[Grassroots-l] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, 3PM EDT, Mch 23)

Holt holt at laptop.org
Fri Mar 23 15:05:49 EDT 2012


Please all 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

AGENDA:

* Fast Review of the 7 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals.
   Plz join us advocating for & reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

   1. Peer to Peer Disaster Network - Santa Barbard, California
   2. Geo Learning: XO for Learning & Creating Community - Maragoli, Kenya
   3. Empowerment of Kids & Community - Ngara District, Kagera Region, 
Tanzania
   4. Haiti Empowerment Project, Solar Educ & Outreach Project - Ohio
   5. XO for All and Green: Desiging Flexible & Sustainable XO apps - 
Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
   6. Low Vision and Blindness Testing and Development of Solutions - 
Smackover, Arkansas
   7. Interactive Fiction Interactive Developer / game engine - 
Fiskdale, Massachusetts

* 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. Peer to Peer Disaster Network - Santa Barbard, California
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97975
    http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding/courses/284/w12/Home.html
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 5 XOs over 4 months

    Project Objectives:
    Our goal is to enable people with XO laptops, and those around them, to
    communicate with search and rescue personnel, aid organizations, and 
each
    other in the event of a disaster. We want to develop a 
delay-tolerant peer
    to peer application utilizing the mesh networking functionality of 
XOs, so
    messages can be forwarded from one machine to another, hopefully 
reaching
    the recipient or an XO connected to the Internet. Messages that 
reach the
    Internet can be displayed on a map, a model successfully used in 
Haiti by
    Ushahidi.


2. Geo Learning: XO for Learning & Creating Community - Maragoli, Kenya
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=98812
    http://oslimoke.wordpress.com
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 20 XOs over 12 months

    Project Objectives:
    To develop a curricula for teaching pupils mapping as both part of
    the education learning and as a community tool for creating locally
    relevant maps.
    Use the various XO Activities and tools as a learning tools for
    developing their own creativity, intuitions and intellect.
    Use the XO to improve and introduce ICT literacy among the pupils
    and teachers.


3. Empowerment of Kids & Community - Ngara District, Kagera Region, Tanzania
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99356
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 100 XOs over 60 months

    Project Objectives:
    1. Facilitate learning and skills development among children aged 7?18
       years through e-learning.

    a. Children able to surf and acquire education materials for learning
       and information through internet.

    b. Teachers are able to use computers to teach their subjects

    c. Project targets primary and secondary school going children.

    2. As entry point, create awareness and community understanding of the
       use of internet connectivity to the outside world

    a. Computers are made affordable and accessible to children, teachers
       and parents through schools

    b. Government will learn the benefit of the scheme and adopt it in all
       schools in the country

    c. Parents will be able to purchase laptops programmed for children as a
       means to aid learning.


4. Haiti Empowerment Project, Solar Educ & Outreach Project - Ohio
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101021
    http://seoosu.weebly.com/our-blog.html
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 10 XOs over 12 months

    Project Objectives:
    The objective of this project is to work with The Haiti Empowerment
    Project to provide teachers and students the best possible resources and
    tools to yield a more interactive, engaging, and rewarding educational
    experience. This project is being implemented in a community outside of
    Croix-des-Bouquet, Haiti.
    We plan to install ten XO laptops in a computer lab that will be used by
    two local primary schools. The Haiti Empowerment Project will then work
    with the teachers and students over the next year to develop the
    necessary skills and lessons to successfully integrate XO's into the
    classroom.


5. XO for All and Green: Desiging Flexible & Sustainable XO apps - Sao 
Carlos, SP, Brazil
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101047
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 2/12 XOs over 24 months

    Project Objectives:
    This project aims to investigate and develop a software application 
for the
    XO laptop considering adaptable and adaptive resources in the user
    interface. Using flexible user interface, it is expected that the 
software
    addresses the different users' needs and preferences while 
interacting with
    the XO laptop. The differences among users include disabilities (e.g.
    deafness and blindness), ages, and interaction experiences. 
Moreover, the
    application will focus on promoting sustainable behavior in communities.
    The sustainable behavior would reach the school community, involving
    children, teachers, as well as the students' family, since it is 
expected
    that children will also use XO laptops at home along with their family.

    We defined that the software application will be a game which will have
    adaptable and adaptive software resources to reach the different
    interaction requirements and reconcile economic, social and ecological
    interests, which are requirements for sustainable computing in 
communities
    [Mocigemba, 2006]. The same game should be used by children with and
    without disabilities and also by their family and teachers, considering
    appropriated concepts to their ages and interaction abilities. These
    requirements will be elicited using a Participatory Design approach
    [Schüler and Namioka, 1993] and methods from Organizational Semiotics
    [Stamper et al., 1988; Liu, 2000]. The proponents have experience in 
using
    these combined approaches...


6. Low Vision and Blindness Testing and Development of Solutions - 
Smackover, Arkansas
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101266
    http://www.sites.google.com/site/olpcblindness
    http://www.youtube.com/skcool1555
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 2 XOs over 12 months

    Project Objectives:
    Define Problems that will stop other blind and low vision users
    from using the OLPC:
    · Create Videos documenting the Findings
    · Plan A solution for the problem
    · Share results with the Youtube and OLPC community


7. Interactive Fiction Interactive Developer / game engine - Fiskdale, 
Massachusetts
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103204
    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Inform7
    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Activities/Inform7
    SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net & 
http://j.mp/6UhCtd

    Requests 1 XO over 7 months

    Project Objectives:
    -Package the Inform 7 IDE for the Sugar learning environment
    +I7 is an easy way of learning basic programming ideas
    +I7 is also creative writing that takes advantage of interacting with a
    laptop
    +plenty of source available for examples +easy to learn

    -setup interactive fiction VM (make an Interactive Fiction Play 
activity)
    +addition of 'easy to use' games
    +numerous existing games

    Package french and spanish localizations //Work with the makers of the
    Spanish and French languge extension modules to make them contained by
    default in the package.
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