OLPC Philippines

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Mabuhay! Welcome to OLPC Philippines

OLPC Philippines (OLPC PH) is a grassroots coalition of forward-looking and like-minded individuals living in the Philippines and abroad who are working to bring the XO Children's Machine and its unique educational methodology to Filipino children. Please join and share your ideas!

To join us, subscribe to the olpc-philippines mailing list and introduce yourself. We often send announcements and have discussions on this list.

If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the Wikieducator tutorial (in English) or ask the mailing list for help. For quick tips and to learn wiki syntax, reading the Wiki help page would be a good start.

Use the talk page / Discussion page for your comment, updates, especially blog sites within the Philippines or relevant sites that discussed about OLPC Philippines. Thank you.

About the Philippines

From the Wikipedia entry about Philippines:

The Philippines (officially known as the Republic of the Philippines), is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national economy is the 46th largest in the world with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$154.073 billion. There are more than 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide, the largest diaspora network in the world, about 11% of the total population of the Philippines. Ecologically, Philippines is considered to be among 17 of the most megadiverse countries in the world.

OLPC PH Projects

These are the projects OLPC PH is currently involved with:

• Flash as a Gaming/Edu-Gaming Platform for the XO-1
• OLPC Philippines Grassroots Developer Program
• OLPC Philippines Unang Liwanag

Community Activities

January 2009

• OLPC Philippines meeting at G2VC Techbar. Watch the replay at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1109274

December 2008

• Carlos Nazareno Brought one of the XO-1 units to the Philweavers christmas party, adding awareness about OLPC to the Philippine Web Designer/Developer community.

September 2008

• Software Freedom Day 2008, National Computer Center, Quezon City - Sept. 20, 2008
  • The OLPC PH team joined Software Freedom Day 2008 as a booth sponsor and was able to showcase the XO-1 laptop and OLPC PH grassroots to attendees of the event.
  • Jerome Gotangco was interviewed by Net 25.
  • Event pictures

August 2008

• Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008, UP Diliman, Quezon City - Aug. 23, 2008
  • Rowen Remis Iral delivered a 40-minute presentation of the XO-1 and OLPC PH grassroots effort
  • Event pictures

OLPC PH Meetings

Next meeting date

The next meeting is scheduled on Feb. 28, 2000 at the G2VC Techbar from 11AM to 2PM. If you are outside the Philippines and interested to join the discussion, you can check the local time in your area using http://www.timeanddate.com

With your IRC client, please connect to server irc.freenode.net and join #olpc-ph.

Next meeting agenda

• What is the exact vision for OLPC in the Philippines? -- from Ryan's post on OLPC PH Facebook account

1. Is there a main leadership team that supervise/oversee this OLPC initiative?
2. What is the exact vision for OLPC in the Philippines?
3. Have steps been taken to implement this vision in the Philippines?
4. Coordinate with current organizations operating to gather data on under privilege student populations

 in Metro Manila for easier logistics for us to understand how many units are needed per area.
     

• What are the milestones for the next 3-6 months?

• Can the organization have officials?

Please add topics for discussion here.

Minutes of previous meetings

For the minutes of the previous meeting, please check the Meeting Minutes page.

External Resources

The non-wiki site is at http://olpcph.multiply.com. There is also a group of supporters for OLPC Philippines at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8363657036

New OLPC Philippines site http://www.olpcph.co.cc

OLPC PH Wiki Archive

You can still access the OLPC PH Wiki Archive.