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.

Legally recognized as OLPCPH. 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

To join us, subscribe to the olpc-philippines mailing list and introduce yourself. We often send announcements and have discussions on this list. You can also post a comment to this page's discussion page. If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the Wikieducator tutorial (in English) or ask the mailing list for help.

What's New

14Nov 2007	IRC Channel #olpc-philippines successfully registered @ irc.oftc.net please register your nick(name) meet-up times TBD.
05Nov 2007	Taking the initiative to the next level. Created an informal group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8363657036) to provide a platform for open discussion and collaboration. (Apologies to OLPCPH for creating yet another group but I think this is a great way to solicit help from people who wish to remain non-volunteers. sgc)
19Oct 2007	OLPCPH is the headgroup for the small springing groups in the Philippines, pls work with OLPCPH team to centralize efforts and please report. We're looking for you. (Comment from sgc: Where and how can they work with OLPCPH?)
15Oct 2007	It's Official! OLPC Uruguay is buying 100,000 XO laptops. Through the Ceibal Project, the Uruguayan government is planning to give one laptop to every school child in the country.
23Sep 2007	Sent an introduction email to Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla of the Senate of the Philippines.
29Aug 2007	OLPCPH was registered as the official name of OLPC Philippines.

OLPCPH Core Group and Unang Liwanag

To all volunteers of OLPCPH, I'm Tim and we will now organize the whole group and all the resources we have. We will now plan for Unang Liwanag and create a new jam soon. Please e-mail me so we I can update everyone and we will set a date for online meeting/comference in IRC or any live chat -like yahoo messenger. My e-mail add: timhack007(at)gmail(dot)com. Thanks

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.

The categories are listed and are required to report to OLPCPH:

• Developers - joining the OLPCPH team requires you have the knowledge in IT and Linux
• Educators - wants to create content, add educational technology, help in education, list your name here: Educators
• Sponsors

Please contact Tim and Rowen of OLPC Philippines if you want to join us here in OLPCPH

Volunteers needed (posted August 2007)

The Malaya OLPC Philippines group is looking for volunteers in the Philippines 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) com

Project: Unang Liwanag (First Light)

This project is the "Pilot Launch" project for OLPC Philippines.

This project will be the start of the Pilot Distribution, orders will start from 250 XO machines upto a 100,000 order and then to 250,000.

This project will take orders of school upon approval of OLPC and recognition of government to OLPCPH. As noted the price of XO machine will be almost the same. OLPCPH will be the single point of contact and should be the one to have developer key and activation will be done in OLPCPH office. We won't tolerate any black market to occur.

Estimated deployment time is 6 months to years, starting from approval of government and deployment of OLPC team.

OLPCPH is under negotiation with the Philippine government and work is in progress.

Needed

4 developer XO machines for Localization development

20 XO machines for pilot school

1 Pilot School - kindergarten / elementary

Sponsors

In cooperation with

Grassroots for Australia OLPC Australia / http://www.ole.org/ / contact: http://lukego.livejournal.com/tag/forth

Lukego's some project working on now: http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/misc/etoys/

Grassroots for Japan: OLPC Japan

Grassroots for Nepal: OLPC Nepal

OLPC Nepal http://olpcnepal.org

We are helping OLPC Japan, OLPC Nepal too.

Resources and links

• Malaya OLPC PH Demo Page beta v1.1 (Aug 11, 2007) - http://www.myjavaserver.com/~wenmi01/xoph/OLPC/
• OLPC / XO Philippines Photo Gallery - http://olpcph.multiply.com/
• The Philippine National Information Technology Standards - http://www.philnits.org
• William Yu's blog on OLPC - http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2007/01/31/one-laptop-per-child-olpc-in-manila/
• 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/)
• Blog > Law Norms Code.ph - Combating Reverse Digital Imperialism: $100 Laptop As a Tool for Development
• 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

Goals

Education Discipline System Technology Progress

Reports

This page is intended for technical audience and the development team. OLPC_Philippines:Report

Department of Education

This would be the section for Sandeep and those working with the government on DepEd status about OLPC project.

Members

Add yourself to this list if you are interested in OLPC Philippines.

Please provide a way to contact you e.g. email, mobile, website. Email is good or have a user page link that we can follow if you're registered in this wiki. If you've registered and validated your email account in the wiki, in the user page there's a "E-mail this user" link in the "Toolbox", which can be used.

A reporting Link is available here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines:Report

• Sandeep Chandiramani (sgc). Boston-based global person. Red Hat employee from 1998-2006. Volunteered at OLPC (MIT) in Oct'06. Brought the first prototype to the Philippines in Jan'07. Trying to take the initiative to the next level.
• William Yu, Ateneo de Manila University
• Kouklis, Mike(Chief Mike) |U.S. Navy,Retired Engineer @ Kalibo, Aklan Rural:Philippines
• Romelsa Romero, Master of Science in Information Technology, Instructor at Asian College of Science and Technology
• Rowen Remis R. Iral(Rowen), PhilNITS Society, Fundamental Information Technology Engineer(FE), OLPCPH Project Manager
• James Shields, Software Developer; Tacloban, Leyte
• Timothy Paul B. Martinez(Tim), Founder: Malaya Linux User Group, Python programmer, and educator in heart and spirit.
• Graham Prosser
• 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.
• Divine Grace Cristobal - IT Student
• Aldwin B. Evangelista; Programmer, Computer Technician
• Bong Dizon, UP College of Law, [1]
• Liana Marie Pascual, IT student, web enthusiast, help in providing content [2]

• Kalibo Elementary School II / Aklan Special Education Center:
• Mary Joy Barredo-Suganob,Special EDucator very much concern for Children with Intellectual Deficiencies ( Autistic,Cp,ADHD et.al)(Special Education Center Kalibo Aklan DEp.ED Philippines)maryjoysuganob@yahoo.com
• several other teachers are interested also to be added to this list later see OLPC Philippines Unang Liwanag
• Boy Jalbuena, & Dalia M. Macalacad F & C Computer Center Kalibo, Aklan DepED contract for deployment/maint. of Linux desk top's to 69 Public High Schools in three provinces of Aklan, Antique, & Capiz (Northern Panay Island).
• Charles Chen, Principal, Stimulus Capital Ideas, Sydney, Australia
• Chris Gonnella (Chris), Peace Corps Volunteer, Bauang, La Union
• Joel C. Yuvienco, De La Salle Canlubang, joel.yuvienco[at]gmail.com, Educator/Social Media Consultant, help in providing content, host online group for pilot school [3]
• Athene Chan, APAC Red Hat Customer Service, Brisbane, Australia, swythangel [sa] gmail.com

Milestones/Activities

2007

Nov. 2007	Meeting with Graham Prosser and Mel Chua has been done. Plans and people are starting to collaborate.
Oct. 2007	OLPCPH's Rowen and Tim talked to Graham for the Unang Liwanag (First Light) project for deployment of initial machines for education. We have come up ideas on deploying machine on a school on US and in the Philippines. Developers will be needed too mostly for this important milestone.
Sept. 2007	We have a registered name OLPCPH. Educational content and XO1 - B2-1 & B4 content are being prepared. B2-1 challenges are being worked out by OLPCPH, improving the build for this ensures better system software for builds. OLPCPH choose B2-1 for lesser cost.
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. Tim received a B4 with yellow XO logo dated Aug 21, 2007.
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.