OLPC Pune
OLPC---ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD.
OLPC project is founded by Nicholas Negroponte. OLPC is association target the worlds poor children. They want to provide small and low cost, low power consuming laptop to poor child.
OLPC started it's journey in India in April 2008 at Khairat, a rural village near Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra. After the successful stories of Khairat, Bangalore, Nashik, Dugawar...now it's the turn of Pune!
OLPC Pune is branch of OLPC. OLPC Pune took a start on 14th Feb in the event "Gnunify 2009" at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research with the support and interest of enthusiastic members believing in the noble cause of spreading knowledge and educating children of underprivileged sections of society. OLPC Pune has categorized the project primarily in three areas of learning, technology and outreach. Members are working in their own areas of interest. Sole purpose is to outreach students in rural areas and letting them experience the fun and pleasure of learning on laptops.
Getting Started Camp
The Getting Started Camp is scheduled on 1st March, 2009 in Pune. The camp will focus on training the members in operating the XO laptops, loading activities on XO and working on Sugar interface (emulators) on GNU/Linux machines. It will also include testing XO laptops with a handful of students in the age group of 6 to 12 from underprivileged sections of society. Their experience and interest of working on XO will help members learn and structure their methods of training children. Further details and schedule of the campaign will be published here:
OLPC Pune To do list
- Getting started camp and other meetings for volunteers
- finding potential sites for project implementation
- aiming an initial distribution of 30 XO within 30 days.
- finding potential sponsors
- and....more....
Mailing list
More support and guidance is a must for the success and implementation of project. To be a part of OLPC Pune please follow the discussions on: http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-india