[Grassroots-l] IN 40MIN: Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting, 2PM Boston Time, Friday)

Fri Aug 20 13:20:17 EDT 2010

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

Then type at bottom:
/join #olpc-meeting

AGENDA:

* Fast Review of the 8 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
 join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

 1. Improving School Attendance Rate and Performance - Kenya and Uganda
 2. University Class & Repair Center - Rochester Institute of 
Technology, New York
 3. Wings Over Haiti - Port Jefferson Station, New York
 4. Open 1-to-1 + XO1.5 + Sugar - Needham/Arlington, Massachusetts & Maine
 5. Support Volunteer & School Server Development - Buenos Aires, Argentina
 6. XO 1.5 Testing & Outreach in Portugal - Aveiro, Portugal
 7. OLPC Developer Lab and Repair Center - Bangalore, India
 8. Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La 
Romana, Dominican Republic

* 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

1. Improving School Attendance Rate and Performance - Kenya and Uganda
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66013
   http://e4nfoundation.blogspot.com
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] 

   Requests 18 XO-1s over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more 
likely to
   result in a laptop than it would be cool to play with these and demo 
them.

   1. Equip teachers and pupils with basic computer skills using the XO 
laptop.

   2. Improve understanding and performance of science subjects.

   3. Actively engaging children in their learning process.

   4. Increase school attendance rate in rural schools.

   5. Introducing another medium of learning and communication using XO 
laptop.

2. University Class & Repair Center - Rochester Institute of Technology, 
New York
   http://foss.rit.edu/blog
   https://fedorahosted.org/OpenVideoChat/
   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/RIT
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66041
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 25 XO-1.5s incl 10 additional (possibly carcasses) for 
repair center.

   Project Objectives:
   On-going Course participation in Sugar Labs Math4 project via classes
   at RIT, Co-Op and Summer Research Programs

   Addtionally hoping to become a repair center.

3. Wings Over Haiti - Port Jefferson Station, New York
   http://www.WingsOverHaiti.org
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66053
   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=0&ref=mf&gid=267976059380
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] 

   Requests 6 XOs over 12 months

   Project Objectives:
   Open a K-8 School in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, in collaboration with
   students and teachers at JFK Middle School in Port Jefferson Station,
   NY, to meet the following goals:
   1. Teach children in French and English, maintaining Creole as a
      language of honor with Haiti’s people.
   2. Foster the development of critical thinking skills via an emphasis on
      problem based learning (PBL) – minimizing rote memorization.
   3. Instill a sense of responsibility for humankind in student body
      through cultural exchange and local service to the community.

4. Open 1-to-1 + XO1.5 + Sugar - Needham/Arlington, Massachusetts & Maine
   http://itd-usr.blogspot.com
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66253
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 3 XO-1.5s over 6 months

   Project Objectives:
   Explore running Open1to1 (from Maine Open Netbook Initiative) on XO-1.5
   hardware, develop software solutions to encountered problems, demo
   machines to FOSS/ED crowd.

5. Support Volunteer & School Server Development - Buenos Aires, Argentina
   http://olpc.nicolascorrarello.com
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66320
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] 

   Requests 1 XO-1.5 (and Active Antenna if avail?) over 24 months

   Project Objectives:
   * Deliver consistent support for the OLPC platform.
     Work on the School server distrubution to stabilize the platform, 
and add
     resources for teachers and students such as:
   * "Proyecto ALBA" or schooltool , which is a platform for School
     Administration (Managing students, grades, courses, grade reports, 
subjects,
     teachers, etc. ...)
   * Review and Improve 3G modem support
   * Find and adapt a tool to manage centrally a big XS deployement (and 
maybe
     even XO's)

6. XO 1.5 Testing & Outreach in Portugal - Aveiro, Portugal
   http://www.tmarques.com
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66329
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XO-1.5s and over 12 months

   Project Objectives:
   Showing among political parties that have strongly opposed the
   distribution of the Classmate PC from Intel, sold as the "Magalhães"
   laptop (please see http://iniciativa-magalhaes.com/). The Classmate was
   attributed to a national computer builder without a public contest and
   has gathered much criticism from the media and the political opposition.
   The XO 1.5 would be a viable alternative and a cheaper one. No
   alternatives have been show up till now and 500k laptops have been
   deployed. I'm unsure of the success of this due to the current economical
   climate in the country, but if there's will to continue with the 
initiative,
   the XO 1.5 would be very well positioned to replace the Classmate. I have
   some extra XO-1s but they are too slow to provide an impact given the
   classmate's superior performance compared to the old unit.

7. OLPC Developer Lab and Repair Center - Bangalore, India
   http://olpcsouthasia.org
   http://youthforseva.org/our-focus-areas/education/computers-for-schools/
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66334
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XO-1.5s and 10 salvaged/damaged XOs over 12 months

   Project Objectives:
   · To create a dedicated developer and volunteer community

   · To establish a XO lending library and repair center in Bangalore
     to help community in adopting XO as a learning platform

   · To train teachers in the Sugar Learning environment to enable them
     to make effective use of it in their classrooms

   · To prepare and implement a new curriculum for the students in
     coordination with teachers(For example: Development of various 
mathematical
     models for understanding effectiveness of current curriculum and 
what steps
     can be taken to enhance them and decipher the insights from such
     implementation)

   · To spread awareness among the youth of colleges and schools

   · To raise funds for atleast 1 large scale deployment in 6 months

8. Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La 
Romana, Dominican Republic
   https://sites.google.com/site/laromanaxo/
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66344
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XO-1.5s and 3 months

   Project Objectives:
   Our project will serve to integrate the use of computers in the learning
   and discovery process of young children in rural and depressed areas of
   La Romana, Dominican Republic.
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