[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC in the Philippines

Sun Feb 8 20:35:32 EST 2009

Dear Mr. Innocenti and Mr. Chua:

May I introduce myself, I am Tata P. Medado of The APC Center, an IBM
Competency Center, and a sister company of Asia Pacific College (APC) in
the Philippines.  As opposed to the College that offers baccalaureate
programs, the Center on the other hand, delivers training and consulting
services to respond to industry talent requirement.  We pride ourselves
in enabling industry exposure for our students and at the same time;
bring relevance to their education by engaging them in live projects.

I am indeed interested in collaborating with you to bring the OLPC
initiative in the Philippines.  I am interested to know how this might
be implemented.  If I may, I am guessing that OLPC might be most
strategic in the following APC and Center program and projects:

1.	One of our strategic learning methodologies is Project-based
learning (PBL).  Our students engage in live projects in software
development and networking.  The program is undertaken during one
Academic Year across different subjects in a trimester schedule.  I am
thinking that our students might benefit a lot in developing
applications for projects for OLPC.
2.	Secondly, the Center offers consulting to academic institutions
on education technology.  It is our way of helping basic education
become attuned to teaching and learning with technology especially at
this time when we would like to enjoin these schools to use open source
systems.

Your propositions are indeed welcome and I can foresee a strong
collaboration for the benefit of Philippine schools.  We may not be in a
position right now to allocate funding for housing and travel but
perhaps if we are able to explore other means of support, I will be more
than willing to work this out with you.

Appreciate your favorable response.

Best regards,

Tata P. Medado
Managing Director
The APC Center

-----Original Message-----
From: rayb at apc.edu.ph [mailto:rayb at apc.edu.ph] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:52 AM
To: Ma. Teresita P. Medado
Subject: Fwd: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 15, Issue 15

Ms. Tata,

This post on the OLPC list caught my eye.  I think this is a chance for
APC to dive into software development for the XO laptop.

Servus,

Ray
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   1. Visiting fellow (Bernie Innocenti)

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:31:45 -0500
From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] Visiting fellow
To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
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It occurred to me that I haven't properly introduced myself to this
list.  I was a member of the OLPC development team and one of the
founders of Sugar Labs.  Last year, I went to Kathmandu for three months
to help OLE Nepal customize and deploy Sugar and the Schoolserver.  At
this time, I'm taking care of Sugar Labs' fledgling development
infrastructure and web presence.

My main interest is growing our volunteer community and commercial
partnerships.  I'll soon be leaving the United States and Caroline Meeks
suggested that the Philippines might become a good place for us to
establish new relationships with developers and educators; to plan
future Sugar deployments.

Here's a concrete proposal: in exchange for reimbursement of travel
expenses and housing, I can offer my time (let's say 3 months) to train
developers and educators in working with Sugar and with the School
server.  A possible goal could be building a team capable of developing
new Sugar activities or extend existing ones to match the requirements
of the state curriculum for primary schools.  Core Schoolserver and
Sugar development would also be a highly valued goal for us.  I'd also
like to help organize a Local Lab (which is how we call our local
units), reach out to universities and NGOs for support and relay local
feedback and requests to the core development team.

I'd be available for this project starting from the second half of
February.  Please, get me in contact with whoever might be interested in
such a proposal.

-- 
   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/

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