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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.

Contacts Made

Dogi (Stefan Unterhauser) <dogi@laptop.org>
David and Anarag: BU steam
Pat, BC student: <patrickcapello@gmail.com>
Seth
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: Kaitlyn Foley (owen has email) and Mckinsey (set up the list)

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

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

Pain de Vie (David)
Monique
The Township Baseball Academy-Philippi Township, Cape Town, South Africa (Lily)
Madagascar School Project (Lily)
Blessing the Children International in Ethiopia (Lily)
The Peace Corps (Lily)
Girl's Mentoring Centers in Mauritania (Mary)
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.
Link Ethiopia (Janet) (http://www.linkethiopia.org/projects/index.html)
Build A School (Janet) - asked if any of the already-built schools might need computers... (http://www.buildaschool.org.uk/)
Providing Equality in African Schools (PEAS) (Janet) (http://www.peas.org.uk/)