Below is an e-mail that I wrote to several of the OLPC mailing lists. It was supposed to
The purpose of this e-mail is to let the wider OLPC community know what
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==Core Staff==
...nally be found on a plane heading across the country (or the world) to run OLPC hackathons, work with grassroots groups, and doing [[User:Mchua/Projects|to
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...cover my costs in fixing machines that break, but we are [talks about why OLPC is not artificially padding the cost of laptops in order to provide a warra
Countries build on top of the OLPC software... Sugar... some countries will have [[Activities]] that other cou
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...ch on each of the four laptops that we had available (Linux, Mac, Windows, OLPC-XO) and it was quick and easy to install on the school’s own computers to
Special thanks to Bert, Yoshiki, Karl, and the whole OLPC Etoys mailing list for their friendly expert advice!
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==OLPC Game Jam==
[http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/106 OLPC Game Jam]<br>
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[http://olpc.vn OLPC Vietnam project] is progressing to a full fledge OLPC project by building a supporters community and bringing communities, educat
[[File:OLPC A4 landscape Collage.jpg|650 px|center]]
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Darah Tappitake (Massachusetts, our guest speaker from OLPC)
Darah Tappitake (tappy take!) new to the olpc staff, started about 3
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Chuck introducing/previewing Tuesday's event. Media announcement. On Tues, OLPC will intro 2.0 version of our computer. It's quite a ways away from manufac
About 2 months ago, Microsoft said they had a great version ready. OLPC rejected it larger deal. Microsoft has NGO's World Vision, etc, which will
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Call center & phone training update from MOG? Should OLPC new IT staff (Peter) help? (Starting Mon Feb 4th)
...ck data. The way that works has been modified a few times and it's sort of OLPC custom right now, but most laptops will have something of this nature. The
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...a dedicated volunteer/community/grassroots ambassador might look like w/in OLPC. What would that person do? What skills would they need?
# OLPC finds one person to do all grassroots/communication stuff. This makes for
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...[[OLE Nepal]] came to 1cc on May 30, 2008 to share his thoughts with OLPC staff.
...i expects it will take 3-4 years to completely hand over administration of OLPC to the government.
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{{OLPC Oceania}}
...has formed a strategic partnership with Divine Word university to support OLPC projects in the non-government sector.
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{{OLPC Oceania}}
A localisation project is being opened on the OLPC [[Pootle]] server for the Niuean language.
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{{OLPC Oceania}}
...//translate.sugarlabs.org/bi/ localisation project] is being opened on the OLPC Pootle server for Vanuatu Bislama language.
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...s in charge of what? Sometimes there isn't one clear contact person at 1cc/OLPC, and this means it's hard to figure out how to get in contact with whom to
...ed in one canonical place (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ILXO/staff). The four staff members should always know at any given point in time which of the other th
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#6 OLPC UK Pilot London 2009
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The first OLPC Grassroots Bootcamp ran last week at Boston at OLPC headquarters - thanks to all who attended, presented, and participated and
See the [[/monday transcript]] from the #olpc-groups IRC channel, where we tried to log as much as possible of the conver
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<bjordanprojector> Mel: I'm transcribing this for #olpc-groups
...a> brian jordan (bj): I'm brian jordan, working on 2d physics engine as an olpc intern
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** Olpc-update (both upgrading and downgrading)
** OLPC public wiki usage (mediawiki), editing etiquette
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This page describes OLPC's software release process.
...t of this process is a generic software image suitable for installation on OLPC's XO laptop platform. The image is generic in the sense that it includes a
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{{OLPC Oceania}}
''Please see also'' [[OLPC_Papua_New_Guinea|the main OLPC PNG page]]
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The main location will be irc.freenode.net #olpc-meeting -- I would also recommend having [http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ Gobb
(08:27:35 AM) martin_xsa: Nubae, for teachers and educational staff the UI is moodle. We'll remove most of moodle admin options, and add a few
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...though the plan is going to be changed slightly because of changes to the OLPC 2010 grant program:</b>
...rovide long-term support for our project. Peace Corps/Lesotho staff members have also expressed support and are helping us. We wil
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"Project-Id-Version: OLPC website files Version 2.0\n"
msgstr "OLPC seeks qualified individuals to fill the following positions."
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Welcome to the starting page for OLPC Jamaica, an [[open community]] universal education initiative aligning with
A good impression on OLPC Jamaica, gives this nice 15' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl
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...||color="white"}}>Hello Papillon, and <font color="#fc0">'''Welcome to the OLPC wiki!'''</font></font> <!-- [[Image:Olpc_badge_white.gif|100px]] --> </cent
...age — I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the [[Talk:The OLPC Wiki|main talk page]].
