Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
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AGENDA:
* XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping:
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/
* Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project - Jefferson, Maryland
2. Fedora Security Lab - India, Germany, USA
3. Lubuto Library Project - Zambian Literacy Programming Project -
Silver Spring, Maryland
4. Language Documentation on Ambrym, Vanuatu - Berlin; Paris
5. Laptops Uganda
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
* Meeting results will be posted here very shortly:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings
1. Benji Smith’s Eagle and Youth Group Project - Jefferson, Maryland
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50626
http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 7/10 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
My project will provide entertainment and a learning experience for the
children of Los Toscones by providing them with basic computers that
can be
used for both fun and educational purposes.
I have created a quick-start guide that can be used on deployments
world-wide. The information being put in it can be found here:
http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates/moreworkdone.
I have put all of this information into a nice booklet that can be
printed
at someone's own home and can be distributed when they are doing
their own
deployments. It is currently in the process of being translated into
Spanish. Note: this is NOT yet completed. In three weeks after AP
exams, I
will begin doing a LOT of work, I just don't have the time right now.
You can track the progress of the project using the project updater,
http://sites.google.com/site/laptopsforthedominican/project-updates.
It has
all kinds of information, as does all of the sidebar.
2. Fedora Security Lab - India, Germany, USA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61414
http://blog.hiemanshu.in
http://planet.laptop.org
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Requests 2-4 XOs over 6 months
Project Objectives:
We are planning to use the XOs for testing the
Fedora Security Lab which is to be used as a Learning platform for
budding Security Professionals. We would like to test the compatibility
with the laptops and its hardware, and if something does not work right,
we would even be happy to write/make changes to the hardware/software
and contribute it back to the community.
3. Lubuto Library Project - Zambian Literacy Programming Project -
Silver Spring, Maryland
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61571
http://www.lubuto.org
http://www.olpclearningclub.org
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 6 XO-1.5s over 24 months
Project Objectives:
There is a critical need for means to teach all Zambian children to
read in their original language that the educational system cannot
meet. Lubuto libraries reach out-of-school children and can help them
toward reading by read-aloud and storytelling programs, but tools for
reading teaching in Zambian languages are not available. Youth who
have been using the One Laptop Per Child XO laptops in Lubuto
libraries and experienced Zambian reading teachers will together be
trained in the OLPC application Etoys and create early reading
programs in Zambian languages. The programs will then be made
available on laptops in the libraries and via the Lubuto.org website
to inspire creation of similar programs in other African countries and
languages.
Being able to approach learning to read in their native tongue will
literally mean development of reading fluency for hundreds of
thousands of out-of-school and vulnerable children and youth who do
not have access to adequate reading education. The Zambian-language
reading programs can be used in under equipped classrooms as well as
in Lubuto and other libraries, and programs can be adapted to
accommodate other African languages of similar structure (primarily
Bantu languages), potentially bringing literacy to millions of
children in Africa. It is also expected that programs to introduce
reading in Zambian languages will inspire more advanced local language
computer content as well as writing of children’s books in Zambian
languages to advance fluency.
There remains no question of the central importance of literacy in
African development and the spread of literacy is considered necessary
to achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals. Illiteracy
in Africa has been shown to underpin extreme poverty, the spread of
disease and the health and safety of girls and women, and endemic
underdevelopment on the continent. The central importance of learning
to read in one’s original language has been long understood, yet
solutions that would make this universally possible have long eluded
Zambian society. The potential social and economic benefits of this
straightforward innovation, then, are profound.
An additional, narrower benefit to the young Zambians who will develop
programming and educational product design skills can be expected to
not only benefit them but may set them on a course to develop more
useful educational tools in Zambian languages.
4. Language Documentation on Ambrym, Vanuatu - Berlin; Paris
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61574
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 1 XOs over 6-12 months
Project Objectives:
The participants are currently documenting several
languages in the Southwest of the island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The project
work involves audio and video recordings, which will lead to the
production
of dictionaries, story books and grammars for the previously undocumented
and undescribed languages. Due to the lack of devices with the
capacity to
display accustic and visual information, however, local communities will
hardly have access to the audio and video recordings. Also, the
opportunities for speakers to actively participate in the
documentation of
their languages and traditional knowledge themselves are very
limited. The
laptops provided by the OLPC project would help to make recordings
accessible to the communities as well as empower the youngest
generations to
use modern technologies to explore and record the traditional knowledge
which is in acute danger of being lost. The objectives of a collaboration
with the OLPC would therefore be the distribution of laptops to local
schools, storing the data collected during the documentation work on the
laptops and training children -- and their teachers -- to use the laptops
for documentation. The country of Vanuatu has already shown interest
in the
OLPC and is very adamant about the importance of language
documentation so
that we expect a collaboration would be welcome.
5. Laptops Uganda
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61631
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Requests 20 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
- Impart computer knowledge to the young. since my country 75% of the
population are the young people
- To bring unity by appreciating diversity, my country has more than 90
tribes, divided into 85 districts and has been affected by wars for the
last 30 years that’s has caused too much tribal difference yet we are
all Africans. So, I bringing kids of different tribes together sharing
the same computers it brings a sense of love and peace through sharing
hence unity.
- To fight computer illiteracy in the youth, many youth in Uganda have
never had an encounter with computers so weather I use an OX laptop or
any other brand of computers it will be the same to them. They need the
skill no matter the type of computers being used.
- Prepare the young for the future ,this 21st century the use of
computerized digital peripherals has became part of life in the world ,
me volunteering to reach out to the kids and the youth am preparing
them
for the future time so as to make the world a global village
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