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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

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

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Meeting 3/16/09 over dinner:

South Africa and Cameroon Pain de Vie look most promising
- investigate how sustainable the Baseball Academy is (will it last so that our work can have a long-standing impact within the community?)
- If they are, we should commit to the Baseball Academy and start writing the proposal
Discussion of commitment to the project:
- Mary, Lily, Maddie, Owen, David can pretty much go if proposal is accepted. Janet and Joanne will talk to parents and get back soon.

Meeting 3/16/09 5:30 at Cosi in Kendall square for local OLPCorps teams Minutes Meeting with OLPCorps 3-16-09)

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

Sources of external funding
Email out to NGOs (we all can do)
Lesson plans (flexible)
Hardware details (service updates, repair kits)
Solicit for donations of items under "extra materials" ie usb cables, extension cords etc.
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.
Passports (we all need to have a passport), immunizations (Lily)
Owen has a valid passport

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