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though OLPC's Contributors Program has a bit
of a temporary inventory<br>
shortage this month, please all join us voting
for the latest OLPC/Sugar<br>
community projects over IRC Live Chat! Please
join us live now, to make<br>
the best project allocations & mentoring
relationships--starting right here:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a><br>
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Then type at bottom:<br>
/join #olpc-meeting<br>
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AGENDA:<br>
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* Fast Review of the 9 latest (greatest!)
HW/Project Proposals -- please<br>
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing
shortcomings of these proposals:<br>
<br>
1. Zuva Rabuda / Sunrise - Zimbabwe<br>
2. Escolar Carlos Bravo - Granada, Nicaragua<br>
3. VoIP-on-Mesh - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil<br>
4. Fedora Asia Pacific Ambassadors Event Box<br>
5. RAP Ceibal San Jose - XO Una Amiga En Casa
- Uruguay<br>
6. Zambia School Expansion and Skill
Development (Mothers Without Borders)<br>
7. Creating alternatives for life with
children living on the streets - Bolivia<br>
8. XO Laptop to Aid Teaching of
English/Literacy Skills - Kenya; Webster,
Massachusetts<br>
9. Generación Digital - Managua, Nicaragua<br>
<br>
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring
below?!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a><br>
<br>
* New projects & libraries -- teaching
them Community Outreach:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a><br>
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1. Zuva Rabuda / Sunrise - Zimbabwe<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67914">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67914</a><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68448"></a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://zuvarabuda1.wordpress.com">http://zuvarabuda1.wordpress.com</a><br>
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Requests 20 XO over 12 months<br>
<br>
Project Background/Objectives:<br>
1. To improve the computer literacy rate of
children from <br>
Maware rural community<br>
2. To work towards improving the general
education system within the community<br>
3. To work towards accommodating the
marginalized rural children into the global <br>
village<br>
4. To orient and accommodate the
marginalzed rural community children into the
<br>
contemporary world with lots of
technological developments<br>
5. To use technology as a tool for
information dissermination to the rural youth
<br>
especially on issues of HIV and AIDS<br>
6. To use the centre as a tool to expose
the hidden possibilities from the <br>
marginalized society<br>
<br>
<br>
2. Escolar Carlos Bravo - Granada, Nicaragua<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68885">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68885</a><br>
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<br>
Requests 30 XOs over undetermined months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
In December 2009 a small group of family
and friends started<br>
to collect and transport school supplies
and books to the largest public<br>
school in Granada, Nicaragua. While this
has been a grassroots effort,<br>
we have already been able to provide more
than 1,200 lbs. of paper,<br>
books, pencils and notebooks to the school
and in April 2010 contributed<br>
$1,200 to fund the expansion of a small
storage room to a large,<br>
air-conditioned library complete with a
broadband internet connection.<br>
Mission of pilot: In conjunction with the
director, teachers, students<br>
and parents of Carlos Bravo, the pilot will
establish the frameworks for<br>
a successful rollout of One LapTop per
Child to the entire school<br>
population on an ongoing basis.<br>
<br>
<br>
3. VoIP-on-Mesh - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69256">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69256</a><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68822"></a><br>
"If project is approved, i create a blog in
blogspot."<br>
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<br>
Requests 1-2 XOs over 6 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
- Port a VoIP application to XO system<br>
- Integrate VoIP with Mesh network (to
detect and talk with other users)<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Fedora Asia Pacific Ambassadors Event Box<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70403">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70403</a><br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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<br>
Requests 6 XOs over undetermined months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
To promote OLPCs cause and Fedora's use, by
present the olpc as part<br>
of the 'APACK box' (see plan of action)
Encouraging participation in fedora<br>
and the OLPC project, while people who are
interested in fedora but want to<br>
help olpc, can help take up one of the
fedora maintained olpc packages.<br>
Also to help create a presence for Fedora
and OLPC at Events.<br>
<br>
<br>
5. RAP Ceibal San Jose - XO Una Amiga En Casa
- Uruguay<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70762">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70762</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rapsanjose.blogspot.com">http://rapsanjose.blogspot.com</a><br>
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<br>
Requests 5 XO-1.5s over 36 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
In URUGUAY the government decided in 2007
to follow the OLPC project,<br>
becoming the first country in the world to
deliver literally one laptop per<br>
child in the two following years.<br>
As a result of the PLAN CEIBAL it was clear
that the support of the<br>
delivery and people's contact with the
laptops, had to be held on the basis<br>
of a horizontal net, which was called Red
de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal<br>
**RAP CEIBAL** (PLAN CEIBAL Supporting
Net). OUR MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO EDUCATE AND<br>
GIVE SUPPORT TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS SO
THAT THEY CAN TAKE AS MUCH ADVANTAGE<br>
OF THE LAPTOPS AS POSSIBLE .WE ARE IN
PERMANENT CONTACT WITH THE STUDENTS,<br>
AND SINCE SOME OF THE MEMBERS ARE NOT
SCHOOL TEACHERS WE HAVE NO LAPTOP OF<br>
OUR OWN TO GIVE PROPER SUPPORT TO THE PLAN.
WE HAVE HELD A SURVEY IN OUR CITY,<br>
WICH IS PUBLISHED IN OUR WEBSITE
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rapsanjose.blogspot.com/">http://rapsanjose.blogspot.com/</a> AND IT<br>
WAS CLEARLY NOTICED THAT CHILDREN`S
FAMILIES ARE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE<br>
POSIBILITIES THAT A LAPTOP AT HOME CAN GIVE
THEM.AS A RESULT OF THAT<br>
DIAGNOSIS, WE HAVE ORGANIZED MEETINGS WITH
FAMILIES IN ORDER TO GIVE THEM<br>
SUPPORT IN THE CORRECT USE AND MAINTENANCE
OF THE LAPTOP.<br>
<br>
<br>
6. Zambia School Expansion and Skill
Development (Mothers Without Borders)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70990">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70990</a><br>
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<br>
Requests 100 XOs over 24 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
Zambia has population of 12 million with 1
million being orphans. The project's goal is
the following:<br>
1) Many of the orphan population live on the
streets and beg, steal, and/or<br>
prostitute for a living. This project
will provide them and other children<br>
of poverty an opportunity to
learn/incorporate computer skills into their<br>
lives to open up new life/job
opportunities for them.<br>
2) The school being run by Mothers Without
borders will also entice more<br>
children to come to the school to be
able to have this opportunity.<br>
This will enhance the attendance of the
school. The end result will be<br>
more jobs for adults (teachers,
headmaster, etc.) and more opportunities<br>
for the children with the options that
this education will open up for them.<br>
<br>
<br>
7. Creating alternatives for life with
children living on the streets - Bolivia<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70998">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70998</a><br>
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<br>
Requests 7 XOs over 4 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
- Generate alternatives for life, funds and
resources from and for kids<br>
living on the streets in the city of
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.<br>
Promoting and showing to the whole world
a new form of education<br>
appropriate to our times, creative,
innovative and open.<br>
- Create and adapt activities for the Xo,
working with children's that<br>
usually live on the streets and now are
in a "foster home", making<br>
them accessible to the world community.<br>
- Make possible life alternatives and
create future companies with the<br>
help of Xo's as a learning tool aimed for
children between 8 and<br>
12 years old, moving into a new form of
education.<br>
- Connect the world via new “creative
worlds.<br>
- Build a self-funded creative center
connected to the world.<br>
- Produce a book and a documentary film
about the experience.<br>
<br>
<br>
8. XO Laptop to Aid Teaching of
English/Literacy Skills - Kenya; Webster,
Massachusetts<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71539">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71539</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://playgroundgallery.org">http://playgroundgallery.org</a> <br>
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<br>
Requests 2-10 XOs over 2-8 months<br>
<br>
Project Objectives: (excerpt)<br>
Use XO laptops to promote
‘Verbal-Linguistic’ skills. The learners will
enjoy<br>
learning through speaking, writing,
reading, and listening, researching with<br>
the XO. The XO will give students an
opportunity to<br>
express themselves creatively with words,
capture student voices with audio,<br>
text, pictures, students will create
stories, interactive activities related to<br>
reading, writing, and speaking, students
will read stories online, record their<br>
own stories and play literacy games. Our
goal is to set a syllabus that<br>
reinforces and harmonizes well with the
Ministry of education English curriculum. <br>
<br>
<br>
9. Generación Digital - Managua, Nicaragua<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71573">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71573</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lasenramdas.wordpress.com">http://www.lasenramdas.wordpress.com</a><br>
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<br>
Requests 25 XOs over 24 months <br>
<br>
Project Objectives:<br>
Generación Digital was implemented in
Colegio Las Enramadas two years ago<br>
and this program has motivated more
children to enroll in Las Enramadas.<br>
With an estimated increase of 25% in
student enrollment for next year, we<br>
will need a proportional increase in XO
laptops for 2011 to meet these<br>
needs.<br>
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