OLPC Vietnam Workshop at SFD 2010 Summarization

[Yang Ha Nguyen]

Dear all OLPC Vietnam members,

I'm so glad to announce to you all that OLPC Vietnam presentation and workshop
at SFD were totally a success. Our presentation was conducted by Lilly Nguyen
and me, in both Vietnamese and English. It was really clear and simple, it
emphasized the educational purposes of OLPC with brief introduction about
technical stuff (XO operating system, Sugar, and Vietnam Sugar Developers
Team). There was a question about OLPC Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh city and we had
no information about OLPC activities in Ho Chi Minh. Please find OLPC
presentation in the attachment below. The workshop in the afternoon was also
great. We had 3 XOs and a lot of people tried it. They also asked a lot of
questions about XO in specific, and about OLPC in general. Some of them were
really interested in the project. Especially, Mr. Phan Trung Nghia from
HanoiLUG was willing to help us on translating materials for OLPC Vietnam.
The demo of Magic Words, a software which is developing by Vietnam Sugar
Developers Team, was gathered a lot of interest as well. Here are some of the
pictures: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].

Thank you all for helping us to have such a wonderful day as OLPC Vietnam
representatives. Thanks, Nancie, for your materials and wonderful pictures
from VVV as well as the your XO which Lilly brought. Thanks, Lilly, for
taking your time doing the presentation, wonderfully having conducted it in
English, and be with OLPC Vietnam the whole time. Thanks, Nguyet for having
lent me the 2 XOs and your great pictures. Thank you all.

Oh, I almost forget, please find OLPC Vietnam backdrop in the attachment.

P.S. Files too large, I have to upload them separately. Please find
them on our group's [6]site.

[1] http://www.facebook.com/anhnguyet.ql#!/album.php?aid=2050038&id=1512481114
[2] http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8jFT8HLn9WE/TJcdr7RgFNI/AAAAAAAAASI/fQ14QWdoRf8/s128/SDC10725.JPG
[3] http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8jFT8HLn9WE/TJcdsmAhY9I/AAAAAAAAASM/E9RPlBI8aDY/s128/SDC10727.JPG
[4] http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8jFT8HLn9WE/TJcdtCNwa0I/AAAAAAAAASQ/0BjjPARDlfQ/s128/SDC10728.JPG
[5] http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8jFT8HLn9WE/TJcdqtqwM7I/AAAAAAAAASA/97nD5X9tER4/s128/SDC10723.JPG
[6] http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-vietnam/files

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[Serge Stinckwich]

Thank you Yang for the report.
Too bad i could not join you ...

Regards,

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[Mario Behling]

Dear Yang Nguyen,

this is a fantastic outcome! I am very happy to see the OLPC project move on.

Your question about OLPC Saigon - Marina worked on the project here a
few months ago and blogged about it on http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com
. Just go back to some older entries.

On Nov. 12-14 we will have FOSSASIA in Ho Chi Minh City. It would be
great to welcome volunteers who are interested in OLPC Vietnam or
even someone who can give a presentation like you did. We will have
two OLPCs available at the event.

Please get in touch, if you will attend.

All the best,

Mario

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Yang Ha Nguyen <cmp...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Lilly Nguyen]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for sharing. Yang and I were trying to find more information to share with people about TPHCM OLPC, but alas could not.

I definitely plan on attending FOSSAsia in November and would love to meet you Mario and anyone else who will be there on the list. 

As you can, the talk isn't too long and I'd be more than happy to do this kind of introductory presentation, but would like to have someone else to also do some of the talk for the more tech-specs-aspects of the XO.

Maybe we can plan an informal meet-up for the OLPC-sters during FOSS Asia?

Best,

Lilly 

aim: deuxlits

[Nancie Severs]

Hello! Thanks Yang for the terrific report and for everything you are doing to help spread OLPC and free open software for children in Vietnam! And Nguyet, I love the photos. They are great.

