http://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=IainDavidson&feedformat=atomOLPC - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T12:29:37ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.7http://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Template:Index-header&diff=97461Template:Index-header2008-01-16T06:04:20Z<p>IainDavidson: Started branding idea for wiki page quality and consistancy.</p>
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</div></div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo&diff=97459User:Ixo2008-01-16T05:49:45Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Top wiki pages */ added two new categories of pages.</p>
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Born Nov 26 2007<span style="font-size:.7em;line-height:1.2em;"><br/>(C2/MP) Build 650 (rev latest)<br/>See [http://radian.org/notebook/ Uruguay]</span><br />
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==== Top wiki pages ====<br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]],<br />
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==== Top Volunteer pages ====<br />
[[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[OLPC_volunteers_portal]], [[Support_meetings]],<br />
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==== Wiki Projects ====<br />
[[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]],<br />
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==== Top offsite ====<br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
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==== My notes ====<br />
[[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]]. [[User:IainDavidson/Builds|Builds]], [[User:IainDavidson/Seven Challenges|7]], <br />
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===== Other =====<br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
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= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]<br />
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Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
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Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
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Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
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= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
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= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
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= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
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Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:LFaraone&diff=97457User talk:LFaraone2008-01-16T05:29:32Z<p>IainDavidson: Weekly Zine</p>
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== welcome! ==<br />
We could use some help welcoming new users here :-) Also, with userboxen. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 17:49, 6 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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Welcome to the One Laptop per Child wiki. Please make yourself at home; read through the [[Table of Contents]] and [[OLPC FAQ|FAQ]], and take a look around. If you need a general wiki-tutorial, [http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial Wikieducator has some excellent ones]. <br />
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Some possible pages of interest:<br />
* [[Pictures]]<br />
* [[Ask OLPC a Question]]<br />
* [[OS images for emulation]]<br />
* [[Rollout and community building ideas]]<br />
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Check your [[Special:Preferences|preferences]] and be sure you verify your email address and turn on email notification if you'd like it -- you can find out when your talk page, or any page on your [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]], is modified. You may want to upload a photo or information about yourself to your userpage (examples: [[User:Lauren|1]], [[User:Xavi|2]]).<br />
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Some open tasks:<br />
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Feel free to leave me a note on my [[User talk:Sj|talk page]] if you have further questions or need help finding your way around.<br />
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Cheers, [[User:Sj|Sj]]<br />
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== I'm thinking maybe that that kind of archiving is too fierce ==<br />
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Hi, sure, be bold. Over the years tons of folks have posted lots of basically useless dross to [[Talk:The_OLPC_Wiki]]. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! Under the current set-up, to find the older comments and dialogs, one must click "show" in the "there's an archive" box, then click "001". Very, very non-intuitive, which means that the content of the archive will be seen very, very rarely. <br />
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Given the specifics of the content, maybe that's not such a bad thing. But I'd recommend setting the default /delay-until-archived/ at three months, not one month, and I'd recommend chopping up the existing archive retroactively in to 3-month chunks. I'm trying to do what I can with the "ask a question" archive, and while what I'm doing isn't ideal either, and isn't automate-able, I think it leaves the underlying content more accessible. ~ [[User:Hexagonal|Hexagonal]] 10:34, 11 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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::(pasted in here) I've reverted my changes, and will set up 3 month-old archiving. Three month chunks might be a little bit difficult to do, would one month chunks be acceptable? '''[[User:Firefoxman|ff]]<font color="darkgreen">[[User talk:Firefoxman|m]]</font>'''<br />
::::Thanks a million. Whatever is easier to do, especially if it's automated, moving forward. No need to spend much time on this, just keep in mind the principle that questions and answers that are likely to be of interest to wiki visitors should be "discoverable." [[User:Hexagonal|Hexagonal]]<br />
