<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </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-unicode"> <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 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. Toaster Activity & OLPC-SF - San Francisco, California 2. Project Rwanda - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3. Powerd on XO 1.5 C2 - San Francisco, California 4. Across the Seas-IRIE Project - Uganda / New York * 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> * Meeting results will be posted here very shortly: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings</a> 1. Toaster Activity & OLPC-SF - San Francisco, California <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61094">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61094</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Toaster">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Toaster</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 3 XO-1.5s over 12 months Project Objectives: This activity is intended to do two things: 1. Create USB sticks (such as Sugar on a Stick) 2. Create a CD or DVD disc from an .iso image if the necessary hardware is available The goal is to allow any XO user or anyone walking up to an XO in book mode to select and create a bootable USB stick or disc. For CD burning this amounts to a simple graphical interface to this command line: sudo wodim dev=3D/dev/sdrw -tao driveropts=3Dburnfree -v -data ~/toaster/soas-2-blueberry.iso speed=16 Testing will prove that toaster is useful for ~/toaster/soas-2-boot.iso and other .iso images of Linux distributions and open source software CDs such as Software Freedom Day. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://softwarefreedomday.org">http://softwarefreedomday.org</a> 2. Project Rwanda - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61203">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61203</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 4 XOs over 1.5 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, colloboration 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 colloborate, 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. 3. Powerd on XO 1.5 C2 - San Francisco, California <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61243">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61243</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-1.5 C2 over 6 months Project Objectives: Gather logs on XO 1.5 C2 or beyond for powerd 4. Across the Seas-IRIE Project - Uganda / New York <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61311">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61311</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 11 XOs over 6 months Project Objectives: * Collaborate with Uganda contacts at Teach and Tour program to establish deployments of XO computers in Kampala, Uganda. This will be done on a step by step basis and started on this initial journey. * Introduce college professors, particularly in the education departments in Kampala, Uganda to the XO capabilities. Run "Train the Trainer" workshops so that they may create projects for prospective teachers in the use of these machines in their future classrooms. * Help to establish outreach programs for prospective teachers to work with primary students and the XO computers. * Investigate the engagement of high school students to act as mentors to primary students in the use of XO computers. * Using the Blackboard (Content Management System) connection at Dominican College, continue the education process and relationship building via distance education. Graduate students, under my direction, at Dominican College will communicate and collaborate with those in Kampala. Video production, a major component of the Dominican's graduate EdMedia program, will be used for demonstrations and Blackboard will be used for content, lesson planning, advisement and discussions.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>