This is wonderful. Lilly, I will get put you in touch with Marina. I don't know if there is anyone else in HCMC besides Mario, yet. But, somewhere in a girls shelter in HCMC, there are 5 XOs, some teens that know the basics of how to use them, and they have a wireless router and sometimes Internet. Wouldn't it be great if you could check in on these girls, and have 1 session with them. Perhaps you could plan to just run software updates and answer questions for them when you are in HCMC in November. 

Thanks again everyone!
Nancie:)

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[Lilly Nguyen]

Hi Nancie,

That sounds great. Can you say some more about this girl's shelter? Who gave them the computers? How did this person find out about it? 

lilly

[Nancie Severs]

Hi Lilly and all,

Last January, a lovely young volunteer for OLPC, Marina applied to the Contributor's Program and received 5 XOs to bring with her to HCMC. She was placed by a volunteer agency to do some work for 3 months in HCMC, while taking a break from the corporate world. (Marina has an MBA.)

The OLPC Wiki project page is at:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/OLPC-Saigon

She blogged the experience - a relevant example of classes can be found at:
http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/02/page/2/

Marina writes:
The shelter is called Ba Chieu. There are 6 girls with 5XOs who finished XO/Sugar training in March 2010. They can show you what they have been using XOs for and you can teach them new things and make sure they have up-to-date version of Sugar. You can call the manager ahead of time to schedule the visit, her name is Truong Thi Yen on (08) 515 0556. Feel free to read more about our training course at http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com

Marina :)

 

Bà Chiểu Home
Add: 149/1 Nguyen Van Dau, Ward 11, Binh Thanh Dist, HCMC
Tel: (+84). 85.150.556
The Ba Chieu Home for disadvantaged and homeless girls in Ho Chi Minh City was set up in May 1996 with initial funding from the New Zealand Embassy. It is administered by the Women’s Charity Association of Ho Chi Minh City, a voluntary, non-governmental organisation set up in 1989 under licence from the HCMC People's Committee. After the first two years, the Embassy could no longer fund operating costs, so I have organised fundraising and private donations mainly from New Zealanders and New Zealand businesses with a Vietnamese connection ever since.

Marina did fabulous things with the teenagers and the XOs! It was even written up  here.

http://english.thesaigontimes.vn/Home/travel/expat-interest/6

It will be very helpful to see what has become of the girls and the XOs with a follow-up visit. I'll bet the XOs can be connected to the Internet and have a software update!  The girls will be glad to have Lilly answer their XO questions in Vietnamese! And a follow up visit will help us all to gauge what happens when XOs are given without structured ongoing support.

Nancie

[Yang Ha Nguyen]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:16:39PM -0400, Nancie Severs wrote:
>Hi Lilly and all,
>
>Last January, a lovely young volunteer for OLPC, Marina applied to the
>Contributor's Program and received 5 XOs to bring with her to HCMC. She was
>placed by a volunteer agency to do some work for 3 months in HCMC, while
>taking a break from the corporate world. (Marina has an MBA.)
>
>The OLPC Wiki project page is at:
>
>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/OLPC-Saigon
>
>She blogged the experience - a relevant example of classes can be found at:
>http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/02/page/2/
>
>Marina writes:
>The shelter is called Ba Chieu. There are 6 girls with 5XOs who finished
>XO/Sugar training in March 2010. They can show you what they have been using
>XOs for and you can teach them new things and make sure they have up-to-date
>version of Sugar. You can call the manager ahead of time to schedule the
>visit, her name is Truong Thi Yen on (08) 515 0556. Feel free to read more
>about our training course at http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com
>Marina :)
>
>

>*Bà Chiểu Home* <http://www.web-central1.com/BaChieuHomeVietnam/>

>Add: 149/1 Nguyen Van Dau, Ward 11, Binh Thanh Dist, HCMC
>Tel: (+84). 85.150.556
>The Ba Chieu Home for disadvantaged and homeless girls in Ho Chi Minh City

>was set up in May 1996 with initial funding from the *New Zealand* Embassy.

