[Olpc-za] [Fwd: OLPC in S.A.]

[Samuel Klein]

Antoine, meet Whitney and Neo, now in Soweto.  We were just talking about
how they could start testing a school server setup, and preparing for the
machines that are to arrive in the coming weeks.  They could use help from
people with experience with XO upgrades, network tweaking, server
customization (such as installing new software / services and even filters
:/ )  and Linux administration in general; possibly also from someone who
has done XO hardware hacking and sugar development.

Morgan, which was the group working on a wireless project near Soweto?

Cheers,
SJ

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Paul
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Antoine van Gelder
> <children at laptop.org.za> wrote:
> >
> >  OLPC-ZA- I'd like to get some additional information on what you all
> are
> >  doing, capable of, etc.  I'm a student in the states coordinating an
> >  implementation project in S. Africa this August.  We'll be
> participating in
> >  the Give Many Program, 100 laptops to a community in Cape Town.
>
> Wow, awesome!
>
> We have a very active Linux community in Cape Town, with a good number
> of people involved in community volunteer programs from time to time.
> We'll definitely get people involved.
>
> I'm a developer with Collabora, working on the Sugar collaboration
> stack using Telepathy and Jabber - so OLPC is my day job and I'll be
> available to assist with technical issues with the deployment. (I'm in
> Cape Town...)
>
> Whitney Hunter-Thomson is a volunteer who has come to Soweto to help
> set up a similar 100 laptop deployment at Kliptown Youth Project. I'm
> sure she and her team will introduce themselves on the list and let us
> know how that is going.
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>
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