[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7

Fri Aug 29 12:14:22 EDT 2008

Hi,

I could share the compiled deployment guide and some written documents with Jerome.  Once we finalized the paper, we can make it available on the site.

By the way Mel, if you'll be visiting Manila again, contact me and Jerome, so we can sit with Naz and others interested for the project to continue.

The OLPC-PH education server in beta is up, educational content writers are also welcome.  Developers are welcome too.  

wenmi01

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   2. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 (Jerome Gotangco)
   3. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 (Carlos Nazareno)
   4. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 (Mel Chua)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:55:12 -0500
From: Harry.Harrison at park.edu
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Gang,

   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?

Harry Harrison

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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:13:06 +0800
From: "Jerome Gotangco" <jgotangco at gmail.com>
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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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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:49:26 +0800
From: "Carlos Nazareno" <object404 at gmail.com>
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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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-- 
Carlos Nazareno
http://www.object404.com

interactive media specialist
zen graffiti studios
naz at zengraffiti.com

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:03:46 -0500
From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue
	6
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> don't we have direct contacts with MIT/OLPC main ba?

Well, yes - but grassroots groups and efforts are *the* thing that makes 
deployments happen (Jerome is absolutely right

>> 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

One thing that helps tremendously is a detailed proposal for how many 
laptops you will need and why, who will deploy/support them, how they 
will be used, and so on. A lot of effort is going into the large 
government-sponsored country deployments right now so there is no 
"official" route for smaller groups to purchase machines, but 1cc
(the 
OLPC office in Boston) knows that smaller pilots need XOs as well. If 
you can convince them that you have everything in place except the XOs 
(there is no official support or teacher training package, so we would 
have to make our own), they're pretty flexible and willing to work 
something out.

There is another upcoming G1G1, so for a small pilot, individual 
machines can be obtained for ~USD $400 each this way. (You may have to 
ask a friend in the US to have it shipped to their address, and then put 
a bunch of XOs in a balikbayan box.)

>> initiatives. The second one I believe, is having a legal identity for
>> such an effort to be taken seriously by stakeholders.

OLPC Nepal might have some good thoughts on this.

-Mel

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua

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