[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6

Carlos Nazareno object404 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 01:49:26 EDT 2008


this is so sad. *slaps forehead*

don't we have direct contacts with MIT/OLPC main ba?

If not, I'll buzz Martin Gomez who used to jam with MIT media lab
folks and then Luis Sarmienta should be relatively easy to reach...

-naz

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:55 AM,  <Harry.Harrison at park.edu> wrote:
>>   I am a retired Computer Science professor who just emmigrated to
>> the Philippines. I brought one XO with me. I live in Moncada, Tarlac.
>> I am interested in helping the movement in whatever way I can. Does
>> anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Hi Harry,
>
> As we are reforming the local initiative, I would suggest to reach out
> to your local community to create awareness. The biggest thing that
> impedes people from going further is laptop availability. For
> grassroots efforts to continue, this is a necessity. It is ironic as a
> lot of 4P (Power, Price, Portability, and Performance) machines are
> available in the market and definitely more superior to the XO
> hardware-wise; and yet the XO is still more suitable to education
> initiatives. The second one I believe, is having a legal identity for
> such an effort to be taken seriously by stakeholders. But I'll leave
> that one for now as this is achievable when we find a way to get
> evaluation and development units.
>
> --
> Jerome
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