[IAEP] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, 4PM EDT, Mch 18)
Holt
holt at laptop.org
Fri May 18 14:57:29 EDT 2012
Please all join us now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations &
mentoring relationships--starting right here:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat
AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 11 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals.
Plz join us advocating for & reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Testing & Translation by Founder of Hanthana Linux - Sri Lanka
2. Helping children learn the serbian cyrillic alphabet - Munich, Germany
3. "100 Monkeys vs. 1 Engineer" - Toronto, Canada
4. Project Rwanda - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5. Case Study Scratch Kids Programming - Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona
6. XO Educational Software Project (XO/ESP) - Haiti & Mansfield, Ohio
7. Math & Science Activities - Florence, Mississippi
8. BioDiv-Activity - Tirschenreuth, Germany
9. St Andre's school - Hinche, Haiti & Carmel, California
10. Pronunciation Evaluation Game for Reading - US, India, Singapore
11. Green Roots Festival 2012 - Boston, Massachusetts
* 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
1. Testing & Translation by Founder of Hanthana Linux - Sri Lanka
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103930
http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com
http://school.hanthana.org/2012/03/12/it-has-begun/
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Hardware testing
Testing on going l10n
2. Helping children learn the serbian cyrillic alphabet - Munich,
Germany; Kosovo
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=105576
http://lln.sourceforge.net
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 18-24 months
Project Objectives:
This project will be a attempt to write a program for XO in order to
help serbian children in northern part of Kosovo to learn and preserve
serbian cyrillic alphabet.It should be a part of my future project for
donate XO-1 to various schools in northern Kosovo. A whole project
should
be a non-profit in collaboration with Serbian Orthodox Church in Munich
and Serbian Othodox Church in Kosovo.
3. "100 Monkeys vs. 1 Engineer" - Toronto, Canada
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106020
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
While I appreciate that highly defined, measurable outcomes are most
desirable, I am seeking an XO laptop to put into the hands of my
first-year engineering student son who is about to embark on a four
month environmental intern position with an international development
agency in Saskatchewan. He has been previously involved in an
engineering project at university designing low-tech solutions for
wastewater in slums in Africa and designing a geo-thermal robot computer
program for ground scanning for minerals. His summer internship will
expose him to the design and deployment of urban projects including;
effluent irrigated woodlots, decommissioned landfill forest caps and
active forest filters, salinity control forestation around municipal
lagoons, and farm projects including; stream margin protection,
shelterbelts and salinity control.
We intend to explore the potential to communicate distributed learning
about the low-tech technology for community solutions for adults to
improve the front-line communities where children with the XO laptops
reside.
4. Project Rwanda - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106786
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 2 months
Project Objectives:
As a group, we would be using the laptops as a means to get children
excited about education. The specific "activities" on the XO laptop
would
be the focus of our class. Our goals are to promote creativity,
collaboration and sustainability. Our choice of programs, such as
the Tam
Tam Jam, Record, Scratch and eToys, will be the focus for creativity
and we
will be teaching the children how create music, programs, website,
design
etc. While creating we also want to highlight the tools that will
help the
children collaborate, the focus of our end presentation will be
collaborative through group presentations. Lastly we wish to use the
laptops and to set up Pen-pals so that once we leave Rwanda we can still
mentor the children as a means of documentation of how the children have
taken what we have taught them as well as sustaining a deep relationship
with the children.
5. Case Study Scratch Kids Programming - Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106970
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 25 XOs over 7 months
Project Objectives:
I am conducting a research to study the effects of computer programming
in the classrooms. The IRB is now approved through ASU. The objective is
to actively engage learners to construct their own ideas. The method is
for teachers to use Scratch, PicoCricket and WeDo Lego Educational
Technology in the curriculum as a teaching tool.
6. XO Educational Software Project (XO/ESP) - Haiti & Mansfield, Ohio
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107089
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
The XO laptops will be used as (a) test units for proof of concept tests
with low-cost robust server designs using wireless routers and access
points, and (b) test units for math and science modules developed
jointly by North Central State College (NCSC) Computer Information
Systems students and Ohio State University (OSU) graduate education
students.
7. Math & Science Activities - Florence, Mississippi
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107717
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 4 XOs over 3 months
Project Objectives:
Code new science and math activites for teachers and students in the
classroom or outside school.
8. BioDiv-Activity - Tirschenreuth, Germany
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107905
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5 XOs over 36 months
Project Objectives:
The objective is creating a series of activities on science in the next
few years (biology, physics, electronics, chemistry) and taking care of
debugging and correcting the created activities.
This year we realised an experimental version of the activity called
"BioDiv" which can be found here:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/de/sugar/addon/4557
The subject of this activity is biodiversity (in cooperation with the
convention of biological diversity of the UN). The main component is an
animal quiz.
Our work is documented at http://www.gym-tir.de/sugarbio/ .
Next year we plan to create a activity on (quantum) physics.
9. St Andre's school - Hinche, Haiti & Carmel, California
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108043
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Numerous studies have proven that education is the key to addressing
poverty. While we can't fully fund the needs of every student and every
teacher, we believe computer technology is making a difference. On the
technology side, we have been sending our Windows-based laptops with
mixed results and the same can be said of our efforts in solar. Theft
provides additional challenges. We are looking for a partnership, where
we can leverage experience in K-12 education using laptops in the
central plateau of Haiti. Example, we are looking to replace books with
technology. We want all graduates to be fluent in first, French, then
English. Our goal is to create graduates, who are prepared to enter
college. For those whose parents pull them from school perhaps after
only completing elementary school, we want these students to be able to
read and write, and be able to perform common math in daily life, so
they can attain better jobs and achieve a higher quality of life.
10. Pronunciation Evaluation Game for Reading - Fort Lupton, Colorado;
India; Singapore
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108156
http://pronunciationeval.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-laptop-per-child-hardware-request.html
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests XO-1, XO-1.5 & XO-1.75 over 6 months
Project Objectives:
We are building a free open source choose-your-own-adventure style
game to teach beginning and intermediate English reading and
pronunciation to learners of all ages and backgrounds using an
automatic pronunciation evaluation system based on the CMU Sphinx3
speech recognition system, which detects mispronunciations at the
phoneme level and provides feedback scores and learner adaptation with
phoneme, biphone, word, and phrase scores based on standardized
phoneme acoustic scores and durations and edit distance scoring using
alternate pronunciation grammars. We would like to build clients and
stand-alone systems for OLPC hardware.
11. Green Roots Festival 2012 - Boston, Massachusetts
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108215
http://www.treehouse.su/garlabs/
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 6 (summer) months
Project Objectives:
Experiment by doing ... outdoor play scenarios of children with XOs
proof by doing that the XO is an outdoor computer :)
Bring 10 xo ready for children usage (sometimes one for
(grand-)parents too ;) and let them play set up a table and/or
"decke" with flyers and the XOs turn on marketing.
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