Falls jemand für Sommer noch nichts vor hat :-)) ----- Original Message ----- From: olpc-open-bounces Sent: 03.05.2007 03:09 To: devel@laptop.org Subject: [Olpc-open] OLPC Nepal looking for Volunteers for this Summer from: http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/05/were-looking-for-volunteers-for-this.h... As you may read in the previous Post "An Amazing Educator<http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/04/amazing-educator.html>," a fantastic educator has joined our group. We are looking to work with her very intensely this summer to implement many of her existing learning activities and add as many cool activities as we can. In the fall we plan to visit many, many schools to figure out how kids and teachers react to these materials. Right now we have three full-time volunteer developers, all of them Nepali. We would love four (4) foreign volunteers to come work with us this summer in Kathmandu. We will pair each foreign volunteer with a Nepali intern. That should bring our content strike force to 11 people. That would really help us to advance OLPC in Nepal. Requirements: We are looking for experienced programmers. Your age and # of university degrees are less important to us than your passion for software development. We seek individuals with significant software development experience on Linux, ideally in Python, PyGames, C, etc. You should have already run the OLPC image in an emulator. You should expect to stay in Nepal for a minimum of 6 weeks. You can stay a maximum of 5 months due to Nepal's complex visa rules. If your application is selected, you can start as soon as you can get here. Compensation: We are prepared to offer a generous salary package of $0 per month, reimburse you for a full 0% of your airplane ticket cost, and offer no health plan. We don't have any $ :) Our office, bandwidth, and computers have all been donated. We can offer comfortable lodging for a total of four volunteers. We can accept additional volunteers if they are willing to find and pay for their own accommodation. We can offer you an opportunity to work w/ a very passionate team of engineers on one of the most exciting projects in the world. If you are interested please send an e-mail with your C.V. and a brief description of what you have done w/ OLPC so far to bryan at olpcnepal dot org Unfortunately, summer is monsoon season so Nepal aweseome trekking isn't a good idea. Still, it's been a weird year weather-wise. We'll try to get you out for a trek near the end of the summer. We'll take you running/hiking in the hills surrounding Kathmandu if you are so inclined and subject you to Ankur's bad jokes (and they are very bad). The Work: You will work closely with our lead developers Shankar, Ankur, and Himali Kiran and our lead educator Christine Stone. You will help implement a series of activities based on PyGame and/or GCompris. That means writing a lot of Python, possibly some C, working with sound libraries, and more. If you have some exciting ideas for power management or mesh networking, we may find some time to work on them w/ you. However, you should expect to spend most of your time building Sugar activities, getting feedback from Christine, revising, showing to kids and teachers, repeat. We will expect you to train the Nepali intern assigned to you. The intern will most likely be an undergraduate computer science student. The development team will frequently interact with kids and teachers over the course of the summer. We intend to recruit education volunteers at a later date. I'll save that for a future blog entry. -- Bryan W. Berry Volunteer One Laptop Per Child Nepal www.olpcnepal.org _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc-open