A city kid’s reaction to OLPC XO and other stories
Day 2 and 3 from Bal Vividha
A small video of the reactions of a young city-based kid to the OLPC XO. The editing, subtitling and title card creation was done using Kino and Gimp. The video was shot using a Canon Powershot A610 digicam. This is my first attempt at doing something like this, so rough edges and bad technique is to be expected 
The uploaded version has loss of details, thanks to conversion and compression, it’s not *this* bad in the final edited version on my lappy.
A slightly older lad (studying in Class VII from the South Point High School) can to our stall, and played a nice game of
chess on one of our CASTLE Labs terminals.
Among other things, Lipika Bansal from Waag Society, Nederlands came around to the stall. She was very interested in knowing what we were doing. She wanted to visit Bijra to see what we were doing. It was a lovely exchange of ideas. She shared with me details of several projects that Waag was into at present. I particularly liked the idea of the experimental Scottie
On the last day of the exhibition, Satabdi and Debamitra from AID India came over. They too wanted to go and visit the Bijra High School project site. Probably we’ll all go for a visit on Tuesday (the 11th).
Mr. Arup Chakraborty - a member of ILUG-CAL.ORG and a key person with the Kolkata efforts of Indian Assn. for Blind Persons, came down as well, along with a colleague. They are presently using Orca screen reader and are interested in getting it to work with Bengali Unicode text. They have expressed a keen interest in closely working with ILUG-CAL in setting up a training program for the visually challenged persons in using Free and Open Source Software. We all agreed to establish a base-line reference for the program within December 2007.
Bal Vividha drew to a close on Sunday, 9th December. Chandita from Comet Media Foundation, Amit from OLPC India and myself, we all sat down for a quick review. We drew up the tentative plans have a program on ICT in Education at Mumbai during the 3rd week of February, 2008.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Hi,
“They are presently using Orca screen reader and are interested in getting it to work with Bengali Unicode text.”
In FOSS.IN I have presented an Indian Language Text to speech system named Dhvani (http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Dhvani). Recently I added Bengali support to that. I gave a demonstration of that to Runa . I have given the bengali source code to her. If you are interested, please contact me or Runa.
I am yet to start to see how I can integrate it with Orca
December 12th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
@ Santhosh
most definitely!
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