Contributors program/February 6, 2009

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Agenda

  • Upcoming program changes
  • New processes for triage and publishing projects
  • Local XO pool updates and reports
Bolixo

Attending

Open proposals

     PROJECT                  SUBMITTER       XOs    months
 XO-based Teacher Training 	Yamaplos 	80 	6 	
    needs more detail.  Can it start smaller / with emulation?  How/where would results be shared?
 OLPC: The Bolivia Project 	leighmeldrum 	10 	12 	
 
 Amicitia Am. School of Fez 	mhasbrouck 	25 	10 	
    multilingual school proposal; needs detail.  How would results be shared?
 OLPC pilot in Israel - B2 upgrade  guysoft 	30 	6 	
    already started with B2s.  Still needed?  pending update from guy.

= Older requests

 AASDO:K12 Science and Tech Ed Mission in Ethiopia 	Abkebede 	20 	12 
    not very specific, though a promising topic.  start smaller?  needs feedback.
 Health Rec to Improve Outcomes Post Knee Replacement 	minnalevine 	31 	24
    likely turned down; is one useful for development?


Smaller requests

 Ghana Ed Enrichment Project 	aralston 	4 	4 	
 Tutorius                	drykod 	 	2 	8 	
 Zambia Rural Education   	bobfalzini 	1 	24
 Bahamas               	westvilla 	1 	6 	
 Create the Buzz          	KarinaD 	1 	4 	
 niki @sloan            	nikigomez 	1 	5 	
 olpcca0209 	                olpcca0209 	1 	4 	
 Educational toolkit    	zubair.assad 	1 	3 	
 Math Tutor            	dragon6158 	1 	6

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