[Olpc-za] A Journey into Constructivism

[Lungi Siqebengu]

Hi All ! 
Thank you Antonie for showing confidence in me. And also to you guys. 
  
Folks - I am willing to take the challenge. I trust we all in this together.


The Project at hand is huge, and also dynamic. It is nowhere near any the
traditional Projects, where it is characterised by meetings between the
recipients (kids/community) and the providers/implementers(us). It does not
allow us to have the standard JAD sessions (development meetings) so as to
arrive at a reasonable Project Scope and User Buy-in. The Resources at hand
- one cannot put a finger to define their availability and duration. 

To compound the complexity of this Project, is the fact that we are all
miles (km) away from the Pilot site (except for Jeff - who is closer to the
fire) and also from each other. We are all limited to communication via
email and possibly the listings. 

Then there is the issue of funding......       

Despite all the above - where there is a will, there is a way.  

My knowledge of using Wiki is vaguely limited - but willing to learn. Until
now I have been a visitor in using Wiki, it was there whenever I needed to
look or research something. This Project is throwing me right-in to be an
active users. 

So where to from here .... Within the next few days I will be bringing
myself to speed with Wiki. I will be relying more on Antonie and you folks
for help, hand-holding and guidance. Once that done we will then focus on
the tasks at hand, those of:- 
1. Pilot; 
2. Implementation Plan;
3. Localisation; and 
4. Content.   
    
Your take please  


Best Regards,
 
Lungi Siqebengu
(lungis at iafrica.com is Synonymous with lungis at 4pillars.co.za). 

-----Original Message-----
From: Antoine van Gelder [mailto:children at laptop.org.za] 
Sent: 27 August 2007 12:01
To: Lungi Siqebengu (LuW)
Cc: olpc-za at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Olpc-za] A Journey into Constructivism

Lungi Siqebengu (LuW) wrote:
> " When a house is on fire - those that are coming to help, do not have 
> the luxury of asking who supplied the buckets."
>
> From Lungi.     

*grin*

Okay Lungi, your job is to tell us where to put the buckets!

We have four main projects, the pilot is priority #1as the other 
projects depend on the pilot.

The first big job is to start listing the actions that need to be taken 
for each of these projects on the Wiki:

http://www.laptop.org.za/drupal/wiki/ProjectPilot 
http://www.laptop.org.za/drupal/wiki/ProjectImplementationPlan
http://www.laptop.org.za/drupal/wiki/ProjectLocalization
http://www.laptop.org.za/drupal/wiki/ProjectContent

Once we have a reasonably complete list we can start figuring out what 
order the actions need to happen, which actions can happen at the same 
time and who wants to take responsibility for individual actions.

I've volunteered Lungi to be responsible for managing these lists but, 
please, anyone should feel free to add items. (Lungi, maybe create a 
separate heading for suggestions on each wiki page ?)

Jeff, being our man on the ground at Hole-In-The-Wall, probably has the 
clearest picture of many of the physical requirements as well as having 
a pretty solid picture of what kind of content the kids need most.

I've deliberately avoided putting deadline dates for now as I'm a firm 
believer of fitting project dates to requirements rather than 
requirements to project dates - we'll have a clearer picture once we 
know what we need to do.

Lungi - please shout if I can answer questions, give input or if you 
need help using the Wiki!

:-D

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