RIT honors seminar, developing for the OLPC XO

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13 March 2009

Edited chat session notes 

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10:18	FGrose	The Math4 project class in Rochester, NY is underway, is there anyone here listening for this?	
10:22	Nashella	FGrose: I am :)	
10:22	FGrose	Ok great, Introductions and background on OLPC are underway.	
10:24	FGrose	Eric Grace is instructing. His background is with K-12 in Rochester city schools, and then work on technology outreach for disadvantaged children in  Rochester	
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10:25	FGrose	Digital Ripple was one of his projects	
10:27	FGrose	http://www.download3k.com/Press-City-of-Rochester-Unveils-Free-Outdoor-Wi-Fi.html is a newspaper article about that project	
10:29	FGrose	Professor Stephen Jacobs is the class leader, not present today. http://www.rit.edu/news/index.php?p=experts&action=viewexpert&id=70	
10:30	FGrose	Students are introducing themselves, there are maybe 50-60 percent from outside of Rochester.	
10:33	FGrose	There are giving some of the reasons they chose to take this course at RIT.	
10:34	FGrose	I'll try to profile them.	
10:34	FGrose	Greg S., graduate student in computer science, reasons: taking open source to its potential, wants to be part of the OLPC project in some way.	
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10:35	Nashella  How many students are there?	
10:36	FGrose	There are about 20 in the class now.	
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10:37	FGrose	Ajmal I. from Afghanistan, interested partly because of an OLPC deployment project starting there.	
10:38	FGrose	Dennis 5th year CS student, now Networking, wants to know more about OLPC and have fun.	
10:39	FGrose	Abbi H. works with 2nd graders, from Delaware, Information Security & Forensics student	
10:40	FGrose	Eric Grace is commenting about different learning styles.	
10:41	FGrose	John S. Computer Science	
10:41	FGrose	Anthony K,	
10:42	FGrose	Mithchell D, Computer Science, interested in low-cost computers, python, new platforms.	
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10:44	FGrose	Doug C, senior, from Ohio, owns an XO, Applied Networking & Systems Admin student
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10:44	KarlieRobinson	FGrose: are these the students?	
10:50	FGrose	Hi Karlie, yes, these are the students	
10:50	KarlieRobinson	excellent - I'll be over just as class is ending too - mostly to grab our XOs but also for questions
.	
10:46	FGrose	Nick C, CS Albany, NY area, wants to contribute back to open source	
10:47		ke4qqq is very confused	
10:47	ke4qqq	but we'll gladly put Doug and Nick to work	
10:47	FGrose	Jamison F, Information Security & Forensics, interested in Mesh networking and potential for disaster relief applications	
10:48	FGrose	David P, ISF student, Pennsylvania, 	
10:48	FGrose	Chris D, SE	
10:49	FGrose	Eric M, CS likes promoting OLPC education goals	
10:51	FGrose	I've missed a few students, they'll be in follow-up notes some place to be announced	
10:51		*** edmcnierney_away is now known as edmcnierney	
10:51	KarlieRobinson	We can make a Who's Who in the wiki too	
10:52	FGrose	George T, 4th year CS thinks its cool to help out open source education	
10:53	FGrose	Eric Grace is speaking about the importance of collaboration	
10:53	ke4qqq	FGrose: how many students in the class?	
10:54	FGrose	19 students in the room now + Eric Grace and Fred Grose.
10:54	FGrose	more students may be added in coming week.	
10:55	ke4qqq	cool	
10:56	FGrose	speaking about web resources right now, 1) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY	
10:57	FGrose	classroom has networked workstations, and everyone will connect and learn about online resources they will need to access.	
10:59	FGrose	2) http://laptop.org/en/index.shtml	
10:59		ke4qqq hopes irc is mentioned soon	
11:00	FGrose	3) covering XO hardware briefly, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO		
11:02	FGrose	+1 student auditor walked in just now.
11:07	vwbusguy        FGrose, you should show off application sharing and mesh networking :-)	
11:09	FGrose	4) irc.freenode.net #fedora-olpc  Trying to get some students there now. 
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11:10	vwbusguy	ke4qqq, XO needs a good IRC utility	
11:10	ke4qqq	vwbusguy: there is one xoirc	
11:10	vwbusguy	ke4qqq, !!	
11:11	ke4qqq	whether it's good or not is a matter of opinion	
11:11	vwbusguy	ke4qqq, I tried using irssi. Not much fun.	
11:11	ke4qqq	irssi is great	
11:11	vwbusguy	lol	
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11:11	vwbusguy	I'm an xchat fanboi.	
11:11	BrianLong	Is this the meeting with the RIT class?	
11:11	ke4qqq	BrianLong: yep	
11:12	FGrose	Yes, class session right now in Room 2000 B-70 RIT	
11:12	FGrose	5) http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page	
11:13	FGrose	(Reviewing online resources.)	
11:14	ke4qqq	two mibbit people joining in last 5 minutes - are you guys both from RIT?	
11:14	FGrose	6) http://sugarlabs.org/go/Math4	
11:14	KarlieRobinson	I have a who's who page, but my wiki tables are a mess - fee free to fix them - http://sugarlabs.org/go/Math4/WhosWho#Who.27s_Who.3F	
11:14	BrianLong	Awesome	
11:15	FGrose	7) http://delicious.com/maths4olpc/	
11:17	FGrose	Eric Grace is describing delicious as an link hub that he will be using to post homework and other things.	
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11:21	FGrose	Each student is asked to start a page/subpage there.	
11:24	FGrose	Eric Grace is explaining how delicious works, and RIT's myspaces system, https://honors.rit.edu/amitraywiki/index.php/Main_Page
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11:27	FGrose	Discussion on importance of reaping information from the www.	
11:31	KarlieRobinson	I'm about to saddle up and head over to RIT. Be there shortly.	
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11:34	FGrose	Eric is now speaking of the limitations of the 10-week class duration and the importance of seizing tools and opportunities rapidly.	
11:35	FGrose	...reminding everyone that project work will continue in the community after classes end in May.
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11:36	FGrose	Success comes from what is learned by all as well as from what software or procedures are actually produced.	
11:38	FGrose	Greg S. is advising on how to use delicious network groups and links more efficiently.	
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11:41	FGrose	Class assessments will be based on participation, completion of assignments, effectiveness of collaboration, creative problem-solving skills, quality of prototypes & final presentation.	
11:44	FGrose	Individual delicious accounts are recommended and then set up forwarding protocols with for: (instrutions elsewhere)	
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11:48	FGrose	We are now sharing some SoaS and VirtualBox images disc images.	
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12:15	FGrose	Class has been dismissed.
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