[OLPC-Asia] Fwd: NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, 3PM EDT, Mch 23)

Fri Mar 23 21:31:34 EDT 2012

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From: Holt <holt at laptop.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:05 AM
Subject: NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, 3PM EDT, Mch 23)
To: Support Gangsters <support-gang at laptop.org>,
grassroots at lists.laptop.org, olpc-open at lists.laptop.org, Devel's in
the Details <devel at lists.laptop.org>, IAEP <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
olpc-social at googlegroups.com

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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