<!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-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. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project - Jefferson, Maryland 2. Fedora Security Lab - India, Germany, USA 3. Lubuto Library Project - Zambian Literacy Programming Project - Silver Spring, Maryland 4. Language Documentation on Ambrym, Vanuatu - Berlin; Paris 5. Laptops Uganda * 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. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project - Jefferson, Maryland <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50626">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50626</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/">http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61094"></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 7/10 XOs over undetermined months Project Objectives: My project will provide entertainment and a learning experience for the children of Los Toscones by providing them with basic computers that can be used for both fun and educational purposes. I have created a quick-start guide that can be used on deployments world-wide. The information being put in it can be found here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates/moreworkdone">http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates/moreworkdone</a>. I have put all of this information into a nice booklet that can be printed at someone's own home and can be distributed when they are doing their own deployments. It is currently in the process of being translated into Spanish. Note: this is NOT yet completed. In three weeks after AP exams, I will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now. You can track the progress of the project using the project updater, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates">http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates</a>. It has all kinds of information, as does all of the sidebar. 2. Fedora Security Lab - India, Germany, USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61414">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61414</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.hiemanshu.in">http://blog.hiemanshu.in</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.laptop.org">http://planet.laptop.org</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 2-4 XOs over 6 months Project Objectives: We are planning to use the XOs for testing the Fedora Security Lab which is to be used as a Learning platform for budding Security Professionals. We would like to test the compatibility with the laptops and its hardware, and if something does not work right, we would even be happy to write/make changes to the hardware/software and contribute it back to the community. 3. Lubuto Library Project - Zambian Literacy Programming Project - Silver Spring, Maryland <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61571">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61571</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lubuto.org">http://www.lubuto.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.olpclearningclub.org">http://www.olpclearningclub.org</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 6 XO-1.5s over 24 months Project Objectives: There is a critical need for means to teach all Zambian children to read in their original language that the educational system cannot meet. Lubuto libraries reach out-of-school children and can help them toward reading by read-aloud and storytelling programs, but tools for reading teaching in Zambian languages are not available. Youth who have been using the One Laptop Per Child XO laptops in Lubuto libraries and experienced Zambian reading teachers will together be trained in the OLPC application Etoys and create early reading programs in Zambian languages. The programs will then be made available on laptops in the libraries and via the Lubuto.org website to inspire creation of similar programs in other African countries and languages. Being able to approach learning to read in their native tongue will literally mean development of reading fluency for hundreds of thousands of out-of-school and vulnerable children and youth who do not have access to adequate reading education. The Zambian-language reading programs can be used in under equipped classrooms as well as in Lubuto and other libraries, and programs can be adapted to accommodate other African languages of similar structure (primarily Bantu languages), potentially bringing literacy to millions of children in Africa. It is also expected that programs to introduce reading in Zambian languages will inspire more advanced local language computer content as well as writing of children’s books in Zambian languages to advance fluency. There remains no question of the central importance of literacy in African development and the spread of literacy is considered necessary to achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals. Illiteracy in Africa has been shown to underpin extreme poverty, the spread of disease and the health and safety of girls and women, and endemic underdevelopment on the continent. The central importance of learning to read in one’s original language has been long understood, yet solutions that would make this universally possible have long eluded Zambian society. The potential social and economic benefits of this straightforward innovation, then, are profound. An additional, narrower benefit to the young Zambians who will develop programming and educational product design skills can be expected to not only benefit them but may set them on a course to develop more useful educational tools in Zambian languages. 4. Language Documentation on Ambrym, Vanuatu - Berlin; Paris <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61574">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61574</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 XOs over 6-12 months Project Objectives: The participants are currently documenting several languages in the Southwest of the island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The project work involves audio and video recordings, which will lead to the production of dictionaries, story books and grammars for the previously undocumented and undescribed languages. Due to the lack of devices with the capacity to display accustic and visual information, however, local communities will hardly have access to the audio and video recordings. Also, the opportunities for speakers to actively participate in the documentation of their languages and traditional knowledge themselves are very limited. The laptops provided by the OLPC project would help to make recordings accessible to the communities as well as empower the youngest generations to use modern technologies to explore and record the traditional knowledge which is in acute danger of being lost. The objectives of a collaboration with the OLPC would therefore be the distribution of laptops to local schools, storing the data collected during the documentation work on the laptops and training children -- and their teachers -- to use the laptops for documentation. The country of Vanuatu has already shown interest in the OLPC and is very adamant about the importance of language documentation so that we expect a collaboration would be welcome. 5. Laptops Uganda <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61631">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61631</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 20 XOs over 24 months Project Objectives: - Impart computer knowledge to the young. since my country 75% of the population are the young people - To bring unity by appreciating diversity, my country has more than 90 tribes, divided into 85 districts and has been affected by wars for the last 30 years that’s has caused too much tribal difference yet we are all Africans. So, I bringing kids of different tribes together sharing the same computers it brings a sense of love and peace through sharing hence unity. - To fight computer illiteracy in the youth, many youth in Uganda have never had an encounter with computers so weather I use an OX laptop or any other brand of computers it will be the same to them. They need the skill no matter the type of computers being used. - Prepare the young for the future ,this 21st century the use of computerized digital peripherals has became part of life in the world , me volunteering to reach out to the kids and the youth am preparing them for the future time so as to make the world a global village</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>