[Olpc-za] Getting involved

Morgan Collett morgan.collett at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 09:25:21 EDT 2008


Hi Marco

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 15:18, Marco Rosa <marcorosa at mweb.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Morgan
>
> Thanks for the response.
> I don't know that there would be too much I could do in terms of development
> but I feel that I have a lot to offer in terms of lifting the awareness of
> OLPC project locally. I have some high level contacts in the media,
> Government and, perhaps more importantly, in the corporate world. I would
> love to be able to present to them to get their CSR programmes involved and
> to raise funds. I am willing to do whatever it takes to get some traction
> out here because I'm an ardent believer in OLPC and see it as a shining
> light at the end of the very dark tunnel that is our current education
> system. I would even like to get involved in the deployment efforts once we
> get to that stage. Essentially, this is something that I'd like to dedicate
> the majority of time to but would like to get more information on the
> structure and strategy of OLPC in South Africa. Ideally I'd like to meet
> with you or anyone else that is currently involved and that can fill me in
> on some more detail. I am based in Cape Town but travel up to Joburg fairly
> regularly.

I'm in Cape Town - Durbanville. I'll send you my phone number off list.

> Please also help me with the details on how I could apply through the
> contributors program to get an XO to use for demonstrations and fund
> raising.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program which will send you
to http://projectdb.olpc.at/ to apply for one. Put what you wrote as a
motivation.

Regards
Morgan

> Looking forward to your response.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marco
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:olpc-za-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Morgan Collett
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>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:43, Marco Rosa <marcorosa at mweb.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi. Could someone please help me with information on how to get involved
>> with OLPC in South Africa, particularly in the Western Cape. Thanks,
>
> Hi Marco
>
> There's very little happening, which means you can choose anything and
> it will make a difference :-)
>
> As far as deployments go, there are none in the Western Cape. There's
> one in Gauteng at Kliptown Youth Project in Soweto, and there's one
> happening now in Limpopo at three small schools. Both of those were
> funded by donations (Give Many) by overseas people and organisations.
>
> Here then are some ways to get involved locally:
> * Find organisations willing to donate, to raise funds to run a
> deployment in the Western Cape. Minimum order is 100 XOs, and someone
> must take responsibility for doing the deployment - and additional
> things are required too like access points, internet connectivity,
> generators, server for the school, etc.
> * Work with educators, educational organisations, on the Sugar
> software - get them set up with it on say Ubuntu on conventional
> computers, get them involved in using/testing the software and giving
> feedback
>
> Or you could get involved in the (global project) software development
> process, contributing or testing or documenting...
>
> You can apply through the contributors program to get an XO, and use
> that for development, or demonstrating to raise funds, etc.
>
> Or any number of other things I can't think of right now :)
>
> What appeals to you?
>
> Regards
> Morgan
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