[Olpc-philippines] This was the Meeting Minutes last April 27, 2008

Rowen Remis Iral rowen_remis_iral at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 2 21:51:27 EDT 2008


Hi Everyone,

This has been a great effort with Charles' activities.  By the way, I'm hoping that some of you will help the OLPC Philippines to find ways on how we can help PBSP and other interested parties to purchase XO machines for schools.

On the other hand, OLPC-PH Enterprise is here to help you with deploying servers and help in configuration of specialized knowledge websites for education.  We also have some partner connection for establishing a net-connected school or community at a lower price.

We also set up plans on having a hardware clone for the XO, if there are people out there who can help, give us a mail and we'll work on it.  PBSP agreed on our plans to roll out using this method if this is faster.

Wifi works with the XO, i have tried it already with AirBorneAccess.net especially when I'm out for meeting.

wenmi
Project Manager
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines
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Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:05:17 +1000 (EST)
From: Charles Chen <ideasman88 at yahoo.com.au>
Subject: OLPC PH Get together of 27 Apr 2007 and OLPC AUS
CC: Willie Pertubal

  Hello Everybody,     1. Get together of 27 Apr 2007 at Starbucks Greenbelt      The
meeting had only 4 members present but there was Rowen and Chief Mike
who advise regrets on their inability to come to the meeting. Sandeep,
myself (Charles) and Harv Viray (who joined us as a new member last
year) were only ones present. Willie Pertubal, who I recruited as a new
member joined us as the 4th person in the meeting. 
    I
brought 1 of the XOs given by OLPC Boston to show to everybody. We
tried to work out how to access the internet using the wifi of
Starbucks but none of us was able to work out how to do this.This was
one of the technical problems PBSP had in testing the XO. They were
unable to access the web using the broadband access they had in the
office as well as using a SMART modem. The Starbucks wifi was powered
by Globe Telecom.      Discussing our future plans for OLPC, the following information was shared:     OLPC PH Pilot  PBSP
who I approached as a partner for this purpose is still considering our
proposal. They are also still evaluating the technical features of XO
for their own online program.      At the same
time, Don Bosco Mandaluyong has started with their evaluation of XO and
their technical requirements. I am told they are able to get the XO to
access the web inside the campus using an open source application.
Assuming, they agree to do the pilot in the elementary level of the
school, we will start with a business model of an initial 200 XOs.      OLPC Foundation  Moving
forward, I have advised the group I will start with the formation and
formal registration of the Philippine OLPC foundation. This will
enable us to have a formal entity to manage our activities. I have
asked Willie to assist me in managing this task. I will appreciate all
of your help and support in assisting me and Willie in this task.      2. OLPC AUS      OLPC
AUS was organised this week and got started with an information evening
last Friday in Sydney. I got to meet Dr Barry Vercoe, the OLPC
Asia-Pacific Liaison and the core group who shared with more than 60
people present the plan of OLPC AUS to be the resource hub to serve the
OLPC needs of Australia and the 22 island countries who are members
of the South Pacific Commission (American Samoa, Cook Islands,
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Fiji Islands, French Polynesia,
Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands,
Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Palau,
Papua New Guinea (PNG), Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands,
Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna).     I
have made representations with OLPC AUS to share the wealth of its
technical expertise with OLPC PH particularly with planned pilots to be
done in the South Pacific islands which has similar characteristics
with the Philippines. Furthermore, I will be proposing that OLPC PH
to play a similar role to cover the other 9 member countries of ASEAN
(Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mynamar, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam). At the moment only Laos has a core group.     Working with OLPC AUS
will enable OLPC PH to access the needed resources available
and leverage them for rolling them out in the Philippines and the rest
of the ASEAN region.      Thanks.     Charles


      
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