Olin university chapter

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Contents 1 Office Hours 1.1 4:30-6:30 pm, Friday 1.2 2:00-5:00pm, Sunday 2 XOs on campus 3 Projects 3.1 Repair Center 3.2 Hackathon/Mini-Jam 4 Current tasklist 4.1 New Tasks 4.2 Ongoing Tasks 5 Meeting notes 5.1 1/25/08 6 Contact Information

This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin college OLPC university chapter. Please edit!

[edit] Office Hours

Weekly office hours are held at 1CC on Friday and Sunday afternoons. Use this space to update and organize transportation, as well as giving SJ a heads-up on how many people to expect.

[edit] 4:30-6:30 pm, Friday

• drivers
• passengers

[edit] 2:00-5:00pm, Sunday

• drivers
• passengers

[edit] XOs on campus

There are currently 9 XOs on Olin's campus. To check out a machine, contact Greg.

• 1 B2 machine with Nikki
• 1 B2 machine with Andy P
• 1 B4 machine with Nikki
• 1 B1 machine with Nikki
• 3 broken B2 machines with Nikki
• 2 broken B4 machines with Nikki

[edit] Projects

To see all projects associated with Olin's OLPC chapter, check out our project page.

[edit] Repair Center

We are in the planning stages of creating a repair center at Olin. Past brainstorming lives at Olin university chapter/Repair center.

[edit] Hackathon/Mini-Jam

See University Chapter Jam Boston.

[edit] Current tasklist

[edit] New Tasks

• get involved with rt and bug triage
• get B1s and B2s running latest builds of Sugar (Andy Barry is working on this; contact him to help out)
• nameplates for XOs on campus
• t-shirt designs (open to everyone)

[edit] Ongoing Tasks

• schedule visit to the Trotter School, coordinate with Engineering Discovery
• continue Yalp interface design
• schedule office hours
• brainstorming
• documentation

[edit] Meeting notes

Archives of minutes can be viewed at the Olin university chapter/archives page.

[edit] 1/25/08

• We have one XO that is the current build
• Repair Centers
  • Give one get one program launched, started shipping laptops- very hands off.
  • People don't know how to use them, no official repair centers, can't buy spare parts
    • Do we know which laptops are gives/gets? No, but shipping might.
  • Grassroots movement to start local repair centers
    • Buy parts, have them shipped, send you laptop, fix and test, send it back!
    • Pros: Not too expensive for donor, Cheap for us, no $$
    • Another give one / get one program for repairs?
  • Olin Involvement?
    • Scaling is a problem
    • We'd get trained
    • We have a lot of questions to ask
      • How many would we get
      • Streamlining Things
    • We're interested, but we still have questions!
• Sustainable repair center business model
  • See what happens
  • Document!
• Help distribute with give/get many.
  • Less viable, but mentioned
  • Have people distribute to groups that have banded together to order
• Whether or not to design for something to stamp from cardboard so it's easy to ship OLPCs
  • Repair center and distribution benefit from this
  • Fold and tape shut!
• Targeting our skills
  • Designing boxes > Packing boxes
• Hackathon/Mini-Jam
  • See the mini-Jam from last summer for games.
  • Could copy OSA Flash Conference, or be part of it.
  • A week long thing for a couple hours everyday when people drop it and work and write code or build things or play with peripherals.

    This is what IMSA did - it worked pretty well, for the record. More lead time to get parts, info, etc. for physical projects and ones that involved contacting people outside the original team. Mchua 22:55, 28 January 2008 (EST)

  • Nope. Better to have one day.
  • Inviting other colleges?
  • At Olin with student body?
  • Saturday at Olin, get them to pitch in for guests, use dining hall
  • Have projects people can attack already
  • Really open ended now. People can write what they want.
  • WHO WANTS TO BE IN CHARGE? AndyP, Ollie, Yifan
    • Report back within two weeks!
    • Themes,Dates
  • See disassembling later
• Partnering with IMSA
  • They're open but we need concrete ideas
  • Do we want diplomacy?
  • Mentoring, fabrication?

    They especially need someone who can help the circuits team with designing sensor input modules. Mchua 22:55, 28 January 2008 (EST)

  • They seem into coding.

    Actually, not so much - they're open to learning how to code, but want to do other things - grassroots org (they're doing a lot of outreach to the rest of Chicago), curriculum particularly language learning, documentation (especially filming), Health hardware and software but also medical-related content and testing, going out into the field in other countries - talk to them about things that aren't engineering or coding, too. Mchua 22:55, 28 January 2008 (EST)

• Who wants to get back to Ian?
  • Greg will help.
  • Ellen likes to solder.
• Disassembling an XO
  • Videotape profs and students taking apart an XO and talking about what they see
  • Talk about user interface and code
  • One of the jam themes!

    I so want to see this film when it is done. Mchua 22:55, 28 January 2008 (EST)

• Projects
  • YALP
    • Good HFID thing?
    • Usability? Redesign?
    • Yes, we like HFID + YALP! Yay!
  • Ideas?
    • Andy has ideas for subtasks.
  • Streamlining new people so they can use the wiki and be functional and comfy!
    • Get wiki accounts and check these pages
    • Ollie is in charge of the page internships, needs a wiki account.
• Witty insults
  • Python is a leftist programming language, and thus we are communists.
  • C++ is capitalist, if anyone is wondering.

    Sounds like a blast, folks. I miss you all. Mchua 22:55, 28 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Contact Information

The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is Nikki Lee. Contact her for general questions.