Projects/computer outreach
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Introduction
- Name: Computer Outreach Program using XO
- Location: Tagaytay, Philippines
- Number of Laptops Requested:1
Objectives
- <List your project objectives>
Scope
- This project will reach and educate students in the remote areas, with XO activities.
- Initiate and conduct presentations and demonstrations to teachers, students and school administrators.
- Conduct activities that will students, teachers and school administrators hands-on experience with the XO and its activities.
- Explore the possibility of developing a software (Courselab)
Project Description
- I will use laptop to teach elementary students especially those that are
located in remote areas here in the Philippines about computers . I will utilize it in demonstrations , presentation , multimedia content and also give the children hands-on activities using the system. I will also use this for software development . One is mind is getting courselab software to work with this system. I think that software will help the children a lot in their computer education.
Project Member/s
- Allan Victorio Alano
- Experience:
- chip reverse engineering
- software and hardware programming
- linux kernel building, assembly, python, c++
End Products
SugarMail is a mail client that provide mail services to all XO user to send e-mail with or without internet connection. SugarMail require no mail server for it to work properly as it use the tinymail framework for mobility.
Distribution and Sharing
The SugarMail will be included in activities list in OLPC wiki that can be downloaded by any XO user arround the world.
Timeline
This project require 1 year of development process. Development might take longer time because the developer still not familiar with XO laptop and it's environment. This require additional 3-4 month for developer to study the features available in XO laptop including the meshed network features that might be used in SugarMail implementation.
