[Grassroots-l] [support-gang] Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)

[Christoph Derndorfer]

I hope to be able to briefly review the 5 projects ahead of the meeting 
and comment in RT.

Christoph

Holt schrieb:
> Please join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over 
> IRC Live Chat:  (2PM EDT Boston Time Today/Friday)
> http://forum.laptop.org/chat
> 
> Then type at bottom:
> /join #olpc-meeting
> 
> 
> AGENDA:
> 
> * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
> 
> * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
>   http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
> 
> * Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
>   join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
> 
> 
> 
> 1. OLPC on Puppy Linux - Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia
>    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48455
>    [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
> 
>    Requests 2 XO's over undetermined months
> 
>    Project Objectives:
>    C0-Build a Puppy Linux version. Compile package, provide ongoing
>    support, troubleshoot, build a repo etc.
> 
> 
> 2. Using XO Technology Awareness on HIV/AIDS among children ages 4–16 - 
> Kenya
>    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48476
>    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43608
>    http://xoaidsbyhoc.tumblr.com [ LINK NEEDED FROM 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
> 
>    Requests 8 XO's over 2-6 months
> 
>    Project Objectives:
>    1. To help child get basic computer skills using xo laptop
>    2. Pupils/ Learners to use xo activities to get awareness of HIV/AIDS.
>    3. To equip the teacher with necessary xo skills to help the learner 
> in HIV/AIDSawareness.
>    4. To use xo laptop to deliver life skills that will lead to Aids 
> free life
>    5. Identify appropriate sources o information on HIv/ Aids related 
> issues.
>    6. Make decisions about personal and social behaviour that reduce 
> risk of HIV and STD infection using the XO technology.
>    7. Show compassion towards and concern for those infected and 
> affected by v
>    8. Communicate effectively with peers and others, issues and concerns 
> related to HIV/AIDS and STDs using the XO chat
>    9. To be actively involved in school and out activities aimed at 
> prevention and central of HIV and STD's infections
> 
> 
> 3. GaiaBB: Proposal for shared community software - Victoria, Australia
>    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48637
>    [ http://gaiabb.com forthcoming; LINK NEEDED FROM 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
> 
>    Requests 2 XO's over 8 months
> 
>    Project Objectives:
>    I would like make a proposal to re-purpose my general purpose forum
>    software (GaiaBB) to be XO community specific, using a peer to peer
>    replication to allow kids to create and contribute to their own easily
>    managed forums maintained on their laptops with no central server.
> 
>    Typically, forum software requires a database backend, but is actually
>    very small footprint as long as you don't allow image attachments.
>    Allowing peer to peer replication of the data between participants
>    would allow them to grab updates to the forum when they're in range
>    say in school, and answer / reply to threads when off radio, say at
>    home.
> 
> 
> 4. FotoToon - Buenos Aires, Argentina
>    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48696
>    [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
> 
>    Requests 2 XO's over 6 months
> 
>    Project Objectives:
>    I have developed the following Activities in Spanish:
>    ActivityDomino http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212
>    Ecomundo http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213
>    Elements http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4214
>    I am developing an activity to create comics, FotoToon.
>    (git http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fototoon/ ).
> 
>    * I think FotoToontil can be very useful for developing expression, 
> analysis of problems, and
>    co-operative teamwork.
>    The Activities already developed can be found in use, but I would 
> like to complete them and
>    to be able to implement shared use between various types of computers.
>    * In addition, in Foto Toon I need to test how to take images from 
> the Journal, and in my
>    current development environment (I am writing in Fedora 11 on my 
> machine) I cannot do it.
>    * In addition to these activities, I am participating actively in 
> "Sugar Days Argentina"
>    <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SugarDaysArgentina> That we are doing 
> in our country with
>    the objective of creating a community of developers and teachers 
> around the OLPC project
>    and Sugar and the larger goal of realizing its implementation in our 
> country.
>    * I would also like to develop an Activity for the creation of 
> stop-motion animations (using
>    sequences of photos) that will also permit the taking of sequences of 
> photos for detecting
>    differences (in movement and time between the photos) that will 
> permit calculating velocity
>    or acceleration.
> 
> 
> 5. Bookwriting photo-interviewing traveling musician - Sallis, 
> Mississippi/MS, USA   
>    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48800
>    [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
> 
>    Requests 2 XO's over 6-12 months
> 
>    Project Objectives:
>    The aim of this project is to demonstrate the
>    usefulness of a DIY attitude combined with the capabilities of modern
>    technology that both meets creative desires and maintains a balance
>    and strong connection with humanity and nature. It is an expose, a
>    book, of a person who is just like you, me, or anyone else, with
>    thoughts and feelings and troubles and joys. Only when a person shines
>    the brightest are they the most visible to naked eye.
> 
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