[Sugar-devel] [Help] Connect two french students with OLPC deployments in various countries?

[Alex Perez]

Bastien,

Thanks for reaching out. Do you know which specific version of XO 
laptops these students were/will be given?

Is the e-mail address you CC'ed when you e-mailed sugar-devel the 
address of one of the students you mention? Joining and e-mailing 
IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org may yield more useful information, since that 
is our general purpose list, and sugar-devel is (supposed to be) focused 
on actual development :)

Bastien wrote on 5/21/19 9:26 AM:
> Hi Sugar,
>
> OLPC France has been in touch with two students who will organize
> IT workshops for children in various countries in Asia (India,
> Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) and South
> America (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru).
>
> OLPC France will give them two XO laptops.
>
> What is the best way to let them know people who are still active
> on OLPC deployments in these countries?
>
> I CC them -- don't forget to keep them in the loop or to send them
> OLPC contacts thay you may have in these countries.
>
> Below is their message.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
>
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>
> We are two students in IT school in France with the following project:
> In one year, we will go to Asia (India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos,
> Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) and South America (Brazil, Paraguay,
> Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru) to meet local children and student to
> share our IT knowledge.
>
> Following our studies, we are convinced of the opportunities, but also
> the dangers of IT for anyone. That’s why we want to awaken people to
> IT. But instead of creating a global workshop, we want to respond to a
> real need in local countries.
>
> To achieve that, we want to create our workshops based on OLPC
> initiative. OLPC France will lend us 2 XO computers. But to make our
> initiative more relevant, we want to respond to a real need in each
> country. For that reason, we want to exchange and discuss with
> experienced people to obtain a better understanding of the situation
> to build relevant workshops.
>
> Based on your experience , do you know some person with this kind of
> experience or knowledge? Your help will be very appreciated in any
> subject (kind of population in need, contact of local IT school,
> problems about IT, IT domain in need of qualified people, etc…)
>
> Thank you in advance !
>
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