[IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Xander Pirdy]

Caroline-
I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
have a dataset on olpc deployments:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
that it is something important.
-Xander

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com>wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.
>
> If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes
> to make the map.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Bolivia
>>
>>    - 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
>>    are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they
>>    don't seem willing to accept help)
>>     - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
>>    CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles
>>    during games his team plays.
>>     - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
>>    mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
>>    connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
>>    customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
>>    work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
>>    ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
>>    despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
>>    Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
>>    - Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
>>    independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
>>    - 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
>>    orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet
>>    here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough to
>>    brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
>>     - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
>>    the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to B1
>>    models
>>    - Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
>>
>> Dominican Republic
>>
>>    - apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
>>    at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except that
>>    apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos Slim
>>    of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central
>>    America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
>>    early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
>>    were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of
>>    the first places to really take off)
>>
>> OT, enjoy this comic
>> http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png
>>
>> - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
>> - Why is that, Mr. Minister?
>>
>> - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
>>     You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
>> - yeah...
>>
>> - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
>> they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!
>>
>> - ....
>>
>> - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?
>>
>>
>> (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
>> computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other
>> authorities to the children :-( )
>>
>> On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Caroline,
>>
>> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
>> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>>
>> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
>> one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
>> list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
>> please let me know if this needs to be updated!):
>>
>> Afghanistan
>> Austria
>> Bhutan
>> Brazil
>> Cambodia
>> China
>> Colombia
>> Ethiopia
>> Ghana
>> Haiti
>> India
>> Iraq
>> Kazakhstan
>> Lebanon
>> Mali
>> Mexico
>> Mongolia
>> Mozambique
>> Nepal
>> Nicaragua
>> Nigeria
>> Niue
>> Pakistan
>> Palestine
>> Papua New Guinea
>> Paraguay
>> Peru
>> Russia
>> Rwanda
>> Senegal
>> Solomon Islands
>> South Africa
>> Sri Lanka
>> Thailand
>> United States
>> Uruguay
>> Vietnam
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>> Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
>>
>>
>>  I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
>> me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
>>
>> The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
>>
>> I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
>> has done one.
>>
>> Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Caroline
>>
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>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution GroveCaroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
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