<div>Sorry for the late reply was travelling.<br><br></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">.but how can we put processes in place? </blockquote>
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<div> <font color="#000099">We are already trying to put a process in place ...it would allow anyone across the country take up the OLPC project and we would provide all the suppport for doing so and provide required directions</font></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span>How can I contribute?</blockquote>
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<div> <font color="#000099">I am not sure what part of south India are you located. But surely the good news is we are starting a OLPC Project there in Bangalore. I'm sure you would have so much to contribute.</font></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Is there anyone here in South India so we can form a group and get some attention?</blockquote>
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<div><font color="#000099">Yes last week I was in Bangalore and tried getting in touch with LUG there. Hopefully I intend to contact all LUGs in all the states . May be we can have some conference with LUG of each state.This could help to form a support community in all respects. </font></div>
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4. Re: Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference on 18th<br> April, 2008 (Puneet Goel)<br> 5. Re: Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference on 18th<br> April, 2008 (Sameer Verma)<br> 6. OLPC - Cowdung/Biogas power - Kyoto Protocol logic (Sven AERTS)<br>
<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:11:34 -0700<br>From: Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference<br> on 18th April, 2008<br>To: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:480B9566.8010706@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">480B9566.8010706@sfsu.edu</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>amit gogna wrote:<br>> Following is the link giving details of OLPC India Conference :-<br>><br>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Conference_calls#Minutes_of_Meeting" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Conference_calls#Minutes_of_Meeting</a><br>
> _______________________________________________<br>> India mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">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>A few points that I'd like to add:<br><br>The conference call sound quality was a bit of a problem, although I<br>don't think this was a problem with the setup. It sounded like someone<br>on the conference call was sitting in traffic...way too much traffic<br>
noise. It was also suggested that we could perhaps look for a hybrid<br>conference call setup which would support dial-in and VoIP calls. I know<br>that Gizmo supports such a feature, but AFAIK the call in number is a<br>
US-based number. See<br><a href="http://gizmo5.com/pc/products/features/conference-calling/" target="_blank">http://gizmo5.com/pc/products/features/conference-calling/</a> for details.<br><br>In terms of the upcoming installs or pilots in India, I would reiterate<br>
that interested people and parties should look to other pilots for<br>"lessons learned". Nepal and Pakistan come to mind, given their<br>proximity. I've seen a lot more public info on the Nepal pilot, though.<br>
<a href="http://www.olenepal.org/" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org/</a> There are several issues that can be<br>categorized into hardware, software, localization, repairs, training,<br>etc. Many of these will be largely the same for most deployments, so no<br>
reinvention is necessary. Some issues will of course be specific for<br>deployments in different parts of India, and those will have to be<br>addressed on a case by case basis.<br><br>Another item of concern is the level of awareness. I've talked to people<br>
at a couple of different LUGs in India about the project, and I got a<br>sense if indifference from them. Perhaps we need a stronger push to<br>connect LUGs into different OLPC projects. LUGs tend to have goals<br>similar to what OLPC has. LUGs aren't really about Linux or FOSS as much<br>
as they are about education! This was my suggestion to Gaurav (from<br>Punjab University) on the phone call. Gaurav's group at Punjab<br>University is doing interesting things in reaching out to the<br>communities. Gaurav: Can we hear from you on some of those activities?<br>
Perhaps pointers to slides, blogs, etc.?<br><br>LUGs all over India can get involved and spread the word. They can go<br>out to the local communities and improve awareness. There is also a<br>perception that if you don't have an XO, you can't really do much. This<br>
is not the case if you are using a live CD though. The current batch of<br>Live CDs (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD</a>) provide a<br>
large proportion of the functionality that one would see on an XO.<br>Perhaps this avenue should be explored more. After all, its really a<br>Fedora-derived distro. You could very well run an entire classroom of<br>these LiveCDs on regular desktops and still avail the features of Sugar!<br>
<br>Then we have the localization bit. Sayamindu Dasgupta and others have<br>done a great job of setting up this resource. We need to be able to use<br>it to its fullest extent.<br><br>On Pootle (<a href="https://dev.laptop.org/translate/" target="_blank">https://dev.laptop.org/translate/</a>), we have: Afrikaans,<br>
Amharic, Arabic, Aymara, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bulgarian,<br>Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech,<br>Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English<br>
(US), Finnish, French, Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German,<br>Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese,<br>Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese,<br>Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,<br>
Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,<br>Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovenian, Sotho, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,<br>Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba,<br>pseudo L10n<br>
<br>Look at the list and see if you have a language/script that's not on<br>there but you'd like to help with. For basic instructions on how to use<br>Pootle see <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452</a> The screenshots are a bit<br>
