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ANNOUNCEMENT:- OLPC Pune Group is conducting Getting Started XO Camp on 1st March,2009 in Pune (Scroll down for the details)

OLPC started it's journey in India in September,2007 at Khairat, a rural village near Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra. After the successful stories of Khairat, Bangalore, Nashik, Dugawar...now it's the turn of Pune!

OLPC Pune Group took a start on 14th Feb,2009 at the event "Gnunify 2009" at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research with the support and interest of enthusiastic members believing in the noble cause of spreading knowledge and educating children of underprivileged sections of society. OLPC Pune Group has categorized the project primarily in three areas of learning, technology and outreach. Members are working in their own areas of interest. Sole purpose is to reach students in rural areas and letting them experience the fun and pleasure of self learning on XO laptops.

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Getting Started XO Camp

The Getting Started XO Camp is scheduled on 1st March, 2009 in Pune.

XO Laptop

Here is your chance to be part of this beginning we can make together to bring about change in lives of kids in and around Pune that need our attention to provide quality education.This camp is for - technical and non-technical both.

The details for the camp is as follows :-

Venue :-
Room No. 207,
Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research,
1st Floor, Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road,
Model Colony, Pune - 411016.

Agenda :-

Time	Room No.207		Session conducted by
0845	Coffee and registration
0900	Introduction and Agenda Review
0915	XO World - Why, What, Where To		Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay from The Fedora Project
1215	Break for Lunch
1300	Localization of Sugar -Introduction and Getting Started		Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay from The Fedora Project
1400	Digital Bridge Foundation (DBF)- Introduction		Amit Gogna from Digital Bridge Foundation
1500	Starting OLPC Pune Deployment - Road Ahead		Open Discussion
1600	Break for Tea
1615	To be Scheduled ...

The localization of Sugar bits require an Internet connection and, the need to have the Pootle instance up. Else, we would be doing a run through about various localization tools that allow off-line usage and, good things to know about localization.

Details of Each Session

XO World

• Quick introduction to OLPC (I promise to keep this short)
• Introduction to Sugar
• Learning about Activties on Sugar
• Howto Build New Activities (the usual bits that you-should-know)
• Hacking your XO

Localization of Sugar -Introduction and Getting Started

• Introduction to Pootle
• Localization of Sugar into Indian Languages
• Off-line tools
• Good to know stuff

Digital Bridge Foundation (DBF)- Introduction

• Introduction
• Vision / Mission
• Projects on Ground
• People

Starting OLPC Pune Deployment - Road Ahead

-- still to be listed --

Attendees

Sign up here if you plan to attend.

• Amit Gogna
  
• Sankarshan (sankarshan at fedoraproject dot org)
• Pradnya Naik

Suggestions for Getting Started XO Camp

Kindly let us know your view and opinions on your expectations for the session if any :-

OLPC Pune To do list

• Getting started camp and other meetings for volunteers
• finding potential sites for project implementation
• aiming an initial distribution of 30 XO within 30 days.
• finding potential sponsors
• finding out possible content that will be relevant
• signing up participants for testing the Sugar builds
• formalizing a process towards getting developers to for Sugar
• and....more....

Mailing list

More support and guidance is a must for the success and implementation of project. To be a part of OLPC Pune please follow the discussions on: http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-india

History

OLPC project is founded by Nicholas Negroponte.

Other Links

• OLPC India page
• Marathi localisation
• Pootle Translation System
• How to Translate using Pootle