Contributors program/December 12, 2008

Time : 1400-1415 EST / 1800-1815 UTC

Agenda

• laptops out to date / this week
• local laptop pools (temporary, long term)
• requests : current >5, follow up
  • Personal Health Record
  • AASDO: K12 in Ethiopia
  • VAVAN: Ag sustainability
  • Ed of Homeless children : no details...
• pools : new, follow up
  • France x20
  • Philippines x15
  • Jamaica x10

Notes

Current requests:

• • Furillo U req for 1,000,000 to distribute -- one should set up an olpcnews forum for these, they may lead to interesting conversation.
  • Personal Health Record : 20
  • AASDO: K12 in Ethiopia : 31
  • VAVAN: Ag sustainability : 85
  • Ed of Homeless children : 1,000, no details...

Furillo U

We are ready to move forward in this time of balancing of our perceptions and the light of truth. Understanding of reality comes from that balance. We at Unified Worldwide wish to give these tools of understanding to our children to prepare themselves for their future. If we can not provide them with XO laptops; we must find another tool to supply them with. We are determined to bring about needed changes in this world we live in and bounty that will enrich us all.  



I am a computer science major with two semesters left to graduate. I live in my home town of Monroe, Louisiana and attend ULM. Furillo is a street in the impoverished south-side that I came to know and cherish working as delivery driver. I am going to write stories introducing Furillo as my home town where life systematically taught me Magic using scientific method and mathematical proof. 

My company, Unified Worldwide 4631 Jonesboro Rd. West Monroe, La. 71292, is authorized by the state of Louisiana to do resell goods via a physical store or through the Internet. I have another company that is exploring ways to generate energy by manipulating the physical properties of water and light; but that is a story that I must be paid for telling. 

followups =

Follow up on old requests:

• • LXDE - 20

We have tested LXDE on one OLPC that we could get. It already works, although we had to strip down some functions. We are developing a fully functional desktop replacement for GNOME and KDE and involve about 30 developers from Asia and Europe on a continuous basis at the moment with different experiences. Our core developers have experience dating back to 1998 when they ported Linux to Chinese. Many are active in the debian development or have free software related jobs.

• • Skidmore - 20

We will work closely with the Paraguay team (Raúl Gutiérrez) the University of Wisconsin (Silas Bernardoni) and look to expand our collaboration with other universities. The formation of the organization is advancing at a rapid pace, and we need the laptops to proceed further. Based on the number of interested students attending the meetings, I would say that 20 laptops would suit our needs, at least initially.

• • Multi-robot workshop -- 5, skadge
  • OLPC for Health -- 10, amarcelo
  • Visual Language -- 4, anupambasu
  • Shining Star Academy update? (Trinitow couldn't get laptops in time in DE. does he have an address that can receive 4?)

• Uni projects
  • College of Charleston OLPC Project -- 2+, semmy.purewal - how is this coming?

• projectdb development: open sourcing, pia, dogi
  • community feedback : project forms, bimonthly updates?
  • email and other spam
  • google map updating
  • new django db via dogi? source available now from aaron k.

Participants

• Sj
• dogi
• M. Adgnot

Other requests and ideas

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