Thread:Updates from the field (1)

Hi David

Just to give you a quick update. we are now up and running at Patukae and everything was working bang on time. it was out this morning but when we needed it connectivity was available. Brian showed me some graphs and it seems that someone has been downloading mp3s and other files ( thats where most of the bandwidth has gone ), since no one was using it at Patukae yesterday or at Uepi he was not sure who was maxing the bandwidth out.

we are going to concentrate on the lesson plans. a strong idea that is forming is that we take the kids and teachers for a bush walk with cameras with indigenous knowledge expert. vincent vanghuni who is very knowledgable. and form a lesson plan that way and of course identifying and talking about different species on the way.

one of the dicussions that came up was the need to expand the olpc laptop, i said that possibly what could be used as evidence is our mutual work with the wiki as a very local need.

i think i have also found some young guys who can also help with some of the translations of the wiki menu/terms

off to a planning session now

cheers, Teanau