Weekly Update, Jan 16th 2007

[Bryan Berry]

1. Rabi, Ankur, and Shankar presented the XO laptop and OLPC Nepal to the Nepali public for the first time on January 10th at CAN Infotech, the biggest computer expo in Nepal. Their presentation received a lot of positive press. It was a great beginning for OLPC in Nepal. See the related news articles below.

http://younnovation.blogspot.com/2006/12/olpc-is-it-distant-dream.html Geshan Article on Younnovation http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2007/jan/jan10/news07.php NepalNews Article

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=97168 Kantipur Online News

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnepalinews.php?&nid=97151 Kantipur News (Nepali)

http://www.mysansar.com/?p=1204 Mero Sansar NewsBlog (Nepali)

http://forum.guffgaff.com/index.php?topic=78.0 GuffGaf Forum

2. We will change our general meeting time to 6 PM on Wed. The next general meeting will take place on Wed. Jan 24th. We will still meet at Himalayan Techies. There may be a weekly meeting for developers on a separate evening.

3. We are planning an advisory board for OLPC Nepal. The members of that board should be influential, well-respected, and politically-neutral Nepalis that can give our project public credibility and good advice. Please add your member suggestions to the wiki http://wiki.olpcnepal.org/index.php?title=Advisory_Board

4. Shankar and Ankur had an excellent meeting with Madhur Shrestha, a Nepali educator that uses Squeak extensively in his learning center. For those of you who are familiar with Squeak, it is a powerful learning environment that features prominently in the XO laptop. We look forward to collaborating closely with Madhur.

5. We have decided to integrate the OLPC Nepal wiki with OLPC's larger wiki. This way members of the larger OLPC project can more easily collaborate with us and vice versa. We will redirect wiki.olpcnepal.org to the Nepal country page on the main OLPC wiki.