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Christian Bryant
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Introduction
My name is Christian Bryant, OLPC Support volunteer #262. I'm a UNIX/Linux hobbyist and professional, currently focused on GNU/Linux custom distribution builds. I primarily use Fedora and openSUSE for my development and desktop environment. My employer is UCLA, but I should note that my work here at OLPC is unrelated and does not represent the views of UCLA. I'm a Los Angeles native, living in California, USA.
At OLPC my focus is the assessment of the OLPC documentation lifecycle and management architecture. As I have more concrete duties and project tasks, I'll update this page with details and progress. I also will be working toward enhancement of olpcMAP seeking to add and encourage genuine stories and perspectives on the map when OLPC/Sugar news/blogs/documentation/etcetera has a real geo-connection.
Curator and Maintainer
The original call for volunteers I answered was for curators and maintainers to organize "our exploding corpus of public and private Support Documentation" and manuals. It called for a "literary, social, organized and driven volunteer" but I took a chance and applied anyway! I'm currently working with Adam Holt to flesh out my responsibilities, but have already buried myself deep into the mindset of documentation curator. Watch this section over the next couple months to be replaced with project guidelines, goals and progress specific to the Support portion of OLPC.
Education in Ghana
A Roman Catholic, I have a commitment to service, and am proud to support one of the ministries that has emerged from my parish in Los Angeles, Sampa Community Educational Project through my fellow Catholic, Thaddeus Mensah. From building and repairing schools in Ghana to distributing donated textbooks, SCEP personifies the goals of organizations like OLPC. As one of my projects this year I plan on getting SCEP more involved with OLPC and helping in particular the area of Sampa, Ghana, benefit from this key educational resource.
In 2006, Professor Rashid Dorsey gave 35 used CPU computers as a donation to various schools in Sampa, Ghana, West Africa. The computers were packaged, shipped and transported to the rural community for distribution. Thaddeus Mensah spearheaded this project. Matthew Essieh, Entrepreneur and business owner was instrumental with the project. Matthew provided financial assistance to purchase keyboards, mouse and monitors for the CPUs as well as covered the shipping and customs costs. Now in 2011, we hope to bring this technology to a whole new level through OLPC. As prior OLPC activities in Ghana have shown, there is a great need and the reception by Ghana has been positive.
See the OLPC Talk page for Ghana for more stories and the main OLPC Ghana page for more information.
OLPC Philippines
Another area I hope to get involved in over the coming years is OLPC Philippines. It's close to heart because my wife is Filipino and the process of bringing her family here over the years was pretty emotional. Since my daughter is Pinay by blood, I want her to know her roots and give back to her side of the culture.
Public Key
I regularly sign and encrypt emails and files, generally source code and other development related configuration items. If you wish to read signed and encrypted emails from me, or confirm that development files are from my development environment, you may do so by using my GPG /public key.
IRC
I can often be found on several channels in Freenode. The best way to get in contact with me is to engage me in conversation on a topic of interest to me. These are the channels I most often join, under the nickname ``christianabryant:
- #olpc - Contact point for all things olpc, and the core hardware development team's own channel.
- #olpc-help - Community help. If you need help using your XO, and you haven't asked anywhere else: try here first.
- #olpc-support-gang - The Support Gang is a group of worldwide volunteers that help other users.
- #sugar-newbies - If you're starting to develop in Sugar, you can ask here and help contribute to the new developers manual and FAQ.
- #sugar - Sugar development.
- #fedora-olpc - The home of the Fedora interest group for OLPC.
- #gnu - The official GNU Project Channel.
- #fsf - Discussion about the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and fsf.org.
- #libreplanet - Discussion of the LibrePlanet website, and conference.
- #emacs - Discussion regarding Emacs.
- #hurd - Discussion regarding Hurd.
- #savannah - Savannah.GNU.org hangout channel.
- #gnu-webmasters - The GNU Webmasters channel, for discussions about www.gnu.org.
- #guile - The Guile channel about the GNU Scheme interpreter.
- #lisp - The Lisp channel, regarding the programming language.
- #scheme - The Scheme channel, a dialect of Lisp.
- #flossmanuals - Discussion about free manuals for free software and flossmanuals.net.
