Hi Naz,<br><br>I'm Caroline Meeks, I'm on the US side of Solution Grove, about half of Solution Grove (4 people, we are small) are in the Philippines, south of Manila, not that far from Don Bosco Technical College<br>
<br>We are working on a pilot in Boston of Sugar on a Stick, that is bootable USB sticks that work on equipment already in the schools and homes and donated used equipment from local companies. <br><br><a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a><br>
<br>This is another option your organization can consider if you have schools that have computers and/or access to cheap used computers. Might be a good fit for Don Bosco Technical College's elementary school.<br><br>
Cheers,<br>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Carlos Nazareno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:object404@gmail.com">object404@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ciao Bernie!<br>
<br>
It's an honor to meet you :)<br>
<br>
As a situationer, things are still a bit preliminary at this point re:<br>
OLPC Philippines.<br>
<br>
There were plans to do a pilot in a school in Aklan (where the famous<br>
Boracay beach is located) c/o Mike Kouklis, but AFAIK it did not push<br>
through. There was another one that was proposed for Don Bosco<br>
Technical College, but some of us are not updated about the progress<br>
in that regards. (Charles? How are the plans for the pilot for Don<br>
Bosco going?)<br>
<br>
One of the things that have been talked about and we're leaning<br>
towards to is for whatever pilot to be launched is to start in a<br>
private school laboratory environment where there are enough<br>
IT-trained staff to support the program, integrate into the<br>
curriculum, and evaluate the effectivity of the program and then to<br>
knowledge-transfer the experience for future deployments in broader<br>
areas and public schools. Another concern is security as these are<br>
still very expensive machines and each cost more than the average<br>
Filipino's take-home monthly pay.<br>
<br>
Anyway, most of us are meeting up at the end of January to discuss the<br>
status and direction of the grassroots efforts over here and we'll<br>
keep everyone updated!<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
<br>
-Naz<br>
<br>
P.S. Happy goodbye George W. week everyone! ;) heheh<br>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> It occurred to me that I haven't properly introduced myself to this<br>
> list. I was a member of the OLPC development team and one of the<br>
> founders of Sugar Labs. Last year, I went to Kathmandu for three<br>
> months to help OLE Nepal customize and deploy Sugar and the<br>
> Schoolserver. At this time, I'm taking care of Sugar Labs' fledgling<br>
> development infrastructure and web presence.<br>
><br>
> My main interest is growing our volunteer community and commercial<br>
> partnerships. I'll soon be leaving the United States and Caroline<br>
> Meeks suggested that the Philippines might become a good place for us<br>
> to establish new relationships with developers and educators; to plan<br>
> future Sugar deployments.<br>
><br>
> Here's a concrete proposal: in exchange for reimbursement of travel<br>
> expenses and housing, I can offer my time (let's say 3 months) to<br>
> train developers and educators in working with Sugar and with the<br>
> School server. A possible goal could be building a team capable of<br>
> developing new Sugar activities or extend existing ones to match the<br>
> requirements of the state curriculum for primary schools. Core<br>
> Schoolserver and Sugar development would also be a highly valued goal<br>
> for us. I'd also like to help organize a Local Lab (which is how we<br>
> call our local units), reach out to universities and NGOs for support<br>
> and relay local feedback and requests to the core development team.<br>
><br>
> I'd be available for this project starting from the second half of<br>
> February. Please, get me in contact with whoever might be interested<br>
> in such a proposal.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> // Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>