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Mabuhay! Welcome to OLPC Philippines

OLPC Philippines (OLPC PH) is a grassroots coalition of forward-looking and like-minded individuals living in the Philippines and abroad who are working to bring the XO Children's Machine and its unique educational methodology to Filipino children. Please join and share your ideas! For quick tips and to learn wiki syntax, reading the Wiki help page would be a good start.

About the Philippines

From the Wikipedia entry about Philippines:

The Philippines (officially known as the Republic of the Philippines), is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national economy is the 46th largest in the world with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$154.073 billion. There are more than 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide, the largest diaspora network in the world, about 11% of the total population of the Philippines. Ecologically, Philippines is considered to be among 17 of the most megadiverse countries in the world.

OLPC PH Projects

These are the projects OLPC PH is currently involved with:

Community Activities

September 2008

August 2008

Developer Updates

OLPC PH Meetings

Next meeting date

The OLPC PH team meet every fortnight. The next meeting is scheduled on Oct. 17, 2008 at 8PM Philippine time via IRC. If you are outside the Philippines and interested to join the discussion, you can check the local time in your area using http://www.timeanddate.com
With your IRC client, please connect to server irc.freenode.net and join #olpc-ph.

Next meeting agenda

  • Plan how to generate funds for promotional activities: having a booth on any national IT gatherings requires fee ain't it?) -- Creek23 16:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Please add topics for discussion here.


Minutes of previous meetings

For the minutes of the previous meeting, please check the Meeting Minutes page.

External Resources

The non-wiki site is at http://olpcph.multiply.com. There is also a group of supporters for OLPC Philippines at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8363657036

New OLPC Philippines site http://www.olpcph.co.cc

Use the talk page / Discussion page for your updates especially blog sites within the Philippines or relevant sites that discussed about OLPC Philippines. Thank you.

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.

OLPC PH Wiki Archive

You can still access the OLPC PH Wiki Archive.