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==Pilot Details==
Nepal's Department of Education is planning to pilot OLPC at a test school in April of 2008. Nepal's Minister of Education, Pradip Nepal, strongly support the OLPC program. Currently, the pilot is planned at a Kathmandu-area school. The Danish IT Society has generously donated roughly 200 XO laptops for the pilot.

50 laptops should arrive in Mid-March and the remainder will arrive early April. The pilot will take place at a single school in the outskirts of Kathmandu. Laptops will be piloted in grades 2 and 6 (ages 6 and 11). 

[http://www.olenepal.org OLE Nepal] is coordinating many aspects of pilot including teacher training, learning activity development, networking, and hardware deployment.

==Team Members==
From the Department of Education:
* Baburam Poudel, oversees pilot implementation
* Khaga Raj Poudel, assists Baburam
* Kamal Kafle, computer engineer
* Arjun Aryal, computer engineer

From [http://www.olenepal.org OLE Nepal]
* Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta, Teacher training and curriculum development for the pilot
* Bryan Berry, lead systems engineer
* Sulochan Acharya, systems engineer

Other groups involved:
* [http://www.fossnepal.org FOSS Nepal] is helping with localization - Subir Pradhanang and Basanta Shrestha particularly
* [http://www.nepalwireless.net Nepal Wireless] will help connect the school to the Internet using Wifi Point-to-Point links
* [http://www.olpcnepal.org OLPC Nepal] Localization and activity development

Other volunteers:
* Tony Pearson, software engineer

Personnel Needs: Need to designate someone to test and prepare the power solutions. [http://www.olenepal.org/team.html Ram Krishna Singh] would be ideal but he is very busy developing activities for the pilot.

==Timeline==

The Nepali government still hasn't selected the pilot school. We will shift much of the testing to the school premises once it is selected.


=== Week 1 Feb 11 - 15 ===

Build out basic features of test School Server and several test XO's

=== Week 2 - Feb 17 - 22 ===

Comprehensively test Deployment Build 1 for the School Server together w/ XO's

The Deployment Build for the server is simply the stock XS 150 Build plus the content we are bundling into it

See the online spreadsheet for what's included in [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pJrekGFLbqe6sdOitu3tYbQ Deployment Build 1]


=== Week 3 - Feb 24 - 29 ===

# Fix problems found Deployment Build 1
# Stress test XO's, school server, and active antenna
# Work on automating the hardware testing process, particularly for testing XO batteries and mesh networking


=== Week 4 - March 2 - 7 ===

# Work on XS Deployment build 2 for the School Server
# Testing should begin at the school site by this time

=== Week 5 - March 9 - 14 ===

# Test XS Deployment Build 2
# Set up and test a deployment build for the XO for the pilot

=== Week 6 - March 16 - 21 ===

=== Week 7 - March 23 - 28 ===

=== Week 8 - March 30 - April 4 ===

=== Week 9 - April 6 - 11 ===

=== Week 10 - April 13 - 18 ===



== Important dates: ==


* March 15th - Receive 50 XO's

* Early April - Receive 150 additional XO's

* April 5 or 8 -- 7 days training session for teachers

* April 10th -- National Parliamentary Elections, may delay start of school

* April 13th -- School starts

* April 13 - 15 -- In-school training for kids and teachers

==Teacher Training Plan==
* The training will be for a total of 7 days.
* The first 4 days of the training will be residential (i.e., in a hotel/motel away from the school)--could be from April 5 to 8 
* The teachers will go home after that.  And there will be a few days gap before the start of the school year. 
* During this gap, the elections will be held. Plus the teachers will have a couple of days of formal interactions with parents and other stakeholders in the school itself where they will not only introduce the participants


== [[Nepal:Redundancy|Strategy for Redundancy]] ==

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