[OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9-Mission Statement
Milagros simpson
milagros8 at bigpond.com
Wed Jun 10 17:54:04 EDT 2009
Hello,
May I add my 2-cent worth of comment?
I prefer #2 because it is succinct, says in few words about the various
aspects of the undertaking:
- product : open source, technological innovations
-target: economically disadvantaged communities (Good idea not to use
the word remote, so you can target some groups in the not so remote).
You could also consider starting the mission statement with:
One Laptop Per Child Philippines is a non profit org with the mission ...
Best Regards,
Meg
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> Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] Get the Creative Juices Flowing: Mission
> and Vision Statement Drafts/Proposals; List of mission statements from
> other Org.
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> Hey guys,
>
> here is a list of proposed draft mission and vision statements to get the
> creative juices flowing. This is just a starting point. We may eventually
> have something completely different as we begin to drill into our values
> and
> goals. However, these proposals were inspired by conversations with other
> members. Keeping in mind the educational challenges of the Philippines,
> this
> is also an attempt to combine different mission statements from other
> organizations listed below. I can explain my thought process if you guys
> want. Sige? ingat, I look forward to your feedback, and please feel free
> to
> draft one of your own!
>
> *Proposed Mission Statement:*
>
> *Draft Option 1*
>
> Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities through open source,
> technological innovations for the empowerment of Filipino youth.
>
> *Draft Option 2*
>
> Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities in technologically
> underserved and economically disadvantaged communities through open
> source,
> technological innovations for the empowerment of Filipino youth.
>
> *Draft Option 3*
>
> Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities through open source
> technological innovations for the benefit of Filipino youth. Drawing from
> a
> child?s natural talents and intellectual prowess, we seek to empower
> children to become agents of change towards the betterment of themselves
> and
> their communities.
>
> *Draft Option 4 *
>
> Our mission is to enhance educational opportunities in technologically
> underserved and economically disadvantaged communities through open
> source,
> technological innovations for the benefit of Filipino youth. Drawing from
> a
> child?s natural talents and intellectual prowess, we seek to empower
> children to become agents of change towards the betterment of themselves
> and
> their communities.
>
>
>
> *Proposed Vision*
>
> Our vision is to transform Filipino youth into 21st century learners, who
> are digitally literate, critical thinkers, and productive members of
> society
> through open source technology. In doing so, learners will be better
> prepared to tackle the challenges of an increasingly competitive job
> market
> and globalised world as well, as become an agent of change towards the
> betterment of themselves and their communities.
>
>
>
> *For your viewing pleasure ? here is a list of mission statements from
> other
> organizations. *
>
> *Open Learning Exchange Nepal*
>
> *Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal* is a Nepali non-governmental
> organization dedicated to assisting the Government of Nepal in meeting its
> Education for All goals by developing freely accessible, open-source
> Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based educational
> teaching-learning materials.
>
> *Waveplace*
>
> Our mission is much more than free laptops. Though laptops get all the
> attention, they're really just a vehicle for something much cooler. As
> Alan
> Kay said, "you can donate pianos, but they work much better with piano
> lessons." We recognize this, which is why most of our emphasis is on
> course
> materials and teacher training. Our larger goal is encouraging kids and
> adults to use the laptops to their full potential, which can have profound
> educational benefits.
>
> *One Laptop Per Child (Main)*
>
> To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by
> providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop
> with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful,
> self-empowered
> learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged
> in
> their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They
> become
> connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
>
> The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of
> developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every
> school-age child.
>
> *One Laptop Per Child Australia*
>
> One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia's mission is to improve the lives of
> children living in rural and remote Australia - the great majority of
> which
> are in indigenous communities - by providing them with the purpose-built
> educational tool, the XO laptop. When children have access to this type of
> tool they become engaged in their own education; they learn, share,
> create,
> and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to
> a
> brighter future
>
> *World Wide Workshop Foundation*
>
> The World Wide Workshop is a global foundation for developing open-source
> applications of social media technology and game production, to enhance
> learning, innovation, entrepreneurship, and an understanding of the world
> in
> economically-disadvantaged and technologically-underserved communities.**
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> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:37:42 -0700
> From: John Imbong <enchance at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC Get Together Meeting changes ATBP
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> Is the MWSS Training Room the one in Katipunan? If it is then it would be
> closer to where I am then. Ascot would be my second choice.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Charles Chen
> <ideasman88 at yahoo.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> For those attending the OLPC Get Together I have organised on the June 28
>> at 4pm, I have been able to get two places available to conduct the
>> meeting.
