<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Please join us Right Now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Friday) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a> Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a> * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a> * Fast Review of the 6 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. Saint Paul Conservatory/Bloomington Community Lending Library - Minnesota, USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46036">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46036</a> (PUBLIC SITE NEEDED off of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a>) Requests 10 XO's over 7 months Project Objectives: *Project Objectives: *After extensive dialogue with a representative of the organization; I agreed to do my political science project with OLPC. I plan to create a One Laptop Per Child “University Chapter” at SPCPA in the form of a school group. My project, through the school group, would—optimistically—accomplish the following two goals: A) Our primary goal is to establish a lending library at my high school, Saint Paul Conservatory, as well as at our local library, Hennepin Oxboro Library. In my community of East Bloomington, an overwhelming amount of young middle and high school students I would meet at school or at the local public library are suffering in school because their family could not afford to keep a computer at home. <div class="message-stanza-depth-1"> >>How will you divide the XOs among the 2 library sites? It might be </div> better to choose one or the other as the main base. Each has advantages. If they are at your school, your school chapter can run the library. If they are at the public library, both students from your school and community members would have access. I would suggest they be housed at your school. Perhaps you could make arrangements for children and families to request loans via the library (sort of like an interlibrary loan) and your student group members could deliver them to the library and pick them up for check-in and maintenance each time they are returned (really recommended). For the lending library, we would require ten laptops. The school would provide me with tech officials to maintain the renting computers and a base to store and lend them from. I also have potential “lending library” clients from the school administration as well. <div class="message-stanza-depth-1"> >>I wouldn't use the word "rent" at all. We assume these are loans made </div> at no charge to the borrower. They should be responsible for the costs of repairs, or "replacement" in the unlikely case that they are needed. These laptops could be rented (lent out?) and used by low-income students from my school in need of a computer as well as low-income students from my community in need of a computer. Students would have to write a detailed application to use the laptop and would receive it for no more than one week at a time. <div class="message-stanza-depth-1"> >>I can send you a copy of the loan form I use. You can modify it to </div> meet your needs. B) For my second goal, OLPC has given me permission to use their name and logo in a music video/Public Service Announcement (PSA) that urges viewers to help close the digital divide by donating to OLPC. This would be a music video and a public service announcement, spanning about five minutes and featuring music I’ve already composed and a script I’ve already written. The stars of the video would be actors and instrumental musicians from my OLPC university group of about ten students. The video would be filmed using professional equipment—in the film competition I’ve recently won, I gained access to the Independent Film Producers’ Association, which allows me to take a class with them and have access to all of their equipment. The ten computers I request would also be used as props in the video. 2. Super Pixel Art Maker - Torrance, California, USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47937">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47937</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.takogames.com">http://www.takogames.com</a> (NEEDS PAGE SPECIFIC TO PROJECT) Requests 3 XO's over 18 months Project Objectives: Pixel Art Maker is a simple GUI based Graphic editing application that focuses on creating pixel art. We will be doing what we are already doing as professional software makers. The vision for the project is already set in a clear manner. It's just matter of implementation. Procedure is also something that we are already doing for some of other software we are working on. It is a top down approach where a clear decision maker oversees the scope of the project and keep the team accountable to the vision and the scope of the work determined in the design stage. People involved in the production will constantly compare the process of work to the design doc which will clearly state the nature of the project and the features of the app. 3. MontanaLinux.org Learning Lab - Bozeman, Montana, USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47973">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47973</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.montanalinux.org/OLPC.html">http://www.montanalinux.org/OLPC.html</a> Requests 10 XO's over 36 months Project Objectives: The BozemanLUG has a connection with the Computer Science Department and the Education Department at Montana State University... and some LUG members have experience in both education and programming as well as system administration. The BillingsLUG has a connection with the folks at Rocky Mountain College. The project objective is to set up a lending lab where individuals across the state of Montana can request / borrow an OLPC from MontanaLinux.org and if requested, can get a presenter to visit and give a custom presentation on hardware, software and project... in an effort to get more people interested in developing software and doing pilot projects at rural schools in the state of Montana. Montana is the 4th largest state in the US but ranks 47th with regards to population. Montana has a number of rural schools where OLPC pilot projects would be welcome... but it will take some effort to grow interest. 4. XO-based School Counseling Lessons - Troy, Ohio, USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48139">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48139</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://MatthewDillon.org">http://MatthewDillon.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://GottaBeMobile.com">http://GottaBeMobile.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://Notebooks.com">http://Notebooks.com</a> (NEEDS SPECIFC SITE OFF OF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>) Requests 1 XO over (undetermined) months - SHOULD HE CONSIDER 2? Project Objectives: To create four XO computer-based school counseling lessons for students ages 10-16 about various topics related to academic, career, and sociocultural awareness. These lessons would help students develop and grow as individuals, breaking stereotypes and examining positive alternatives. Lessons Outline: Lesson 1: Career Education Students are exposed to several different careers, the importance of developing career interests, and the importance of careers as related to their futures. Lesson 2: Tolerance and Diversity Students exposed to stories of differing perspectives and the importance of learning about different cultures. This lesson will require that students seek out information from schools in different areas or countries that have participated in the OLPC program. Lesson 3: Grief and Loss Students examine different forms of grief, and loss. Lesson 4: Stereotypes, Labels, and Prejudice Students are exposed to new concepts and the way in which stereotypes, labels, and prejudice can have negative impacts. 5. Hello Laptop, Hello World / Cambridge Friends School Pilot - Massachusetts, USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48146">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48146</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Harvard_University:_Hello_Laptop%2C_Hello_World">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Harvard_University:_Hello_Laptop%2C_Hello_World</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hellolaptop.org">http://www.hellolaptop.org</a> Requests 10 XO's over 9 months Project Objectives: This past spring, Hello Laptop Hello World (HLHW) launched a pilot program at the Cambridge Friends School, which was one of the first XO pilot programs in the Boston area. We worked with all of the 6th grade classes and implemented a full 1:1 pilot, in which each student had their own XO laptop. This fall, we will be working with all of the 4th graders to implement a comparable project. The goal of this pilot will be to integrate the XO into the current curriculum in a seamless way that allows teachers and students to have ownership of the XO and its role in the classroom. An integral component of this pilot will also be a pre- and post-assessment survey that will be given to all participating students, as well as a separate survey to be completed by the instructors, who will be facilitating this pilot. We are interested both in the impact of the laptops on student attitude toward school and their classwork, as well as changes in academic performance. In addition, we will be piloting two new activities, SocialCalc and Newspaper, and giving student feedback to software developers. 6. Evangel Project - Brasil <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48150">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48150</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.prsolucoes.com/blog/">http://www.prsolucoes.com/blog/</a> (SPECIFIC PROJECT BLOG NEEDED? WHAT TRANSLATIONS WILL BE OFFERED?) Requests 2 XO's over 4 months Project Objectives: No more a chat only you only have to type a text like messenger, but you can visit places, express emoticons, change your clothes, make friends, create rooms. The project is more for children and for people that is tired of the mass messenger applications , now we have a new experience, but is not a game, only chat, talk, walk, make friends, friend list, ... The project will use a account created on the website that i will do too, with this account you can login and your profile is loaded with the friend list and places do visit and talk. 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