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lang="x-western">Please
all join us now,
voting for the
latest OLPC/Sugar
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the best project
allocations &<br>
mentoring
relationships--starting
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AGENDA:<br>
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* Fast Review of the
11 latest
(greatest!)
HW/Project
Proposals.<br>
Plz join us
advocating for &
reviewing
shortcomings of
these proposals:<br>
<br>
1. Testing &
Translation by
Founder of Hanthana
Linux - Sri Lanka<br>
2. Helping
children learn the
serbian cyrillic
alphabet - Munich,
Germany<br>
3. "100 Monkeys
vs. 1 Engineer" -
Toronto, Canada<br>
4. Project Rwanda
- Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania<br>
5. Case Study
Scratch Kids
Programming -
Mesa/Phoenix,
Arizona<br>
6. XO Educational
Software Project
(XO/ESP) - Haiti
& Mansfield,
Ohio<br>
7. Math &
Science Activities -
Florence,
Mississippi<br>
8. BioDiv-Activity
- Tirschenreuth,
Germany<br>
9. St Andre's
school - Hinche,
Haiti & Carmel,
California<br>
10. Pronunciation
Evaluation Game for
Reading - US, India,
Singapore<br>
11. Green Roots
Festival 2012 -
Boston,
Massachusetts<br>
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* Which projects
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1. Testing &
Translation by
Founder of Hanthana
Linux - Sri Lanka<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103930">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103930</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com">http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://school.hanthana.org/2012/03/12/it-has-begun/">http://school.hanthana.org/2012/03/12/it-has-begun/</a><br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests 2 XOs
over undetermined
months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
Hardware testing<br>
Testing on going
l10n<br>
<br>
<br>
2. Helping children
learn the serbian
cyrillic alphabet -
Munich, Germany;
Kosovo<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=105576">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=105576</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lln.sourceforge.net">http://lln.sourceforge.net</a><br>
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OFF <a
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href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 2 XOs
over 18-24 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
This project will
be a attempt to
write a program for
XO in order to<br>
help serbian
children in northern
part of Kosovo to
learn and preserve<br>
serbian cyrillic
alphabet.It should
be a part of my
future project for<br>
donate XO-1 to
various schools in
northern Kosovo. A
whole project should<br>
be a non-profit
in collaboration
with Serbian
Orthodox Church in
Munich<br>
and Serbian
Othodox Church in
Kosovo.<br>
<br>
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3. "100 Monkeys vs.
1 Engineer" -
Toronto, Canada<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106020">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106020</a><br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests 2 XOs
over 12 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
While I
appreciate that
highly defined,
measurable outcomes
are most<br>
desirable, I am
seeking an XO laptop
to put into the
hands of my<br>
first-year
engineering student
son who is about to
embark on a four<br>
month
environmental intern
position with an
international
development<br>
agency in
Saskatchewan. He has
been previously
involved in an<br>
engineering
project at
university designing
low-tech solutions
for<br>
wastewater in
slums in Africa and
designing a
geo-thermal robot
computer<br>
program for
ground scanning for
minerals. His summer
internship will<br>
expose him to the
design and
deployment of urban
projects including;<br>
effluent
irrigated woodlots,
decommissioned
landfill forest caps
and<br>
active forest
filters, salinity
control forestation
around municipal<br>
lagoons, and farm
projects including;
stream margin
protection,<br>
shelterbelts and
salinity control.<br>
<br>
We intend to
explore the
potential to
communicate
distributed learning<br>
about the
low-tech technology
for community
solutions for adults
to<br>
improve the
front-line
communities where
children with the XO
laptops<br>
reside.<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Project Rwanda -
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106786">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106786</a><br>
<br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests 2 XOs
over 2 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
As a group, we
would be using the
laptops as a means
to get children<br>
excited about
education. The
specific
"activities" on the
XO laptop would<br>
be the focus of
our class. Our goals
are to promote
creativity,<br>
collaboration and
sustainability. Our
choice of programs,
such as the Tam<br>
Tam Jam, Record,
Scratch and eToys,
will be the focus
for creativity and
we<br>
will be teaching
the children how
create music,
programs, website,
design<br>
etc. While
creating we also
want to highlight
the tools that will
help the<br>
children
collaborate, the
focus of our end
presentation will be<br>
collaborative
through group
presentations.