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== bot flag for[[user:fireBot]] ==<br />
Added. Careful with that; use it in good health. Automated archiving is no substitute for human care; in particular, a slowly-developing page doesn't need regular archives. And in the Q&A/FAQ cases, we need to cull out good q's and a's from the long list that is there. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 19:14, 11 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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== [[activated lease]] ==<br />
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I'm not sure why [[user:krstic|krstic]] full-protected the page. You should ask him... I would guess it is b/c it's supposed to be sensitive. On the other hand, it's clearly not as clear as it could be yet. Meanwhile, leave specific edits you want to make on the talk page. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 21:36, 30 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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== mop, bucket, broom ==<br />
You are now an admin. Note that we don't yet have a full set of policies on this wiki, so please feel free to help put policies in writing and to make good use of the OLPC: namespace. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 11:52, 1 January 2008 (EST)<br />
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== need your comment ==<br />
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Hey ffm,<br />
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I need your comment in order to obtain the admin permission...<br />
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Please help me out at: <br />
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[[Administrators#Chih-yu_Chao]]<br />
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Thanks a lot! <br />
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[[User:Chihyu|Chihyu]] 15:10, 7 January 2008 (EST)<br />
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== welcome message ==<br />
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feel free to edit it to make it more generic. I can always make a {{welcome-sj}} template :) --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 16:53, 8 January 2008 (EST)<br />
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== Weekly Zine ==<br />
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(Left on [[Talk:Weekly_zine]])<br />
> I'd be happy to give the report on admins, vandals, and whatnot.<br />
> ffm 18:08, 15 January 2008 (EST)<br />
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You are on! :) Thanks for offering. The first issue is monday, so summaries do by this friday/saturday to Seth. I added you to the editorial board list. And if you can think of a better short two/three word description of your area of interest, go ahead and update too.<br />
--[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
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== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th-Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement and seeing out to the mailing lists.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : pre-final copy to Phil for copy editing.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation.<br />
* Jan 15th to 18th : Gathering of community activities and summaries.<br />
* Jan 13th to 15th : [[Talk:Weekly_zine|Discussions]] , [[Weekly_zine/proposed urls|URL/Names]], and gathering input, about [[Talk:Weekly_zine|format, volunteers, and ideas]].<br />
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== Contact info ==<br />
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Wiki Summary: <br/><br />
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Country and trial schools: <br/> <br />
Admins, vandals, whatnot: <br/><br />
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[[User:IainDavidson|Iain D]] (irc : IainD)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc : Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Mchua|Mel]] (irc : mchua)<br/><br />
[[User:?|vacant]] (irc : ?)<br/><br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adric]] (irc : adric_work)<br/><br />
[[User:?|vacant]] (irc : ?)<br/><br />
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=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
* XO photo of the week. <br />
** only 1 or 2<br />
** Sized to fit side-by-side on page)<br />
** Or scattered on the page(s)<br />
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(See Discussion page for details on [[Talk:Weekly_zine|what's to come]] !)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo/Presentation&diff=97391User:Ixo/Presentation2008-01-15T23:37:27Z<p>IainDavidson: User:IainDavidson/Presentation moved to User:IainD/Presentation: Shorter.</p>
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<div>Notes for XO Laptop presentation:<br />
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* http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/99/Poster-01-theXO.pdf - PDF poster<br />
* Spec sheet: http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml<br />
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* [[Laptop_demonstrations]]<br />
* [[Presentations]]<br />
* [[Community_Building]]<br />
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Leads on other presentation sources<br />
* kfx - 10 slides of key points<br />
* isforinsects: graphic design for above ?</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:IainDavidson/Presentation&diff=97392User:IainDavidson/Presentation2008-01-15T23:37:27Z<p>IainDavidson: User:IainDavidson/Presentation moved to User:IainD/Presentation: Shorter.</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[User:IainD/Presentation]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Ixo&diff=97143User talk:Ixo2008-01-15T12:45:01Z<p>IainDavidson: User talk:IainDavidson moved to User talk:IainD: Shorter name. :)</p>
