<!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-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Please all join us 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: * Fast Review of the 8 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. Improving School Attendance Rate and Performance - Kenya and Uganda 2. University Class & Repair Center - Rochester Institute of Technology, New York 3. Wings Over Haiti - Port Jefferson Station, New York 4. Open 1-to-1 + XO1.5 + Sugar - Needham/Arlington, Massachusetts & Maine 5. Support Volunteer & School Server Development - Buenos Aires, Argentina 6. XO 1.5 Testing & Outreach in Portugal - Aveiro, Portugal 7. OLPC Developer Lab and Repair Center - Bangalore, India 8. Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La Romana, Dominican Republic * 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. Improving School Attendance Rate and Performance - Kenya and Uganda <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66013">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66013</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://e4nfoundation.blogspot.com">http://e4nfoundation.blogspot.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65375"></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 18 XO-1s over undetermined months Project Objectives: Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more likely to result in a laptop than it would be cool to play with these and demo them. 1. Equip teachers and pupils with basic computer skills using the XO laptop. 2. Improve understanding and performance of science subjects. 3. Actively engaging children in their learning process. 4. Increase school attendance rate in rural schools. 5. Introducing another medium of learning and communication using XO laptop. 2. University Class & Repair Center - Rochester Institute of Technology, New York <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://foss.rit.edu/blog">http://foss.rit.edu/blog</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedorahosted.org/OpenVideoChat/">https://fedorahosted.org/OpenVideoChat/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/RIT">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/RIT</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66041">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66041</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65377"></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 25 XO-1.5s incl 10 additional (possibly carcasses) for repair center. Project Objectives: On-going Course participation in Sugar Labs Math4 project via classes at RIT, Co-Op and Summer Research Programs Addtionally hoping to become a repair center. 3. Wings Over Haiti - Port Jefferson Station, New York <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.WingsOverHaiti.org">http://www.WingsOverHaiti.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66053">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66053</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=0&ref=mf&gid=267976059380">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=0&ref=mf&gid=267976059380</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 XOs over 12 months Project Objectives: Open a K-8 School in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, in collaboration with students and teachers at JFK Middle School in Port Jefferson Station, NY, to meet the following goals: 1. Teach children in French and English, maintaining Creole as a language of honor with Haiti’s people. 2. Foster the development of critical thinking skills via an emphasis on problem based learning (PBL) – minimizing rote memorization. 3. Instill a sense of responsibility for humankind in student body through cultural exchange and local service to the community. 4. Open 1-to-1 + XO1.5 + Sugar - Needham/Arlington, Massachusetts & Maine <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://itd-usr.blogspot.com">http://itd-usr.blogspot.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66253">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66253</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 6 months Project Objectives: Explore running Open1to1 (from Maine Open Netbook Initiative) on XO-1.5 hardware, develop software solutions to encountered problems, demo machines to FOSS/ED crowd. 5. Support Volunteer & School Server Development - Buenos Aires, Argentina <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpc.nicolascorrarello.com">http://olpc.nicolascorrarello.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66320">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66320</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 (and Active Antenna if avail?) over 24 months Project Objectives: * Deliver consistent support for the OLPC platform. Work on the School server distrubution to stabilize the platform, and add resources for teachers and students such as: * "Proyecto ALBA" or schooltool , which is a platform for School Administration (Managing students, grades, courses, grade reports, subjects, teachers, etc. ...) * Review and Improve 3G modem support * Find and adapt a tool to manage centrally a big XS deployement (and maybe even XO's) 6. XO 1.5 Testing & Outreach in Portugal - Aveiro, Portugal <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tmarques.com">http://www.tmarques.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66329">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66329</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 XO-1.5s and over 12 months Project Objectives: Showing among political parties that have strongly opposed the distribution of the Classmate PC from Intel, sold as the "Magalhães" laptop (please see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://iniciativa-magalhaes.com/">http://iniciativa-magalhaes.com/</a>). The Classmate was attributed to a national computer builder without a public contest and has gathered much criticism from the media and the political opposition. The XO 1.5 would be a viable alternative and a cheaper one. No alternatives have been show up till now and 500k laptops have been deployed. I'm unsure of the success of this due to the current economical climate in the country, but if there's will to continue with the initiative, the XO 1.5 would be very well positioned to replace the Classmate. I have some extra XO-1s but they are too slow to provide an impact given the classmate's superior performance compared to the old unit. 7. OLPC Developer Lab and Repair Center - Bangalore, India <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcsouthasia.org">http://olpcsouthasia.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youthforseva.org/our-focus-areas/education/computers-for-schools/">http://youthforseva.org/our-focus-areas/education/computers-for-schools/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66334">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66334</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-1.5s and 10 salvaged/damaged XOs over 12 months Project Objectives: · To create a dedicated developer and volunteer community · To establish a XO lending library and repair center in Bangalore to help community in adopting XO as a learning platform · To train teachers in the Sugar Learning environment to enable them to make effective use of it in their classrooms · To prepare and implement a new curriculum for the students in coordination with teachers(For example: Development of various mathematical models for understanding effectiveness of current curriculum and what steps can be taken to enhance them and decipher the insights from such implementation) · To spread awareness among the youth of colleges and schools · To raise funds for atleast 1 large scale deployment in 6 months 8. Support Volunteer @ Rural School: XO Integration+Outreach - La Romana, Dominican Republic <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/site/laromanaxo/">https://sites.google.com/site/laromanaxo/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66344">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66344</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 XO-1.5s and 3 months Project Objectives: Our project will serve to integrate the use of computers in the learning and discovery process of young children in rural and depressed areas of La Romana, Dominican Republic. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>