[IAEP] OLPC/Sugar Contributors Program Mtg (NOW! on #olpc-meeting, 2:30PM Boston Time, Friday)

[Holt]

Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community 
projects over IRC Live Chat:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat

Then type at bottom:
/join #olpc-meeting


AGENDA:

* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:
  
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/

* Fast Review of the 10 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
  join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

 1. XO-1.5 for "Getting Started" guide - New Orleans, Boston & South Africa
 2. Improving School attendance rate and peformance - Kenya
 3. XOphoto - Stillwater, MN & NYC, New York
 4. The Chaucer Education Project - Canterbury, Kent, UK
 5. Liga Masiva Coffee without Borders - Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
 6. Water Scarcity Awareness Project - Africa, Australia, Europe/UK, 
Americas
 7. Remapping LA - UCLA / Los Angeles
 8. 2nd Grade Special Ed Class, after school study - Arlington, Virginia
 9. OLPC Armenia - San Francisco
 10. Maasai Connection - Kenya & Prescott, Arizona


* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
  http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27

* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries

* Meeting results will be posted here very shortly:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings


1. XO-1.5 for "Getting Started" guide - New Orleans, Boston & South Africa
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62353
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 1 XO-1.5 over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Revising http://laptop.org/start for XO-1.5
   DRAFTing english revisions for:
   
http://teach.laptop.org/~holt/laptoporg-refresh/10.2.0/gettingstarted/index.shtml


2. Improving School attendance rate and peformance - Kenya
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62399
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49832
   http://e4nfoundation.blogspot.com
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 8 XOs over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more 
likely to result in a laptop than it would be cool to play with these 
and demo them .

   1. Equip teachers and pupils with basic computer skills using the XO 
laptop.
   2. Improve understanding and performance of science subjects.
   3. Actively engaging children in their learning process.
   4. Increase school attendance rate in rural schools.
   5. Introducing another medium of learning and communication using XO 
laptop


3. XOphoto - Stillwater, MN & NYC, New York
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62466
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xophoto
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests  XOs over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   The first release of XoPhoto will incorporate the following features:

   1. Import from SD or USB flash drives into the XO Journal.
   2. Create subsets of the images from the journal (imported or from
      the Record Activity) into album subsets.
   3. Provide limited capability to rotate, or crop images.
   4. Export albums to folders that are accessible to Browse, and
      thereby, to online destinations.
   5. Some limited slideshow capability


4. The Chaucer Education Project - Canterbury, Kent, UK
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62619
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 3 XOs over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   The concept model for The Chaucer Education Project evolved from 
evaluation
   of the difficulties encountered in understanding the theoretical concepts
   in Chemical Physics, where theoretical principles have traditionally been
   taught before demonstrating applications in projects. This approach
   subsequently led to considering how best to research and develop 
discovery
   based teaching methods, to innovatively raise enthusiasm and academic
   achievement from Entry to Postgraduate, preferably imminently leading to
   the founding of Chaucer University as an open and distant learning
   University of Technology improving basic skills. The Chaucer Education
   Project website includes examples of real-time data sampling used within
   teaching methods.


5. Liga Masiva Coffee without Borders - Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62662
   http://www.ligamasiva.com/blog
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XOs over 24 months

   Project Objectives:
   This project will benefit a community of organic coffee farmers and their
   families in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, improving their ability to
   profitably and sustainably direct their livelihoods. These farmers are
   part of an innovative social business called Liga Masiva, a company that
   works to promote a new direct trade model between the organic coffee 
farmer
   in Jarabacoa, and the roaster and consumer in New York. Liga Masiva cuts
   out the middlemen in the transnational coffee trade, creating a direct
   and mutually beneficial partnership with the farmers. A premium price
   for the farmers' coffee is assured and Liga Masiva partners with the
   farmers on long-term coffee, community, and environmental projects.

   The affected communities are in remote areas with very little access
   to communication. The farmers and their families have acknowledged
   their lack of computer access as an impediment to their education
   and livelihood. The computers will be family tools, creating a
   synergy between the child's use of the computer for educational
   ends and the farmer's use of the computer for coffee-related ends.

