children as stewards of our future
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OLPC Presentation at Montessori Children's Center, San Francisco, CaliforniaTRANSCRIPT
Presentation:Montessori Children's Center
80 Juan Bautista CirSan Francisco CA, 94132 - 1795
www.montessorichildrenscenter.org
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorInformation Systems DepartmentSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USA
Creative commons licensehttp://creativecommons.org/
Children as stewards of our future
OLPC Mission: two videos
Principles and Child Empowerment– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-M77C2ejTw
The XO Laptop, design for learning– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeX2D4AOjM
me
July 2007
The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.
Somebody is finally thinking of the
children!
The Prophet
Children
Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts.For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
-kahlil gibran
A different generation...
School Galadima, Abuja City, Nigeria See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Galadima
Samkha village located in the suburbs of northern ThailandSee http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Ethopia
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/olpc-ethiopia-updates/
Cameroonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3110907018/in/set-72157611290673682/
Solomon Islandshttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands
Source: See Google Maps
Deployments worldwide
Source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
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India
Resident artist!
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Khairat school is India's pilot site.See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
Khairat Photos
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40064/
Bhagmalpur project
● Location:● Village: Bhagmalpur● District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh● Railway Station: Shahganj● Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh
● School: ● Classes: 1 to 8 class● Children: 1087● Teachers: 11● Internet: none● Computers: none
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bhagmalpur
Under a tree model
Bhagmalpur photos
Bhagmalpur Schoolhttp://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40063/
Bhagmalpur Villagehttp://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/sets/40075/
Jamaica
OLPC Headquarters 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
school...to go
Collaboration
Activities
Journal
Collaboration
Activities
● Write– A simple word processor
● Chat– Similar to Google Talk
● Browse– Firefox-based
● Record– stills and video
More activities... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
Journal
One forward, One right
An interesting way to draw a circle in TurtleArt
One step forward, wait for one second,
one degree to the right, repeat 360 times
The wait allows you to see the turtle draw
the circle slowly
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art
InfoSlicer
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/InfoSlicer
OLPC XO-1
Speaker
Rotate screen
Keyboard
Mouse pad
Microphone
Antenna
Camera
Gamepad
Power
Battery
USB
For the more electronically inclined...
Hand Crank Charger
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
Solar Panel
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels
5 Watt/14Volt panel
Languages
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n
Approx. 90+ languages
Tutorial:http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452
Translate:https://dev.laptop.org/translate/
Language Diversity
● India: 28 states and 7 union territories– The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages
1. Assamese2. Bengali3. Bodo4. Dogri5. Gujarati6. Hindi7. Kannada8. Kashmiri
9. Konkani10. Maithili11. Malayalam12. Manipuri13. Marathi14. Nepali15. Oriya16. Punjabi
17. Sanskrit 18. Santhali 19. Sindhi 20. Tamil 21. Telugu 22. Urdu
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
OLPC-SF resident expert
OLPC-SF and SF State University
In the quad...
On the student union...
OLPC-SF at SFSU Downtown Center
OLPC-SF and SF State University
● Meets once a month at SFSU Down Town Center.
– See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea
● IMSA (student association) helps with organizing meetings, donation drives, translation jams
– http://imsa.sfsu.edu/
● Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair Center
– See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair
● Internships?
● Volunteers?
● Course projects?
● More...
How can you help?
● Educators
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators ● Translators
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization
– http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 ● Developers
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer ● Getting involved
– http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC ● Sugar
– http://sugarlabs.org
Mailing lists
● Educators
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/educators ● Software Developers
– General development● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
– Sugar UI● http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
All mailing lists are at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/
Community lists
● Everyone
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open● OLPC San Francisco
– http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
About the Cover Photo
This photo was taken in Bhagmalpur, India on November 3, 2008.
I was trying to connect to the Internet using a cell phone. This was the first time a computer from Bhagmalpur had connected to the Internet...ever. I had to go to the roof of the house, where I could get a good cell phone signal, but we had no electricity, so I had to do all this in the light of a kerosene lantern.
5.1 billion of the world's population is still unconnected. Not every one is so lucky to have 24/7 Internet access.
-- Sameer Verma
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/3011271194/