[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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