[Olpc-socal] Volunteers Needed!

[abe kazemzadeh]

Hi Caryl,
I go to school near there (usc) so I might be able to help. I'm done with
classes, so my schedule is flexible, but working on dissertation does take
up a lot of time . "sparing an afternoon once in a while " is doable , so if
I can help let me know.
Thanks,
Abe
Ps, I think I met you at scale... I was volunteering at the ossie room.
Sorry about the late start of your presentation!

On Mar 25, 2011 11:21 PM, "Caryl Bigenho" <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

 Hello So Cal OSSIE enthusiasts,

Last month a group of you pitched in and helped make the OLPC/Sugar Labs
booth at SCaLE 9X a success.  We had a lot of fun and I really appreciate
all of you who were able to help.

Now, I have another fun volunteer opportunity for you.  This time we are
asking for a longer term commitment from some of you who might be able to
spare an afternoon once in a while to work on a project with some young
teens, XOs and open source software. Here's the deal...

The FAMLI after school program at Audubon Middle School (located near
Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Blvds) needs one or more volunteers to help
once a week with an OLPC Contributors Program Project they have. The program
meets at a secure location on campus and there is a safe area there to park
your car.

The computer saavy person who started their Contributors Program project has
moved out of the area and can no longer help out.  They have other
volunteers who help with the wide variety of activities they have going on
all week, but no one who can help the young people with computers.

Here is a link to information about FAMLI and some of the wonderful things
they are doing with the young people in the program:

http://www.famliafterschool.org/

Perhaps a group of you could take this on as a joint project where we could
schedule one or two volunteers to go on the same day once a week for a
couple of hours between about 3:30 pm and 6:00 pm. You would be working with
some of the students on an international group pen/pal exchange program,
designed in the form of a newsletter exchange.

Students would plan their articles, take photos with their XOs, write
articles, and put them together into a finished product that they would then
put into a file and send via an email attachment to the other school.  We
already have one other program in Uganda signed up to work with them, and I
have contacts with others that may join in once it is started.

Here is a link to information about the program in Uganda that the students
at Audubon would be corresponding with:

http://amagezigemaanyi.blogspot.com/

In addition, the volunteers would be helping students maintain the XOs with
software updates and solving simple technical problems. There would be a
scheduled time each week to work with them and the students would work
independently on the other days.

If you are interested in knowing more about this and might like to get
involved, please send me a reply to this message. If we get enough people to
make it happen, I'll help you work out a schedule and will try to schedule
myself to come in from Ventura county and participate in it too from time to
time.

I hope some of you can join me in helping with this project!  This is a
great group of young people and they will be a lot of fun to work with.

Caryl




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