[Olpc-philippines] Get together for the OLPC team in Manila on the 10th Feb (Sunday PM)

Charles Chen ideasman88 at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jan 31 09:26:31 EST 2008


Hi Guys,
   
  I am be in Manila from the 10-26 February and would like to organise a get together to meet everybody in the OLPC team based in Manila (The rest of the guys not in Manila can join us online). I tentatively set this on the 10th of February (Sunday) for merienda cena (afternoon brunch). 
   
  Please RSVP me (ideasman88 at yahoo.com.au) if you can come. I will pick the place depending on how many are coming. Please let me know also from where you are coming from so that I can pick a place convenient for you.
   
  Athene - If no one has yet contacted Ricardo Gonzales I will try to get him to join us in our get together.
   
  Thanks.
   
  Charles
  
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1. Fwd: [Fwd: 23, 000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in
Philippines] (Athene Chan)


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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:03:12 +1000
From: "Athene Chan" 
Subject: [Olpc-philippines] Fwd: [Fwd: 23, 000 Linux PCs forge
education revolution in Philippines]
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Hi All,

I'm not sure if anyone has read it but this sounds like someone we want to
talk to :)

Athene

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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1163450117;pp;1?

"Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step
to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the
Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities
so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a
government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based
on Ubuntu.

Visiting Australia to discuss Linux and open source software in
education at this year's linux.conf.au in Melbourne, independent open
source consultant Ricardo Gonzalez, said there were a number of factors
that led to Linux being chosen over the venerable Microsoft Windows.

Gonzalez, based in Manila, told Computerworld Linux became popular in
the Philippines soon after the 1997 Asian financial crisis when open
source was investigated for its value proposition to organizations.

"Open source was a viable business alternative because no one was doing
it commercially," Gonzalez said.

..."

Fedora helped this happen, but Ubuntu is creeping in as well - we need
to help support this group. Quickly.
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