OLPC Philippines

From OLPC
Jump to navigation Jump to search
  english | 日本語 | 한국어 | नेपाली | tagalog HowTo [ID# 63394]  +/-  


2007 status: orange
    orange    

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.

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

OLPCPH will be be the name of OLPC Philippines

Recently the name of OLPC Philippines was registered. It will be recognized as OLPCPH legally.

OLPCPH will be used to identify OLPC Philippines.

Please note that the grassroots are listed here, these grassroots will be helped by us.

Sept 1, 2007 ~User:Wenmi01

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.

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

Participants for Manila Jam

See Curriculum Jam Manila. There is an upcoming Curriculum Jam Manila during the first weekend of October 2007. We need organizers, volunteers, participants, and kids to test the lesson plans we come up with - contact Mel Chua if you're interested.

Project: Unang Liwanag

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 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 Japan: OLPC Japan
Grassroots for Nepal: OLPC Nepal

We are helping OLPC Japan, OLPC Nepal too.

OLPCPH favorite sites

webdav repository

webdav related - windows

Resources and links

Scheduled Tasks

OLPCPh / XOPH

Project Malaya- ED_HW_SW (B2-1 COMPATIBILITY is also our target to support developers) Linux Porting and Developing Educational Software

Project Manager: Rowen

  • Aug 4 - B4 was lent to Tim
  • Aug 5 - Project Starts (3wks/6wks)
  • Aug 11 - Demos /Presentation ready (squeakers train and develop) 5 squeakers
  • Aug 12 - (linux porting begins/sugar/hw tweaks)
  • Aug 18 - meeting for the XOPH Team with other Malaya members
  • Aug 19 - Squeak ABC trainer game (1/2), preparation for sponsors
  • Aug 22 - Sugar fixes, patches, memory managers, cpu schedulers, optimizers (PLANNED for B2-1 XO)
  • Aug 24 - Launching is being planned on how to make a little trial pilot launch. 4 developer machines will be used for starting point, we will then send 20 XOs to a pilot school.
  • Aug 25 - 2 B2-1 machines ( machines for big demo) - Emulation too being planned / sugar puppy / sugar dsl - LINUX
  • Aug 26 - 2 B2-1 machines (installed latest Stable OS) Squeakers meeting; OLPCPH will be closing negotiation to have hardware for deploying a test XS XO Schoolserver
  • Sept 1 - Squeak ABC Trainer (full) / Name Registration of OLPCPH should be official recognized
  • Sept 2 - (linux porting ends/sugar/hw tweaks) presentation stuff ready
  • Sept 7 - Presentation of OLPC project to an organization
  • Sept 8 - Curriculum / Education check
  • Sept 9 - Launch / booth/ demo/presentation
  • Sept 10-Oct 1 - OLPC Philippines will implement education and technology awareness campaign.
  • Oct 5-7 -Curriculum Jam 2007 Manila
  • Negotiation to DepEd and other Government level for OLPC implementation

- Accomplished

  • Aug 31 - 95% of Tagalog content for the English dictionary
  • Aug 21 - 80% of Tagalog content from English dictionary done. Tim received a B4 with yellow logo.
  • Aug 18-19 - Dictionary for OLPC, Tagalog content from English, Japanese content too was included.
  • Aug 11 - Finished a Beta 1.1 version of the OLPC PH demo page, B4 was returned to Rowen
               - Noted that a B2-1 lent to Tim will be used by Tim for hardware and Linux development of Sugar
               - Plans were arranged for creating smaller teams of developers and some volunteers
               - B2-1 will be asked for access and Sugar will be emulated on Virtual Box
  • Aug 6 - Tim introduce and demonstrate B4 to ACSAT(Baliuag,Bulacan) Professors and IT students.
  • Aug 5 - Tim is starting to make the Malaya GLUG OLPC XO Demo-page.

Official OLPCPH Developers under Developer's Program (those with machines): 

 - Rowen
 - Tim
 - Others for pending or those who haven't contacted us yet

- Like this OLPC Peru is a good way to start: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9618247@N06/ - Another list of presentation Laptop demonstrations

Goals

Education Discipline System Technology Progress

Machines

OLPCPH has the following machines and their functions:

  • B1 - assigned to Mike Kouklis (we don't have any update from him now)
  • B2-1 - assigned for use by a professor Florante S. Iral teaching Education Major Subjects, future spokesperson for school deployment of XO. build 406.15 on NAND, q2c18
  • B2-1 - assigned to testing of latest build on NAND and development, Rowen
  • B2-1 - assigned for testing with build 406.15 on NAND q2c18
  • B4 -assigned for demo and presentation of XO machine, including testing and development, Rowen. build 547 on NAND, q2c18;
  • using SD usb card reader - build 406, q2c11 mostly run on B2-1 for quick testing of build
  • B4 - assigned to Tim for programming, linux porting and promotion. build 406.15 on NAND, q2c25

Other Machines:

Machine expectation, these machines are hopefully near the production version. NOTE: OLPCPH does not sell machines unless those requesting body made commitment to order and pay for the XO Machines. OLPCPH will do negotiation to OLPC for deployment of these educational machines. As noted an order of 1000 machine will be considered good but better if it's a 100,000 of it.

  • 4 Additional Developer XO Machines' Allocation: (to be received)
 - will be assigned to developer group
 - will be assigned for mesh/collaboration test and developing activities with collaboration support
 - will be assigned to build test and development
 - will be assigned to school server image or an online server for developers
  • 20 Machines (to be received)
 - These machines will be sent to a pilot school.
 - These machines will show the importance of XO machine to education
 - Feedback will be gathered and how these machines improved education

Launching

To be able to launch we have to order 250,000 to 1M XO machines. Philippine launch plan

  • This launching will be helped by performing demos and giving presentations. OLPC Philippines are hoping for the next 4 more developer machines. These machines will be used for the working groups and designed as accessible hardware for them to access, test, develop their software and will also be sent to them during promotion and OLPC to Government negotiation process.
  • Pilot school is under selection and this project is under preparation. 20 XOs will be used by a pilot school soon.

Members

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

  • Sandeep Chandiramani (sgc)|Boston|USA|Finance|Red Hat employee from 1998-2006
  • William Yu, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Kouklis, Mike(Chief Mike) |U.S. Navy,Retired Engineer @ Kalibo, Aklan Rural:Philippines
  • Rowen Remis R. Iral(Rowen), PhilNITS Society, Fundamental Information Technology Engineer(FE) http://wenmi01.bravehost.com

OLPCPH / XOPH - http://wenmi01.multiply.com

  • Timothy Paul B. Martinez(Tim), Founder: Malaya Linux User Group, Python programmer, and educator in heart and spirit.
  • 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.
  • 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]

Milestones/Activities

2007

Sept. 2007 We have a registered name OLPCPH
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.
Retrieved from "http://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=OLPC_Philippines&oldid=63394"