[Grassroots-l] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting, Feb 11)

Fri Feb 11 15:51:03 EST 2011

Please join us now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar
community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project
allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here:

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. Low Cost English Centre (LCEC) - Democratic Republic of Congo
  2. Serving Servite - St. Ann, Jamaica
  3. Malawi Pen Pal Global Outreach - Austin, Texas
  4. Piensa en Verde - Managua, Nicaragua
  5. "Skipping Stone" Travelling support team - Warsaw, Poland
  6. UV Light Water Purifier USB - Ecuador
  7. Interactive Learning and Cultural Preservation in the Ecuadorian 
Amazon - Quito, Ecuador

* 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. Low Cost English Centre (LCEC)
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72287
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 20 XOs over 60 months

    Project Objectives: (excerpt)
    The major objective of the LCEC (Low Cost English Centre) Project 
consists
    to offer, at no charge, the English language training to secondary 
school
    pupils throughout our territory, Uvira. Teachers at all levels (from
    Pre-School to University) in country depend upon the meagre monthly
    contributions from pupils/students' parents whose over 90% of them are
    crossing an extreme poverty. A fact that makes it harder to request
    payments from resourceless children/youths.

    As to your information, there is a number of specific activities planned
    to be achieved by the LCEC Project as to make more consistent &
    significant the training being offered, as well as forming up really
    skillful English-speaking youths for a brighter future of themselves
    and the one of the whole community.

2. Serving Servite - St. Ann, Jamaica
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74689
    http://servingservite.wordpress.com
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 100 XOs over 24 months

    Project Objectives:
    Our core objective is to provide information technology to our 
students who
    range from ages 5-11.  This objective will equip and empower our 
students
    to become better persons and to make better communities and a better 
country.
    In this 21st century when even piped water is a luxury; these 
students will
    be able to learn outside of their borders and to dream and think as 
world
    citizens and not to grovel in their meagre existence.

3. Malawi Pen Pal Global Outreach - Austin, Texas
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
    http://web.me.com/shpcstudentministry/Youth_Mission/OUR_STORY_FILM.html
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 2 XOs over 9 months

    Project Objectives:
    Increase the number of students in Manyamula and Mzuzu with access 
to textbooks
    and communication tools. Create a faster Pen Pal project to increase 
the
    exchange between the youth in America and those in partner churches 
and cities
    in Malawi.

4. Piensa en Verde - Managua, Nicaragua
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75240
    http://sistemascastros.netne.net
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 2 XOs over 12 months

    Project Objectives:
    Develop in students the skills and sugar management andcapacity building
    activities in the teachers themselves to developtheir class projects 
based
    on the different activities and to shareequally all the knowledge 
gained with
    other projects.

    Past Experience/Qualifications:
    Currently I have worked with several royal colleges in the country 
with the
    draft of the XO-1 and XO-1.5, which I have emphasizedmy efforts to help
    improve the learning capabilities of local technicians and development
    activities, support the differentactivities when integrating the 
learning
    curriculum models of Nicaragua, which I have been able to centralize all
    the projects that have a minimum of laptops to home zacarias war in 
order
    to have a better answer to the problems of the XO.

5. "Skipping Stone" Travelling support team - Warsaw, Poland
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75474
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Petros.Polonos/Travelling_support_team
    http://olpc.freesailor.info
    http://hackerspace.pl
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 2 XOs over 5? months

    Project Objectives:
    Support team training

    We are going to get involved in OLPC deployment and support on the 
long-term
    basis. This project's first goal is to give us practical knowledge 
of the
    system.

    - Setting up local community network in the heterogeneous environment.
    - Setting up and maintenance of XS in the ad hoc network.
    - Daily maintenance and configuration.

    As a result, OLPC community will obtain a permanent travelling team, 
ready
    to provide support in various areas. As our experience grow, we 
shall also
    be able to train and support short-term volunteers, as needed.

    Base for future Polish grassroot pilot

    As of Feb. 6th, 2011, we are actively looking for contact with 
educators in
    Poland, interested in OLPC as an alternative educational project. Our
    knowledge and experience with the system will be used to introduce
    non-technical partners and let them get familiar with the solution.

6. UV Light Water Purifier USB - Ecuador
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75751
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 2 XOs over 12 months

    Project Objectives:
    Create a UV water sterilization lamp that attaches to a USB port on 
the OLPC
    and will last long enough to sterilize several liters of water on 
one battery
    charge.  This has humanitarian implications as well as educational uses.
    It also promotes usefulness of the OLPC in regions where water 
quality is
    questionable and as an emergency response equipment in disaster areas.

7. Interactive Learning and Cultural Preservation in the Ecuadorian 
Amazon - Quito, Ecuador
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75801
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 8 XOs over 6? months

    Project Objectives:
    There are several concurrent objectives of this project. Principally, we
    plan to begin building an audio-dictionary of the native language of the
    Siona people and to use it to help the young people learn their 
ancestral
    tongue. The secondary objective is to achieve measurable learning 
outcomes
    primarily in math, science, English, and Spanish amongst a group of 
children
    that shows little to no progress under more standard teaching 
paradigms. The
    tertiary objective is to allow parents (many of whom are illiterate) to
    advance their own educational levels by using their son or daughter´s
    machine.
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