Hello Everybody,
I want to share with everybody what was discussed in the second get together I
organised last Sunday (28 Jun 2009) at Ascott Makati:
- OLPC Foundation formation. I informed the group that I am in the process of
forming the foundation that would assist us in providing the needed resources
to deploy the OLPC program in the country.
The foundation shall focus on promoting the OLPC program as envisioned by
Nicholas Negroponte. Initially this shall focus on using the XO hardware device
and Sugar as the default application.
At the same time, I advised the group the foundation is open to assist other
members of the group who may have projects using a different hardware and
software to secure donations for their implementation. For as long as the donor
is fully aware of the differences in technical requirements (vs using XO and
Sugar as the hardware and software), the foundation will support these projects
for the benefit of its volunteer members.
- Browser/ PDF front end application. Naz Nazareno presented the idea of
developing a front end application in the form of a browser which looks
like Windows and using the PDFs to contain the content. This may be an ideal
cost efficient approach that will make users comfortable in using an open
source application.
- Educational Content. Naz also shared with us the need of developing
educational content as a key success factor in the deployment of the OLPC
program. Jerome and Ryan had previously shared with the entire group the
various reports on OLPC deployments in other countries and these reports
confirmed the same conclusion.
Naz suggested engaging volunteer programmers in developing content for this
purpose. One approach is through partnering with schools and another through
educator blogs for non-students.
I shared with the group my recent meeting with Ray and his other co-teachers at
the Asian Pacific Colleges on their intention to work with OLPC to assist us in
our program. Ray later advised us they can offer to their students the option
of working on an OLPC project as part of their on-the-job training/ practicum
by assisting us in managing our school pilots. Another way is by engaging them
to develop local educational content.
I raised the advise from OLPC Australia on the availablility of free content
online for our immediate use. It was agreed we will focus initially on
identifying suitable content for teaching English since this will
be one subject which may have abundant selection, easy to deploy as a
curriculum supplement and where we can easy measure the learning results on the
student.
Naz suggested another approach is to develop content in a form of a video game
to make this interesting for the student.
School Pilot. A question was raised on what type of school (public or private)
will be our focus for deployment. I informed the group the preference is in
favour of public schools. However, Willie suggested it is essential also we
also engage private schools as well given of the better resources available to
deploy an OLPC program. He suggested a partnership arrangement where a private
school will share with another public school in its same locality on its
successful deployment. I advised that any private schools interested to deploy
the OLPC program should be willing to shoulder the total cost of ownership as
against public schools where we will have to assist them by covering the cost
of deployment.
Present in the meeting were Carlos (Naz) Nazareno, John Imbong, and Ray
Baquirin. At the same time, I had invite Vicki Puno, Willie Pertubal, Bubot
Santos, and Gab Pertubal.
Other matters. As previously mentioned, I met with Ray and other officials of
Asian Pacific Colleges on their interest to partner with us in deploying the
OLPC program. Their assistance can be in various ways ranging from developing
educational content to tapping students to develop projects around the OLPC to
assisting OLPC deployments in local public schools. I informed them as soon as
the foundation is registered and operational, we will formalise our partnership
through an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). One good idea presented is the
formation of cooperatives to support local school deployments.
Thanks.
Charles Chen
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:29:29 +0800
From: Carlos Nazareno <object...@gmail.com>
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] DLSU & OLPC Philippines
To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"
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Cc: Solomon See <solomon....@gmail.com>
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Hi All!
Some people from La Salle are interested in helping out with OLPC
Philippines. Below is an email from Solomon See from the La Salle CCS
faculty.
Solomon, to start participating in OLPC Philippines, it would be best
to join the OLPC Philippines mailing list here at:
olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org
You can subscribe at:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines
You can also find more information at the OLPC Ph wiki at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines
Solomon, Rey, if you can come up with a good proposal, you can request
developer XO Laptop units from OLPC Boston itself. Details are at the
URL below:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
Basically you fill up a form and if your request is approved, the
units will be shipped to your group.
