[Grassroots-l] OLPC/Sugar Contributors Program Mtg (NOW! on #olpc-meeting, 2:45PM Boston Time, Friday)

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Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community 
projects over IRC Live Chat:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat

Then type at bottom:
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AGENDA:

* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:
  
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/

* Fast Review of the 10 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
  join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

 1. Steppe by Steppe / Side by Side - Kazakhstan, Australia
 2. Costa Atlantica - Managua, Nicaragua
 3. Sugar Polishing 0.84 - Berlin, Germany
 4. Free E-Tutoring in India for the Village Child - Tamilnadu, India
 5. Fedora on XO - London, United Kingdom
 6. eBook creation and sharing website - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 7. Broken XO-1s/parts Community Repair - Sao Tome & Principe
 8. eKindling - OLPC Philippines
 9. Collaboration Testing & Documentation - Vienna, Austria
 10. XO-1.5 Hardware QA - Indianapolis, Indiana

* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
  http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27

* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries

* Meeting results will be posted here very shortly:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings


1. Steppe by Steppe / Side by Side - Kazakhstan, Australia
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60323
   http://www.steppebysteppe.com.au/schools.html
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XOs over 12 months

   Project Objectives:
   ...Our aim is that by providing access to [OLPC] resources in remote
   villages, will allow the students to expand their educational
   prospects without having to leave their village, traditional
   lifestyle, village traditions and customs, or family, for the city –
   something which the community often finds very damaging in this
   rapidly changing and globalised world.

   Throughout our project, we have visited many schools in very remote
   rural areas, these schools are often very under resourced – lacking
   sporting equipment, proper toilets, libraries and many other
   facilities that we ourselves take for granted today. Adequate phone
   lines/reception is often non-existent in these areas also – let alone
   the internet. Most people in these remote villages have never even
   seen a computer, let alone used the internet.

   In these rural areas (where hardly anyone has seen a computer), there
   are very limited prospects for further education. We hope that by
   providing a few laptops, internet access (along basic training) and
   software, to a school, we can increase their chances of continued
   higher education. Access to global information will greatly enhance
   their awareness, understanding, and knowledge of the larger community
   that we are all apart of, resulting in greater empowerment at both a
   communal and personal level, thus greatly increasing their
   developmental prospects.

   Our other goal is to partner each participating school in Kazakhstan
   to a sister school in Australia, it will allow students in these
   distant regions of the world to learn and grow together with open
   minds. This can only be done however once these schools have access to
   the internet (and thus telephone lines, electricity, and computers).
   The partnered schools will then be able to keep in regular contact
   with each other, learning about each others traditions, lifestyle, and
   culture...


2. Costa Atlantica - Managua, Nicaragua
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60386
   http://www.fundacionzt.org/fzt/index.htm
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XOs over 12 months

   Project Objectives:
   Get 2 XO 1.5 for start the training with the new hardware and software,
   and to have the experience to support the proyect at Atlantic Zone.


3. Sugar Polishing 0.84 - Berlin, Germany
   http://erikos.sweettimez.de
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
  
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 1-2 XO-1.5s over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Polish Sugar 0.84 on XO 1.5

   Find hardware related issues with Sugar on XO 1.5 hardware (e.g.
   keys, camera). Backport 0.86 and 0.88 bugs to 0.84.


4. Free E-Tutoring in India for the Village Child - Tamilnadu, India
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60525
   http://twitter.com/rajindia_4
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 50 XOs over 48 months

   Project Objectives:
   Remote area (village) Students can acquire
   knowledge of their homework help and curriculum help of the Text book 
using
   XO’s laptop. They can learn comfortable without any fear in one-one 
session
   with the teacher in online tutoring. Every child who live in remote areas
   can use the latest technology for the learning purpose using XO’s Laptop.
   They can prepare the different subject topics, projects, taking notes and
   save it into the Laptop and using it day to day life. They will get more
   benefit using XO’s Laptops in their life.


5. Fedora on XO - London, United Kingdom
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60565
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XOs over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Working on getting the XO-1.5 supported in Fedora mainline. Sugar
   is already and will continue to be well supported in Fedora mainline.
   Fedora is supported pretty well on on the XO-1. The aim is to test
   and improve the support of Fedora on the XO-1.5.


