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all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:<br>
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Then type at bottom:
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/join #olpc-meeting
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AGENDA:
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* Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please
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join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:
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1. Open Solace - Haiti / New York, Los Angeles<br>
2. NACIF OLPC-Lending Library in Gomoa-Dasum District of Ghana - New
York<br>
3. OLPC Pilot Education Project at Alamparai - India<br>
4. Project Success Links: 3 Projects For Change - Los Angeles<br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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<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>
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1. Open Solace - Haiti / New York, Los Angeles<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55379">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55379</a><br>
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Requests 1,680 (or 25 initially) XOs over undetermined months<br>
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Project Objectives:
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To provide compelling 2 way video communications between Haitians
and the<br>
compassionate communities inside the US and around the world that
include<br>
Haitian communities, church groups, Media organizations<br>
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Our objective is to establish a method for American Haitian
communities to<br>
send video messages of love, compassion, and inspiration to their
relatives,<br>
friends and citizens of Haiti. We also plan to get video messages
out of<br>
Haiti and deliver them to the American Haitian communities. We will<br>
encourage anyone to compose video postcards of hope to be sent to
Haiti, by<br>
means of new media, News organizations, PR and word of mouth.<br>
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Setting up residence in a secured Haitian NGO camp. Recruiting<br>
*5* bilingual locals instructors then educating those instructors on<br>
the value of the interviews and their intended use. Then train the
instructors how to<br>
use the video recording app and the list of list of interview
questions then<br>
role playing those questions. measure, adjust and repeat until we
have<br>
*25* instructors. Once done We will set up our projector in the
evening<br>
and show american messages of inspiration and use that moment to
announce the Open<br>
Haiti project. 25 is the appropriate number because we have 25
portable<br>
solar powers tested and approved by manufacturer on OLPC. And 25 is
the<br>
maximum number that can be managed by a worst case scenario of one
available<br>
instructor.<br>
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May cache to a local server and then "broadcast" the data to the
public<br>
server as communications allow.<br>
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2. NACIF OLPC-Lending Library in Gomoa-Dasum District of Ghana - New
York<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55294">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55294</a><br>
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Requests 4 XOs over 3 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Objectives Our goal is to build a number of "paperless" libraries in<br>
which OLPCs replace paper books. NACIF is a charitable organization<br>
dedicated to helping young girls obtain a great education and,
towards this<br>
goal, is building or equipping a number of libraries in remote
villages in<br>
Ghana. The cost of supplying books to these libraries is however
prohibitive<br>
and NACIF has decided it can provide serve more girls by using
e-books. The<br>
OLPC is the perfect medium for such a project in the areas in which
NACIF<br>
works. Most importantly, we want to encourage girls to create and
share<br>
content about their community, something they cannot easily do with
books.<br>
The content will include creating diaries, news articles, and
photo-albums.<br>
Thus, the OLPC provides these girls with the "active" educational
experience<br>
as opposed to the passive education they will gain through reading
paper<br>
books.<br>
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3. OLPC Pilot Education Project at Alamparai - India<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55284">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55284</a><br>
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Requests 35 XOs over 12 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Introducing the OLPC as a pilot project for 30 to 35 children at the<br>
Panchayat Union Alamparai Middle School with intention to expand to<br>
surrounding schools, organizations, and experts to adapt this XO<br>
technology for the successful achievement of the Educational goals.<br>
Assessment of the initial success of the project will then inform the<br>
rate of progress on expanding OLPC to the wider community.<br>
Fully equipping school teachers by rendering appropriate training in
the<br>
use of the new technology for instructing their students.<br>
Improving the standard of Education with the aegis of new
intervention<br>
and pave the way for attaining the self goals of each and every
children<br>
targeted under this project.<br>
Creating conducive environment with the help of the XO technology to<br>
elicit the children’s interest in learning the Science and English<br>
subject.<br>
Initiating the knowledge revolution among the children and the youth
in<br>
the community.<br>
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4. Project Success Links: 3 Projects For Change - Los Angeles area,
California<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54975">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54975</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cocosouthla.org">http://cocosouthla.org</a><br>
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Requests 15 XOs over undetermined months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Our project objective is to inspire and educate elementary school
children<br>
to take an active role in their community by utilize technology
tools for 3<br>
Projects for Change.<br>
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This project-oriented program will also act as a professional
development<br>
program, which can help kids identify personal skills and develop
career<br>
interests. The success of these projects will introduce different
positive<br>
activities that can be emulated by other children.<br>
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