Thank you Morgan for the input ! <br><br>One other avenue that I think needs exploration - is Goverment or "The Ruling Party". <br>In most cases I find that "outside SA" people when they want to get involved - say donations etc...etc. <br>They usually start with gov. Unfortunately gov with a shopping-list of needs, there is no significant appearance of OLPC (or similars) in their list.<br>So if the OLPC Activists, such as the ones in this list - make the necessary noises and appearances, there could be a significant implant in the minds of the powers-that-be.<br><br>By the way the above is not the only entry - it is in addition to Morgan's points. <br><br>Regards <br>Lungi. <br><br> <br><br>
<p> <font size=2>----- Original Message ------<br> <b>From:</b>Morgan Collett<br> <b>Sent:</b>Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:05<br> <b>To:</b>OLPC South Africa Interest Group olpc-za@lists.laptop.org; <br> <b>Subject:</b>Re: [Olpc-za] Getting involved</font>
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<td>On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:43, Marco Rosa <marcorosa@MWEB.CO.ZA>wrote: <br>> Hi. Could someone please help me with information on how to get involved <br>> with OLPC in South Africa, particularly in the Western Cape. Thanks, <br><br>Hi Marco <br><br>There's very little happening, which means you can choose anything and <br>it will make a difference :-) <br><br>As far as deployments go, there are none in the Western Cape. There's <br>one in Gauteng at Kliptown Youth Project in Soweto, and there's one <br>happening now in Limpopo at three small schools. Both of those were <br>funded by donations (Give Many) by overseas people and organisations. <br><br>Here then are some ways to get involved locally: <br>* Find organisations willing to donate, to raise funds to run a <br>deployment in the Western Cape. Minimum order is 100 XOs, and someone <br>must take responsibility for doing the deployment - and additional <br>things are required too like access points, internet connectivity, <br>generators, server for the school, etc. <br>* Work with educators, educational organisations, on the Sugar <br>software - get them set up with it on say Ubuntu on conventional <br>computers, get them involved in using/testing the software and giving <br>feedback <br><br>Or you could get involved in the (global project) software development <br>process, contributing or testing or documenting... <br><br>You can apply through the contributors program to get an XO, and use <br>that for development, or demonstrating to raise funds, etc. <br><br>Or any number of other things I can't think of right now :) <br><br>What appeals to you? <br><br>Regards <br>Morgan <br>_______________________________________________ <br>Olpc-za mailing list <br>Olpc-za@lists.laptop.org <br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-za</td></tr></tbody></table></p>