<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"> <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 all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: <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: * XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/">http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/</a> * Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia 2. Charikar, Afghanistan - New York 3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and diaspora - Renmark, Australia 4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona 5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?! <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> * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: <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> 1. Social Networking / Crowdsourcing Apps - Arlington, Virginia <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54734">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54734</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58992"></a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 10 XO's over 3 months Project Objectives: The objective of this initial review is to assess the utility of the laptop for use in social networking / crowdsourcing initiatives. The specific details for the pilot study which will be done if we decide the platform is suitable are currently being developed. If the pilot study goes forward a detailed list of metrics and objectives will be provided with our application for 10-25 additional laptops. 2. Charikar, Afghanistan - New York <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59330">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59330</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 1-30 XO's over undetermined months Project Objectives: Last year I worked on an Internet documentary on the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University, founded by Nancy Hatch Dupree. The organization provides books and school libraries for new literate Afghans. While visiting a high school in Charikar I asked a few students what they wanted. One student, Mohammad Sharif, said he and his classmates wanted computers. They are tired of war and want computers "to be their teachers." For your information I have included a link to the short video interview. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTdxKunWf4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTdxKunWf4</a> Our objective is to deliver 300 computers to the Hazrat Noman, the boy's school in the video listed above and 100 laptops each to Hura Jalali and M alalai, both girl's school. We would like to establish computer labs in rural Charikar, about a 90-minute drive from Kabul City. We will designate local teachers who will maintain the computers, teach the students, and develop a curriculum. I have also included the link to the ACKU videos shot in 2009. I would like to make the same for the OLPC-Charikar, once the computers are secured. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dupreefoundation.org/afghanistan-videos.htm">http://www.dupreefoundation.org/afghanistan-videos.htm</a> 3. Enabling and supporting Vietnamese localization: Vietnam and diaspora - Renmark, Australia <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59359">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59359</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 1 XO over 3 months Project Objectives: Get my initial Vietnamese XO software localization working on the XO (Vietnamese is a test case for Unicode support, due to its combined diacritics and very wide range on the Unicode plane; so far most accented characters are not inputting, and number/symbol characters are inaccessible: we have an almost complete localization but people can't use it!); test and review the Vietnamese localization on the XO (I've never seen my localization in action); support OLPC project staff in Vietnam in using our localization (I made contact with two projects in Vietnam and found that they didn't know there was a Vietnamese localization, didn't know how to enable it, and once enabled, couldn't use it!) While it would be cool to play with any new gadget ;), this is an urgent need to get a key localization working. I can't believe we deployed XOs in Vietnam without a working localization! :S 4. Support Volunteer - Mesa by Phoenix, Arizona <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59534">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59534</a> Requests 1 XO over undetermined months Project Objectives: Laptop is to be used to support end users questions and problem tickets 5. Sapote Rural Deployment - Honduras; Annandale, Virginia <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59560">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59560</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 10 XO's over 18 months Project Objectives: This project is for a rural, one-room public school in Honduras. This school has no access to any kind of technology at the moment. The purpose of this deployment is to introduce students to the activities on the XO and use the XOs to help the students achieve their learning goals. This project can field test how to use the Honduran curriculum with the activities now available on the XO. This school has thirty 1st-6th graders, so there will be a good age range of laptop users and a variety of learning applications. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>