Congrats all around! I hope to pitch in for future projects. For a project like this, one would expect mainstream media pickup. Are there any links to share?
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito <gerald.ard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ditto! > This is very exciting work. > Gerald > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, K Villa <krvi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Congratulations are in order to you and everyone that put this all >> together and to the community that opened its mind and placed its trust to >> each and every effort so selflessly given. >> Kudos. >> /Karissa Villa >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:20 PM, jgotan...@gmail.com <jgotan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Now it can be told - that the Philippines is now officially in the >>> list of countries that have deployed the OLPC program to a school. >>> Education Kindling has announced the launch of the OLPC program pilot >>> in Lubang, Occ. Mindoro today and was attended by Dep Ed secretary >>> Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC. >>> >>> I have been doing OLPC advocacy since 2008 and this resulted to >>> Education Kindling with some members of this mailing list. Seeing 95 >>> kids now at the close of 2010 with OLPC XO-1.5 laptops in Lubang is a >>> dream come true for many of us here. Thank you Meg Simpson, Susan >>> Abaya and the members of the NCC alumni (I have lost count but you >>> know who you are) for making this happen, along with Mayor Sanchez and >>> the local government of Lubang. Kudos as well to the teachers involved >>> and the parents who have been very supportive of the cause for their >>> children. Without your contribution and dedication to the Lubang >>> project, this would not be possible at all. Our mission has just >>> begun! >>> >>> I've uploaded some pictures from the launch. You can check it out at >>> >>> http://picasaweb.google.com/jgotangco/EducationKindlingEKindlingOLPCProgramPublicLaunchAtLubang?feat=directlink >>> >>> My public gallery has some photos of past OLPC Philippines Community >>> and Education Kindling events we have participated as well: >>> http://picasaweb.google.com/jgotangco >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Jerome G. >>> http://www.google.com/profiles/jgotangco >>> http://ph.linkedin.com/in/jeromegotangco >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OLPC-Philippines mailing list >>> OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines >> >> >> >> -- >> ======================= >> » design communicates / www.east-axis.com « >> If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be >> patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. >> » krvilla.blogspot.com » Bookshelf » ideography.wordpress.com » My >> Posterous » Pics on Flickr » Twitter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OLPC-Philippines mailing list >> OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-Philippines mailing list > OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines > > _______________________________________________ OLPC-Philippines mailing list OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines