Re: Meeting review (was Re: Meeting reminder)

i think there should be some focus on community projects.  now i'm not 
saying that we are to forsake schools altogether.  we can probably 
re-define our meaning of community to include the schools.  for example, 
i know that RHS "adopted" a school in his community.  this is excellent 
and exactly what we need to do.  what needs to be done next is for him 
to say how it is going, lessons learned and what are the next steps. 
and he has been doing that, except i don't think there was any action on 
it.  this was what i was hoping we could do at the last meeting, so it's 
there again for the next meeting, hopefully in about 2 weeks time.


allan.





[email protected] wrote:
> I support a shift to focusing on community projects if there is to be one!
> 
> Shiva
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -----
> From: Allan Samaroo
> To:  "CIS Project" <cis-T6/[email protected]>
> Sent: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:57:31 -0400
> Subject: [cis] Meeting review (was  Re: Meeting reminder)
> 
> Present were Anil, Richjob and myself.
> 
> The meeting was conducted by using the website structure to address all 
> matters.  Basic content was reviewed and some modifications made.  The 
> changes will be made soon.
> 
> Major focus was given on the two main projects, Websites for Schools 
> (WFS) and the Computers In Primary Schools (CIPS).
> 
> Anil and I discussed the WFS in as much detail as possible.  We will 
> continue as before, i.e. initially developing a system for schools to 
> easily use the Internet to produce information and not just consume.  As 
> is known, we use the Burrokeet to allow people to generate their 
> websites after creating their content using OpenOffice or MS Office.  As 
> the Burrokeet and its supporting platforms become more advanced 
> feature-wise, we hope to take advantage of those features and train 
> schools to deliver learning content (notes, exams, etc) on their websites.
> 
> The CIPS project was not given much time since unfortunately neither 
> Shiva or RHS were able to make it.  There were some discussions where it 
> was noted that this project should not and cannot compete with the T&T 
> Government's Vision 20/20 plan for schools.  We would simply lose. 
> There were suggestions that the focus be shifted on the needs of the 
> community-at-large.  However all this is still to be discussed at length.
> 
> I'll start a new thread for that.
> 
> Allan.

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