May country workshops

Demos

If you've been recruited to demo, place your name next to an activity that you will be demoing, along with times (if you won't be there the entire time).

• Journal: Object and activity browser - Chris Carrick
• Pippy: Python Programming language/environment
• Turtle Art
• Read
• NewsReader
• Record - Nlee
• TamTam - Andreatl
• Measure: Mchua
• Distance
• Terminal
• EToys: - Yoshiki Ohshima
• Scratch
  • 4:10 - 4:20pm - Shani

Prep schedule

Thursday May 15

• 4pm : get some USB keys ready with 703 done Mchua
• 5pm : take 15 preselected! machines and upgrade them to 703, with help from Mel not done, bumped to tomorrow's todo Mchua
• sometime today : talk to Wad about using a schoolserver for a strong local access point in the Media Lab.
• tonight : get 1 customization key ready with the main bundles all machines should have, 1 with all activity bundles we might want to demo, and 1 non-customization key with all bundles on it (for copying one at a time).

Friday May 16

• 11am: take the machines and a schoolserver + access point over to the Media Lab, with Mel, Daf, Eben, and {you, Nia, David, others} to do a walkthrough, demonstrating the activities to you, and testing the network there. Mako -- can you be around to help out there? We should do a presence test to see how well the XOs can see one another, since every station will have people wondering where the other XOs are. [Daf, would you be in that early?] - done Mchua
• noon : bring the machines back to 1CC done Mchua
• grab Robert, Chuck, and others in the office who haven't learned how to demo their machines, and give them a walkthrough (and a "how to give a 5-min demo" talk) as well.
• 2pm : talk any presenters who haven't been in Cambridge yet through which activities they are presenting and their exact schedules. Last-minute reqs for people to fill in on Tue.
• take 15 preselected! machines and upgrade them to 703, with help from Mel

Monday May 19

• 11am-noon : give a demo to the new travelling interns.
• noon-1pm : retest setup in Media Lab if needed.
• Monday, 3:30-5:30pm : set up space @ 1CC for people to give practice demos to one another : new interns, Olin students, other demo'ers who have just arrived in Cambridge.

Tuesday may 20

• 8:30am : early setup in Media Lab. Basic network & server test again.