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''Old content archived at [[OLPC South Africa/Archive]]'' |
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== OLPC in South Africa == |
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= Deployments = |
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We have two deployments in South Africa: |
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* Kliptown Youth Project in Soweto - 100 XOs |
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Thulani Madondo who leads Kliptown Youth Program is at United Nations. He is in US from the 18 May to 13 June 2008.He will be sharing with the world on how families can donate XO laptops to organizations. The Kliptown Youth Program joined the One here... One there team in Haenertsburg from 10-23 August 2008 for the deployment of 100 XO laptops. Visit the following links to read more about their experiences http://iuohot.blogspot.com/ and http://www.kliptownyouthprogram.org |
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* Three schools in Limpopo - 100 XOs - sponsored and deployed by [http://www.indiana.edu/~iuohot/ One Here... One There]. |
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These projects were funded by donations from non-profit organisations in the USA, who provided funding for the XOs, school servers, generators and other infrastructure, and provided volunteers to assist with deploying the XOs and training the teachers and children. |
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== Johannesburg == |
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The South African Department of Education is not currently involved with OLPC. |
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Paul Commons is coming to Pretoria (Hanaertsburg) in August 2008 with a team of volunteers to deploy 100 XOs through the Give Many program. |
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== Getting involved == |
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= Events = |
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== Cape Town == |
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Here are some ways to get involved locally: |
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* Upcoming Events |
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* Find organisations willing to donate, to raise funds to run a deployment in the Western Cape. Minimum order is 100 XOs through the [http://laptopgiving.org/en/group-giving.php Give Many] program, and someone must take responsibility for doing the deployment - and additional things are required too like access points, internet connectivity, generators, server for the school, etc. |
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* Past Events |
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:''We are in the process of setting up a local non-profit organisation to coordinate this. Contact us at the email address below if you want to participate in this.'' |
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** 08 May 2007 - Cape Linux Users Group - "Developing Activities For Sugar" More information: [http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Upcoming_Talks] |
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* Work with educators, educational organisations, on the [http://sugarlabs.org Sugar] software (the educational platform used on the XOs) - get them set up with it on say [http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu Ubuntu] on conventional computers, get them involved in using/testing the software and giving feedback |
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** 19/20 April 2007 - OLPC-ZA will be running a stand and showing off the XO during the [http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za Digital Freedom Expo] at the University of the Western Cape. |
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* Produce local content: Sugar includes a PDF [[Read|Reader]] which can be used to display content like text books. Some countries have even scanned existing text books. The XOs may include sections of [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] content which has been reformatted for offline use. |
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= Initiatives = |
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== Government Initiatives == |
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* September 2008 - Department of Education Expression Of Interest: [[media:Expression_of_Interest_English.pdf]] |
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* [[Localization|Translate]] the Sugar software into local languages. |
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Or you can get involved in the global project: |
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== Independent Organisational Initiatives == |
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* Develop [[Activities]] for Sugar |
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=== [http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.co.za Shuttleworth Foundation] === |
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* [http://www.kusasa.org Building Analytical Capacity through Peer-Taught Software Engineering] |
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* Test [http://sugarlabs.org Sugar], file [http://dev.laptop.org bug reports], contribute to development |
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* The Grassroots community Organization South Africa |
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You can apply through the [[contributors program]] to get an XO for a specific project. If you are interested, first contact [[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]] as we may have a pool of XOs to use for OLPC-ZA. |
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== Private Sector Initiatives == |
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== Contact details == |
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http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-za/ |
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You can contact the OLPC South Africa team at olpc.za@gmail.com. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~iuohot/ |
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If you want to engage in discussion with everyone interested in OLPC (and related projects) in South Africa, join the [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-za olpc-za] mailing list. You will then receive copies of mails sent to the list. |
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Old content archived at OLPC South Africa/Archive
OLPC in South Africa
We have two deployments in South Africa:
- Kliptown Youth Project in Soweto - 100 XOs
- Three schools in Limpopo - 100 XOs - sponsored and deployed by One Here... One There.
These projects were funded by donations from non-profit organisations in the USA, who provided funding for the XOs, school servers, generators and other infrastructure, and provided volunteers to assist with deploying the XOs and training the teachers and children.
The South African Department of Education is not currently involved with OLPC.
Getting involved
Here are some ways to get involved locally:
- Find organisations willing to donate, to raise funds to run a deployment in the Western Cape. Minimum order is 100 XOs through the Give Many program, and someone must take responsibility for doing the deployment - and additional things are required too like access points, internet connectivity, generators, server for the school, etc.
- We are in the process of setting up a local non-profit organisation to coordinate this. Contact us at the email address below if you want to participate in this.
- Work with educators, educational organisations, on the Sugar software (the educational platform used on the XOs) - get them set up with it on say Ubuntu on conventional computers, get them involved in using/testing the software and giving feedback
- Produce local content: Sugar includes a PDF Reader which can be used to display content like text books. Some countries have even scanned existing text books. The XOs may include sections of Wikipedia content which has been reformatted for offline use.
- Translate the Sugar software into local languages.
Or you can get involved in the global project:
- Develop Activities for Sugar
- Test Sugar, file bug reports, contribute to development
You can apply through the contributors program to get an XO for a specific project. If you are interested, first contact Morgan Collett as we may have a pool of XOs to use for OLPC-ZA.
Contact details
You can contact the OLPC South Africa team at olpc.za@gmail.com.
If you want to engage in discussion with everyone interested in OLPC (and related projects) in South Africa, join the olpc-za mailing list. You will then receive copies of mails sent to the list.
Summary
| Primary Language | ,|x|Language spoken::x}} |
| Number of Laptops | Number of manufactured laptops::200 |
| Keyboard Layout | Keyboard::OLPC English Keyboard |
| Build | ,|x|Software release::x}} |
| Date(s) Arrived in Country | ,|x|Has received laptops on date::x}} |
| School Server | ,|x|School server status::x}} |
| Deployment Status | Deployment status::200 XOs |