>> For those members who have RSVP already on their attendance please email
>> me
>> directly which of the two would you prefer. The one with the most votes
>> wins.
>>
>> 1. Ascot Makati Conference Room. This is located at Ascot Makati. Their
>> address is Glorietta 4, Ayala Centre, Makati.
>>
>> 2. MWSS Training Room. This is located at the MWSS office at Balara,
>> Quezon
>> City.
>>
>> So far only 4 people have confirmed there attendance.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Charles
>>
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>> Today's Topics:
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>> 1. Re: division_of_labor (Mel Chua)
>> 2. Next meeting: June 14, 2009 (Mel Chua)
>> 3. Re: OLPC efforts in the Philippines / core team (Mel Chua)
>> 4. OLE Nepal slides (Mel Chua)
>> 5. Re: OLE Nepal slides (Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero)
>> 6. Re: OLE Nepal slides (Jerome Gotangco)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:14:32 -0400
>> From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com <http://mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] division_of_labor
>> To: Cherry Nuque
>> <cherry.withers at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cherry.withers@gmail.com>>,
>> OLPC
>> Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
>> <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org<http://mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
>> >
>> Cc: "cwithers at olpc-ph.org <http://mc/compose?to=cwithers@olpc-ph.org>" <
>> cwithers at olpc-ph.org <http://mc/compose?to=cwithers@olpc-ph.org>>,
>> "Sandeep C."
>> <sgc0611 at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=sgc0611@gmail.com>>
>> Message-ID:
>> <4A2DA968.9010303 at melchua.com<http://mc/compose?to=4A2DA968.9010303@melchua.com>
>> >
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>>
>> And more responses to the list! I think all of our conversations have
>> been moved by now. I will check.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Cherry Nuque wrote:
>> > Hi Sandeep,
>> >
>> > If we apply this to our scenario, we could rename the teams as
>> follows:
>> >
>> > General and Administrative -- Finance, Operations - Sandeep and
>> > Ryan
>> > Products and Technology - Engineering/Development - Jerome and Harv
>> > (see below)
>> > Marketing - Cherry
>> >
>> >
>> > Good point in combining the engineering and development since it will
>> > streamline the
>> > efforts of both team. It will probably be helpful in getting the two to
>> > look for Academe and IT support in the
>> > region of deployment. It might just come from the same school. In
>> > companies that I worked in
>> > (both as intern and full time worker) the marketing team provides the
>> > inputs to the engineers, but the
>> > "Marketing" team on this case would probably do mostly fund raising
>> > related work.
>>
>> Note that once deployments start, support-engineering and
>> development-engineering are going to be quite different things. (Make
>> existing tech work on the ground, vs develop new tech.)
>>
>> Also note that development-engineering may mainly be work upstream in
>> the main Sugar Labs (or whatever) projects - I do not really see us
>> having to write a lot of Philippines-specific code (...I honestly can't
>> think of any examples of why we'd need to do this at the moment. Can
>> anybody?)
>>
>> > Could you guys possibly take care of posting the meeting minutes this
>> > time? I also forgot to put the
>> > IRC login information on the Agenda. Sigh. Just REALLY busy this week
>> > and next week as well.
>> > Thanks! I'll try to be on top of things next time.
>> >
>> > ---Cherry
>>
>> If someone reminds me at the meeting, I would be happy to make sure the
>> meeting gets logged.
>>
>> I actually don't know where and when the meeting is. Can someone clarify?
>>
>> --Mel
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:34:00 -0400
>> From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com <http://mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com>>
>> Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] Next meeting: June 14, 2009
>> To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
>>
>> <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org<http://mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
>> >
>> Message-ID:
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>> >
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>> Reminder, taken straight from
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Our next meeting will be on June 14, 2009 at 9pm Philippines time (6am
>> US PST, 9am US EST) on #sugar-meeting in Freenode. (This channel has an
>> automatic logging bot that we can use.)
>> [edit] Connection information
>>
>> This is an IRC (internet relay chat) channel; if you are new to IRC, you
>> can use Mibbit which is an in-browser client. Set the "IRC:" (server)
>> box to Freenode, the "Nick:" to whatever name you want to be known by,
>> and the "Channel:" to #sugar-meeting as shown, then click "Go." You
>> should be placed into chat. If you have issues, please contact Mchua
>> (mel at laptop dot org).
