[OLPC-SF] Feb meeting

[Sameer Verma]

2010/2/10 Carol Ruth SIlver <carol at carolruthsilver.net>:
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> 10 Feb 2010
>
>
> Dear Sameer and OLPC-SF,
>
>
> Carrying a suitcase full of XO-1's, I am off to Afghanistan again in
> three days, at the invite of Mike Dawson, who believes that the Tipping
> Point may be near on our efforts to place the XO in Community Based
> Schools in rural Afghanistan. (Other names for such “schools” are home
> schools, literacy centers, literacy projects, and orphanages, none of
> which are able to attract the attention and very limited funding of the
> Afghanistan Ministry of Education.)
>
>
> I plan to be at our meeting on Saturday, and will be glad to offer an
> update on Afghanistan if you are not bored with my blathering on the
> topic.
>


Please do.


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> I will also hopefully be bringing with me a technology-based learning
> expert from California State University – East Bay (Hayward), who is
> intereste in use of the XO to bring education to the unschooled.
>
> He has also warmed the cockles of my heart by taking an interest in the
> Mullah Nasrudin project. This is the proposal to use this 14th century
> Afghan historical figure as the Avatar to deliver letters of the Farsi
> alphabet, along with a bite-sized homily on some health-related topic
> which begins with that letter.


Excellent. We have Prof. Ali Borjian
(http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/experts/037.htm) on our campus who is using
Sugar with 12 of his students, who are bay area teachers. Depending on
their feedback, we may be able to take SoaS to some of these schools.

>
>
> I notice from the Support Gang emails that this Saturday is supposed to
> be a Sugar debugging day. Is that what you intend to use the day for?
> Please let me know, as I should probably then dis-invite myself.
>

I personally don't have plans for Sugar debugging. We'll have SoaS
Blueberry build on hand. If anyone wants to make a copy, bring a USB
stick or two (2 to 4 GB work best).

Sameer

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> Best regards,
>
>
> Carol Ruth Silver
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> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:23 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> Forgot to mention the time. 10am to 2pm. Also posted at
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
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>> Sameer
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> > February meeting is on Feb 13, 2010 at SFSU Downtown Center. Room 553,
>> > 835 Market St., San Francisco, CA.
>> >
>> > Other than the usual niceties, the agenda is wide open.
>> >
>> > Anyone?
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > Sameer
>> > --
>> > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> > Associate Professor, Information Systems
>> > Director, Center for Business Solutions
>> > San Francisco State University
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