This week, Bernie Innocenti, Sunil Pokhrel, and Uttam Sharma joined the OLE Nepal Community. They are all extremely talented in their various fields, and welcome additions to OLE Nepal.

Bernie, as you may be able to tell from his last name, is from Florence, Italy. Bernie is a self-described geek, and will be with us until the end of August.

Bernie is something of a computer guru, and admits that computers are his life. He enjoys breaking computers (hopefully only his own), only because he likes to fix them afterwards. Beyond his talents with hardware, Bernie is also a programmer. While he likes all programming languages, when forced to choose one, he chose C as his favorite. This week, Bryan has been especially thankful to have his help with RAID.

During his time here, Bernie hopes to help build a bridge between real-world deployments and sugar developers. In his free-time, Bernie likes traveling around the world (and has actually traveled all the way around the world), both as a volunteer and for fun.

Sunil is from Lubhu, Shankadevi, Lalitpur, Nepal. He attended St. Xaviers in Kathmandu, and has spent the last eight years teaching classes 7-11 in Nepal. While here, Sunil will develop activities and curriculum for the software developers to create for the XO. He hopes to contribute good activities for poor Nepali kids, and is very interested in showing the benefits of OLPC and ICT education deployments.

In his free-time, Sunil enjoys hiking and walks with his son, Subodh. He is married to Kabita Pokhrel.

Last, but not least, Uttam, who is from Pokhara, Nepal, comes to us from the University of Minnesota. He earned a Bachelors Degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, a Masters from the University of Maryland, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Minnesota, in the field of Applied Economics. Uttan will be conducting an evaluation of the initial deployment at the two pilot schools during the next two months. While here, Uttam hopes to gain a better understanding of how the OLE deployment is working, how it is percieved from within and without the program, and which areas are in need of attention.

In his free-time, Uttam enjoys surfing the internet when not studying.