Square-Point

Square-Point is a world-wide internet based Non-Profit organization, which is the only youth organization which provides teenager developers and programmers a platform to develop their own programs and merge with the community to help children living in the developing and the third world countries by providing them resources to be familiar with the latest innovation and technologies and software. All of the Square-Point's members are teenagers and Square-Point doesn't accept membership requests from anyone above age of 20.

Introduction

Square-Point was first created with the mission "To help children from third world countries to reach their potential." Square-Point targeted to program applications and software suits suitable for the use of children around the world.

Square-Point is led by chairman Abhishek Indoria, and Angelina Johnson, the Chief Programming Officer. As of May 2010, Square-Point has over 22000 members worldwide with half million users' base. The organization's name was changed from Phoenix-Team to Square-Point in March, 2010.

Joint Work with One Laptop Per Child

In June 2009, a statement from Square-Point followed that it has joined the efforts of one laptop per child. Square-Point, since then, is independently developing its own software and implementing them according to OLPC XO-1.

Mission

Mission statement from Square-Point:

: To provide free educational software to children living in the third world countries where they can't get access to proper technology and don't have proper resources to do so.The intended children's age is 5-16 years for which Square-Point intend to provide enough resources to help them get educated in field of computers.

Current Projects

Besides of the Square-Point's mission, the Square-Point has also developed the following projects:

Codename Imperius (BoomingBang)

: An open source game for OLPC XO-1 and for computers with very low resources. First project of Square-Point.

Phoenix Aura

: An open source children oriented operating system, allowing children to customize their machines according to themselves, which, in case, is completely children friendly and fun to learn.

Spread-The-Sheet (STS)

: Open Source spreadsheet program prototype.

Organization Structure

Square Team has its own internal organization structure. The chairman and the Chief Programmer Officer are responsible for everything in the group, including the structural and re-inforcing tasks.

The Point team is responsible for programming structure and solutions, and has maximum capacity of 45. The Phoenix-S team is responsible for support tasks and has maximum capacity of 150. The Phoenix-Square team is responsible for compatibility issues, public relations, beta testing and recruiting members and has no maximum capacity.

Opposite of the all four, the Phoenix-Squad is the research team of the organization, which has a very limited capacity of 7 persons and is not usually revealed to anyone except the Point Team and Phoenix-S.

Deployments

Currently, several of Square-Point members are deployed world wide. Most of Square-Point's members are deployed in the following countries -

United States
United Kingdom
Russia
Latvia
Ghana
South Africa
Brazil
Chile
Vietnam
Malaysia
Nepal
Burma
Sudan
Paraguay
Nicaragua
Spain
Germany
France
Sri-Lanka
Haiti
India

Important Personalities

Square-Point's founder and current chairman, Abhishek Indoria(born March 18, 1995) is a student living in Jaipur, India. Indoria was also founder of FOSSFY(Free & Open Source Software For Youth foundation) And Co-founder of Eduvix, an organization providing open source educational solutions(Which has been shut down).

Square-Point's Chief Programming Officer (CPO), Angelina Johnson(born August 2, 1995) is a student living in Sussex, England. Johnson was co-founder of Eduvix.

Criticism

Square-Point was criticized for its decision of not letting anyone over the age of 19 join the group, following a membership dispute of a Mark Andersen, member of Square-Point, who was 19 years old when he joined and Square-Point let him continue to be a part of the team even when he exceeded 20 years. This wasn't important, but was criticized due to Square-Point's strict rules on everything else.