Please see below for previous email sent<BR><BR><B><I>Charles Chen <ideasman88@yahoo.com.au></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:05:17 +1000 (EST)<BR>From: Charles Chen <ideasman88@yahoo.com.au><BR>Subject: OLPC PH Get together of 27 Apr 2007 and OLPC AUS<BR>To: olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<BR>CC: Willie Pertubal <wilfredo_pertubal@yahoo.com><BR><BR> <DIV>Hello Everybody,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1. Get together of 27 Apr 2007 at Starbucks Greenbelt </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The meeting had only 4 members present but there was Rowen and Chief Mike who advise regrets on their inability to come to the meeting. Sandeep, myself (Charles) and Harv Viray (who joined us as a new member last year) were only ones present. Willie Pertubal, who I recruited as a new member joined us as the 4th person in the meeting.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I brought 1 of the XOs given by OLPC Boston to show to everybody. We tried to work out how to access the internet using the wifi of Starbucks but none of us was able to work out how to do this.This was one of the technical problems PBSP had in testing the XO. They were unable to access the web using the broadband access they had in the office as well as using a SMART modem. The Starbucks wifi was powered by Globe Telecom. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Discussing our future plans for OLPC, the following information was shared:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>OLPC PH Pilot</DIV> <DIV>PBSP who I approached as a partner for this purpose is still considering our proposal. They are also still evaluating the technical features of XO for their own online program. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At the same time, Don Bosco Mandaluyong has started with their evaluation of XO and their technical requirements. I am told they are able to get the XO to
access the web inside the campus using an open source application. Assuming, they agree to do the pilot in the elementary level of the school, we will start with a business model of an initial 200 XOs. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>OLPC Foundation</DIV> <DIV>Moving forward, I have advised the group I will start with the formation and formal registration of the Philippine OLPC foundation. This will enable us to have a formal entity to manage our activities. I have asked Willie to assist me in managing this task. I will appreciate all of your help and support in assisting me and Willie in this task. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2. OLPC AUS </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>OLPC AUS was organised this week and got started with an information evening last Friday in Sydney. I got to meet Dr Barry Vercoe, the OLPC Asia-Pacific Liaison and the core group who shared with more than 60 people present the plan of OLPC AUS to
be the resource hub to serve the OLPC needs of Australia and the 22 island countries who are members of the South Pacific Commission (American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Fiji Islands, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Palau, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have made representations with OLPC AUS to share the wealth of its technical expertise with OLPC PH particularly with planned pilots to be done in the South Pacific islands which has similar characteristics with the Philippines. Furthermore, I will be proposing that OLPC PH to play a similar role to cover the other 9 member countries of ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mynamar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam). At the moment only Laos
has a core group.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Working with OLPC AUS will enable OLPC PH to access the needed resources available and leverage them for rolling them out in the Philippines and the rest of the ASEAN region. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Charles<BR><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">From: olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org<BR>Subject: Olpc-philippines Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1<BR>To: olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<BR>Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:00:02 -0400<BR><BR>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'
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my support of the initiative.<BR>That ideal has now been diluted by the partnership of M$ and OLPC -- two<BR>companies who have determined they need each other to survive in the long<BR>term.<BR><BR>Some of you may feel the same way as I do. However, the good thing is that<BR>Sugar and Linux are still on the OLPC. All is not lost. The momentum for<BR>both is still there. We still move on with our efforts to support the<BR>project.<BR><BR>Thank you.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Sandeep<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-philippines/attachments/20080516/5bc43cd0/attachment.html <BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Olpc-philippines mailing list<BR>Olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines<BR><BR><BR>End of Olpc-philippines Digest, Vol 7, Issue
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