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<div>Please feel welcome to leave comments here. Feedback is always welcomed and appreicated.<br />
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Some of my notes left on other pages:<br />
* [[User:IainDavidson/Notes|My own random notes edited from XO laptop.]]<br />
* [[Target_Audience]] - centralizing ideas about target audiences.<br />
* [[Talk:Hardware_ideas#Agree_with_above..._ergo_survey_and_evaluation...| '''Hardware Ideas''' -> Ergo Survey, Evaluation, and review]]<br />
* [[Browse|'''Browse''': Browser Identification String -> needs update !]]<br />
* [[Talk:Sugar Control Panel|'''sugar-control-panel''' --> Activity GUI ideas ?]]<br />
* [[Talk:Calculate#gallery_of_Calculate_examples| '''Calculate''' --> Gallery of Examples ]]<br />
* [[Talk:Curators_and_maintainers#Region_Volunteer_-_Pacific_Northwest_or_Whatcom_County_.2F_Washington_State|Region Volunteer]] --> Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington State.<br />
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== Calculate Activity ==<br />
I don't have any examples. When I first got my G1G1 I tested the Boolean functions (see my notes on the Calculate talk page). I tried to use the calculator and was confused because I couldn't find any documentation of what it actually does (especially the window on the right). I am quite pleased to find that it does plot! There are also questions as to whether this activity can work with the Pippy activity, somehow.<br />
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The people who can best help here are, unfortunately, those who don't have laptops -- the teachers in the schools. I know my kids did a lot of work with plotting when they were in high school. Simple X-Y plotting probably happens in 5-6th grade here in the US (I'm in New England, down the street from Dartmouth College).<br />
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Right now I'm working on the Measure/Oscilloscope activity, trying to prevent people from electrocuting themselves. If I come up with anything I'll let you know. (I've posted some things on the wikipedia website about division by zero -- see the talk page there near the bottom). That seems to be a topic that gets people going. Bill [[User:Wvbailey|Wvbailey]] 12:18, 31 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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: Thanks for the feedback. I just recently tried the 'Distance' Activity with another person on a ''jabber'' server I was visiting. For some reason, the measurement didn't work over very long distances. *heh Heh*. I'll look for some good examples of division by zero for ya too. :) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]] 12:16, 1 January 2008 (EST)<br />
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== reset / restore factory (build 650) image defaults ==<br />
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:FYI, there is a [[Support_FAQ#How_can_I_restore_my_Give1Get1_XO_to_its_factory_configuration.3F|method of restoring to factory defaults]]. (build 650). --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]] 06:33, 6 January 2008 (EST)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:IainDavidson&diff=97142User:IainDavidson2008-01-15T12:45:01Z<p>IainDavidson: User:IainDavidson moved to User:IainD: Shorter name. :)</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[User:IainD]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:IainDavidson&diff=97144User talk:IainDavidson2008-01-15T12:45:01Z<p>IainDavidson: User talk:IainDavidson moved to User talk:IainD: Shorter name. :)</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[User talk:IainD]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo&diff=97141User:Ixo2008-01-15T12:45:01Z<p>IainDavidson: User:IainDavidson moved to User:IainD: Shorter name. :)</p>
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==== Top wiki pages ====<br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Support_meetings]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]]<br />
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==== Top offsite ====<br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
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==== My notes ====<br />
[[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]]. [[User:IainDavidson/Builds|Builds]], [[User:IainDavidson/Seven Challenges|7]], <br />
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===== Other =====<br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
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= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]<br />
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Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
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Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
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Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
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= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
<br />
= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
<br />
= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
<br />
Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo&diff=97138User:Ixo2008-01-15T12:25:14Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Top wiki pages */ support meetings.</p>
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==== Top wiki pages ====<br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Support_meetings]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]]<br />
<br />
==== Top offsite ====<br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
<br />
==== My notes ====<br />
[[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]]. [[User:IainDavidson/Builds|Builds]], [[User:IainDavidson/Seven Challenges|7]], <br />
<br />
===== Other =====<br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
<br />
= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]<br />
<br />
Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