Charles, Sandeep, it would be great if you guys can coordinate with
the guys from La Salle as Solomon and co. are pretty enthusiastic
about OLPC.
Best regards,
-Naz
"Anyway, DGDL and DLSU College of Computer Studies is interested in
helping out in
the OLPC PH project, in creating Games and Educational Content for the
OLPC. We have
reviewed the specs and capabilities of the OLPC from the site and have a game
project and development ideas for it. We could also help out in localizing the
applications that are in the OLPC. We are also wondering how we could
get access to
OLPC's so we can start reviewing and evaluating the capabilities of
the device and
field out development projects to student as their thesis starting
next term (June
2009).
If you have any inquiries or would like to contact us for possible
collaborations in
this matter, you can contact me at this address or at this mobile number
0917-8958530. Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks!
-Solomon"
--
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http://twitter.com/object404
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phlashers: philippine flash actionscripters
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then change it instead of just complaining."
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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:13:39 -0700
From: Cherry Withers <cherry.with...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] DLSU & OLPC Philippines
To: "OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots"
<olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org>
Cc: Solomon See <solomon....@gmail.com>
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Thank you for your interest and welcome to the group! We're in much need of
developer
support and any contribution is greatly appreciated.
In addition to what Carlos has said, I just want to add that one can start
developing even with lack of the hardware
itself. Here are some links for XO emulators and also Sugar on Stick:
QEMU runs a virtual XO in any machine and is what's mostly used by OLPC
developers:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation
You can also run Sugar on top of existing OS (Windows Vista currently
unsupported) through a
USB stick (called "Sugar on a Stick"). Details can be found on this page:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads
Hope this helps. Jerome Gotangco can chime in for additional tech info..
Cheers,
---Cherry
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Carlos Nazareno <object...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> Some people from La Salle are interested in helping out with OLPC
> Philippines. Below is an email from Solomon See from the La Salle CCS
> faculty.
>
> Solomon, to start participating in OLPC Philippines, it would be best
> to join the OLPC Philippines mailing list here at:
> olpc-philippines@lists.laptop.org
> You can subscribe at:
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines
>
> You can also find more information at the OLPC Ph wiki at:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines
>
> Solomon, Rey, if you can come up with a good proposal, you can request
> developer XO Laptop units from OLPC Boston itself. Details are at the
> URL below:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
>
> Basically you fill up a form and if your request is approved, the
> units will be shipped to your group.
>
> Charles, Sandeep, it would be great if you guys can coordinate with
> the guys from La Salle as Solomon and co. are pretty enthusiastic
> about OLPC.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Naz
>
> "Anyway, DGDL and DLSU College of Computer Studies is interested in
> helping out in
> the OLPC PH project, in creating Games and Educational Content for the
> OLPC. We have
> reviewed the specs and capabilities of the OLPC from the site and have a
> game
> project and development ideas for it. We could also help out in localizing
> the
> applications that are in the OLPC. We are also wondering how we could
> get access to
> OLPC's so we can start reviewing and evaluating the capabilities of
> the device and
> field out development projects to student as their thesis starting
> next term (June
> 2009).
>
> If you have any inquiries or would like to contact us for possible
> collaborations in
> this matter, you can contact me at this address or at this mobile number
> 0917-8958530. Hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Thanks!
> -Solomon"
>
> --
> carlos nazareno
> http://twitter.com/object404
> http://www.object404.com
> --
> user group manager
> phlashers: philippine flash actionscripters
> adobe flash/flex/air community
> http://www.phlashers.com
> --
> interactive media specialist
> zen graffiti studios
> http://www.zengraffiti.com
> --
> "if you don't like the way the world is running,
> then change it instead of just complaining."
> _______________________________________________
> OLPC-Philippines mailing list
> OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines
>
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