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OLPC, having placed 1 million laptops in children’s hands around the world, ha
...es instead of laptops?''' This is one of the most common criticisms of the OLPC and any of the related projects. It is an understandable sentiment. What
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...er support team would follow the school server mailing lists and talk with OLPC community members from New Zealand, Nepal, etc. who are also working on and
...eer community around them. Just as local support teams tap into the global OLPC (and other) resource pools to implement solutions in their area of interest
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...sting: Joe went around the office this afternoon and got a lot of the OLPC staff to help out with testing collaboration on the 62 laptops mentioned above. I
...ning into limitations on our AP hardware - 62 XOs over the entire space of OLPC's office is pushing it for an AP, and more distant XOs were definitely drop
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|| 1530-1615 || [[XOCamp_2#QA|OLPC QA, now with 100% Community Goodness]] (Mel Chua, Ed McNierney)
| 1000 - OLPC Startup presentation by Bryan Berry
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There were some differing opinions on this from OLPC's internal QA staff - it was agreed, however, that the decision was totally up to the community
* Volunteers should focus on testing activities that OLPC directly works on because we consider it core functionality, like Browse an
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These design notes come from lengthy discussions with the OLPC Learning Team, and cover how to get Moodle to be more approachable for the
The Moodle install on the OLPC XS server is completely automated -- no need to go through the "install" pr
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This is a [[Community testing meeting]]. Location is in '''#olpc-meeting''' on [[Start date::January 08, 2009 23:00]] (time is in UTC, [http
See exactly what happened at http://meeting.laptop.org/olpc-meeting.log.20090108_1800.html
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The OLPC "Change the World" program, also known as "Give Many", ended in February 20
For the first time ever, OLPC is offering individuals, companies and other organizations the chance to se
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#1 OLPC Sarbhan - Gujarat, India
#4 NYSAIS OLPC Initiative - New York
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{{OLPC Oceania}}
...two days, in the company of Brian Monie and Nicholas Rueben from DOE, and staff of DBTI.
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...ta Barbara that is a collaboration of interdisciplinary students, faculty, staff, and external partners.
[http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~apm01/OLPCSB_home.htm OLPC, SB website]
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=== What OLPC will tell them ===
...nd that's a combination of software released by Fedora and Sugar Labs, not OLPC.
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...o hear from people who have had experience as deployed volunteers for both OLPC deployments and for other organizations.''
* Because of liability risks, OLPC should not take part in sending out volunteers to deployments.
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== About OLPC Sierra Leone ==
...sroom and at home through a peer-tutoring network. With collaboration from staff in the secondary and primary schools, students will receive support and gui
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The OLPCorps Support Committee is comprised of various OLPC staff and key community members. The primary role of the committee is to advise,
*Work with OLPC on developing a two-week training session for participating students in Kig
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The OLPCorps Support Committee is comprised of One Laptop per Child staff, community members, and ''anyone'' (including OLPCorps applicants) who want
*Work with OLPC on developing a two-week training session for participating students in Kig
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...integrated projects and lessons. Our team will also work with the teaching staff and interested community members to develop an effective after-school progr
...are 540 students at the school, we have come up with a plan that achieves OLPC’s goals of Child Ownership and Saturation without leaving anyone out. The
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...they have developed with each other and with other students in the larger OLPC domain worldwide. Finally a special prize will be given for the team with o
...ties. Furthermore, we will organize a specialized training for the support staff to develop skill in troubleshooting the XOs, the school server and the wire
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==OLPC Corps==
...me to talk about OLPC Corps and their teams and the process of applying to OLPC Corps.
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== Umoja OLPC ==
...tunity for them to gain experience for similar roles in the future and for OLPC to invest in the next generation of local leaders.
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== Cal OLPC Team Biographies ==
'''Interested in:''' Project Management & Working with School Staff<br>
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...University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) propose to implement the OLPC project June 8 – August 7, 2009, called Small Step. The team which includ
...self-help development, will be the team's local partner. In addition, UIUC staff will provide logistical support during their stay on the island as part of
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...eachers onside<br />. hold an open meeting for the community to talk about OLPC and its impact, to answer their questions, to gain their buy-in & support
...tation '''2)''' Knowledge for the local people '''3)''' support by OLPC or OLPC team<br />
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...e taught by 10 teachers. It is housed in 3 buildings with 6 classrooms, a staff room, office, great hall, and storeroom. The language of instruction is En
...e limited opportunities if they did not have knowledge of computers. This OLPC project represents a huge opportunity for the school because it would be ve
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...perienboer at gmail.com is our educational technology leader, as well as staff member at the University of Namibia. She has had vast experience in leading
Dr. Benedict Kangumu, bkangumu2004 at yahoo.co.uk, the Rector and his staff of the Caprivi College of Education will oversee the training of the studen
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...d ask if they have a grant form you can fill out to obtain a budget for an OLPC-test roll out, to your:
== A regional OLPC Labo / How much money do you ask and for what? ==
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...ol kids learn science through experimentation. What excites her most about OLPC Mauritania-Kaedi is the chance to work alongside the Peace Corps and the ta
...studied with new dimensions of visual and interactive learning. Guided by OLPC's emphasis on child ownership, the students will be able to bring home thei
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...rnell University who wish to improve education in Africa. We believe that OLPC and its [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructivism constructionist], hands-o
<i>Cornell OLPC</i> proposes to introduce laptop computing to Mauritania with the goal of i
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...mmunities, corporate and religious sources to raise money for the Tidjikja OLPC deployment.
