[University-chapters] olpc @ Hochschule Darmstadt - University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

[Gregor Martynus (OLPC Deutschland)]

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> 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>. 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>. 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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