May country workshops

Demos

Key times

The times during which we're expecting to have high traffic in the demo area.

• 9:30 - 10:30
• 1:15 - 2:15
• 4:10 - 5:10
• 5:30 - 6:30

Map

Basic locations, and what will be running at each station:

            lifelong
            kinder. lab
             _______     
 _____stairs|    22 |  a
|   5 4  aaa        |  m
|   5 4           11|  e
|____     O3        |  s
  ___|____3___     X|  
              |    X|  s
              |_____|  t

1 - WikiBrowse.  Scratch.  Speak.  Words.
2 - Etoys.  Colors!  Map.   (Elements)
3 - Record.  WorldWideWorkshop.  TamTam.  New Sugar UI.
4 - Read, Measure, TurtleArt-with-Sensors. (Distance)
5 - Journal, Paint, Chat, Distance  (Record)
a - tear-down of the XO (hardware specs)

Schedule

Demoer	Application	Times
SJ Klein	Words and Speak	All day
Mel	Measure	All day
Shani	Scratch	4:10-4:20
Yoshiki	Etoys	All day
Daf	Chat, Xoirc,s and networking	All day
Brian J	Elements	All day
Nikki	Record	All day
Chris	Journal	All day
Tank	Tamtam	All day
Eben	Sugar - new version	all day
John Maloney	Scratch	1:15-2:30
Wad	Map, Wikibrowse	All day
Diane	Etoys	5:30-after
Manu	Ebook reader	5:30-after
Cjb	Wikibrowse	?
Ben Swartz	?	?
Juliano Bittencourt	?	?

USB keys

• Yellow - automatic upgrade to 703 (if XO is completely borked)
• Red - activities being demoed + default in build 656
• Green - extra fun activities

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. DONE sj
• 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). done

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. done
• 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. done
• take 15 preselected! machines and upgrade them to 703, with help from Mel 'done

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.