[University-chapters] olpc @ Hochschule Darmstadt - University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
Mel Chua
mel at melchua.com
Mon Dec 15 19:19:57 EST 2008
Thanks, Gregor! (I was going to express my jealousy over your proximity
to sunshine, then realized that Boston has been unusually warm so far
this year. ;)
The Change the World page is at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Change_the_world in case you want to pass it
on to people back at Hochschule Darmstadt.
-Mel
Gregor Martynus (OLPC Deutschland) wrote:
> hello folks!
>
> wow ... I see the things are getting better and better! Nico to see the
> university chapter is getting more attention @ OLPC.
> I'll definitly give a call to the guy's Hochschule Darmstadt so that
> they can get in touch with you!
>
> Sunny greetings from Santa Barbara :-)
> Gregor
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com
> <mailto:mel at melchua.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello, Gregor!
>
> I know you're off in Santa Barbara this year, but wanted to follow
> up on this and ask whether you could help us get in touch with the
> other students at Hochschule Darmstadt who were interested in
> OLPC... I wanted to make sure that they got in touch with the folks
> at OLPC EU if they were interested in doing so, and ask if they'd
> heard about the Give Many program (which makes it much, much easier
> to start your own local pilots, with discounted prices and support
> for quantities of over 100 XOs).
>
> Could you help us make contact? I've cc'd the university-chapters
> mailing list on this, as a good place for you and your classmates to
> go if you'd like to hang out with like-minded students (there isn't
> much activity on it lately, but we are trying to change that).
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Mel
>
>
> Gregor Martynus (OLPC Deutschland) wrote:
>
> Hey Mel,
>
> just found the university program at wiki.laptop.org
> <http://wiki.laptop.org> <http://wiki.laptop.org>. We are
> three students from the University of Darmstadt / Germany
> who decided to dedicate our diploma thesis to One Laptop Per
> Child that will start in march.
>
> Three monts ago, wenn we began to prepare our self, we found
> out that there is nearly no activity
> in Germany yet, so we founded a German Grassroots
> Organization and a German website:
> www.olpc-deutschland.de <http://www.olpc-deutschland.de>
> <http://www.olpc-deutschland.de>. More information at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Germany
>
> Now we will spend two months in ethiopia supporting the
> pilot project located at Addis Abeba. The goal of our
> Diploma Thesis
> is to develop a concept for enduring success of OLPC in
> Ethiopie by involving Addis Abeba University and setting up
> a partnership with our university.
>
> So we have got 2 universities :-) and maybe some new
> approaches for OLPC's universtiy program.
> Next week, we will give a presentation to Prof. Dr. Maria
> Overbeck-Larisch, president of Hochschule Darmstadt.
> Our university is the biggest university of applied sciences
> in Germany and we want to set up a partnership
> with OLPC. Our dean (departmend Media) is supporting our
> efforts, e.g. by providing a bureau.
>
> You mention Template flyers and letters at the wiki page,
> can you send them to us? Maybe you could
> give us some good arguments we did not think about you to
> convince our president?
>
> Question 1:
> Is it possible to order 100 laptops by participating the
> givemany program as a German university? 40 Laptops
> would be send to a developping country, right? Could we
> decide to send them to Ethiopia? We have heard
> contradictory information about this.
>
> Question 2:
> Is there an official University Program by OLPC (or will be)
> or is it "just" some kind of community network?
> Beeing an official part of OLPC's University Program would
> be indeed an argument for our president ;-)
>
> This is just an initial mail to inform you about our
> approach and our never ending fascination of OLPC.
> We hope to stay in touch with you.
>
> Regards from Germany,
> Gregor
>
>
>
>
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