<i>So my question is<br>: are you really going to do something for the NGOs working in India ?<br>Can I tell my staff you are going to send a sample to them ? My<br>feeling is that it is time to act because competition is there and
<br>OLPC will be obsolete before being released.<br></i><br>I can simply vibe with what Valentin writes-its been very frustrating for those of us who were very excited about your entry into India-the costs have doubled and to me it is so difficult to understand why you would make us pay and direct the +1 elsewhere, considering that our poor kids need as they say every drop of it.
<br>We have discussed technology and beaten it to death.<br>There seems to be no action in place-the link you send every time I raise a query is only making it more difficult.<br>Can we call for action-if you aren't really interested, please do make it clear to us and we will find
alternatives.I also think you should consult people like Valentin and me-by now we could have sold a million-instead all we hear is a lot of noise and empty words and hollow discussions on technology-it all sounds hi funda-but to those of us who know technology -we think you are just enacting something as if it were a huge event-lets get to reality point-be grounded please
<br>Gowri<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 13, 2007 6:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:india-request@lists.laptop.org">india-request@lists.laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback<br> (Sayamindu Dasgupta)<br> 2. getting xo laptop (sidharth chugh)<br> 3. Re: getting xo laptop (Joshua N Pritikin)<br> 4. Re: getting xo laptop (Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero)
<br> 5. enquiry (sidharth chugh)<br> 6. Re: enquiry (Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero)<br> 7. Re: enquiry (amit gogna)<br> 8. EeePC now or OLPC after 2 years ? (Marc Valentin)<br> 9. Re: EeePC now or OLPC after 2 years ? (Sameer Verma)
<br> 10. Re: EeePC now or OLPC after 2 years ? (Marc Valentin)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:42:27 +0530<br>From: Sayamindu Dasgupta <
<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback<br>To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <<a href="mailto:mpg@redhat.com">mpg@redhat.com</a>
><br>Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a>,<br> <a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org">jg@laptop.org
</a><br>Message-ID: <1193944347.7330.30.camel@unmad><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br><br>On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 00:29 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:<br>> Jim Gettys wrote:<br>> > Marco will be working on building a new version of the web browser very
<br>> > soon. Support for Arabic and a number of other complex scripts has just<br>> > "landed" in Firefox (on which our browser is based), and high on our<br>> > list of things to do next is to update the browser.
<br>> > - Jim<br>> ><br>> ><br><br>Hi all,<br>I got a B4 system today, and did some testing after upgrading to joyride<br>build 190. Here are my feedback/reports<br><br>1) The partial rendering (seen the
en.wikipedia's Devanagari page) with<br>Browse has indeed been fixed. Thanks Marco :-)<br><br>2) It looks like the corrupt fontconfig cache issue remains - the UI was<br>not able to pick up fonts with Devanagari coverage automatically. (Eg:
<br>The journal showed boxes with codepoints after I used Browse to visit a<br>page with Hindi titles). Deleting the cache and regenerating them seems<br>to work. This may be an issue with fontconfig itself -<br><a href="http://abock.org/2007/11/01/font-sadness/" target="_blank">
http://abock.org/2007/11/01/font-sadness/</a> sounds vaguely familiar :-)<br><br>3) In Write activity, split vowels signs (they are found in two major<br>scripts, Bengali (bn) and Malayalam (ml)) are sometimes being rendered
<br>incorrectly. Instead of splitting the vowel sign up and placing the the<br>base consonant _in between_, in some cases, Write is rendering the split<br>vowel sign after the base consonant.<br>I would do some more investigation on this and if required file a ticket
<br>(it may be entirely possible that I'm doing something really stupid :-)<br><br>Warm regards,<br>Sayamindu<br><br><br><br>--<br>Sayamindu Dasgupta<br><a href="http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings" target="_blank">
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sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in</a>><br>Subject: [OLPC India] getting xo laptop<br>To: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:929853.13948.qm@web8910.mail.in.yahoo.com">
929853.13948.qm@web8910.mail.in.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>i am living in delhi and studing in a school so how can i get this xo laptop<br><br><br>---------------------------------
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<br><br>On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:11:01PM +0000, sidharth chugh wrote:<br>> i am living in delhi and studing in a school so how can i get this xo<br>> laptop<br><br>Via G1G1? Well, you could ask somebody in USA/Canada to order one for
<br>you and then they could bring it to India sometime.<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:41:59 -0500<br>From: "Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero" <<a href="mailto:dirakx@gmail.com">
dirakx@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC India] getting xo laptop<br>To: "Joshua N Pritikin" <<a href="mailto:jpritikin@pobox.com">jpritikin@pobox.com</a>><br>Cc: sidharth chugh <<a href="mailto:sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in">
sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in</a>>, <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:a80d16920711121041m75dff744m4436ac85a44ff5f1@mail.gmail.com">a80d16920711121041m75dff744m4436ac85a44ff5f1@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Yep for more info please see.<br><br><a href="http://www.xogiving.org/" target="_blank">http://www.xogiving.org/</a><br><br><br>On Nov 12, 2007 1:16 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <
<a href="mailto:jpritikin@pobox.com">jpritikin@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:11:01PM +0000, sidharth chugh wrote:<br>> > i am living in delhi and studing in a school so how can i get this xo
<br>> > laptop<br>><br>> Via G1G1? Well, you could ask somebody in USA/Canada to order one for<br>> you and then they could bring it to India sometime.<br>> _______________________________________________
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<br><br>i have heard that xo laptop has entered in india and also given laptops to kahariat school in maharashtra in INDIA<br>i am living in another state i.e delhi in INDIA only and studing in a school so how can i get this xo laptop.
