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Team Conference 3.24.09

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Wed 3/25/09 (4:39 pm) Sumi+Lily+Ginger 3.25
Wed 3/25/09 (4:35 pm) Ginger+ Wil+ Owen 3.25
Wed 3/25/09 (1:55 pm) Ginger and Will on Internet and Power (3-25-09)
Wed 3/25/09 (7:55 am) Ginger Skype Wed 3.25 Morning (3.30-7.30 AM)
Wed 3/25/09 (1:22 am) Team Conference 3.24.09
Mon 3/23/09 (12:12 am) Proposal
Sun 3/22/09 (10:20 pm) Bababé Profile
Sun 3/22/09 (10:15 pm) Kaédi profile
Sun 3/22/09 (5:41 pm) Boghé profile
Sun 3/22/09 (5:21 pm) Updated Build A School page https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/OLPCORPS/Build+a+School+(Malawi)

Sun 3/22/09 (4:44 pm) Renewable Energy
Sun 3/22/09 (4:10 pm) Put up Health Information page
Sun 3/22/09 (12:53 am) Put up Skype meeting with Ginger Minutes
Sat 3/21/ 2009 (5:27 pm) Mary Updated Peace Corps Girls' Centers (Mauritania)
Wed 3/18/2009 Met with Luke and organized minutes and put up Meeting with Luke (Build a School)
Mon 3/16/2009 Put up notes from Team Meeting over Dinner 3.16.2009 meeting over dinner
Mon 3/16/2009 Meeting at Cosi at 5:30 pm to talk to OLPC and other teams, put up minutes Meeting with OLPCorps 3-16-09

Upcoming Dates

  • Thursday, 3/17 - Meet at 1CC (OLPC)? Waiting to hear back from Seth
    • Network and collaborate with other local teams! Probably 5:30 or so. More details to come!
  • May 16 at 1 PM at Media Lab Scratch Day at MIT

Noteworthy notes:

(from Meeting 3/16/09 5:30 at Cosi in Kendall square for local OLPCorps teams)

Contacts Made

  • Dogi (Stefan Unterhauser) <dogi@laptop.org>
  • BU team: David Han <dshan@bu.edu> and Anurag Goel <agoel23@gmail.com>
  • Pat, BC student, working with BU team: <patrickcapello@gmail.com>
  • Seth (seth@laptop.org)
  • Deborah Donohue, educator--would like to be contacted about developing educational curriculum. <donohued@worc.k12.ma.us>

Other people to Contact

  • Dianne (in OLPC) Sells the solar panels to power XOs. <olpc.auntie.mame@gmail.com> and <Xo@xoexplosion.com>
  • John Maloney (media lab group that could help us)
  • Nicky Gomez at Sloan
  • Paul Commons-- conference call
  • To get laptops on loan to play with: Katelyn Foley <kfoley@fas.harvard.edu> and MacKenzie Sigalos <msigalos@fas.harvard.edu>

Organizations

  • Peacecorps in Malawi (through Dogi)<climbergurl@gmail.com>
  • Cambridge friends school
  • Americans Friends Service School
  • instedd.org
  • Olin University

Tasks at Hand

  1. Sources of external funding
  2. Email out to NGOs (we all can do)
  3. Lesson plans (flexible)
  4. Hardware details (service updates, repair kits)
  5. Solicit for donations of items under "extra materials" ie usb cables, extension cords etc.
  6. Become a group. Donations: some companies only donate for tax purposes (we would need to be an MIT club to be able to use MIT's tax id number). Maybe we could work through GPI or something for this.
  7. Passports (we all need to have a passport), immunizations (Lily)
    Owen has a valid passport

People Contaced

  1. Prof Wesley Harris (meeting) (Mary)
  2. Sally Susnowitz (Public Service Center) (meeting) (Mary)
  3. Aisha Walcotts (GRT in New House) (emailed 3/15/09, hasn't responded yet) (Mary)
  4. Kevin Koster (Industrial Liaison Program) (emailed 3/15/09, hasn't responded yet) (Mary)
  5. A friend working with school system in Uganda (Lily)
  6. A friend who has gone to Malawi for multiple mission trips (Lily)
  7. MIT's D-Lab Amy Smith (emailed, hasn't responded yet) (Mary)
  8. Church member who's been in Mali for 16 months with PeaceCorps, awaiting response (Owen)
  9. Supervisor in media lab (about contacts, and getting XO) (Owen)
  10. Possible reference to OLPC team at Harvard (not sure, friend at harvard emailed address on a flyer...we'll see) (Owen)
  11. Emailed team at BU, awaiting response (Owen)

NGOs Contacted

  1. Pain de Vie (David)
  2. Monique
  3. The Township Baseball Academy-Philippi Township, Cape Town, South Africa (Lily)
  4. Madagascar School Project (Lily)
  5. Blessing the Children International in Ethiopia (Lily)
  6. The Peace Corps (Lily)
  7. Girl's Mentoring Centers in Mauritania (Mary)
  8. Peace Corps Mauritania supports 22 Girls' Mentoring Centers across the country specifically designed to help underprivilged girls who have a strong interest in academic pursuits. The centers are supported by the local communities and run by Peace Corps Volunteers and locally trained mentors ensuring a better opportunity for longer standing sustainability. For more information, contact Ginger Tissier at gtissier@gmail.com.
  9. Link Ethiopia (Janet) (http://www.linkethiopia.org/projects/index.html)
  10. Build A School (Janet) - asked if any of the already-built schools might need computers... (http://www.buildaschool.org.uk/)
  11. Providing Equality in African Schools (PEAS) (Janet) (http://www.peas.org.uk/)

More NGOs to Contact

  1. African Children's Educational Trust: http://www.a-cet.org.uk/schools
  2. NGO and charity directories:
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