>>
>> Image:Meebo-setup.png
>> [edit] Agenda
>>
>> Note: This is a high level organizational meeting (we can schedule
>> work-sprints when we figure out what people want to do next), and we
>> will be firmly sticking to the agenda, so if you want to bring up
>> anything else, edit this page before the meeting starts. ;) Any
>> additional questions pertaining to topics outside of the Agenda will be
>> answered separately via e-mail or by people who are willing to stay
>> afterwards.
>>
>> 1. Introductions - who is everyone, what are they working on, what
>> are you interested in?
>> 2. Updates on Action Items (What were the action items? Mchua 02:29,
>> 9 June 2009 (UTC))
>> 3. Organizational issues
>> 1. name registration?
>> 2. mission
>> 3. logo
>> 4. teams?
>> 4. Model to adopt/ framework
>> 1. waveplace.com
>> 2. OLEnepal
>> 3. OLPC-Australia
>> 4. Boston grassroots pilots
>> 5. Schedule next meeting
>> 1. Potential topic: Mechanics of Launching a Pilot/Deployment,
>> if people are interested in hearing Mchua talk about that
>> 2. Other ideas?
>> 6. What are people going to do before the next meeting?
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:33:08 -0400
>> From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com <http://mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC efforts in the Philippines / core
>> team
>> To: "Sandeep C."
>> <sgc0611 at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=sgc0611@gmail.com>>,
>> OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas
>> grassroots
>> <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org<http://mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
>> >
>> Cc: Cherry Nuque
>> <cherry.withers at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cherry.withers@gmail.com>
>> >
>> Message-ID:
>> <4A2DC9E4.9050700 at melchua.com<http://mc/compose?to=4A2DC9E4.9050700@melchua.com>
>> >
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>>
>> Sandeep C. wrote:
>>
>> > Are we still using this site to post meeting agenda, minutes and
>> > updates, in addition to emailing the list?
>> >
>> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines
>>
>> We are now! For our meeting date/time/place, please see... *drumroll*
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings
>>
>> If people have accompanying materials, can you please upload them to the
>> wiki or somehow link to them from the agenda?
>>
>> Also, I took the liberty of assuming a chat channel (which has a logging
>> meeting bot). Please correct me if I'm off.
>>
>> --Mel
>>
>>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:21:19 -0400
>> From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com <http://mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com>>
>> Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] OLE Nepal slides
>> To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
>>
>> <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org<http://mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
>> >
>> Message-ID:
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>> >
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>>
>> http://www.slideshare.net/gueste596c5/olpc-startup-5-easy-steps?type=powerpoint
>>
>> From Bryan Berry. Seems pretty relevant.
>>
>> --Mel
>>
>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:30:12 -0500
>> From: Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
>> <dirakx at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=dirakx@gmail.com>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLE Nepal slides
>> To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"
>>
>> <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org<http://mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
>> >
>> Message-ID:
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>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Is a good advice to take Bryan's work from Nepal very close as a role
>> model
>> to follow, in order to start an organization that stands for open and
>> free
>> education and software.
>>
>> OLE Nepal is one of the scarse examples of succes on an small-to-medium
>> deployment (separated from the national government) of OLPC.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rafael Ortiz
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Mel Chua
>> <mel at melchua.com<http://mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.slideshare.net/gueste596c5/olpc-startup-5-easy-steps?type=powerpoint
>> >
>> > From Bryan Berry. Seems pretty relevant.
>> >
>> > --Mel
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>> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:45:34 +0800
>> From: Jerome Gotangco
>> <jgotangco at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=jgotangco@gmail.com>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLE Nepal slides
>> To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"
>>
>> <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org<http://mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
>> >
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>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Mel
>> Chua<mel at melchua.com<http://mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> http://www.slideshare.net/gueste596c5/olpc-startup-5-easy-steps?type=powerpoint
>> >
>> > ?From Bryan Berry. Seems pretty relevant.
>>
>> Bryan was a recent guest in the FLOSS weekly podcast and he gave some
>> very good insights on starting at grassroots level and eventually
>> penetrating mainstream!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jerome G.
>>
>> Pinoy Tech Podcast: http://www.pinoytechpodcast.com
>> Blog: http://blog.gotangco.com
>>
>>
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