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[edit] Ankur Verma

Intern, One Laptop Per Child, Cambridge

[edit] Areas of involvement

• SMS Connectivity: A way to deliver short text messages to mobile devices[1]
• Rural (Low cost) connectivity with Modems [2]
• Developed Content for XO: Problems with multi-platform solutions which can be used to teach and learn programming [3]

[edit] Contact

Email: ankur at laptop dot org

IRC: ankur on #olpc, #sugar

Website: http://ankur.nsit.googlepages.com/

[edit] Notes

ankur_notes

[edit] Weekly Updates

[edit] Week 29th May - 6th June

• Internship started from 29th May.
• Started learning about working with modems on linux
• Updated XO_with_USB_Cellular_Modem with steps to work with Franklin Modem

[edit] Week 9th June - 13th June

• Added updated scripts to XO_with_USB_Cellular_Modem
• Along with Daniel Drake and Chris Carrick, Worked on setting up of school server and demonstrated it at Grassroots bootcamp at Cambridge, MA - OLPC headquarters (1CC)
• Attended Grassroots Jam at New York.

[edit] Week 16th June - 20th June

• Worked on Internet Connectivity of XO with Sierra Wireless Modem and Sprint wireless modem.

[edit] Week 21st June - 28th June

• Worked on Motorola T-mobile Modem. Updated wiki page.
• Updated [4] page with server connectivity using modems

[edit] 30th June - 10th July

Imagine Cup world finals at Paris, France

[edit] 13th July - 19th July

• Set up XO as OLPC SMS Gateway using SMS Server tools

[edit] 21st July - 26th July

• Integrated SMS capability to Chat activity on XO