<div>Hi Guys,</div> <div> </div> <div>I am be in Manila from the 10-26 February and would like to organise a get together to meet everybody in the OLPC team based in Manila (The rest of the guys not in Manila can join us online). I tentatively set this on the 10th of February (Sunday) for merienda cena (afternoon brunch). </div> <div> </div> <div>Please RSVP me (<A href="mailto:ideasman88@yahoo.com.au">ideasman88@yahoo.com.au</A>) if you can come. I will pick the place depending on how many are coming. Please let me know also from where you are coming from so that I can pick a place convenient for you.</div> <div> </div> <div>Athene - If no one has yet contacted Ricardo Gonzales I will try to get him to join us in our get together.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks.</div> <div> </div> <div>Charles</div> <div><BR><B><I>olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org</I></B> wrote:</div>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Send Olpc-philippines mailing list submissions to<BR>olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines<BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>olpc-philippines-owner@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of Olpc-philippines digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR>1. Fwd: [Fwd: 23, 000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in<BR>Philippines] (Athene Chan)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:03:12 +1000<BR>From: "Athene Chan" <SWYTHANGEL@GMAIL.COM><BR>Subject: [Olpc-philippines] Fwd:
[Fwd: 23, 000 Linux PCs forge<BR>education revolution in Philippines]<BR>To: Olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID:<BR><640531c90801290503x1caf2c6aj9fa9a049bb26d49@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>Hi All,<BR><BR>I'm not sure if anyone has read it but this sounds like someone we want to<BR>talk to :)<BR><BR>Athene<BR><BR>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR><BR>http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1163450117;pp;1?<BR><BR>"Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step<BR>to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the<BR>Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities<BR>so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a<BR>government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based<BR>on Ubuntu.<BR><BR>Visiting Australia to discuss Linux and open source software in<BR>education at this year's linux.conf.au in Melbourne,
independent open<BR>source consultant Ricardo Gonzalez, said there were a number of factors<BR>that led to Linux being chosen over the venerable Microsoft Windows.<BR><BR>Gonzalez, based in Manila, told Computerworld Linux became popular in<BR>the Philippines soon after the 1997 Asian financial crisis when open<BR>source was investigated for its value proposition to organizations.<BR><BR>"Open source was a viable business alternative because no one was doing<BR>it commercially," Gonzalez said.<BR><BR>..."<BR><BR>Fedora helped this happen, but Ubuntu is creeping in as well - we need<BR>to help support this group. Quickly.<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-philippines/attachments/20080129/8f96b73b/attachment.html <BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Olpc-philippines mailing
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