dated, but the idea should get across. You'll notice on that same page<br>that the slides have been translated into Bulgarian and Chinese. How<br>about converting the slides into some Indian languages?<br><br>In all, I am quite excited to see things moving again on this list.<br>
Let's hope we keep up the momentum.<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><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:17:10 +0200<br>From: "Marc Valentin" <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org" target="_blank">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference<br> on 18th April, 2008<br>To: "Sameer Verma" <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
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<br>I just want to add this : XO-LiveCD is nice but for those wanting to<br>participate to the creation of manuals, tutorials or software<br>development, using Virtualization is the way to go : with VMWare,<br>VirtualBox,... (see <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/" target="_blank">wiki.laptop.org</a>)<br>
You can work in MSWindows or Linux or Mac having the XO open in a<br>Window... very useful for taking snapshots for example.<br>-marc-<br><br>On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> There is also a<br>> perception that if you don't have an XO, you can't really do much. This<br>> is not the case if you are using a live CD though. The current batch of<br>> Live CDs (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD</a>) provide a<br>
> large proportion of the functionality that one would see on an XO.<br>> Perhaps this avenue should be explored more. After all, its really a<br>> Fedora-derived distro. You could very well run an entire classroom of<br>
> these LiveCDs on regular desktops and still avail the features of Sugar!<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:47:17 -0700<br>From: Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference<br> on 18th April, 2008<br>To: Marc Valentin <<a href="mailto:mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org" target="_blank">mvalentin@oeuvredespains.org</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:480BABD5.4000501@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">480BABD5.4000501@sfsu.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br>
<br>Marc Valentin wrote:<br>> I just want to add this : XO-LiveCD is nice but for those wanting to<br>> participate to the creation of manuals, tutorials or software<br>> development, using Virtualization is the way to go : with VMWare,<br>
> VirtualBox,... (see <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/" target="_blank">wiki.laptop.org</a>)<br>> You can work in MSWindows or Linux or Mac having the XO open in a<br>> Window... very useful for taking snapshots for example.<br>
><br>I would second that. VMs are great for documentation.<br><br>Sameer<br>> -marc-<br>><br>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>>> There is also a<br>>> perception that if you don't have an XO, you can't really do much. This<br>>> is not the case if you are using a live CD though. The current batch of<br>>> Live CDs (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD</a>) provide a<br>
>> large proportion of the functionality that one would see on an XO.<br>>> Perhaps this avenue should be explored more. After all, its really a<br>>> Fedora-derived distro. You could very well run an entire classroom of<br>
>> these LiveCDs on regular desktops and still avail the features of Sugar!<br>>><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:16:02 +0530<br>From: "Puneet Goel" <<a href="mailto:g.puneet@gmail.com" target="_blank">g.puneet@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Minutes of Meeting of OLPC India Conference<br> on 18th April, 2008<br>To: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:b73c9f030804202146p6051cda1q15a92413d5d3caa@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">b73c9f030804202146p6051cda1q15a92413d5d3caa@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Hi,<br><br>Just want to know why don't we do these meets on IRC. Many people can<br>participate and we can avoid the problems like noise disturbance.<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Puneet<br><br>On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>> amit gogna wrote:<br>> > Following is the link giving details of OLPC India Conference :-<br>
> ><br>> > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Conference_calls#Minutes_of_Meeting" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Conference_calls#Minutes_of_Meeting</a><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > India mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">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>> A few points that I'd like to add:<br>><br>> The conference call sound quality was a bit of a problem, although I<br>> don't think this was a problem with the setup. It sounded like someone<br>
> on the conference call was sitting in traffic...way too much traffic<br>> noise. It was also suggested that we could perhaps look for a hybrid<br>> conference call setup which would support dial-in and VoIP calls. I know<br>
> that Gizmo supports such a feature, but AFAIK the call in number is a<br>> US-based number. See<br>> <a href="http://gizmo5.com/pc/products/features/conference-calling/" target="_blank">http://gizmo5.com/pc/products/features/conference-calling/</a> for details.<br>
><br>> In terms of the upcoming installs or pilots in India, I would reiterate<br>> that interested people and parties should look to other pilots for<br>> "lessons learned". Nepal and Pakistan come to mind, given their<br>
> proximity. I've seen a lot more public info on the Nepal pilot, though.<br>> <a href="http://www.olenepal.org/" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org/</a> There are several issues that can be<br>> categorized into hardware, software, localization, repairs, training,<br>
> etc. Many of these will be largely the same for most deployments, so no<br>> reinvention is necessary. Some issues will of course be specific for<br>> deployments in different parts of India, and those will have to be<br>
> addressed on a case by case basis.<br>><br>> Another item of concern is the level of awareness. I've talked to people<br>> at a couple of different LUGs in India about the project, and I got a<br>> sense if indifference from them. Perhaps we need a stronger push to<br>
> connect LUGs into different OLPC projects. LUGs tend to have goals<br>> similar to what OLPC has. LUGs aren't really about Linux or FOSS as much<br>> as they are about education! This was my suggestion to Gaurav (from<br>