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<br>To: "sidharth chugh" <<a href="mailto:sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in">sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:a80d16920711121102g6edd1644l24db7bf46e1093d2@mail.gmail.com">
a80d16920711121102g6edd1644l24db7bf46e1093d2@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>For now you can ask somebody to bring one for USA or Canda to the Give one<br>Get one program.
<br><br><a href="http://www.xogiving.org/" target="_blank">http://www.xogiving.org/</a><br><br><br>On Nov 12, 2007 1:48 PM, sidharth chugh <<a href="mailto:sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in">sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in</a>> wrote:
<br><br>> i have heard that xo laptop has entered in india and also given laptops to<br>> kahariat school in maharashtra in INDIA<br>> i am living in another state i.e delhi in INDIA only and studing in a<br>> school so how can i get this xo laptop.
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<br><br>sidharth ,<br><br>At khairat , pilot for olpc in India is going on. As rightly said you<br>can get those from locations mentioned.<br><br><br><br>On Nov 12, 2007 11:02 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero<br><<a href="mailto:dirakx@gmail.com">
dirakx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> For now you can ask somebody to bring one for USA or Canda to the Give one<br>> Get one program.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.xogiving.org/" target="_blank">http://www.xogiving.org/
</a><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> On Nov 12, 2007 1:48 PM, sidharth chugh < <a href="mailto:sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in">sidharthchugh@yahoo.co.in</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
<br>> > i have heard that xo laptop has entered in india and also given laptops to<br>> kahariat school in maharashtra in INDIA<br>> > i am living in another state i.e delhi in INDIA only and studing in a<br>
> school so how can i get this xo laptop.<br>> ><br>> > reply soon<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> Forgot the famous last words? Access your message archive online. Click
<br>> here.<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > India mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org">India@lists.laptop.org</a><br>> > <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india" target="_blank">
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero<br>> One Laptop Per Child<br>> <a href="mailto:rafael@laptop.org">rafael@laptop.org
</a><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> India mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org">India@lists.laptop.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india" target="_blank">
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india</a><br>><br>><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:01:50 +0100<br>From: "Marc Valentin" <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org">
mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>Subject: [OLPC India] EeePC now or OLPC after 2 years ?<br>To: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a>.<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:99ae10a80711121601x4bc4698eoc035a98cd3a949ba@mail.gmail.com">
99ae10a80711121601x4bc4698eoc035a98cd3a949ba@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Hi,<br>I am in charge of a Belgian NGO. We are developping projects in India.<br>Our main project is a school created in a backward village area in
<br>U.P. We have almost 600 children now and 120 more are coming every<br>year. At the beginning, since the children in the villages didn't have<br>the required level of education we had to start with KG and first<br>
primary (English medium). Each year we open a new level, now level<br>four is open. Since the children are growing, I started searching for<br>an acceptable computer lab solution (electricity is also a big problem<br>in these village areas).
<br>We have a budget and OLPC looks an appealing solution but it looks the<br>ideas behind the project prevent NGOs to be part of it. Let me explain<br>: as the main person of the NGO, I have no possibility to get one of<br>
these computers in hand, I cannot even buy one. I tried to get one<br>with the "G1G1 program donation" but it didn't work because I am not<br>living in the USA ! But even if I could get one in hand, I could not
<br>order, because the OLPC organization is selling the computers only to<br>governments.<br>Now, I discovered the Asus Eee PC... This one is available immediately<br>(I will get a sample next week), the power seems great and it does
<br>everything the OLPC does. (No fancy colors thought). So my question is<br>: are you really going to do something for the NGOs working in India ?<br>Can I tell my staff you are going to send a sample to them ? My<br>feeling is that it is time to act because competition is there and
<br>OLPC will be obsolete before being released.<br>-Marc Valentin-<br>Oeuvre des pains asbl<br>Gramin Manav Vikas Samiti<br><a href="http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org" target="_blank">http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org</a><br><br>
<br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 9<br>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:30:03 -0800<br>From: Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC India] EeePC now or OLPC after 2 years ?
