I hope to be able to briefly review the 5 projects ahead of the meeting and comment in RT.
Christoph Holt schrieb: > Please join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over > IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Today/Friday) > http://forum.laptop.org/chat > > Then type at bottom: > /join #olpc-meeting > > > 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. OLPC on Puppy Linux - Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia > http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48455 > [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] > > Requests 2 XO's over undetermined months > > Project Objectives: > C0-Build a Puppy Linux version. Compile package, provide ongoing > support, troubleshoot, build a repo etc. > > > 2. Using XO Technology Awareness on HIV/AIDS among children ages 4–16 - > Kenya > http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48476 > http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43608 > http://xoaidsbyhoc.tumblr.com [ LINK NEEDED FROM > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] > > Requests 8 XO's over 2-6 months > > Project Objectives: > 1. To help child get basic computer skills using xo laptop > 2. Pupils/ Learners to use xo activities to get awareness of HIV/AIDS. > 3. To equip the teacher with necessary xo skills to help the learner > in HIV/AIDSawareness. > 4. To use xo laptop to deliver life skills that will lead to Aids > free life > 5. Identify appropriate sources o information on HIv/ Aids related > issues. > 6. Make decisions about personal and social behaviour that reduce > risk of HIV and STD infection using the XO technology. > 7. Show compassion towards and concern for those infected and > affected by v > 8. Communicate effectively with peers and others, issues and concerns > related to HIV/AIDS and STDs using the XO chat > 9. To be actively involved in school and out activities aimed at > prevention and central of HIV and STD's infections > > > 3. GaiaBB: Proposal for shared community software - Victoria, Australia > http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48637 > [ http://gaiabb.com forthcoming; LINK NEEDED FROM > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] > > Requests 2 XO's over 8 months > > Project Objectives: > I would like make a proposal to re-purpose my general purpose forum > software (GaiaBB) to be XO community specific, using a peer to peer > replication to allow kids to create and contribute to their own easily > managed forums maintained on their laptops with no central server. > > Typically, forum software requires a database backend, but is actually > very small footprint as long as you don't allow image attachments. > Allowing peer to peer replication of the data between participants > would allow them to grab updates to the forum when they're in range > say in school, and answer / reply to threads when off radio, say at > home. > > > 4. FotoToon - Buenos Aires, Argentina > http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48696 > [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] > > Requests 2 XO's over 6 months > > Project Objectives: > I have developed the following Activities in Spanish: > ActivityDomino http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212 > Ecomundo http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213 > Elements http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4214 > I am developing an activity to create comics, FotoToon. > (git http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/fototoon/ ). > > * I think FotoToontil can be very useful for developing expression, > analysis of problems, and > co-operative teamwork. > The Activities already developed can be found in use, but I would > like to complete them and > to be able to implement shared use between various types of computers. > * In addition, in Foto Toon I need to test how to take images from > the Journal, and in my > current development environment (I am writing in Fedora 11 on my > machine) I cannot do it. > * In addition to these activities, I am participating actively in > "Sugar Days Argentina" > <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SugarDaysArgentina> That we are doing > in our country with > the objective of creating a community of developers and teachers > around the OLPC project > and Sugar and the larger goal of realizing its implementation in our > country. > * I would also like to develop an Activity for the creation of > stop-motion animations (using > sequences of photos) that will also permit the taking of sequences of > photos for detecting > differences (in movement and time between the photos) that will > permit calculating velocity > or acceleration. > > > 5. Bookwriting photo-interviewing traveling musician - Sallis, > Mississippi/MS, USA > http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48800 > [ MISSING PUBLIC PAGE OFF OF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] > > Requests 2 XO's over 6-12 months > > Project Objectives: > The aim of this project is to demonstrate the > usefulness of a DIY attitude combined with the capabilities of modern > technology that both meets creative desires and maintains a balance > and strong connection with humanity and nature. It is an expose, a > book, of a person who is just like you, me, or anyone else, with > thoughts and feelings and troubles and joys. Only when a person shines > the brightest are they the most visible to naked eye. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep