[OLPC-Philippines] Greetings from IGDA Manila

[Carlos Nazareno]

Hi Ryan!

Yup, I was the one who showed the XO-1 to Paolo Jara and lent him one
of our dev units allocated for Flash game development to demo at La
Salle.

OLPC has a number of XO laptop units set aside per year for the OLPC
contributors' program.

Basically, you make a proposal for a developer project that will
contribute to OLPC, request for X number of units and how they are
going to be used, and if the project proposal is approved, OLPC will
ship XO laptop units and shouldre the shipping cost to the designated
project head who made the request. Some of the conditions include
passing on the units to other developers when you are done with them
for the projects.

Essentially, OLPC still owns the units, they're going to be lent to
you as developers, so take good care of the units responsibly.

Ryan, I'll email you privately about it in detail and with more ideas
for a possible edu-game development contributor program request to
send to OLPC..

-Naz

> At the time he was
> saying something about giving out OLPCs to any developer that wanted to make
> a game for it.  Does this offer still stand, or do you have any other
> programs like this? Ultimately I think it would be great to have a little
> competition of some sort for local game devs to make educational games, but
> to be honest I'm still tired from organizing the manila game jam last
> January.  Perhaps there are ways we can integrate it into upcoming events
> with GDAP/IGDA.
>
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