Deployment Guide/checklist
II. Check lists
| Activity | Owner | Status/Next Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Team/Organization | ||
| Establish GO or NGO | ||
| Board of Directors/Advisors | ||
| Ministry of Education/Government Liaison | ||
| OLPC Liaison | ||
| Tech Lead | ||
| Pedagogical Lead | ||
| Logistics Lead | ||
| Community/Volunteer Liaison | ||
| School Census | ||
| How many children? | ||
| How many teachers? | ||
| How many administrators? | ||
| Power? | ||
| Internet? | ||
| Other infrastructure? | ||
| Other issues, such as constraints on access (e.g., travel time to school from regional distribution center) | ||
| Principle languages spoken in the community | ||
| Locally available resources? | ||
| Physical security at school | ||
| Finances/Logistics | ||
| Identify funding sources | ||
| Letter of credit | ||
| Product availability | ||
| Shipping method | ||
| Incoterms (e.g., CIF) | ||
| Import duties and taxes | ||
| Local distribution contract | ||
| Factory's shipping schedule (how many, how often) | ||
| Type of shipping container used (20 ft/40 ft?) | ||
| Reverse logistics process (for laptops that malfunction) | ||
| Inventory Management | ||
| Activation-key management | ||
| Warehousing | ||
| Regional distribution centers | ||
| Scanning process (e.g., comma-separated-values file generation) | ||
| Shipping instructions (School addresses, bar codes, etc) | ||
| Additional shipping material (boxes, masking tape, markers, highlighters, etc) | ||
| Communications | ||
| Network backbone | ||
| Network installation | ||
| Potential partners | ||
| Content filtering | ||
| Network maintenance | ||
| Content | ||
| Transcoding of existing content | ||
| Generation of new content | ||
| Translations | ||
| Localization (OS image in local language / set to local timezone) | ||
| Determination of which activities and their order on the task bar | ||
| Guides in local language | ||
| Guides loaded to the XO | ||
| Hardware | ||
| Laptops | ||
| Keyboard selection/design | ||
| Power adapter selection | ||
| Spare-parts inventory | ||
| Servers | ||
| Active antennae/Access points | ||
| Auxiliary-power options | ||
| Repeaters | ||
| Power cords | ||
| Repair kits | ||
| USB memory sticks | ||
| Connectivity equipment (e.g., routers, modems, VSAT) | ||
| Cabling | ||
| UPS | ||
| Teacher Preparation | ||
| Workshop plan | ||
| Workshop schedule | ||
| Workshop logistics | ||
| Workshop attendee list | ||
| Workshop site preparation | ||
| Workshop material preparation | ||
| Support | ||
| Support plan | ||
| 3rd party support plan (if applicable) | ||
| Localized documentation and support materials | ||
| University relations? | ||
| Grassroots relations? | ||
| Mailing lists/Wiki/IRC | ||
| Team(s) of volunteers with XO knowledge in country/region | ||
| Team(s) of volunteers that can help with translations (from/to English) | ||
| Other non-profit organizations | ||
| Other public institutions (universities, ministries, churches) | ||
| Other private institutions (universities, industry) | ||
| International organizations (World Bank, etc.) | ||
| Project Documentation | ||
| Project charter | ||
| Deployment plan (time-line for project completion) | ||
| Distribution plan (How many laptops by region, by school, by school district?) | ||
| Contact information (names, email addresses, phone numbers, etc.) | ||
| Communication plan (conference-call schedule / bridge info., moderator, agendas) | ||
