[Grassroots-l] OLPC/Sugar Contributors Program Mtg (NOW! on #olpc-meeting, 2:30PM Boston Time, Friday)

[Holt]

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:
/join #olpc-meeting


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

 1. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia
 2. Charikar, Afghanistan - New York
 3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and 
diaspora - Renmark, Australia
 4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona
 5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia

* 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. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54734
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XO's over 3 months

   Project Objectives:
   The objective of this initial review is to assess the utility of
   the laptop for use in social networking / crowdsourcing initiatives.
   The specific details for the pilot study which will be done if we decide
   the platform is suitable are currently being developed. If the pilot
   study goes forward a detailed list of metrics and objectives will be
   provided with our application for 10-25 additional laptops.


2. Charikar, Afghanistan - New York
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59330
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 1-30 XO's over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Last year I worked on an Internet documentary on the Afghanistan Centre
   at Kabul University, founded by Nancy Hatch Dupree.

   The organization provides books and school libraries for new literate
   Afghans. While visiting a high school in Charikar I asked a few students
   what they wanted. One student, Mohammad Sharif, said he and his 
classmates
   wanted computers. They are tired of war and want computers "to be their
   teachers." For your information I have included a link to the short video
   interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTdxKunWf4

   Our objective is to deliver 300 computers to the Hazrat Noman, the boy's
   school in the video listed above and 100 laptops each to Hura Jalali 
and M
   alalai, both girl's school. We would like to establish computer labs in
   rural Charikar, about a 90-minute drive from Kabul City. We will 
designate
   local teachers who will maintain the computers, teach the students, and
   develop a curriculum.

   I have also included the link to the ACKU videos shot in 2009. I would
   like to make the same for the OLPC-Charikar, once the computers are 
secured.
   http://www.dupreefoundation.org/afghanistan-videos.htm


3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and diaspora 
- Renmark, Australia
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59359
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 1 XO over 3 months

   Project Objectives:
   Get my initial Vietnamese XO software localization working on the XO
   (Vietnamese is a test case for Unicode support, due to its combined
   diacritics and very wide range on the Unicode plane; so far most accented
   characters are not inputting, and number/symbol characters are 
inaccessible:
   we have an almost complete localization but people can't use it!); 
test and
   review the Vietnamese localization on the XO (I've never seen my 
localization
   in action); support OLPC project staff in Vietnam in using our 
localization
   (I made contact with two projects in Vietnam and found that they 
didn't know
   there was a Vietnamese localization, didn't know how to enable it, 
and once
   enabled, couldn't use it!)
   While it would be cool to play with any new gadget ;), this is an urgent
   need to get a key localization working. I can't believe we deployed 
XOs in
   Vietnam without a working localization! :S


4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59534
 
   Requests 1 XO over undetermined months 

   Project Objectives:
   Laptop is to be used to support end users questions and problem tickets


5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59560
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XO's over 18 months 

   Project Objectives:
   This project is for a rural, one-room
   public school in Honduras. This school has no access to any kind of
   technology at the moment. The purpose of this deployment is to introduce
   students to the activities on the XO and use the XOs to help the students
   achieve their learning goals. This project can field test how to use the
   Honduran curriculum with the activities now available on the XO. This
   school has thirty 1st-6th graders, so there will be a good age range of
   laptop users and a variety of learning applications.
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