<!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 text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <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-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 join us in 30 MIN from now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here 2PM Boston Time / EST this afternoon: <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 11 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC Pulse Oximeter - Vancouver, Canada / South Africa 2. SEAVURIA: 8 schools near Mombassa, Kenya - Seattle, Washington 3. OLPC Project from Wilderness Expeditions Ltd - Tucson, Mexico, Tibet/China 4. Improving digital literacy in Bangladesh rural areas - Slovenia 5. OLPC Saint Jacob School, Kigali, Rwanda - Stuttgart, Germany 6. English as a Second Language, My School House, Tegucigalpa - Honduras 7. Calendario Activity - Managua, Nicaragua 8. World Child Project - Tijuana, Mexico 9. Mesa Arizona Repair Shop - for Belize 10. School for the Deaf - Harare, Zimbabwe 11. Golden Hour Project - Bangladesh / Tustin, California * 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. OLPC Pulse Oximeter - Vancouver, Canada / South Africa <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73028">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73028</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71778"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/PulseOximeter">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/PulseOximeter</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://phoneoximeter.org/projects/olpc/">http://phoneoximeter.org/projects/olpc/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~walterk">http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~walterk</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 2 XOs over 24 months Project Objectives: - Develop low-cost pulse oximetry hardware that can be easily connected to an XO. The pulse oximeter sensor will be both an educational tool and a medical screening device. - Develop educational software based on the Sugar framework for diseases, monitoring and physiology. We aim to increase the health awareness of school children in developing countries. - Provide a health education tool to the OLPC community. - Encourage children to learn about health with the playful support of an XO platform. - Make a difference in the fight against infectious diseases. 2. SEAVURIA: 8 schools near Mombassa, Kenya - Seattle, Washington <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72053"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73159">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73159</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://seavuria.org">http://seavuria.org</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 2/11 XOs over 5 months Project Objectives: (excerpt) The SEAVURIA project pairs students from Vuria (Mombasa), Kenya with Seattle-area students to develop collaborative projects focusing on *Science and Technology for Sustainable Development*. International teams of students will investigate an issue of global health significance, sharing their findings and presenting their projects at culminating events in their home countries. In our pilot year, we hope to impact 80 students – half from Seattle and half from Vuria, and engage them in meaningful learning around topics of relevance to their lives. To date, 5 Seattle-area schools and 8 Vuria schools have signed on to participate and be mentored by scientists. International teams of 8 students will each be mentored by at least one scientist. The goal of the SEAVURIA partnership is to construct a sustainable and creative partnership of global awareness through science education... The project requires students on both continents to communicate over the Internet. Seattle students have computers and connectivity but our Kenyan partners need those tools. 3. OLPC Project from Wilderness Expeditions Ltd - Tucson, Mexico, Tibet/China <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73649">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73649</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.CanyonLovers.com">http://www.CanyonLovers.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.CanyonsWorldWide.org">http://www.CanyonsWorldWide.org</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 5 XOs over 24 months Project Objectives: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.garala.org"></a>Provide laptops to impoverished Native American/Tarahumara students so that they may gain skills and education to provide them with better employment opportunities. Their parents were the first generation to have any education at all, sometimes just through the fifth grade and their daughters will now be the first Native Tarahumara to be able to participate in journalism and direct reporting about their own tribe. 4. Improving digital literacy in Bangladesh rural areas - Slovenia <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73856">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73856</a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72391"></a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests ? XOs over 14 months Project Objectives: § To motivate children to go school and participate in school activities § To train primary school teachers how to use modern technology for educational purposes. § To improve literacy percentage in Bangladesh § To educate children how to use modern technology § To educate children how to get information through internet § To create an areawise network comminuty § Enhancing family entertainment through OLPC program and adtional: One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) program § To prove the importance of having computers in primary schools in Bangladesh 5. OLPC Saint Jacob School, Kigali, Rwanda - Stuttgart, Germany <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73925">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73925</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mcgrwanda.org">http://www.mcgrwanda.org</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 100 paid XOs over undetermined months Project Objectives: Equipment of all pupils of this school of grade 3 and above with XO laptops. Integration of the XO-Laptop in the school program as also strongly supported from the Rwanda Government. Joining the governmental program for knowledge-empowered children as the main resource of the country. Increase of learning efficiency of 50 %. Increase of available schoolbooks by 500% with digitized material. School success increase of the students by 30%. Development of a teaching plan for the time the school is out (from November to February) to provide teachers an income opportunity. 