Lastly we wish to
use the<br>
laptops and to
set up Pen-pals so
that once we leave
Rwanda we can still<br>
mentor the
children as a means
of documentation of
how the children
have<br>
taken what we
have taught them as
well as sustaining a
deep relationship<br>
with the
children.<br>
<br>
<br>
5. Case Study
Scratch Kids
Programming -
Mesa/Phoenix,
Arizona<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106970">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106970</a><br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests 25 XOs
over 7 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
I am conducting a
research to study
the effects of
computer programming<br>
in the
classrooms. The IRB
is now approved
through ASU. The
objective is<br>
to actively
engage learners to
construct their own
ideas. The method is<br>
for teachers to
use Scratch,
PicoCricket and WeDo
Lego Educational<br>
Technology in the
curriculum as a
teaching tool.<br>
<br>
<br>
6. XO Educational
Software Project
(XO/ESP) - Haiti
& Mansfield,
Ohio<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107089">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107089</a><br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests 5 XOs
over 24 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
The XO laptops
will be used as (a)
test units for proof
of concept tests<br>
with low-cost
robust server
designs using
wireless routers and
access<br>
points, and (b)
test units for math
and science modules
developed<br>
jointly by North
Central State
College (NCSC)
Computer Information<br>
Systems students
and Ohio State
University (OSU)
graduate education<br>
students.<br>
<br>
<br>
7. Math &
Science Activities -
Florence,
Mississippi<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107717">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107717</a><br>
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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><br>
<br>
Requests 4 XOs
over 3 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
Code new science
and math activites
for teachers and
students in the<br>
classroom or
outside school.<br>
<br>
<br>
8. BioDiv-Activity -
Tirschenreuth,
Germany<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107905">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107905</a><br>
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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><br>
<br>
Requests 5 XOs
over 36 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
The objective is
creating a series of
activities on
science in the next<br>
few years
(biology, physics,
electronics,
chemistry) and
taking care of<br>
debugging and
correcting the
created activities.<br>
<br>
This year we
realised an
experimental version
of the activity
called<br>
"BioDiv" which
can be found here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/de/sugar/addon/4557">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/de/sugar/addon/4557</a><br>
The subject of
this activity is
biodiversity (in
cooperation with the<br>
convention of
biological diversity
of the UN). The main
component is an<br>
animal quiz.<br>
<br>
Our work is
documented at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gym-tir.de/sugarbio/">http://www.gym-tir.de/sugarbio/</a>
.<br>
<br>
Next year we plan
to create a activity
on (quantum)
physics.<br>
<br>
<br>
9. St Andre's school
- Hinche, Haiti
& Carmel,
California<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108043">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108043</a><br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests 2 XOs
over 12 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
Numerous studies
have proven that
education is the key
to addressing<br>
poverty. While we
can’t fully fund the
needs of every
student and every<br>
teacher, we
believe computer
technology is making
a difference. On the<br>
technology side,
we have been sending
our Windows-based
laptops with<br>
mixed results and
the same can be said
of our efforts in
solar. Theft<br>
provides
additional
challenges. We are
looking for a
partnership, where<br>
we can leverage
experience in K-12
education using
laptops in the<br>
central plateau
of Haiti. Example,
we are looking to
replace books with<br>
technology. We
want all graduates
to be fluent in
first, French, then<br>
English. Our goal
is to create
graduates, who are
prepared to enter<br>
college. For
those whose parents
pull them from
school perhaps after<br>
only completing
elementary school,
we want these
students to be able
to<br>
read and write,
and be able to
perform common math
in daily life, so<br>
they can attain
better jobs and
achieve a higher
quality of life.<br>
<br>
<br>
10. Pronunciation
Evaluation Game for
Reading - Fort
Lupton, Colorado;
India; Singapore<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108156">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108156</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pronunciationeval.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-laptop-per-child-hardware-request.html">http://pronunciationeval.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-laptop-per-child-hardware-request.html</a><br>
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><br>
<br>
Requests XO-1,
XO-1.5 & XO-1.75
over 6 months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
We are building
a free open source
choose-your-own-adventure
style<br>
game to teach
beginning and
intermediate English
reading and<br>
pronunciation to
learners of all ages
and backgrounds
using an<br>
automatic
pronunciation
evaluation system
based on the CMU
Sphinx3<br>
speech
recognition system,
which detects
mispronunciations at
the<br>
phoneme level
and provides
feedback scores and
learner adaptation
with<br>
phoneme,
biphone, word, and
phrase scores based
on standardized<br>
phoneme acoustic
scores and durations
and edit distance
scoring using<br>
alternate
pronunciation
grammars. We would
like to build
clients and<br>
stand-alone
systems for OLPC
hardware.<br>
<br>
<br>
11. Green Roots
Festival 2012 -
Boston,
Massachusetts<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108215">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108215</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.treehouse.su/garlabs/">http://www.treehouse.su/garlabs/</a><br>
SPECIFIC SITE
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href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> & <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://j.mp/6UhCtd">http://j.mp/6UhCtd</a><br>
<br>
Requests 10 XOs
over 6 (summer)
months<br>
<br>
Project
Objectives:<br>
Experiment by
doing ... outdoor
play scenarios of
children with XOs<br>
proof by doing
that the XO is an
outdoor computer :)<br>
<br>
Bring 10 xo
ready for children
usage (sometimes one
for<br>
(grand-)parents
too ;) and let them
play set up a table
and/or<br>
"decke" with
flyers and the XOs
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