[OLPC-Philippines] Introduction, Minutes & Good ideas from Boston

Sun Jun 14 14:07:58 EDT 2009

Hi Mel,

INTRODUCTION. Its nice to know you are an IT engineer and can be one of our SME (Subject  Matter Experts) for Sugar and Fedora applications.

MINUTES. I hope you can share with the rest of the group the minutes of the online meeting. I know you already shared with us the agenda (see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings) so it will nice to know what was discussed about it.

My apologies for being unable to attend the meeting as I fell asleep after doing a 16km walk and fun run (I walked only) to raise funds for the Australian MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Society. 

GOOD IDEAS FROM BOSTON. There are some good ideas used in the Boston pilot which we can easily pick-up for our own pilots here in the Philippines. 

In closing let me inform James that using jumpers is a common Pinoy way of ensuring the availability of power in the country. I only have to assume your power consumption is so big its running down the transmission system they can't use jumpers anymore (joke only).

Thanks.

Charles

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Today's Topics:

   1. Reminder: meeting in 10 minutes (Mel Chua)
   2. Re: Reminder: meeting in 10 minutes (James Shields)

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:56:02 -0400
From: Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com>
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] Reminder: meeting in 10 minutes
To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings has connection 
information, and an agenda. See you folks there soon!

Since I'm likely to have to leave early (I have a ride that will be 
heading out sooner than I expected), some notes:

for point #1, Introductions: I'm Mel. This is what I do: 
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua#Interests) and this is what 
I've worked on in the past: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua, 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua, and most recently 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua.

for point #4, Deployments: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_pilots = for 
information on the pilot layout here in Boston; Sandeep (and possibly 
others) already know quite a bit about it.

for point #5, scheduling the next meeting: I'm willing to talk whenever 
people would like (my schedule is generally super-flexible) and I'd also 
be interested in learning more about the school experience in the 
Philippines (how are students taught, what's the classroom culture like, 
how are teachers trained, how are schools evaluated, are there 
standardized tests, etc) and also DepEd (how decisions usually get made, 
how people get elected, etc) and however else things tend to happen in 
schools (are there a lot of PTAs, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent-Teacher_Association?)

See y'all there.

--Mel

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:58:00 +0800
From: "James Shields" <james at marasbaras.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] Reminder: meeting in 10 minutes
To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"
    <olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID: <MPEIKKIHAEKFDBMDPGJBAEILEDAC.james at marasbaras.com>
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Sorry for not being there tonight ... LEYECO decided that they wanted to do
some power work promptly at 9pm.

Why they can't learn to use jumpers to keep power up while they do work, I
will never understand.

James Shields

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:olpc-philippines-bounces at lists.laptop.org]On Behalf Of Mel Chua
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:56 PM
To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] Reminder: meeting in 10 minutes

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings has connection
information, and an agenda. See you folks there soon!

Since I'm likely to have to leave early (I have a ride that will be
heading out sooner than I expected), some notes:

for point #1, Introductions: I'm Mel. This is what I do:
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua#Interests) and this is what
I've worked on in the past: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua, and most recently
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua.

for point #4, Deployments: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_pilots = for
information on the pilot layout here in Boston; Sandeep (and possibly
others) already know quite a bit about it.

for point #5, scheduling the next meeting: I'm willing to talk whenever
people would like (my schedule is generally super-flexible) and I'd also
be interested in learning more about the school experience in the
Philippines (how are students taught, what's the classroom culture like,
how are teachers trained, how are schools evaluated, are there
standardized tests, etc) and also DepEd (how decisions usually get made,
how people get elected, etc) and however else things tend to happen in
schools (are there a lot of PTAs,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent-Teacher_Association?)

See y'all there.

--Mel
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