> Punjab University) on the phone call. Gaurav's group at Punjab<br>> University is doing interesting things in reaching out to the<br>> communities. Gaurav: Can we hear from you on some of those activities?<br>
> Perhaps pointers to slides, blogs, etc.?<br>><br>> LUGs all over India can get involved and spread the word. They can go<br>> out to the local communities and improve awareness. There is also a<br>> perception that if you don't have an XO, you can't really do much. This<br>
> is not the case if you are using a live CD though. The current batch of<br>> Live CDs (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD</a>) provide a<br>
> large proportion of the functionality that one would see on an XO.<br>> Perhaps this avenue should be explored more. After all, its really a<br>> Fedora-derived distro. You could very well run an entire classroom of<br>
> these LiveCDs on regular desktops and still avail the features of Sugar!<br>><br>> Then we have the localization bit. Sayamindu Dasgupta and others have<br>> done a great job of setting up this resource. We need to be able to use<br>
> it to its fullest extent.<br>><br>> On Pootle (<a href="https://dev.laptop.org/translate/" target="_blank">https://dev.laptop.org/translate/</a>), we have: Afrikaans,<br>> Amharic, Arabic, Aymara, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bulgarian,<br>
> Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech,<br>> Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English<br>> (US), Finnish, French, Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German,<br>
> Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese,<br>> Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese,<br>> Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,<br>
> Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,<br>> Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovenian, Sotho, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,<br>> Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba,<br>
> pseudo L10n<br>><br>> Look at the list and see if you have a language/script that's not on<br>> there but you'd like to help with. For basic instructions on how to use<br>> Pootle see <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452</a> The screenshots are a bit<br>
> dated, but the idea should get across. You'll notice on that same page<br>> that the slides have been translated into Bulgarian and Chinese. How<br>> about converting the slides into some Indian languages?<br>
><br>> In all, I am quite excited to see things moving again on this list.<br>> Let's hope we keep up the momentum.<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>> India mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">India@lists.laptop.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india</a><br>
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on 18th April, 2008<br>To: Puneet Goel <<a href="mailto:g.puneet@gmail.com" target="_blank">g.puneet@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:480C1DEA.8020301@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">480C1DEA.8020301@sfsu.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Puneet Goel wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>
> Just want to know why don't we do these meets on IRC. Many people can<br>> participate and we can avoid the problems like noise disturbance.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Puneet<br>><br>Sometimes you just can't get to a computer, but you can talk on the<br>
phone. I think voice calls actually convey a lot more than IRC channels.<br>Of course, we can always have IRC in parallel. That's what we did for<br>the server team conference.<br><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><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:11:48 +0200<br>From: Sven AERTS <<a href="mailto:svenaerts228@gmail.com" target="_blank">svenaerts228@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [OLPC India] OLPC - Cowdung/Biogas power - Kyoto Protocol<br>
logic<br>To: <a href="mailto:india@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">india@lists.laptop.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:FBB71CE8-16DA-45C4-A434-AAF2D588AFFE@gmail.com" target="_blank">FBB71CE8-16DA-45C4-A434-AAF2D588AFFE@gmail.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes;<br> format=flowed<br><br>Would it not be more feasible to use biogas for cooking and cooling,<br>and brewing some vodka - I mean - ethanol to power a little fuel cell<br>
to run the OLPC ?<br>Don't tell me there's no Vodka-equivalent over there... so the<br>farmers know how to brew ethanol ...<br><br>As a "Kyoto Protocol Consultant", I dare to say that prices of<br>PhotoVoltaics or Fuel Cells shouldn't be a problem since the OLPC-<br>
organisation could claim the CO2-certificates for the whole project:<br>1. I think that opening up the olpc-project from a computer project<br>to an education to a CO2-reducing project would enable the OLPC-<br>education project to get access to the financial power behind the<br>
"Kyoto Protocol".<br>I've posted a presentation on the matter:<br><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/SvenAERTS/olp-csmall" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/SvenAERTS/olp-csmall</a><br><br>2. The logic is; A normal PC consumes an average x kWh. Electricity<br>
is produced on the average in that country by emitting y tons of<br>Greenhouse gasses. So using an OLPC only uses x-something kWh x 1<br>million OLPC's in this country and the difference of the normal<br>computers - olpc computers in Greenhouse gasses NOT emitted can be<br>
claimed as CO2 certificates and sold to CO2 emitting<br>countries'governments and companies in the West that HAVE to buy CO2-<br>certificates (price is now about 20?/CO2certificate.<br><br>3. I'd say: present OLPC as a technique where you go via the kids and<br>
the schools to the parents and society as a whole to catalyze CO2-<br>reducing projects and the accompanying CO2-certificates: let the<br>ministiry of education make a list of all the Schools and public<br>buildings ... get an agreement to equip them with PV, Solar<br>
collector, WindTurbine, relighting with low energy lamps ... get a<br>mandate to present that to the "Kyoto Protocol" financiers that need<br>CO2-certificates ... I am sure I can convince them to finance such a<br>
project under these conditions.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Skype: SvenAERTS<br>Kyoto Protocol Consultant-Brussels<br>Engineer, Car Mechanic, Post Graduated in international Relations/<br>Finance and Peace Development<br><br>------------------------------<br>
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