OLPC Philippines

2007 status: orange
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Welcome to the home of the OLPC Philippines group. We are a grassroots coalition of Filipinos living in the Philippines and abroad who are working to bring the OLPC project to Filipino children. Please join us and share your ideas! Feel free to edit this page and any other pages in the wiki if you have something you would like to share, or if you think you can make an improvement to the website.

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Volunteer

If you'd like to contribute to the OLPC Philippines effort, here are some projects that are looking for help. If you have a project that needs volunteers, please post it here.

Bulacan volunteers needed (posted August 2007)

The Malaya OLPC Philippines group is looking for volunteers in the Bulacan, Philippines area to assist with technical development. They need:

• Computer scientists
• IT workers
• Volunteers with Linux administration experience
• Sponsors to donate materials and funding to the projects
• Organizers to contact potential sponsors and manage projects and tasks
• Educators to needed to design implementation of XO Machines

For immediate response contact Tim: +63 916 - 321 2042 or Email: timhack007 (at) gmail (dat) org

Participants for Manila Jam

See Curriculum Jam Manila

What's new

• Aug 11, 2007 - Malaya OLPC PH Demo Page beta v1.1 uploaded

    http://www.myjavaserver.com/~wenmi01/xoph/OLPC/

• People, process and systems. We need you! If you subscribe to the project's Core principles and would like to volunteer, please add your name, OLPC user name, location, country, area of expertise and a brief description about yourself.

• There is an upcoming Curriculum Jam Manila during the first weekend of October 2007. We need organizers, volunteers, participants, and kids to test the lesson plans we come up with - contact Mel Chua if you're interested.

• Please see the OLPC in the Philippines blog at http://onelaptop.blogspot.com

• One Laptop Per Child (OPLC): New Pedagogy? from It's Hip2b2 (http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2007/05/15/one-laptop-per-child-oplc-the-new-pedagogy/)

• OLPC Project, please contact Rowen Remis R. Iral by his website; http://wenmi01.bravehost.com

http://wenmi01.bravehost.com/chatme - chatlink

In the Press etc...

Please add any links here that are relevant to the Philippines only.

• Blog > Law Norms Code.ph > Combating Reverse Digital Imperialism: $100 Laptop As a Tool for Development

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• A closer look at what '$100 laptop' will be

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0129/p13s01-stct.html?s=hns

• One Laptop Per Child: Closing the North-South Digital Gap http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/02/24/TECH2006022456940.html

• Low-cost laptop computer should be ready by summer

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0111/p17s01-stct.html?s=hns

• Poor rural Thai students to get $100 laptops

http://services.inquirer.net/express/06/12/24/html_output/xmlhtml/20061224-40007-xml.html

• Reality Bites

Rich Man, Poor Man Qanta to Build $100 Laptop by Jerry Liao http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2005/12/21/TECH2005122152101.html

- updated by Rowen

IT Engineer wanted to join OLPC in it's Education Project

• Rowen Remis R. Iral

http://wenmi01.bravehost.com

Check the forum at for OLPC Project: http://wenmi01.proboards76.com

OLPC / XO Philippines Photo Gallery http://wenmi01.multiply.com/

The Philippine National Information Technology Standards: http://www.philnits.org

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Scheduled Tasks

OLPCPh / XOPH

Project Malaya- ED_HW_SW (B2-1 COMPATIBILITY is also our target to support developers) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Linux_Porting_and_Developing_Educational_Software

Project Manager: Rowen

• Aug 4 - B4 was lent to Tim
• Aug 5 - Project Starts (3wks/6wks)
• Aug 11 - Demos /Presentation ready (squeakers train and develop) 5 squeakers
• Aug 12 - (linux porting begins/sugar/hw tweaks)
• Aug 18 - meeting for the XOPH Team with other Malaya members
• Aug 19 - Squeak ABC trainer game (1/2), preparation for sponsors
• Aug 22 - Name Registration of OLPCPH should be official recognized
• Aug 25 - 2 B2-1 machines ( machines for big demo)
• Aug 26 - 2 B2-1 machines (installed latest Stable OS) Squeakers meeting
• Sept 1 - Squeak ABC Trainer (full)
• Sept 2 - (linux porting ends/sugar/hw tweaks) presentation stuff ready
• Sept 8 - Curriculum / Education check
• Sept 9 - Launch / booth/ demo/presentation
• Oct 5-7 -Curriculum Jam 2007 Manila

- Accomplished

• Aug 18-19 - Dictionary for OLPC, Tagalog content from English, Japanese content too was included.
• Aug 11 - Finished a Beta 1.1 version of the OLPC PH demo page, B4 was returned to Rowen

               - Noted that a B2-1 lent to Tim will be used by Tim for hardware and Linux development of Sugar
               - Plans were arranged for creating smaller teams of developers and some volunteers
               - B2-1 will be asked for access and Sugar will be emulated on Virtual Box

• Aug 6 - Tim introduce and demonstrate B4 to ACSAT(Baliuag,Bulacan) Professors and IT students.
• Aug 5 - Tim is starting to make the Malaya GLUG OLPC XO Demo-page.

Official OLPCPH Developers under Developer's Program (those with machines):

 - Rowen
 - Tim
 - Others for pending or those who haven't contacted us yet

- Like this OLPC Peru is a good way to start: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9618247@N06/ - Another list of presentation http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Laptop_demonstrations

Goals

Education Discipline System Technology Progress

Launching

To be able to launch we have to order 250,000 to 1M XO machines. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Philippine_launch_plan

The People

• Sandeep Chandiramani (sgc)|Boston|USA|Finance|Red Hat employee from 1998-2006
• William Yu, Ateneo de Manila University
• Kouklis, Mike(Chief Mike) |U.S. Navy,Retired Engineer @ Kalibo, Aklan Rural:Philippines
• Rowen Remis R. Iral(Rowen), PhilNITS Society, Fundamental Information Technology Engineer(FE) http://wenmi01.bravehost.com

OLPCPH / XOPH - http://wenmi01.multiply.com

• Timothy Paul B. Martinez(Tim), Founder: Malaya Linux User Group, Python programmer, and educator in heart and spirit.
• Mel Chua, OLPC intern (based in Boston, USA) - my parents immigrated to the US from the Philippines ~25 years ago, and much of my extended family still lives near Manila.
• Aldwin B. Evangelista; Programmer, Computer Technician

Milestones/Activities

2007

Aug. 2007	Rowen lent the XO B4 to Tim, Malaya lacks machine while Rowen continued development and rugged testing and usage for an A+ teacher
Jul. 2007	Malaya needs XO, Rowen received a B4 from OLPC
Jun. 2007	Rowen received 3 B2-1s XO machine development & testing started
Apr. 2007	Guest attendance at the OLPC "Countries Meeting" in Cambridge, MA.
Feb. 2007	Demonstration to government (Department of Education, CICT, ASTI) officials and private-sector representatives at CICT.
Jan. 2007	B1-test machine arrives in the Philippines.

Elementary School in Kalibo Aklan