User:Mchua/Weekly updates/20080524

monday

• FINALLY got housing for ILXOers, they moved in, this took all morning. WILL NEVER SPEND THAT MUCH TIME ON HOUSING AGAIN. Dealing with landlords is incredibly inefficient.
• Made a set of USB keys for quickie keyboard reflashing
• ILXOers are now on support-gang
• ILXOers trained for demos
• Reflashed, installed, and tested 13 of 15 laptops for tomorrow (the remaining 2 are with Eben for Sugar-2 demos and we couldn't get to them tonight)
• Dismantled parts for the "disassembly table" and prepped those for tomorrow
• Bucketloads of ILXO coordination - staff/volunteers/projects, website

tuesday

• MASSIVE DEMOS AT THE MEDIA LAB HURRAH ALL DAY
  • Disassembly/repair table a special hit

wednesday

• got a crash course on development / getting funding / negotiations
• started looking for successors for jams, uni programs
• got andrea started on ILXO website
• taught all the ILXOers python. in an hour. they are amazing.

thursday

• running around helping attendees use their XOs
• attended Kim's roadmap talk and Wad's repair talk - transcribed the latter
• LOCATION FOR GRASSROOTS JAM SECURED HURRAH!
• dev program spreadsheets SUCH FUN OH JOY (I have a lot of respect for the patience data entry jobs require; I don't have it.)

friday

• Chris Carrick has agreed to run this round of Summer of Content. Hurrah!
• Sent out spares & repairs survey for Kim & Adam to get a gauge of the community need for parts
• Reserved truck for ILXO relocation - grr
• Spent way too long manually entering shipping data into a spreadsheet so people in the developers' program can get their machines. This needs to be automated, darn it.
• ILXO website launched - all thanks to Tank, Nikki, and Chris! http://ilxo.org
• call mnn for grassroots jam location finalizing - we're at midnight networks, sweet. Grassroots Jam has details.
• insightful and fruitful weekend spent with learning club dc - need to write up all the results still