It is hot in Lakuri Bhanjhyang, the site of Bashuki School, approximately 29 C every day. That’s 95 Fahrenheit for you Americans. AND it is very dry and extremely dusty. If you leave your XO alone for 20-30 minutes, it will have a fine layer of dust a top the keyboard when you return. These [...]

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On April 25, 2008, Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) distributed a total of 135 OLPC laptops to grade 2 and 6 students from two schools in the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley. These were addition to the 22 laptops that were handed out to teachers from the schools during the teacher preparation program held a [...]

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Saurav Dev Bhatta
Introduction
We just completed an orientation program for parents and stakeholders at Bishwamitra Ganesh Lower Secondary School  yesterday (April 21).  A similar program was held at Bashuki Lower Secondary School last Thursday (April 17).  The objective of these programs was to give the parents and other stakeholders in these test schools an overview of [...]

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Here below we see Ram; not only software developer extraordinaire, but also electrical engineer extraordinaire, who in his spare time is known to make and install small micro-hydro installations for rural villages in Nepal. For our pilot schools we needed XO loading stations that were low-cost, practical and cheap. So we set Ram to work.
We [...]

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I got involved with OLPC back in June of 2006. It’s hard to believe that was almost two years ago! I got involved for a lot of reasons but I have to admit I was tremendously excited about the technology in the XO. Over the last two years this enthusiasm waxed and waned. I first [...]

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Our pilot starts in less than 10 days and I am mired in Software and Hardware testing (QA). We were supposed test 70 XO’s against our access point yesterday but early into testing we noticed that activities were crashing on startup w/ build 703.
I spent 3 hours on IRC troubleshooting the problem w/ the help [...]

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Hello World,
I am Manoj Ghimire from Bishwamitra Ganesh Lower Secondary School.I have been working in this school for last two years.I teach maths and science for the lower secondary level.
I am also an ex-student of this school.When the school upgraded from primary level to the lower secondary level, they needed extra teachers but there wasn’t [...]

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