Update for May 3rd

[Bryan Berry]

1. We have a new website courtesy of Rajiv Karna and his company Xclusive Minds (www.xclusiveminds.com).
2. We have a new server courtesy of the Computer Association of Nepal (CAN). Thanks to Kishor Panth for coordinating this. We will use this new serve to host a repository of software code and learning materials for OLPC. We also wish to thank Ajit Shah and Aadish Shrestha of Everest Net for hosting this server at their facility and providing technical support.
3. Last week, Shankar attended the Countries Meeting at OLPC Headquarters in Boston, USA. Babu Ram Poudel, Deputy Director DoE and Thomas Grotkjaer Nielsen, ESAT Advisor DoE accompanied him. Representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Thailand, and Uruguay alongside representatives from various UN agencies, Inter-American Development Bank and USAID attended the week long meeting. Shankar was surprised to hear OLPC Nepal mention in many presentations as the model grassroots OLPC organization.
4. This week we managed to attract one of the most respected educators in Nepal to our project. Christine Stone has worked in the education field in Nepal for over twenty-five years. She has taught primary school, written Nepali textbooks, and now primarily trains teachers in rural areas of Nepal. Here is a great article in the Nepali Times about her. http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/324/Leisure/12869
5. Meredith Adhikari and Shilesh have started filming a documentary on our work in schools. Meredith and Shilesh have actually organized a team of musicians to provide a soundtrack for the documentary.
6. Please check our Blog for more frequent updates http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com
7. We are looking for volunteer engineers to work with us this summer. If you know any talented software engineers, please send this link to them http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/05/were-looking-for-volunteers-for-this.html
   

Thanks again to the many individuals who have generously provided us with support.

from: http://wiki.olpcnepal.org/index.php?title=Update_for_May_2%2C_2007
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Bryan W. Berry
Volunteer
One Laptop Per Child Nepal
www.olpcnepal.org