[OLPC-Philippines] Sagip testbed update

[Mel Chua]

Mafe Mago and I finally met in person today, thanks to her trip to Boston!

We spent a decent portion of that time with Mafe catching me up on the 
IRC meeting, since I missed that and hadn't (yet) read the logs.

Then we talked about Mafe's project - she's driving forward the creation 
of a testbed in the Philippines to try out XOs, Sugar, and other 
open-source educational technologies and curricula with Sagip kids at a 
Gawad Kalinga (GK) village.

The project page has links and details for what GK and Sagip are, but 
basically, GK is a Filipino NGO that helps slum villages rebuild 
themselves with decent housing and a self-governing community, and Sagip 
is a program within that which provides after-school activities and 
tutoring for the children ages 7-13 in a GK village. Mafe has been 
working with the Meralco chapter of Singles For Christ (SFC) on this 
village in other areas, including Sagip, for a while already; the 
testbed within the Sagip program is the part that's new, and is just 
starting.

Everything is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/GK_Sagip_Pilot 
(It's by no means complete, but it's a start).

The next step is to apply for XOs through the Contributors' Program, 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program, and the application is 
already being taken care of, so at the moment I believe this is more of 
a "Mafe will let us know when they need help, which will be soon, but in 
the meantime, stay tuned!"

We then commiserated about the lack of decent mangoes in New England.

Please holler with any questions or suggestions on how to improve these 
notes.

--Mel

PS: Kendall Square is absolutely packed with Filipinos, here for the GK 
summit. It was pretty cool to see. :)