Hi Dennis!<br><br>I should probably introduce my self properly. You can probably tell by my name I'm Indonesian but actually I'm really an Aussie. I did however grow up in Bali but have spend most of my life in Australia. My mum's Balinese and hence my name and yes I have a LOT of cousins. As a consequence I have more conversational Indonesian but willing to give a shot at doing translations (of course with a lot of helps from friends). I also work in IT working for a consulting company - hence my personal interest in the OLPC project and especially for Indonesia.<br>
<br>Wow that's great you've been around communities with the XO (and particularly around Bali - a very nice place to go but I guessed I'm biased). I'd like to know how people were receptive to the cost of the laptop? Or did you concentrate more on the features of the laptop and the software and how it could be used for learning?<br>
<br>Certainly 100,000 would be a challenge - this obviously means getting either a large corporation, foundation or the government to fit the bill initially. However I just see that as a high hurdle that we need to meet and it just may take a lot more to get there... I know I'm young at heart, probably naive and definitely eager :)<br>
<br>Yes I've seen that there's been a bit of fallout after OLPC split with Intel over their two PCs. Essentially their goals are the same and I think the laptop is here to stay. As for articles in the Jakarta Post touting the Intel version - I have no doubt it's marketing from the Intel camp masquerading as news.<br>
<br>I've actually had quite a good response from the OLPC foundation. Maybe I can forward your queries via my channel?<br><br>As I said I'm based in Australia but have family in Bali. So my ability to get things done on the ground are limited at best. What I'd like to do though is get the support material and even translations done. My view is that to make this really successful you need someone actually there in the community to get the program up and running - like a teach who is passionate about getting the laptop to their school. So what is needed is the support to get that teacher's project up and running.<br>
That's my 2 cents.<br><br>Great to hear from others!<br>-gede<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Dennis N. Raymond <<a href="mailto:dennisnr@comcast.net">dennisnr@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hello Gede & Dean:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Yes, I am on the OLPC list serve as well,
and am happy to hear from you. I have been in Bali
with an XO laptop since December 2007. During that time I've been
demonstrating the laptop to various Yayasans and schools. My objective
has been to foster grassroots support and carry that information to OLPC for
the purposes of seeding the units to appropriate institutions here in Indonesia.
It's been a valuable experience for me as I've met many people in the
small educational communities that could benefit from the XO laptop. During
this time I've also seen OLPC change their strategy. From the website it
seems they are only interested in selling the units in lots of no less than
10,000. This is a change from previous tactics where units could be
purchased in lots of 300. Phone calls and emails to the Cambridge offices of OLPC go unreturned, and
it's apparent the enterprise is under duress as they struggle to find
their place in the world. All the while Intel's Classmate laptop
(with Windows XP) seems to be gaining visibility. A recent article in the
Jakarta Post focused on the Classmate while barely mentioning OLPC. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">About me, I am a 57-year-old technology
worker from Seattle, Washington
in the US.
I have been coming to Indonesia
for 15 years, the first time under sponsorship of my city government. I've
been active in a Sister City Association between Seattle
and Surabaya, and have a small US-based
foundation that identifies and supports small projects within Indonesia.
We are not an NGO and, no, we don't have money. But we have the
energy and ingenuity to identify communities of need and, I hope, advise OLPC
of these needs. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I'd like to know more about your
interests in this program, and explore how and if we might work together to
forward this invaluable project within Indonesia. I am here until
the end of May, and then return to my home in Seattle.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Warm regards,</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Dennis N. Raymond<br>
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+62 087 8610-40100 phone</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Gede Suparsa
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:23
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<a href="mailto:olpc-indonesia@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">olpc-indonesia@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Olpc-indonesia]
Anyone still active on OLPC Indonesia?</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well Dean it looks like
just you and me on this list.<br>
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I think what might be a good start would be translating some of the existing
material into Bahasa.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Dean Boulding < > wrote:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I joined a few months ago and yours is the first message I've seen!<br>
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I'd be interested in helping out, but I don't have the time to take on<br>
a leadership role at this time. Anybody else out there?<br>
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Dean</span></font></p>
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Gede Suparsa <<a href="mailto:gede.suparsa@gmail.com" target="_blank">gede.suparsa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi There,<br>
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> Is anyone still active on this list contributing to the OLPC project?<br>
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> I'm new and would like to know what's happening and where I can help out?<br>
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> -Gede<br>
> ps: That's right, my name is Gede - anaknya Bali.<br>
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