementation" to people who already deal with it might be
> useful as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Bastien
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