** Cornell OLPC members are in the process of drafting letters to the editor that will be s
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...her help will also be imperative in connecting with the students and other staff. Also, she has experience preparing curriculum and executing learning proje
...ive in a flattening world. Students will be part of a greater community of OLPC users. Aligning with the principles of One Laptop per Child, each student w
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...tern Finland (University of Joensuu), Finland, through students exchanges, staff exchanges, and joint projects.
== Our OLPC Projects ==
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To make a tax-deductible donation to the UC Berkeley OLPC deployment:
.../laptop.org/en/participate/ways-to-give.shtml) by clicking on “donate to OLPC”. When you receive a confirmation email for your donation, respond to the
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...oup will be able to use the OLPC laptops in all of their classes. With the OLPC program, however, 100 of Addis Ababa's most disadvantaged children will hav
...ll spend 3-4 weeks at the beginning of our deployment familiarizing OPRIFS staff, Meskeram-2 teachers who will be working with the laptop recipients. Furthe
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...work in the aforementioned schools and would thus be a natural partner for OLPC, providing individual students with access to the Internet through XO lapto
The Notre Dame team will work with BOSCO staff to deploy XO laptops. Following deployment in the primary schools, the XO
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...xtend to other schools. We would wish to work with (one laptop per child) OLPC. Once we get this opportunity, we would see our project move to another lev
*Primary schools’ staff
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The Harvard/MGH OLPC Initiative in Southern Sudan
...Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital, the faculty and staff of the Malakal Teaching Hospital, the Ministry of Health of the Government
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The majority of children housed at the Kili Centre are between OLPC’s target age range, and additional students aged 6-12 who are served by c
...taining our mission after we leave is well within reach. With the help of OLPC, the Kili Centre would now be able spend the money budgeted for 14 dilapida
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...are confident that we can train them on the XO laptops upon receiving the OLPC training. We will also hire and train a computer teacher who could continue
...ementation. At both the Red Rose School and Salve Regina there are already staff who Sarah and Leslie can work with to train along with the students themsel
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...computers in a way that is structurally and pedagogically consistent with OLPC's mission.
...end a considerable portion of the deployment working with teachers and MSP staff (some of whom already have a familiarity with computers) to enable them to
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The OLPC team from BRAC University Bangladesh will deploy the OLPCorps Africa progra
* Using various software available in OLPC for the following:
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...roject to provide regional support. CARE will donate the XO laptop back to OLPC Ghana after it leaves the region.
* The OLPC Ghana Ashanti Region Representative, Ms. Opoku Afriyie Asante, whom we have
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* Child and staff training
Recipient School for the OLPC Corps project by Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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...taff writer for UIUC's Technograph Engineering Magazine. I wrote the "Pro OLPC" column and, evidently, was so convincing that the writer opposing me never
...O) at the University of Illinois in order to continue our affiliation with OLPC as well as MODEL-ITU.
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...meroon’s education system. This is why it is the perfect vehicle for the OLPC 100 laptop deployment. Despite these successes the UAC is in great need of
...IT staff including the Head of Computer Programming Mr. Oforka Anslem and staff member Njang Raphael.
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• increase awareness of the OLPC initiative and Magoso
Zablon and much of his staff are all ICT trained and able to help with setup. Between us we have extensi
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...repairs and electricity. Alex Kibweza, a local IT technician and technical staff of Computers for Schools Kenya have agreed to help with the project during
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...provide a model for other NGO-supported orphanages to see the benefits of OLPC laptops to their students, and so might instigate a larger-scale deployment
• Strong working relationship with managing staff at the orphanage.
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with teachers/students, and share their OLPC experiences;
share OLPC experience;
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...y filming. [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5d/Learning_Manual_V2.pdf The OLPC Learning Manual] will guide the creation of our curriculum.
