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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Happy
Philippine Independence Day!! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">With
the flurries of emails, it is difficult to keep track of all the different
discussion threads. Below is a condensed weekly update, which includes past
week’s developments, overviews of relevant developments in Technology, and
materials for our coming meeting this Sunday. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">If
you want to submit an update regarding what you are doing to move the cause
forward (ie. fundraising, presenting in your local communities) or any other
relevant information, please submit <a href="mailto:rletada@gmail.com">rletada@gmail.com</a>
by the Friday of each week. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">BTW,
thanks Jerome for this great idea. This is indeed a great way to highlight our
hard work, and progress as a community!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">--Community Updates—</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Sagip Bata: Possible
XO Pilot Deployment Program</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="">Submitted by Jerome
Gotangco</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Members of Singles for Christ (SFC) Meralco are currently
evaluating the XO-1 and Sugar learning environment for the Sagip project
targeting children from depressed areas from age 6 to 13 with the aim of
supplementing knowledge that they currently receive from public school
education. Sunday classes regarding academic tutorials, sports, and
creative workshops as well as very solid values formation classes are offered
through this program. Please contact Jerome Gotangco for more information. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please check: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/GK_Sagip_Pilot">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/GK_Sagip_Pilot</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">OLPC Boston Headquarters
Meeting: Mel and Marife</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="">Submitted by Cherry
Withers</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""> </i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Marife Mago is our envoy to the
OLPC meet this week in Boston. She is going to voice some of our concerns as
group and lobby to get initial hardware for a pilot as well as to garner some
ideas from key members of OLPC main. She is also meeting with Mel Chua. Please
contact Cherry Withers and Marife Mago for more information.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">--Meeting Updates –</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="">Submitted by Ryan
Letada and Mel Chua</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Our
next meeting will be on June 14, 2009 at 9pm Philippines time (6am<br>
US PST, 9am US EST) on #sugar-meeting in Freenode. (This channel has an<br>
automatic logging bot that we can use.) </li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">Please check: <span style=""> </span><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines/Meetings</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Note: This is a high level organizational
meeting (we can schedule work-sprints when we figure out what people want to do
next), and we will be firmly sticking to the agenda.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""> </b></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">To
make sure that our meeting is productive, here are some very relevant materials
that may enhance our discussion:</li><ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="a"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style="">OLE Nepal</b> – Bryan Berry
Presentation – Doing Business: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gueste596c5/olpc-startup-5-easy-steps?type=powerpoint" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/gueste596c5/olpc-startup-5-easy-steps?type=powerpoint</a></li>
</ol></ol>
<ol start="2" type="1"><ol start="2" type="a"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style="">Waveplace</b>: <span style=""> </span>Timothy
Falconer of Waveplace and Squeakland talks about the vision of Waveplace
and their work in the Caribbean: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erWQTmu3S1U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erWQTmu3S1U</a></li></ol></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"> </p>
<ol start="2" type="1"><ol start="3" type="a"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style="">SugarCamp</b>: Talk on Community: Defining Community, growing it
and its challenges: Please view the youtube series: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ3Ge9YeAys">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ3Ge9YeAys</a></li></ol></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">--Tech Talk—</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Nintendo DS – a Tool
for Learning </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="">Submitted by Jerome
Gotangco</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You probably have a Nintendo DS game console or a family
member does (most likely your child). Today, Nintendo unveiled a classroom solution
utilizing the Nintendo DS with a turnkey solution which includes the software
and the server components to make it possible to use the Nintendo DS to deliver
education called Nintendo DS Kyoushitsu. The premise is that you load a
computer with the server software, and pop in the classroom cartridge to the DS
and the game consoles connect to the computer using the client and server
software which can accommodate up to 50 DS consoles per 1 server. Since the game
console has wifi, everything is done wireless as well and local.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/2009/090609.html" target="_blank">http://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/2009/090609.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">---Help Wanted—</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">SPREAD THE WORD</b>
about our work! Engage! <b style="">START
CONVERSATIONS</b>! The growth of our community<span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""></span></span> translates into a
growth of much needed capacity to successfully deploy our programs. SPREAD THE
WORD!!! </p>