<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi,<br><br>I could share the compiled deployment guide and some written documents with Jerome. Once we finalized the paper, we can make it available on the site.<br><br>By the way Mel, if you'll be visiting Manila again, contact me and Jerome, so we can sit with Naz and others interested for the project to continue.<br><br>The OLPC-PH education server in beta is up, educational content writers are also welcome. Developers are welcome too. <br><br>wenmi01<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 8/29/08, olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org <i><olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org <olpc-philippines-request@lists.laptop.org><br>Subject: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue
7<br>To: olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<br>Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 9:00 AM<br><br><pre>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. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6<br> (Harry.Harrison@park.edu)<br> 2. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 (Jerome Gotangco)<br> 3. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 (Carlos Nazareno)<br> 4. Re: OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 (Mel
Chua)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:55:12 -0500<br>From: Harry.Harrison@park.edu<br>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue<br> 6<br>To: olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org<br>Message-ID: <20080828185512.3x6hggxskk4c8kw0@pirate.park.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes";<br> format="flowed"<br><br>Gang,<br><br> I am a retired Computer Science professor who just emmigrated to <br>the Philippines. I brought one XO with me. I live in Moncada, Tarlac. <br>I am interested in helping the movement in whatever way I can. Does <br>anyone have any suggestions?<br><br>Harry Harrison<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:13:06 +0800<br>From: "Jerome Gotangco" <jgotangco@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest,
Vol 10, Issue<br> 6<br>To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"<br> <olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org><br>Message-ID:<br> <c138e6150808281713p7a06e8abyb2c3c0c5d5cdd751@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:55 AM, <Harry.Harrison@park.edu> wrote:<br>> I am a retired Computer Science professor who just emmigrated to<br>> the Philippines. I brought one XO with me. I live in Moncada, Tarlac.<br>> I am interested in helping the movement in whatever way I can. Does<br>> anyone have any suggestions?<br><br>Hi Harry,<br><br>As we are reforming the local initiative, I would suggest to reach out<br>to your local community to create awareness. The biggest thing that<br>impedes people from going further is laptop availability. For<br>grassroots efforts to continue, this is a necessity. It is ironic as a<br>lot of 4P (Power, Price, Portability, and Performance) machines
are<br>available in the market and definitely more superior to the XO<br>hardware-wise; and yet the XO is still more suitable to education<br>initiatives. The second one I believe, is having a legal identity for<br>such an effort to be taken seriously by stakeholders. But I'll leave<br>that one for now as this is achievable when we find a way to get<br>evaluation and development units.<br><br>-- <br>Jerome<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:49:26 +0800<br>From: "Carlos Nazareno" <object404@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue<br> 6<br>To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"<br> <olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org><br>Message-ID:<br> <c58c2c4a0808282249r54ab3a57j1528366adeeb71e4@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>this is so sad. *slaps forehead*<br><br>don't we have direct contacts with MIT/OLPC
main ba?<br><br>If not, I'll buzz Martin Gomez who used to jam with MIT media lab<br>folks and then Luis Sarmienta should be relatively easy to reach...<br><br>-naz<br><br>On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:55 AM, <Harry.Harrison@park.edu> wrote:<br>>> I am a retired Computer Science professor who just emmigrated to<br>>> the Philippines. I brought one XO with me. I live in Moncada, Tarlac.<br>>> I am interested in helping the movement in whatever way I can. Does<br>>> anyone have any suggestions?<br>><br>> Hi Harry,<br>><br>> As we are reforming the local initiative, I would suggest to reach out<br>> to your local community to create awareness. The biggest thing that<br>> impedes people from going further is laptop availability. For<br>> grassroots efforts to continue, this is a necessity. It is ironic as a<br>>
lot of 4P (Power, Price, Portability, and Performance) machines are<br>> available in the market and definitely more superior to the XO<br>> hardware-wise; and yet the XO is still more suitable to education<br>> initiatives. The second one I believe, is having a legal identity for<br>> such an effort to be taken seriously by stakeholders. But I'll leave<br>> that one for now as this is achievable when we find a way to get<br>> evaluation and development units.<br>><br>> --<br>> Jerome<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OLPC-Philippines mailing list<br>> OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines<br>><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Carlos Nazareno<br>http://www.object404.com<br><br>interactive media specialist<br>zen graffiti studios<br>naz@zengraffiti.com<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:03:46
-0500<br>From: Mel Chua <mel@melchua.com><br>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC-Philippines Digest, Vol 10, Issue<br> 6<br>To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots<br> <olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org><br>Message-ID: <48B7E5A2.9090307@melchua.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>> don't we have direct contacts with MIT/OLPC main ba?<br><br>Well, yes - but grassroots groups and efforts are *the* thing that makes <br>deployments happen (Jerome is absolutely right<br><br>>> to your local community to create awareness. The biggest thing that<br>>> impedes people from going further is laptop availability. For<br>>> grassroots efforts to continue, this is a necessity. It is ironic as a<br><br>One thing that helps tremendously is a detailed proposal for how many <br>laptops you will need and why, who will deploy/support them, how they <br>will be used, and so on. A lot of effort
is going into the large <br>government-sponsored country deployments right now so there is no <br>"official" route for smaller groups to purchase machines, but 1cc<br>(the <br>OLPC office in Boston) knows that smaller pilots need XOs as well. If <br>you can convince them that you have everything in place except the XOs <br>(there is no official support or teacher training package, so we would <br>have to make our own), they're pretty flexible and willing to work <br>something out.<br><br>There is another upcoming G1G1, so for a small pilot, individual <br>machines can be obtained for ~USD $400 each this way. (You may have to <br>ask a friend in the US to have it shipped to their address, and then put <br>a bunch of XOs in a balikbayan box.)<br><br>>> initiatives. The second one I believe, is having a legal identity for<br>>> such an effort to be taken seriously by stakeholders.<br><br>OLPC Nepal might have some good thoughts on
this.<br><br>-Mel<br><br>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua<br><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 10, Issue 7<br>***********************************************<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>