OLPC Friends/SydneyUG
The Sydney OLPC User Group meets monthly to do testing, hacking and general techie activities around the OLPC. Announcements are made through the OLPC Friends mailing list.
Many thanks to the Welly NZ Testers who have created such a great model for OLPC testing.
Please call Pia on 0400 966 453 if you have any questions (or get lost when looking for events :))
Contents
Next meeting
Next meeting with be Saturday the 28th February. We've skipped January due to all the post linux.conf.au catchup needed by several people involved :)
Actions for next meeting
- Testing Activities for G1G1; use http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_Activity_testing and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_smoke_testing to report testing.
- Testing Image 8.2.1 - has new patches to deal with network issues discussed here.
- Keep working on our testing strategy to ensure we are getting it right.
- Keep having fun!
Bonus testing options
- Write usage instructions and expected feature lists on the Activity wiki page, so users know more what to expect - http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/Analyze as an example.
- Contact Activity maintainers (all of them have emails listed on their userpages now) with your feedback, and ask how it can be made most helpful to them. (Cc the testing list, please, so we hear their feedback too!)
- After every testing sprint Pia will report on the groups progress to http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing and to the OLPC Friends website which is aggregated at http://planet.laptop.org.
Who's got what
Add your laptop below to the testing group. Pia will bring 5 or 10 extra XOs every session.
| Laptops | Who | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 laptops | Pia Waugh | |
| 3 laptops | John Ferlito | |
| 2 laptops | Margaret |
Tips for Testing
- Developer information - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers
Who are we
First meetup is Saturday December 20th, 10.30am - 2pm at Cafe Newtown, Newtown (opposite the town hall).
If anyone wants to join in the testing action, you can usually find us in Sydney, Australia at Cafe Newtown, 329 King St Street on the last Saturday of each month from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Cafe Newtown is just opposite the Town Hall. pia@olpcfriends.org for more details. Contact at Cafe Newtown is Katrina.
There is a good review of the place here - http://www.theredwhisk.com.au/files/Newtown_Cafe.php
Log of things done
We'll list our achievements as we go.
Saturday 20th December 2008
- Attendees - Pia Waugh, Jeff Waugh, Aimee Forsstrom + 2, John Ferlito, Benjamin Pfeiffer, Nick Cross + 1, Henry, David Schweinsberg, Nick, Margaret
- About half the group were doing testing of the G1G1 Activities, others were discussing potential trials, partnerships and potential development projects.
- Hours: ~3hrs
