Olin university chapter/Current project list

From OLPC

[edit] Weekly Support-Gang Meeting

Person in charge: Elsa

[edit] Description

Every Tuesday, 3-5, we meet in the 1st floor of West Hall and trudge through RTs together. We also use this time to resolve general OLPC problems.

[edit] Tasks

(To take ownership, sign with four tildes (~))

[edit] Guru Fest

Person in charge: Colin

[edit] Description

A conference-style collection of information from OLPC-ers and alums to dump and share info. More details found at GuruFest

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[edit] Repair Center

Person in charge: Nikki

[edit] Description

Olin-based hardware repair center

[edit] Tasks

• get laptop from Katelyn

[edit] CFS deployment

Person in charge: Sandra

[edit] Description

Assist in the Cambridge Friends School deployment, in partnership with Harvard.

[edit] Tasks

• Get the server working in time for deployment yifiy 05:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
• Do we want to get involved with the Kenya deployment (Phase II?)

[edit] Newsletter

Person in charge: Elsa

[edit] Description

Provide a mode of communication between the university groups, as well as offer internship opportunities, etc.

[edit] Tasks

• For next week's issue (Feb 7ish?)
  • Short blurb on a 1cc activity
  • Short blurb on GuruFest
  • Short blurb on CFS yifiy 05:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Internship postings
  • What is E-Jabberd? yifiy 05:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

(Elsa, I don't remember the rest)

[edit] Sugar on a Stick

Person in charge: ???

[edit] Description

Work with Caroline Meeks on things dealing with the Sugar on a Stick development

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???

[edit] Python Wiki Tutorial

Person in charge: Yifan

[edit] Description

Provide a short tutorial for people who want to get involved with software development. Tutorial found Olin_university_chapter/Software/PythonTutorial

[edit] Tasks

• Developing it
  • Finish cleaning up day 4 and 5 yifiy 05:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Clean up the screenshots yifiy 05:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Provide solutions to the summary projects

• Testing it

(I need people!!! please post all complaints on the discussion page)

• Long term
  • Add a PyGTK section?

[edit] Python One-day Tutorial

Person in charge: Andrea

[edit] Description

Do a one-day lecture on Python programming to get everyone on the same page and kick off developing

[edit] Tasks

• Flush out details? Andrea?

[edit] Design challenge

Person in charge: Elsa

[edit] Description

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[edit] OLPC online class development

Person in charge: ??

[edit] Description

There have been previous people who have had one-semester classes on programming for OLPC. Is there a way we can try to make that into a web class?

[edit] Tasks

• Email John Tiernney for more details