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

Michael Mak makamizz at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 02:57:11 EST 2010


Thanks Adam; I've put it on the map.  I'll come up with a blog if I can
and then link it to the OLPC/SUGAR blogs.

Regards,

M

On 10-12-22 2:19 AM, "Holt" <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

>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
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