Even though OLPC's Contributors Program has a bit of a temporary inventory
shortage this month, please all join us voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar
community projects over IRC Live Chat! Please join us live now, to make
the best project allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat
Then type at bottom:
/join #olpc-meeting
AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 9 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Zuva Rabuda / Sunrise - Zimbabwe
2. Escolar Carlos Bravo - Granada, Nicaragua
3. VoIP-on-Mesh - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
4. Fedora Asia Pacific Ambassadors Event Box
5. RAP Ceibal San Jose - XO Una Amiga En Casa - Uruguay
6. Zambia School Expansion and Skill Development (Mothers Without Borders)
7. Creating alternatives for life with children living on the streets
- Bolivia
8. XO Laptop to Aid Teaching of English/Literacy Skills - Kenya;
Webster, Massachusetts
9. Generación Digital - Managua, Nicaragua
* 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
1. Zuva Rabuda / Sunrise - Zimbabwe
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67914
http://zuvarabuda1.wordpress.com
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 20 XO over 12 months
Project Background/Objectives:
1. To improve the computer literacy rate of children from
Maware rural community
2. To work towards improving the general education system within the
community
3. To work towards accommodating the marginalized rural children
into the global
village
4. To orient and accommodate the marginalzed rural community
children into the
contemporary world with lots of technological developments
5. To use technology as a tool for information dissermination to the
rural youth
especially on issues of HIV and AIDS
6. To use the centre as a tool to expose the hidden possibilities
from the
marginalized society
2. Escolar Carlos Bravo - Granada, Nicaragua
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68885
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Requests 30 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
In December 2009 a small group of family and friends started
to collect and transport school supplies and books to the largest public
school in Granada, Nicaragua. While this has been a grassroots effort,
we have already been able to provide more than 1,200 lbs. of paper,
books, pencils and notebooks to the school and in April 2010 contributed
$1,200 to fund the expansion of a small storage room to a large,
air-conditioned library complete with a broadband internet connection.
Mission of pilot: In conjunction with the director, teachers, students
and parents of Carlos Bravo, the pilot will establish the frameworks for
a successful rollout of One LapTop per Child to the entire school
population on an ongoing basis.
3. VoIP-on-Mesh - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69256
"If project is approved, i create a blog in blogspot."
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 1-2 XOs over 6 months
Project Objectives:
- Port a VoIP application to XO system
- Integrate VoIP with Mesh network (to detect and talk with other users)
4. Fedora Asia Pacific Ambassadors Event Box
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70403
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 6 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
To promote OLPCs cause and Fedora's use, by present the olpc as part
of the 'APACK box' (see plan of action) Encouraging participation in
fedora
and the OLPC project, while people who are interested in fedora but
want to
help olpc, can help take up one of the fedora maintained olpc packages.
Also to help create a presence for Fedora and OLPC at Events.
5. RAP Ceibal San Jose - XO Una Amiga En Casa - Uruguay
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70762
http://rapsanjose.blogspot.com
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Requests 5 XO-1.5s over 36 months
Project Objectives:
In URUGUAY the government decided in 2007 to follow the OLPC project,
becoming the first country in the world to deliver literally one
laptop per
child in the two following years.
As a result of the PLAN CEIBAL it was clear that the support of the
delivery and people's contact with the laptops, had to be held on
the basis
of a horizontal net, which was called Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal
**RAP CEIBAL** (PLAN CEIBAL Supporting Net). OUR MAIN OBJECTIVE IS
TO EDUCATE AND
GIVE SUPPORT TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS SO THAT THEY CAN TAKE AS MUCH
ADVANTAGE
OF THE LAPTOPS AS POSSIBLE .WE ARE IN PERMANENT CONTACT WITH THE
STUDENTS,
AND SINCE SOME OF THE MEMBERS ARE NOT SCHOOL TEACHERS WE HAVE NO
LAPTOP OF
OUR OWN TO GIVE PROPER SUPPORT TO THE PLAN. WE HAVE HELD A SURVEY IN
OUR CITY,
WICH IS PUBLISHED IN OUR WEBSITE http://rapsanjose.blogspot.com/ AND IT
WAS CLEARLY NOTICED THAT CHILDREN`S FAMILIES ARE NOT TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF THE
POSIBILITIES THAT A LAPTOP AT HOME CAN GIVE THEM.AS A RESULT OF THAT
DIAGNOSIS, WE HAVE ORGANIZED MEETINGS WITH FAMILIES IN ORDER TO GIVE
THEM
SUPPORT IN THE CORRECT USE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE LAPTOP.
6. Zambia School Expansion and Skill Development (Mothers Without Borders)
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70990
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Requests 100 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
Zambia has population of 12 million with 1 million being orphans.
The project's goal is the following:
1) Many of the orphan population live on the streets and beg, steal,
and/or
prostitute for a living. This project will provide them and other
children
of poverty an opportunity to learn/incorporate computer skills
into their
lives to open up new life/job opportunities for them.
2) The school being run by Mothers Without borders will also entice more
children to come to the school to be able to have this opportunity.
This will enhance the attendance of the school. The end result
will be
more jobs for adults (teachers, headmaster, etc.) and more
opportunities
for the children with the options that this education will open
up for them.
7. Creating alternatives for life with children living on the streets -
Bolivia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70998
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Requests 7 XOs over 4 months
Project Objectives:
- Generate alternatives for life, funds and resources from and for kids
living on the streets in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
Promoting and showing to the whole world a new form of education
appropriate to our times, creative, innovative and open.
- Create and adapt activities for the Xo, working with children's that
usually live on the streets and now are in a "foster home", making
them accessible to the world community.
- Make possible life alternatives and create future companies with the
help of Xo's as a learning tool aimed for children between 8 and
12 years old, moving into a new form of education.
- Connect the world via new “creative worlds.
- Build a self-funded creative center connected to the world.
- Produce a book and a documentary film about the experience.
8. XO Laptop to Aid Teaching of English/Literacy Skills - Kenya;
Webster, Massachusetts
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71539
http://playgroundgallery.org
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Requests 2-10 XOs over 2-8 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
Use XO laptops to promote ‘Verbal-Linguistic’ skills. The learners
will enjoy
learning through speaking, writing, reading, and listening,
researching with
the XO. The XO will give students an opportunity to
express themselves creatively with words, capture student voices
with audio,
text, pictures, students will create stories, interactive activities
related to
reading, writing, and speaking, students will read stories online,
record their
own stories and play literacy games. Our goal is to set a syllabus that
reinforces and harmonizes well with the Ministry of education
English curriculum.
9. Generación Digital - Managua, Nicaragua
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71573
http://www.lasenramdas.wordpress.com
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Requests 25 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
Generación Digital was implemented in Colegio Las Enramadas two
years ago
and this program has motivated more children to enroll in Las Enramadas.
With an estimated increase of 25% in student enrollment for next
year, we
will need a proportional increase in XO laptops for 2011 to meet these
needs.
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