[OLPC India] Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference on 18th April, 2008

[Puneet Goel]

Hi,

Just want to know why don't we do these meets on IRC. Many people can
participate and we can avoid the problems like noise disturbance.

Thanks
Puneet

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> amit gogna wrote:
> > Following is the link giving details of OLPC India Conference :-
> >
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Conference_calls#Minutes_of_Meeting
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> >
> A few points that I'd like to add:
>
> The conference call sound quality was a bit of a problem, although I
> don't think this was a problem with the setup. It sounded like someone
> on the conference call was sitting in traffic...way too much traffic
> noise. It was also suggested that we could perhaps look for a hybrid
> conference call setup which would support dial-in and VoIP calls. I know
> that Gizmo supports such a feature, but AFAIK the call in number is a
> US-based number. See
> http://gizmo5.com/pc/products/features/conference-calling/ for details.
>
> In terms of the upcoming installs or pilots in India, I would reiterate
> that interested people and parties should look to other pilots for
> "lessons learned". Nepal and Pakistan come to mind, given their
> proximity. I've seen a lot more public info on the Nepal pilot, though.
> http://www.olenepal.org/ There are several issues that can be
> categorized into hardware, software, localization, repairs, training,
> etc. Many of these will be largely the same for most deployments, so no
> reinvention is necessary. Some issues will of course be specific for
> deployments in different parts of India, and those will have to be
> addressed on a case by case basis.
>
> Another item of concern is the level of awareness. I've talked to people
> at a couple of different LUGs in India about the project, and I got a
> sense if indifference from them. Perhaps we need a stronger push to
> connect LUGs into different OLPC projects. LUGs tend to have goals
> similar to what OLPC has. LUGs aren't really about Linux or FOSS as much
> as they are about education! This was my suggestion to Gaurav (from
> Punjab University) on the phone call. Gaurav's group at Punjab
> University is doing interesting things in reaching out to the
> communities. Gaurav: Can we hear from you on some of those activities?
> Perhaps pointers to slides, blogs, etc.?
>
> LUGs all over India can get involved and spread the word. They can go
> out to the local communities and improve awareness. There is also a
> perception that if you don't have an XO, you can't really do much. This
> is not the case if you are using a live CD though. The current batch of
> Live CDs (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD) provide a
> large proportion of the functionality that one would see on an XO.
> Perhaps this avenue should be explored more. After all, its really a
> Fedora-derived distro. You could very well run an entire classroom of
> these LiveCDs on regular desktops and still avail the features of Sugar!
>
> Then we have the localization bit. Sayamindu Dasgupta and others have
> done a great job of setting up this resource. We need to be able to use
> it to its fullest extent.
>
> On Pootle (https://dev.laptop.org/translate/), we have:  Afrikaans,
> Amharic, Arabic, Aymara, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bulgarian,
> Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech,
> Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English
> (US), Finnish, French, Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German,
> Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese,
> Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese,
> Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
> Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,
> Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovenian, Sotho, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,
> Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba,
> pseudo L10n
>
> Look at the list and see if you have a language/script that's not on
> there but you'd like to help with. For basic instructions on how to use
> Pootle see http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 The screenshots are a bit
> dated, but the idea should get across. You'll notice on that same page
> that the slides have been translated into Bulgarian and Chinese. How
> about converting the slides into some Indian languages?
>
> In all, I am quite excited to see things moving again on this list.
> Let's hope we keep up the momentum.
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
>
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>
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