[IAEP] [support-gang] Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)
Christoph Derndorfer
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Oct 16 04:14:32 EDT 2009
I hope to be able to briefly review the 5 projects ahead of the meeting
and comment in RT.
Christoph
Holt schrieb:
> Please join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over
> IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Today/Friday)
> http://forum.laptop.org/chat
>
> Then type at bottom:
> /join #olpc-meeting
>
>
> AGENDA:
>
> * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
>
> * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
> http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
>
> * Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
> join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
>
>
>
> 1. OLPC on Puppy Linux - Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48455
> [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
> Requests 2 XO's over undetermined months
>
> Project Objectives:
> C0-Build a Puppy Linux version. Compile package, provide ongoing
> support, troubleshoot, build a repo etc.
>
>
> 2. Using XO Technology Awareness on HIV/AIDS among children ages 4–16 -
> Kenya
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48476
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43608
> http://xoaidsbyhoc.tumblr.com [ LINK NEEDED FROM
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
> Requests 8 XO's over 2-6 months
>
> Project Objectives:
> 1. To help child get basic computer skills using xo laptop
> 2. Pupils/ Learners to use xo activities to get awareness of HIV/AIDS.
> 3. To equip the teacher with necessary xo skills to help the learner
> in HIV/AIDSawareness.
> 4. To use xo laptop to deliver life skills that will lead to Aids
> free life
> 5. Identify appropriate sources o information on HIv/ Aids related
> issues.
> 6. Make decisions about personal and social behaviour that reduce
> risk of HIV and STD infection using the XO technology.
> 7. Show compassion towards and concern for those infected and
> affected by v
> 8. Communicate effectively with peers and others, issues and concerns
> related to HIV/AIDS and STDs using the XO chat
> 9. To be actively involved in school and out activities aimed at
> prevention and central of HIV and STD's infections
>
>
> 3. GaiaBB: Proposal for shared community software - Victoria, Australia
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48637
> [ http://gaiabb.com forthcoming; LINK NEEDED FROM
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
> Requests 2 XO's over 8 months
>
> Project Objectives:
> I would like make a proposal to re-purpose my general purpose forum
> software (GaiaBB) to be XO community specific, using a peer to peer
> replication to allow kids to create and contribute to their own easily
> managed forums maintained on their laptops with no central server.
>
> Typically, forum software requires a database backend, but is actually
> very small footprint as long as you don't allow image attachments.
> Allowing peer to peer replication of the data between participants
> would allow them to grab updates to the forum when they're in range
> say in school, and answer / reply to threads when off radio, say at
> home.
>
>
> 4. FotoToon - Buenos Aires, Argentina
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48696
> [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
> Requests 2 XO's over 6 months
>
> Project Objectives:
> I have developed the following Activities in Spanish:
> ActivityDomino http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212
> Ecomundo http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213
> Elements http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4214
> I am developing an activity to create comics, FotoToon.
> (git http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fototoon/ ).
>
> * I think FotoToontil can be very useful for developing expression,
> analysis of problems, and
> co-operative teamwork.
> The Activities already developed can be found in use, but I would
> like to complete them and
> to be able to implement shared use between various types of computers.
> * In addition, in Foto Toon I need to test how to take images from
> the Journal, and in my
> current development environment (I am writing in Fedora 11 on my
> machine) I cannot do it.
> * In addition to these activities, I am participating actively in
> "Sugar Days Argentina"
> <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SugarDaysArgentina> That we are doing
> in our country with
> the objective of creating a community of developers and teachers
> around the OLPC project
> and Sugar and the larger goal of realizing its implementation in our
> country.
> * I would also like to develop an Activity for the creation of
> stop-motion animations (using
> sequences of photos) that will also permit the taking of sequences of
> photos for detecting
> differences (in movement and time between the photos) that will
> permit calculating velocity
> or acceleration.
>
>
> 5. Bookwriting photo-interviewing traveling musician - Sallis,
> Mississippi/MS, USA
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48800
> [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
>
> Requests 2 XO's over 6-12 months
>
> Project Objectives:
> The aim of this project is to demonstrate the
> usefulness of a DIY attitude combined with the capabilities of modern
> technology that both meets creative desires and maintains a balance
> and strong connection with humanity and nature. It is an expose, a
> book, of a person who is just like you, me, or anyone else, with
> thoughts and feelings and troubles and joys. Only when a person shines
> the brightest are they the most visible to naked eye.
>
>
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