...whose sales benefit the school. We will collaborate with the students and staff to tell their stories through vlogs and blogs-using technology and social m
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#5 OLPC Learning Club DC / Sugar Labs DC Proposal to OLPC for XO-1.5 C2 Machines
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...ic learning materials such as books and computer access. This project with OLPC would therefore be a unique opportunity for children in the community to en
...letter of support and will assign Hajiya Ramatu Haruna, a member of their staff, as our local guide.
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...of the project will be used for knowledge transfer to school teachers and staff, since most students are not on campus during August. The team will work h
...ect future student talent, in the form of interns and consulting teams, to OLPC, Epic Change, and Shepherds Junior.<br />
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We will spend the remaining weekdays training Amajika staff and volunteers so they can continue to use the XO’s in their programming.
Classroom management: Amajika will provide 10 additional staff members to aid in classroom management.
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...l public health. Local staff includes a local computer technician and the staff at Defense for Children International-Sierra Leone (DCI-SL; http://www.dci-
...ommunication and increase awareness of unjust situations. Introducing the OLPC Program would connect more children to DCI and to reinforce this national m
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...uting and excitement at the classroom entrance''. '''''That is why I teach OLPC!''''' - David Norman, 2008 Leadership Team Member <br />
...r. Based on past experience she takes our advice seriously and advices her staff to work with us as equals.<br />
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...where we would distribute laptops and offer computer literacy training to staff and students in order to better integrate this community into the greater g
...re complex technological ideas. Furthermore, the school will provide vast staff support so that the programs can continue after we leave. While The Great
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...where we would distribute laptops and offer computer literacy training to staff and students in order to better integrate this community into the greater g
...re complex technological ideas. Furthermore, the school will provide vast staff support so that the programs can continue after we leave. While The Great
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...ele") will [[Contributors_program/Project_proposal_form|Give Back]] to the OLPC/Sugar community
...a part of the agreement we make request that our patrons record on the SL/OLPC wiki as well their progress, preferably with weekly updates. We will encour
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• Staff from our various partners (See section: “Partners”)
...ir daily lives. Schoolchildren will be using various One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) applications, specifically the Record Activity. This video sharing will ex
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...would be to help increase awareness of OLPC’s goals by letting faculty, staff and students borrow the XO computers.
Technological development has been a strong bias at OLPC. Education and social exposure to the project are necessary so that student
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We are a group of three UC Berkeley undergraduates planning to implement the OLPC program in Buwaiswa, a rural village about 50 km north of Jinja, Uganda wit
...anning and implementing lesson plans. Additionally, OGLM has committed two staff and four local volunteers to our program, including Hellen Lunkuse, OGLM’
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#1 OLPC Tanzania HIV/AIDS Initiative - MIT, USA
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...of the OLPC UK group present the below proposal for joint discussion with OLPC Boston to advise on its merits and areas of improvement:
...er organization and platform for OLPC in the United Kingdom. The intent of OLPC (UK) is to support the deployments of XO computers towards solving defined
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...uting and excitement at the classroom entrance''. '''''That is why I teach OLPC!''''' - David Norman, 2008 Leadership Team Member <br />
...r. Based on past experience she takes our advice seriously and advices her staff to work with us as equals.<br />
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...uting and excitement at the classroom entrance''. '''''That is why I teach OLPC!''''' - David Norman, 2008 Leadership Team Member <br />
...r. Based on past experience she takes our advice seriously and advices her staff to work with us as equals.<br />
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In January 2009, I travelled to Paraguay to volunteer on the OLPC project being implemented there by a non-government organisation called [ht
...surprise that their offices are also donated by a local sponsor. The core staff are all permanent, all of them are native Paraguayans or have lived there l
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...newest release of the Sugar Learning Platform will be demonstrated, and 15 OLPC XO laptops will be on display.
== Sugar Labs / OLPC Organizer ==
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(11:19:35 AM) BryanWB: christophd of olpc austria should also be joining us briefly<br />
(11:25:13 AM) BryanWB: rletada1: can u put the list folks from olpc-ph attending this meeting into the meeting notes?<br />
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...progamme and want to be reached by this program and be involved. Thanks to OLPC contributors Programme and our mentors. At the close of this term, we will
...s for implementation of the pilot project began in Jan 2010. We thank the OLPC contributors’ programme for their support. The learners are having lesso
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= '''OLPC in Bangladesh''' =
OLPC’s mission is to provide a means for learning, self-expression, and explor
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...icians (local & international politics), Administrator (school, IT), NGOs (OLPC, Private School, Church/Faith Community, etc), Geek, Hardware Manufacturers
*OLPC Africa Corps
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...FixSound activity provides a workaround for some bugs that were shipped in OLPC OS releases. In such cases, sound in OpenFirmware works fine, but a softwar
...inal is not always appropriate (e.g. for children or non-technical support staff). So I have produced an activity to do this for you.
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#1 OLPC on Puppy Linux - Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia
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