[Toronto-dev] [support-gang] Little Green Machines and ELDER Project

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Thanks Mike! Can you add your deployment accomplishments to 
http://olpcMAP.net linking to your site?

Please also write this up with a photo or two for OLPC/Sugar's blogs if 
possible:

http://planet.laptop.org
http://planet.sugarlabs.org

(Starting your own blog is as easy as visiting http://wordpress.com etc, 
even if you don't have safari-sassy like http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog 
etc -- syndicating your own blog across the OLPC/Sugar community is then 
as easy as writing to planetmaster at laptop.org, planetmaster at sugarlabs.org !)


On 12/22/2010 1:46 AM, Michael Mak wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I have just returned from Ontario's northern First Nations communities 
> where I have been developing a number of projects for health and 
> education, one of them assisting an OLPC Pilot in a community called 
> Sandy Lake. Prior to the initiation of OLPC Canada, two pilots were 
> started in Sandy Lake and Muskrat Dam First Nation. Sandy received 
> around 100 XO 1.0s, while Muskrat received around 50 (Muskrat being 
> the smaller of the two). I travelled to Sandy Lake and helped to 
> "reboot" their use of the laptops by updating the ones that weren't 
> broken and giving manuals and seminars, and then bringing back 50 
> laptops to repair in Sioux Lookout. We ordered 30 keyboards and the 
> same number of XO laptops – these will be sent to another community 
> school to enjoy. I also began a site that re-organizes and compiles a 
> lot of the information about OLPC and the XOs educators found useful, 
> please visit it at: www.littlegreenmachines.knet.ca
>
> One other initiative that I started is called the ELDER Project 
> (Educational Linux Distribution as an Electronic Resource) and its 
> goal is to provide First Nation community schools with open source, 
> curriculum ready, educational software, many of which are on linux 
> platforms. Before, many school computers were on lagging Windows XPs 
> and had very little or no educational content. Today, 5 community 
> schools have Linux (Edubuntu and QIMO) on their computers, with more 
> schools joining in the future as youth community workers are being 
> trained to install the software. If you have time, please visit at: 
> www.elderproject.knet.ca
>
> Happy Holidays Everyone!
>
> M