[OLPC-Philippines] Visiting fellow

[Carlos Nazareno]

Ciao Bernie!

It's an honor to meet you :)

As a situationer, things are still a bit preliminary at this point re:
OLPC Philippines.

There were plans to do a pilot in a school in Aklan (where the famous
Boracay beach is located) c/o Mike Kouklis, but AFAIK it did not push
through. There was another one that was proposed for Don Bosco
Technical College, but some of us are not updated about the progress
in that regards. (Charles? How are the plans for the pilot for Don
Bosco going?)

One of the things that have been talked about and we're leaning
towards to is for whatever pilot to be launched is to start in a
private school laboratory environment where there are enough
IT-trained staff to support the program, integrate into the
curriculum, and evaluate the effectivity of the program and then to
knowledge-transfer the experience for future deployments in broader
areas and public schools. Another concern is security as these are
still very expensive machines and each cost more than the average
Filipino's take-home monthly pay.

Anyway, most of us are meeting up at the end of January to discuss the
status and direction of the grassroots efforts over here and we'll
keep everyone updated!

All the best,

-Naz

P.S. Happy goodbye George W. week everyone! ;) heheh

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> 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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