<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Mel,<br><br>Its good to know you noticed there are now two similar but still different groups in this OLPC volunteer community. I hope as we both go about on our seperate activities we make clear of our differences in the communities we will approach. For OLPC, we will continue to focus on making our program be based on using the XO laptop as the harware and Sugar as the application.<br><br>For the future OLPC Foundation, the following are some of the things I am working on:<br>- securing SEC registration and BIR tax exempt status<br>- solicitation of a sponsor for the first OLPC school pilot<br>- an MoU (Memo of Understanding) with the Asia Pacific College<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Charles<br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><style><!--p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal        {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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 Mago)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:55:29 -0400<br>From: Marife Mago &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:marife.mago@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=marife.mago@gmail.com">marife.mago@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] ZDNet Asia: Open source adoption<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'anomaly'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in Philippines<br>To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org" href="/mc/compose?to=olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org">olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org</a>&gt;<br>Message-ID:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:8abe26110907310755i2277214rdcb5a96566fcf502@mail.gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=8abe26110907310755i2277214rdcb5a96566fcf502@mail.gmail.com">8abe26110907310755i2277214rdcb5a96566fcf502@mail.gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Hi Mel,<br><br>You don't have to ask ....eKindling wiki is available it has a linked to<br>OLPC-Ph...things that are needs to be done are posted there...<br>everybody is welcome to jump in ....to whatever they're comfortable sharing<br>....<br><br>Here's the link again...<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/projects/ekindling" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/projects/ekindling</a><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines</a><br><br>Cheers,<br>~mafe<br><br><br>On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Mel Chua &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:mel@melchua.com" href="/mc/compose?to=mel@melchua.com">mel@melchua.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br>&gt; &gt;&gt; How's eKindling doing these days? I don't see a lot of discussion on the<br>&gt; &gt;&gt; mailing lists, which makes me curious whether there's another place I<br>&gt; &gt;&gt; should be listening in.<br>&gt;
 &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; We've managed to carve a speaking slot at Y4IT on September. Y4IT is<br>&gt; &gt; like the JavaOne of Technology conferences here bu with a unique<br>&gt; &gt; audience because it only focuses on the youth, those graduating from<br>&gt; &gt; high school and starting up college. Will be talking about the Sugar<br>&gt; &gt; Learning Platform in particular and other stuff we're doing and<br>&gt; &gt; planning with ekindling. I think its a good opportunity to seed<br>&gt; &gt; interest to students. Details at <a href="http://y4it.up.edu.ph" target="_blank">http://y4it.up.edu.ph</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; Thanks! Is there another mailing list or venue that these plans are<br>&gt; being discussed on? It's great that we can find out by asking - how can<br>&gt; we find out without having to ask?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; --Mel<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; OLPC-Philippines mailing list<br>&gt; <a
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