OLPC India Student Chapter
OLPC India Student Chapter is an organization whose primary aim is to spread awareness about OLPC in India and unite the student manpower of various universities, colleges and schools. The organization was formed on 5th February 2008 at a seminar in Panjab University, Chandigarh. Also, the organization is running various projects of content development for XO users, currently targeting only the Hindi language.
IIT Roorkee Chapter
OISC demonstrated the XO laptop at IIT Roorkee on 28th March 2008. The video of the presentation is uploaded at Google Video and can be viewed HERE.
To form the OLPC IIT Roorkee Chapter, go to the page OLPC IITR Chapter and expand it. To learn quick editing of page download a tutorial from Here
The Formation
The OLPC Student Chapter was formed on 5th February 2008 at a seminar in engineering department of Panjab University, Chandigarh. The seminar was presided by Dr. Daljit Singh (Former Counselor (Science & Tech.), Embassy of India in USA) and Dr. US Shivhare (Editor, International Journal of Food Technology, USA). A presentation on OLPC was delivered by three students of engineering department. The OLPC project got overwhelming response of the audience (numbering about 100 people) and the organization came into effect.
The Presentation
The powerpoint presentation that was delivered on 5th February 2008 is available HERE for download.
A half an hour video of the presentation is uploaded on Google Video and can be viewed HERE (As the lights were turned off during the presentation, video is not clear but audio is clear enough).
Tasks & Projects
The Student Chapter has rolled out some projects and tasks.
Tasks - OISC has opened up some tasks in which anybody can participate and most of these don't require any previous skills and with time requirement varying from 5 minutes to a few days. These tasks can be taken up by anybody or a group of people.
Projects - OISC is working on a couple of content development projects. The main objective of these projects is to demonstrate how OLPC XO laptop can be useful to transform education system in India so that learning is more like playing. There are a few projects which have already been completed and others which are open for you to contribute to.
Please share your comments & suggestions HERE. Your comments will be published online at OLPC India Comments. We assure your contact information will be treated as private and will not be shared.
A Great Google Tool
The Google Indic Tranliteration is a great tool to type in Hindi without knowing Hindi keyboard layout. Anybody working in Hindi can benefit from this.
Members
The founder members are Gaurav Chachra, Rahul Vats & Bhola Nath.
The complete list of members is available HERE.