>It is administered by the Women’s Charity Association of Ho Chi Minh City, a
>voluntary, non-governmental organisation set up in 1989 under licence from
>the HCMC People's Committee. After the first two years, the Embassy could no
>longer fund operating costs, so I have organised fundraising and private
>donations mainly from New Zealanders and New Zealand businesses with a
>Vietnamese connection ever since.
>
>Marina did fabulous things with the teenagers and the XOs! It was even
>written up here.
>

>http://english.thesaigontimes.vn/Home/travel/expat-interest/6<http://english.thesaigontimes.vn/Home/travel/expat-interest/60/>

>
>It will be very helpful to see what has become of the girls and the XOs with
>a follow-up visit. I'll bet the XOs can be connected to the Internet and
>have a software update! The girls will be glad to have Lilly answer their
>XO questions in Vietnamese! And a follow up visit will help us all to gauge
>what happens when XOs are given without structured ongoing support.
>
>Nancie
>On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Lilly Nguyen <lilly...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nancie,
>>
>> That sounds great. Can you say some more about this girl's shelter? Who
>> gave them the computers? How did this person find out about it?
>>
>> lilly
>>
>> aim: deuxlits
>>
>>
>> On Sep 21, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Nancie Severs wrote:
>>
>> Hello! Thanks Yang for the terrific report and for everything you are doing
>> to help spread OLPC and free open software for children in Vietnam! And
>> Nguyet, I love the photos. They are great.
>>

>> This is wonderful. Lilly, I will get put you in touch with Marina. *I

>> don't know if there is anyone else in HCMC besides Mario, yet. But,
>> somewhere in a girls shelter in HCMC, there are 5 XOs, some teens that know
>> the basics of how to use them, and they have a wireless router and sometimes
>> Internet. Wouldn't it be great if you could check in on these girls, and
>> have 1 session with them. Perhaps you could plan to just run software

>> updates and answer questions for them when you are in HCMC in November. *

>>
>> Thanks again everyone!
>> Nancie:)
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Lilly Nguyen <lilly...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing. Yang and I were trying to find more information to
>>> share with people about TPHCM OLPC, but alas could not.
>>>
>>> I definitely plan on attending FOSSAsia in November and would love to meet
>>> you Mario and anyone else who will be there on the list.
>>>
>>> As you can, the talk isn't too long and I'd be more than happy to do this
>>> kind of introductory presentation, but would like to have someone else to
>>> also do some of the talk for the more tech-specs-aspects of the XO.
>>>
>>> Maybe we can plan an informal meet-up for the OLPC-sters during FOSS Asia?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Lilly
>>>
>>> aim: deuxlits
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

Hi,

It was my pleasure to work for OLPC Vietnam. Too bad that I was so sick
in the last few days that I couldn't reply your emails.

I'm afraid that I can't go to FOSSAsia. My family has a very serious
business on Nov 11, so I have to stay in Hanoi the whole week (from Nov
8 to Nov 11). If anyone is to attend that event, please summarize OLPC
activities each day, so everyone else (including me) could catch up with
you. If you want to do some preparation in Hanoi before FOSSAsia, I'm
so willing to help.

With kindest regards,

[Nancie Severs]

Thanks Yang,
I am so sorry to hear that you were sick. I hope you will be fully recovered soon.
Take good care,
Nancie :)

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[Yang Ha Nguyen]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:37:52PM -0400, Nancie Severs wrote:
>Thanks Yang,
>I am so sorry to hear that you were sick. I hope you will be fully recovered
>soon.
>Take good care,
>Nancie :)
>
>

Thank you very much, Nancie :-). I'm much better today, and I think I
will be fully recovered very very soon.

All the best,

[Lilly Nguyen]

Hope you're feeling better Yang. Does anyone else plan on attending FOSS Asia? Does anyone want to collaborate on a presentation together? As I said in a previous email, I'd be more than happy to do this but only with someone else as well.

Let me know!

Lilly