6. English as a Second Language, My School House, Tegucigalpa - Honduras <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72490"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74166">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74166</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 40 XOs over 11 months Project Objectives: (excerpt) 1. Enhance comprehension and communication skills in elementary students (first to sixth grade) enable chat rooms with a specific topic proposed by students. 2. Improve reading skills in a interactive basis (avaible to record each child and load the audio files in the school web page, for futher review for student and parents and feedback for teachers). 3. Improve spelling and phonics skills, by requesting in real time essays relating to the proposed topic and referring studetns to phonics web page availables online. The goal of the project is to motivate students in their learning process, approaching them to a real scenario among their own class mates, with the possibility of world wide connection, stablishing communication with other children in same basis (English as a second language) or even better with other kids which English is their mother tongue or official language. The outcomes measurement will be determined by the frequency of interaction in the chat rooms, improvement in pronunciation (either by real time conversions or by the audio formats), improvement in spelling skills, grammar and comprehension measured in essays 7. Calendario Activity - Managua, Nicaragua <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74392">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74392</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/calendario">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/calendario</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://yadervblog.drupalgardens.com/category/tags/sugar">http://yadervblog.drupalgardens.com/category/tags/sugar</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4360">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4360</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 1 XOs over 12 months Project Objectives: Developing the activity “Calendario”, base on a calendar and agenda for sugar. Promote with the activity the organization skills in an educational context. Manage and custom an ephemeris database. Show information about ephemeris daily. 8. World Child Project - Tijuana, Mexico <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74393">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74393</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.worldchildproject.org">http://www.worldchildproject.org</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 52 XOs over 12 months Project Objectives: World Child Projects’s first step in working to break the cycle of poverty for children is to leverage a multi-tiered network for orphans, by: · Locating and connecting the largest family in the world – the orphanage network - to each other. · Developing active and influential relationships with local employers, vocational centers, and secondary schools. 9. Mesa Arizona Repair Shop - for Belize <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74400">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74400</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 2+ serial adapters over undetermined months Project Objectives: We have multiple request to un-brick laptops, we need a serial cable and instructions. The goal is to learn how to support OLPC laptops so that we can start a support group in Latin America 10. School for the Deaf - Harare, Zimbabwe <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74414">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74414</a> HarareSchoolfortheDeafLaptopProject.wordpress.com (forthcoming?) SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 7 XOs over undetermined months Project Objectives: Emerald Hill School for the Deaf, caters for 320 plus children ranging in ages from 4 to 18+; two-thirds of the pupils are deaf. In addition to the traditional sign-language methods, the School is increasingly using lip-reading and listening through the use of very powerful hearing aids, to teach and encourage children to communicate and speak. The objective of the project is to introduce children (starting with the youngest) to self-learn lip-reading, language development and communication skills through the use of the computer; an additional objective is to encourage computer literacy among these children who are so disadvantaged. A successful pilot project in Grade 1 will be used as proof-of-principle to propose an expansion plan for equipping additional grades, to potential donors/sponsors. 11. Golden Hour Project - Bangladesh / Tustin, California <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74416">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74416</a> SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a> Requests 10 XOs over 12-18 months Project Objectives: The objective of the Golden Hour Project [Right to Learn Intl] is to utilize the XO laptops to expand educational opportunities to children who live in the remote mountainous areas in Bangladesh, known as the Chittagong Hill Tracts. This isolated area, where poverty and malnutrition pervade, is inhabited by thirteen indigenous tribes and whose literacy rates are 28%, lowest in the nation, even for a country like Bangladesh. The indigenous tribal children live scattered on mountaintops and only have access to a few schools with severely limited resources. The Golden Hour Project will make it possible for these children to access better and more comprehensive primary school education. Our goal, in the first phase, is to deploy XOs in Padamu Residential School for seventy-two indigenous orphans, ranging from grades one to five. Our long-term objective is to deploy XOs with multi-lingual curricula at Padamu Residential School and other primary schools in the region. We plan to leverage our knowledge of the native languages and expertise in computer programming to develop computer keyboards in the tribal languages. We believe One Laptop per Child can play a critical role in helping the Golden Hour Project reach both its short and long term goals. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>