<br />
Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
<br />
Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
<br />
= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
<br />
= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
<br />
= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
<br />
Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Games&diff=97108Games2008-01-15T10:48:54Z<p>IainDavidson: Added RightTOC.</p>
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The OLPC is an education project but that doesn't mean there is no room for fun. On the contrary, fun must be integrated into the child's educational experience. See also [[Game development]] for more. <br />
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== Classes of games ==<br />
===Board games===<br />
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess Chess] -- The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE World Chess Federation] is one of the most inclusive organizations in the world. Many free players, graphical boards, and internet players are available.<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game) Go] - a popular strategy game with rules simple enough for a child to learn. Free internet resources comparable to chess.<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers Checkers]<br />
* [[Reversi]] - popular and easy to learn.<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oware Oware], similar sowing games, popular in african countries.<br />
* [http://education.wikia.com/wiki/AddTraction AddTraction], quick game of adding up points on the board which requires prediction for several moves. (probably good to train addition)<br />
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arimaa Arimaa], similar to chess and played with the same figures and board<br />
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:''See also [[Board Games]]''<br />
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=== Card games ===<br />
* Hearts<br />
* Check for local games in countries.<br />
(A natural setting for a flash games framework)<br />
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[[Category:Games|*]]<br />
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=== Other networked games ===<br />
The networked evironment in which the laptop is embedded would be natural for peer-to-peer multi-player games. Many of these games could provide both a computer opponent and the ability to connect with other laptop players.<br />
<br />
=== Paper-and-pencil games ===<br />
* Paper telephone (passed-on storytelling or image-drawing)<br />
*: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Paper_and_pencil_games Paper and pencil games] are games that are typically multiple-player, played with pencil and paper or on a blackboard. <br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes Dots and Boxes], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku Gomoku]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse Exquisite corpse] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Poop_You_Cat Eat Poop You Cat]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) Hangman] -- solitaire or in a group for vocabulary and spelling<br />
<br />
<br />
===Puzzles===<br />
* [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/648 Simon Tatham's] puzzle games<br />
* Jigsaw puzzle. Cut up images/drawings, play and share. See also [[Exploring XO: Tab 3]].<br />
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===Strategy===<br />
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* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Model_farm_simulator Model farm simulator]<br />
* [[Games/Productive]] simplified/rationalized real-time strategy game<br />
<br />
=== Uncategorized games ===<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(computer_game) Bolo]: an old mac-based game which seems ideally suited to this project: runs on basic hardware, takes a minute to learn (and a lifetime to master), network requirements seem to match that provide by the OLPC laptop.<br />
* On the [http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/games/2007-April/000046.html OLPC Games mailing list], Phil Hassey has suggested that his collection of open-source [http://www.imitationpickles.org/pickles/games.html Pygame games] could be ported to the OLPC, if someone was looking for something to do.<br />
* [[Mubbles]] (preliminary name, an idea right now): A playground for visual objects programmed by kids in python (pygame) where they can show off their mathematical, physical and programming knowledge (and "hack" each other :) ).<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(computer_game) Scorched Earth]: An oft-replicated game of two units (either a player and a computer or two players) that attempt to destroy the other by use of various weapons. The challenge arises in that aiming involves calculating for wind, power and angle of trajectory while also voiding the (often quite varied) terrain of the 'level'. Advancing in levels creates more difficult terrain barries and options for new weapons with unique characteristics (such as those that burrow through the ground or explode mid-air).<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner Lode Runner]: A game of strategy that requires the user to evade capture by using various means (set traps, dig holes, or outflank) the computer-controlled opponent to capture all the tokens (gold pieces), optionally acquire a key and reach an exit door. Interesting two-player mode comes up such that teamwork is required for timing-sensitive aspect of the map, where one player must take action so as to make the other player able to accomplish the team's collective task.<br />
* [http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/bb-info.php Bridge-Builder]: A very fun game in which you have to design a bridge spanning a river, and then test the bridge by running a train across it. It encourages experimentation with different sorts of structures, and gives good insight into why bridges are the shape they are.<br />