   The computers will give the farmer access to:
   World coffee prices
   Weather reports
   Better agricultural practices
   Communication and connections between themselves and other actors
    in the coffee supply chain.

   The computers will give the children of the farm families access to:
   Basic computer literacy
   Communication with people outside of their community
   Internet-based resources (like Wikipedia) that can enrich and
    facilitate their educational goals.


6. Water Scarcity Awareness Project - Africa, Australia, Europe/UK
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62681
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 1 XO over 6 months

   Project Objectives:
   - To teach children about the challenges faced by water scarcity in the
     world.
   - To educate children of the need for water conservation and to raise
     awareness of products that require high water usage for their 
production.
   - The outcomes would involve children learning about regions in the world
     where water scarcity is a problem as well as to inspire them on the
     scientific progress in water conservation and drought resistant 
farming.
   - This will also include basic advice on water treatment and sanitation
     methods.


7. Remapping LA - UCLA / Los Angeles
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62709
   http://bigriver.remap.ucla.edu/remap/index.php/Remapping_LA [NEEDS 
UPDATE]
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XOs over 6.5 months

   Project Objectives:
   Currently, students, artists and researchers from UCLA has been tasked
   with creating individual and collective interpretive media works to be
   publicly shown at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) in the 
summer
   of 2010. They will be focusing on new forms of social media, community
   experience, and historical memory, including locative narrative, 
interactive
   storytelling, interpretive databases, physical interfaces, mobile 
devices,
   Wi-Fi environments, media-rich installations, etc.

   The XO Laptops offer a unique tool to use in these projects at LASHP. The
   dual-mode screen is perfect for developing creative applications on its
   full-color mode, and for outdoor viewing while in the Park on it's
   black-and-white mode . The built in microphone and camera could allow
   for recordings of soundscapes of the City, interviews with its 
inhabitants,
   and photographic montages of its streets. The ability to program
   applications (Scratch, EToys) on this device offers endless possibilities
   for these projects.

   UCLA and California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) have been
   actively engaged with research and community development collaboration
   since 2006. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UCLA
   Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, LASHP has
   served as a “living laboratory” for research in the use of media,
   audio-visual and other technologies in a public space setting to
   document, explore, and express the histories and identities of
   communities. LASHP has only been open since 2006 and is still in the
   formative stages of park wide design and construction. This project
   will build from the previous MOU to provide additional outreach,
   research, testing, and prototypes to support media-rich, technology-
   based programs to facilitate interpretation and community involvement
   for LASHP.


8. 2nd Grade Special Ed Class, after school study - Arlington, Virginia
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62713
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 5-10 XOs over 3 months

   Project Objectives:
   Create wikis on OLPC and a blog on Blogger with:
   1 - detail how we integrated study hall and the students homework 
assignments
   2 - lessons learned from teaching
   3 - ideas for teaching each sugar application


9. OLPC Armenia - San Francisco
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62721
   http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~levine
   http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~sverma
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 12 months

   Project Objectives:
   Translation of Sugar into Armenian. Dr. Levine will carry the XOs to
   Armenia in June, where the activity of translation will be set up in
   the Computer Science program at the American University of Armenia.
   http://www.aua.am


10. Maasai Connection - Kenya & Prescott, Arizona
    http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62722
    [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

    Requests 10 XOs over undetermined months

    Project Objectives:
    Our project objective is to create equality for the Maasai in Kenya. 
One of
    our main ways of doing this is through education in the following ways:

    - Provide online tutoring to rural Maasai students to enable them to 
pass
      the Kenya Certification of Primary Education (KCPE) test and thus 
achieve
      entrance into secondary school.
    - Provide a digital library to Maasai students, helping to alleviate the
      desperate need for books.
    - Give the resources to match students’ excitement to learn.
    - Establish a laptop lending library for students to use them at 
home and
      outside of school.
    - To enable webcam communication for pen-pal programs between rural
      Maasailand and “western” societies.
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