Olin university chapter
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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.
- 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.
- YALP
- 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.