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<br />
== GDC 2007==<br />
Many game developers submitted ideas and screenshots of games for the XO for a game development contest at GDC 2007. The two winning entrants received developer machines at the conferene to make their games a reality on the XO. These were:<br />
<br />
* ''Magica'' by Juan Gril of '''Joju Games''' - a game combining team quizzes and magic<br />
* ''Constellations'' by John Swisshelm of '''Georgia Tech''', a game for a library of card-based games<br />
<br />
Other well received entries included<br />
* Tristan Lewis's ''Color Battle'' game for carving out and protecting areas of color, which won honorable mention for the most original concept<br />
* Christian Schlager's role-playing ''Zamé''<br />
* Peter Gault's elaborate "Detective" game<br />
* Geoffrey Hom's "NameQuest" for learning various languages<br />
* Jim Falgatter's keyboarding application, a previously written game which he is trying to integrate with TamTam<br />
<br />
==GameJam Games==<br />
* [http://www.olpcgames.org/?p=28 Lots of games for the XO computer]<br />
<br />
==Constructionist ideas==<br />
<br />
There are many [[constructionist]] game ideas to be found [http://www.squeakland.org/kids/sqfest_2004.htm on Squeakland]. To view the results, go to [http://www.squeakland.org Squeakland] and download [[Squeak]], and install the SqueakPluginInstaller. Not all regions may want to adopt Squeak as an all-encompassing platform. The same types of things can be implemented in the [[OLPC Python Environment]]...<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[Mentoring]] (also for games)<br />
*http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/games/<br />
*[[The game based school]]<br />
*[http://wiki.millenniumcampaign.org/ UN Millennium Campaign Game Wiki]<br />
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[[Category:Software ideas]]<br />
[[Category:Pedagogical ideas]]<br />
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==== Top wiki pages ====<br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]]<br />
<br />
==== Top offsite ====<br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
<br />
==== My notes ====<br />
[[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]]. [[User:IainDavidson/Builds|Builds]], [[User:IainDavidson/Seven Challenges|7]], <br />
<br />
===== Other =====<br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
<br />
= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]<br />
<br />
Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
<br />
Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
<br />
Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
<br />
= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
<br />
= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
<br />
= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
<br />
Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo&diff=97099User:Ixo2008-01-15T10:33:14Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Pages of Note */ content stamping</p>
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* My Top wiki pages:<br/><br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[Glossary]], [[Site map]], [[Content stamping]]<br />
<br />
* Top offsite:<br/> <br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
<br />
* My notes on my [[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]]. [[User:IainDavidson/Builds|Builds]], [[User:IainDavidson/Seven Challenges|7]], <br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
<br />
= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]<br />
<br />
Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
<br />
Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
<br />
Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
<br />
= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
<br />
= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
<br />
= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
<br />
Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine&diff=97097Weekly zine2008-01-15T10:29:38Z<p>IainDavidson: fixed typo</p>
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Currently: [[Weekly zine/proposed urls]]<br />
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== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th-Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement and seeing out to the mailing lists.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : pre-final copy to Phil for copy editing.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation.<br />
* Jan 15th to 18th : Gathering of community activities and summaries.<br />
* Jan 13th to 15th : [[Talk:Weekly_zine|Discussions]] , [[Weekly_zine/proposed urls|URL/Names]], and gathering input, about [[Talk:Weekly_zine|format, volunteers, and ideas]].<br />
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[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc : Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:?|vacant]] (irc : ?)<br/><br />
[[User:?|vacant]] (irc : ?)<br/><br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adric]] (irc : adric_work)<br/><br />
[[User:Mchua|Mel]] (irc : mchua)<br/><br />
<hr/><br />
?[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] ?<br/><br />
|}<br />
=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
* XO photo of the week. <br />
** only 1 or 2<br />
** Sized to fit side-by-side on page)<br />
** Or scattered on the page(s)<br />
<br />
(See Discussion page for details on [[Talk:Weekly_zine|what's to come]] !)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=97096Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-15T10:27:15Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Iain's meeting notes */ added link to mchua's volunteer portal</p>
<hr />
<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
{{RightTOC}}<br />
<br />
== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
<br />
2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
<br />
3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
<br />