6. eBook creation and sharing website - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60582
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 0 XOs

   Project Objectives:
   The purpose of the project is to support the development of a 
creative and compassionate young people to fight and win the war of poverty.

   (1) To allow children (6-12) in developing countries to freely 
express themselves in the form of creative writing. The website provides 
a space for creative expressions to be shared by anyone anywhere. No 
cost for posting. All submission will be copyright free.

   (2) To allow children in developed countries to listen to what 
children with other cultures have to say. Readers from outside the 
developing world can download the ebook to their 
ipad/ipod/iphone/laptop/desktop etc. The books will be sold for $0.99 
per download. Once downloaded, it is free to distribute to friends, 
classmates and families.

   (3) All proceeds, after expenses, will be directed to OLPC project to 
send more laptops to children in LDC. No money will be forwarded to the 
children to avoid abuse.

   Note: The creative writing of a 6-12 years old will not be a "full 
book" as what we usually understood. It will be something like a bedtime 
reading to your kids with stories and pictures. When editing, a web link 
can be added to show more contents. Therefore, keep in mind that ebook 
here refers to creative writing from a 6-12 years old.

   Measurement of objectives:

   (1) Against objective #1, the number of creations posted in the 
website. The source and diversity of the creation will also be a good 
indicator of depth of the project.

   (2) Against objective #2, the number of downloads is primary 
indicator. Since there is no copyright and transfer restrictions, the 
download figure will be an underestimate of true circulation.

   (3) Against objective #3, the amount of contributions from the 
project to OLPC will be used.


7. Broken XO-1s/parts Community Repair - Sao Tome & Principe
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60628
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 5+ XOs over indefinite months

   Project Objectives:
   Looking to develop a summer program for the students at the São João 
School
   so that they can continue using their laptops during the summer months.
   This program will focus on teaching the Etoys activity, providing 
computer
   repair classes, providing ebooks in Portuguese, and evaluating the 
academic
   year and its use of XO laptops with teachers. Breakfast or lunch will be
   provided to students as well.

   The goals of the computer repairs portion of the summer program
   include:

   - Teaching children and teachers how to fix their own computers using 
limited
     supplies
   - Seeding the development and expansion of a community repair center 
in São
     Tomé e Príncipe, hopefully serving as a potential repairs hub for 
future
     OLPC programs around the country
   - Allowing for the current program to be even more sustainable and not
     reliant on overseas help, especially when teachers do not speak English
     and are unable to seek live assistance online in their native language
     (Portuguese)
   - Putting more emphasis on the OLPC wiki as an educational resource for
     students and teachers, not just for computer repair but for other
     questions and procedures.


8. eKindling - OLPC Philippines
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60787
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Grassroots_PH_Developers
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_Pilot_Deployment_in_Lubang
   http://ekindling.org/news
   http://twitter.com/ekindling
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 7 XOs over 4 months

   Project Objectives:
   The goal is utilize the XO laptops to pilot a training program designed
   to build the capacity of educators, tech squad (comprised of 4th grade
   students) and support team – key stakeholders that will be participating
   in the first OLPC deployment (100 XO Laptops) in the Philippines.
   Deployment is projected to start in July.

   The Key objectives are as follows:

   • Train educators and local technical support team on using the XO,
   making integrated lesson plans, basic maintenance and repair, classroom
   arrangement and management, overview of available digital content, etc.

   • Train Tech Squad - a team comprised of 4th grade students that will
   assist educators in facilitating learning with the XO laptop – very
   important feature of our program design.

   • We will create a shareable blueprint on effectively training “Tech 
Squads”

   • Create a shareable blueprint/manual for future training programs that
   can be replicated inside and outside the Philippines.


9. Collaboration Testing & Documentation - Vienna, Austria
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61054  
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XO-1.5s over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Sugar 0.84 Activity-Sharing, Collaboration, Testing & Documention with
   OLPC Austria.


10. XO-1.5 Hardware QA - Indianapolis, Indiana
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61058
    [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

    Requests 1 XO-1.5 over undetermined months

    Project Objectives:
    [Requestor is experienced & enthusiastic hardware/kernel hacker]
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