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AGENDA:
* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
* Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Decipherable Matrix - Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51595
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Requests 1 XO over 12-24 months
Project Objectives:
To develop the software needed to add, modify, and communicate using
a decipherable matrix.
2. Got Game? Web version - Ghana & Coppell, Texas, USA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51973
https://sites.google.com/a/newtech.coppellisd.com/new-tech-high-coppell-dp1/home
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Requests 15 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
Provide an opportunity for children in Ghana to expand their
educational experiences through the use of technology
· Create a sharing community with students from Coppell Texas and
Ghana to create a joint project
· Allow Ghana students to have a hand in the creation of their
educational resources
· Provide students from an American High School an opportunity to see
first hand what life is like for a student in Ghana
3. Budalangi Child Computer Connection Program - Kenya
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52083
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Requests 10 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
a) To avail computer training to the majority of children in
Budalangi within two years.
b) To introduce internet services in the region hence exposing the
children for the first time ever to another technology necessary for
future professional and academic success.
c) To empower the children with information thereby enabling them to
create and share learning experiences with other children in other part
of the world especially the developed world.
d) To provide children with access to knowledge and opportunities to
interact, explore experiment and express themselves.
4. XO-1.5 B2 for Scratch Developer - United Kingdom
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52170
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Requests 1 XO-1.5 B2 over (undetermined) months
Project Objectives:
1) Diagnose & resolve current sound problem with Scratch on XO
1.5 (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9375)
2) Help resolve other Scratch related issues
5. Phu My Orphanage, Vietnam / Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52292
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Requests 5 XOs over 4 months
Project Objectives:
To introduce XO as a learning tool for children at the Phu My
Orphanage in Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and create a community of
supporters of XO and Sugar users.
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