<br>To: Marc Valentin <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4738F00B.3010104@sfsu.edu">
4738F00B.3010104@sfsu.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Marc Valentin wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> I am in charge of a Belgian NGO. We are developping projects in India.<br>> Our main project is a school created in a backward village area in
<br>> U.P. We have almost 600 children now and 120 more are coming every<br>> year. At the beginning, since the children in the villages didn't have<br>> the required level of education we had to start with KG and first
<br>> primary (English medium). Each year we open a new level, now level<br>> four is open. Since the children are growing, I started searching for<br>> an acceptable computer lab solution (electricity is also a big problem
<br>> in these village areas).<br>> We have a budget and OLPC looks an appealing solution but it looks the<br>> ideas behind the project prevent NGOs to be part of it. Let me explain<br>> : as the main person of the NGO, I have no possibility to get one of
<br>> these computers in hand, I cannot even buy one. I tried to get one<br>> with the "G1G1 program donation" but it didn't work because I am not<br>> living in the USA ! But even if I could get one in hand, I could not
<br>> order, because the OLPC organization is selling the computers only to<br>> governments.<br>> Now, I discovered the Asus Eee PC... This one is available immediately<br>> (I will get a sample next week), the power seems great and it does
<br>> everything the OLPC does. (No fancy colors thought). So my question is<br>> : are you really going to do something for the NGOs working in India ?<br>> Can I tell my staff you are going to send a sample to them ? My
<br>> feeling is that it is time to act because competition is there and<br>> OLPC will be obsolete before being released.<br>> -Marc Valentin-<br>> Oeuvre des pains asbl<br>> Gramin Manav Vikas Samiti<br>>
<a href="http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org" target="_blank">http://www.OeuvreDesPains.org</a><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> India mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org">
India@lists.laptop.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india</a><br>><br><br><br>Hi Marc,<br>Maybe the "Give Many" program will work for you?
<br><a href="http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml" target="_blank">http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml</a> The website says<br>that you can direct where a percentage of the laptops will go. I suppose
<br>you could direct that percentage to your own school...<br><br>As for the ASUS Eee PC my understanding is that hardware wise, the Eee<br>isn't as robust as the XO. It does not support mesh protocols which<br>allow you to build a network infrastructure on the fly where none exist.
<br>Most importantly, Eee is missing all the activities<br>(<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities</a>) that make the XO and OLPC more<br>than hardware+software+network.
<br><br>The way I see it, the hardware, software and network innovations of the<br>XO are simply there to support constructivist approach to learning and<br>that to me is the most appealing aspect of the project. By the way, I am
<br>no expert on learning (although I do teach for a living :-)) and someone<br>on my campus set me straight about constructivism, etc. Here's her<br>article...its an easy read.<br><a href="http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/02summer/inside-out-1.htm" target="_blank">
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/02summer/inside-out-1.htm</a><br><br>cheers,<br>Sameer<br><br>--<br>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>San Francisco State University<br>San Francisco CA 94132 USA
<br><a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br><a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 10
<br>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:31:52 +0100<br>From: "Marc Valentin" <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC India] EeePC now or OLPC after 2 years ?
<br>To: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:99ae10a80711130431w380aae66wdd1c3f43fa96382e@mail.gmail.com">99ae10a80711130431w380aae66wdd1c3f43fa96382e@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Hi, thanks for the link ! I sent a message, I hope I will get a<br>response. So you get 60 laptops for $20000, not so cheap. (The other<br>40 you have no control of the destination). At the moment the current
<br>model of the Asus Eee Pc is $399, but cheaper models are on the way...<br>And you can order the quantity you want.<br>But you are right, the idea behind OLPC is completely different and<br>that is why I said it is "appealing" for NGOs. However, we in NGO's,
<br>we have to take decisions and there is no way we can have one OLPC in<br>hand. I feel OLPC foundation should be much more active approaching<br>NGOs, to give or sell samples to them so they can make up their mind<br>and get ready.
<br>About learning strategies, I would say Indian way of doing things is<br>like it was in Europe and the USA, one century ago. The difficult<br>aspect of making this evolve is the number of children in a classroom<br>: 40 to 50. It is very difficult to go for modern pedagogy in such a
<br>crowded class. (By the way I was surprised to read that the test class<br>chosen by OLPC had only 22 children, you find that nowhere in India<br>!).<br>Did you have a chance to have one OLPC in hand ? What was your first
<br>impression ?<br>-marc-<br><br>On 11/13/07, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Marc,<br>> Maybe the "Give Many" program will work for you?<br>> <a href="http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml" target="_blank">
http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml</a> The website says<br>> that you can direct where a percentage of the laptops will go. I suppose<br>> you could direct that percentage to your own school...<br>
><br>> As for the ASUS Eee PC my understanding is that hardware wise, the Eee<br>> isn't as robust as the XO. It does not support mesh protocols which<br>> allow you to build a network infrastructure on the fly where none exist.
<br>> Most importantly, Eee is missing all the activities<br>> (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities</a>) that make the XO and OLPC more<br>> than hardware+software+network.
<br>><br>> The way I see it, the hardware, software and network innovations of the<br>> XO are simply there to support constructivist approach to learning and<br>> that to me is the most appealing aspect of the project. By the way, I am
<br>> no expert on learning (although I do teach for a living :-)) and someone<br>> on my campus set me straight about constructivism, etc. Here's her<br>> article...its an easy read.<br>> <a href="http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/02summer/inside-out-1.htm" target="_blank">
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/02summer/inside-out-1.htm</a><br>><br>> cheers,<br>> Sameer<br>><br>> --<br>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>> Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>> San Francisco State University
<br>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>> <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>> <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br>>
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