[OLPC-Philippines] Visiting fellow

[Carlos Nazareno]

:D

Bernie, Caroline, Mel, I don't have time to try it out yet, but how
does sugar on a stick work out on monitors that have max 800x600
resolution? (or even worse, 600x480)?

I tried out XO OS emulated in virtualbox last year before I got my
hands on an XO, and things were a little off because my monitor
resolution is smaller than the XO's mind-blowing 1200x900.

For huge success, I hope to see Sugar and Sugar apps ported across all
kinds of systems, especially on windows and macs :)

Oh, and Mel, maybe we can spearhead One Velociraptor Per Child
Philippines too? Every lonely kid should be given the chance to have a
friend as special as a hypo-allergenic velociraptor! :)

We've experiments to run,
There is research to be done
On the people who are still alive! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B68qYtFzmgY

-Naz

P.S. Jerome, medyo late na, pero I'll give some key DISCS faculty a
buzz and see if anyone can come pa. If ever last minute, puede kaya
mag-add sa list if mga 1 or 2 people can come kung may mag-confirm by
Friday? Am forwarding the google URL form too.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> I'd like to echo Bernie's earlier offer
> (http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-philippines/2009-January/000378.html)
> with my own, since I'm once again a volunteer with plenty of Free Time
> on my hands, and would love to give something back to the country that
> my family considers "home."
>
> Some of the folks on this list know me already, but: ako si
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua, OLPC's resident community jack of
> all trades (formally Deployment Support / QA Engineer / Content &
> Grassroots Intern at various points over the last few years). Bernie and
> I enjoy working together and have skill sets that complement each other;
> I do a lot of community work, documentation, reaching out to
> universities, training, starting feedback loops, etc. - basically
> "everything except development.") Instant team, just add planefare +
> housing.
>
> If there's a deployment (or deployments) to work on, I'd be glad to
> advise remotely and/or to come out for 2-6 months to help build local
> capacity (volunteer recruitment, training, marketing, requirements
> analysis, and so on) and connecting grassroots efforts here more with
> the global network of contributors. Ultimately, I think this needs to be
> a local Filipino-run initiative; Bernie and I (and other international
> volunteers) would be coming in to help jump-start things. My main
> interest is in growing local educational and technical support
> communities around deployments as well as in spreading advice, results,
> and stories across the network of community deployments.
>
> If this sounds interesting, I (or Bernie and I) can work with you to
> draw up a more detailed plan for deployments and/or what specific help
> we can provide.
>
> --Mel
>
> PS: I'm currently in Boston, still volunteering at the OLPC offices on
> occasion (and working on Sugar Labs as well) - so Sandeep, maybe you,
> me, Marty Cuyegkeng, and the grad students you mentioned should figure
> out how we can follow up on the meeting once notes are posted. :)


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