Contributors program/Project proposal form

Respond in complete sentences where possible! Be concise.

1. Project Title & Shipment Detail

Name of Project:

Shipping Address You've Verified:

• IS FEDEX-SHIPPABLE (NO POST OFFICE BOXES)
• INCLUDES A PHONE NUMBER
• CONTAINS TEAM LEADER'S LEGAL NAME

Number of Laptops You Request to Borrow:

Loan Length—How Many Months:

2. Team Participants (In list form)

Name(s) & Contact Info: (include email addresses & phone numbers)

Teams of more than 1 person are not required, but favored!

• Shadi Njoum, Local Project Leader, Network Engineer and Teacher, ++970-210922, al-njoum@hotmail.com
• Susanne Triner, Local Project Leader International Contacts, Organization: Friends of Jericho, ++972-598345687, st@together21.org
• Participants from the local university
• Support through the local office of Education (Mr. Hawash)
• Global Project Leader / Initiator
• Sebastian Umlauft, Project initator, OLPC Germany (Member of the Board, Fundraising, responsible for the proposal), ++49-40-22813456, sebastian.umlauft@gmx.de

Employer and/or School:

The school is a public school located in the next village outside of Jericho. The school has been built with financial help of sereral contries (see photo).

Past Experience/Qualifications:

Project will be directly supported by OLPC Germany. A local university is involved. The project is also coordinated with the Minitry of Education in Ramallah. Two teachers will be trained by the ministry. But the project is independent and open for volunteers.

3. Objectives (Bulleted list)

Project Objectives: (please list specific, measurable objectives for your project)

Concrete proposals with defined outcomes are much more likely to result in a laptop than "it would be cool to play with these and demo them".

4. Plan of Action (One or more paragraphs)

Plan and Procedure for Achieving the Stated Objectives:

The Project is a pilot project with serveral objectivs

till summer 2009:

* equip 3rd grade class 32 students and teacher with XO laptops
* train teacher
* involve IT Students of the local university
* start translation (e.g. flossmanual)
* involve European grassroots 

summer 2009

* start a summer school project with international volunteers
  (e.g. 2 weeks with creativity projects
* prepare for new school year / curriculum projects  
 (usually the kids are out of school for three month !!) 

fall 2009:

* start to give all students xo laptops 
 (through a donation program, e.g. educational parentship of european donators)

Vision of OLPC Jericho

With the 10.000th anniversary of Jericho every child in Jericho will have its own laptop. That’s a contribution form a great community, private and public donors worldwide

5. Needs (A few sentences)

Why is this project needed?

Palestine is a devloping nation with lots of problems due to the instable situation in the Middle East. Children Jericho and around Jericho can change there perspective of life with the OLPC Project. The poores children here live in two refugee camps nearby and villages around jericho, where children cannot leave the village due to settlements. Therefore a good pilote project with international support is needed.

In the greater OLPC/Sugar community?

serveral points can turn this project into a showcase for the olpc idea and community:

Outside the community?

Focusing on the international support, the project still can grow beyond those 100 machines including all schools in Jericho (which is the vision of OLPC Jericho and will hopefully come true by the city's 10.000 years (!) anniversary in 2010. That would be a remarkably success of OLPC in the Arabic world.

Why can't this project be done in emulation using non-XO machines?

Why are you requesting the number of machines you are asking for?

Will you consider (1) salvaged/rebuilt or (2) damaged XO Laptops?

6. Sharing Deliverables (A few sentences)

Project URL:

How will you convey tentative ideas & results back to the OLPC/Sugar community, prior to completion?

How will the final fruits of your labor be distributed to children or community members worldwide?

Will your work have any possible application or use outside our community?

If yes, how will these people be reached?

Have you investigated working with nearby XO Lending Libraries or Project Groups?

7. Quality (Can be a bulleted list)

Would your Project benefit from Support, Documentation and/or Testing people?

Teachers' input into Usability?

How will you promote your work?

Can we help you with an experienced mentor from the OLPC/Sugar community?

If YES: specify the kind of Ongoing Mentoring that will benefit you most.

If NO: specify who will help you share your progress, creations & results.

8. Timeline (Show start to finish)

Please include a Proposed timeline for your Project life-cycle: (this can be in the form of Month 1, Month 2, etc rather than specific dates)

Include a couple milestones, even if tentative.

Specify how you prefer to communicate your ongoing progress and obstacles!

[ ] I agree to pass on the laptop(s) to a local OLPC group or other interested contributors in case I do not have need for the laptop(s) anymore or in case my project progress stalls.