4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
<br />
5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
<br />
6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
<br />
7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
<br />
8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
<br />
9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
<br />
10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
<br />
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
<br />
11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
<br />
12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
<br />
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
<br />
:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
<br />
14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
<br />
== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
<br />
* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
<br />
== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
** (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
<br />
== Initial Editorial Board ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
<br />
== XO Spotlights ==<br />
Interview candidates<br />
: from pool of irc/wiki/help volunteers<br />
* dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
* cafl <br />
* kate davis<br />
* neskaya<br />
* kikka <br />
* misha <br />
* ffm <br />
* molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
* Other youngest (or oldest?) users<br />
<br />
Community XO in action 'spotlights'<br />
* Bike ride partner - http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=rRse&doc_id=520&v=0<br />
* Schools (US vs developing countries)<br />
* vetern usage (in RT, "Timothy C. Hodge", disabled vet, use puff/INTEGRA MOUSE by TASH plus )<br />
<br />
XO Projects in development/release/in use<br />
* SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
<br />
== Iain's meeting notes ==<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
(brief notes)<br />
<br />
Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth, (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
<br />
TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
<br />
Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
<br />
<br />
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
<br />
<br />
Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
<br />
<br />
Welcoming committee, new user greeter -- is desperately needed !<br />
: Mchua has a good start to one: [[User:Mchua/Volunteers_portal]]<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
<br />
Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
<br />
<br />
Blog/Forum Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment needed)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Druple - http://drupal.org/node/141198<br />
** mburns experience<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
* Nanorimo, www.nanowrimo.org <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Goal:<br />
Regular published electronic magazine (by end of sunday?)<br />
<br />
Pilot project<br />
* First issue out this Sunday (week from today).<br />
<br />
<br />
Initial Volunteers/Coordinators/editorial staff<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
* Education/research:<br />
* Mailing List/annoucements: <br />
<br />
<br />
Topics/sections:<br />
* Media updates<br />
* Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* Mailing lists / announcements<br />
* Country/trial school<br />
* personal <br />
* Content projects<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
<br />
Wiki editors<br />
* Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm<br />
<br />
<br />
Interview:<br />
* IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?<br />
* Other younger users<br />
<br />
== Topics of coverage ==<br />
<br />
''aka editorial departments''<br />
<br />
I can try to keep up with l10n and help to cover support.<br />
<br />
What other territory has been claimed?<br />
<br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adricnet]] 00:31, 14 January 2008 (EST)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Sj&diff=97089User talk:Sj2008-01-15T09:46:18Z<p>IainDavidson: Video - Human Computation</p>
<hr />
<div>(A nice note posted on the wall.)<br />
House cleaning stopped by, and spent a few hours in the room. <br />
Sorry for the organization.<br />
(i.e. moved older stuff to [[User talk:Sj/Archive2007]])<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Kids encyclopedia ==<br />
<br />
Dear Samuel,<br />
<br />
Thanks for taking the time to send me a comment on my blog. Im available most days of the week, as I currently am working for myself. Im based in Swansea in the UK. So phoning maybe rather on the expensive. However I would be happy to talk over skype. If you are willing to suggest a time I will be happy to chat. Preferably I would prefer to be in bed by 3am here.<br />
<br />
So if you could give me an email back at jonhurlock/at/gmail /.com or add me on skype using jon_hurlock (yes theres and underscore in there, so please dont remove that, just remove slashes from the gmail account.).<br />
<br />
Kind regards,<br />
<br />
Jon Hurlock<br />
<br />
== Hola! ==<br />
<br />
Hi! As usual you're monitoring [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]! :) Great!<br />
<br />
Yes, I'm coming back to life and noticed Lauren's notice in my talk page so I decided to answer that one asap, and then try to fully resurrect. I'll keep you posted (was writing en email to re-introduce myself). [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 21:19, 14 January 2008 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Video - Human Computation ==<br />
<br />
SJ,<br />
happen to glance through one of your older versions of your User page. Cool video about human computation.<br />
Quite intertaining... hmmmm... interesting.. Thanks for sharing, --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]] 04:46, 15 January 2008 (EST)<br />
-----</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Ask_OLPC_a_Question&diff=97085Ask OLPC a Question2008-01-15T09:18:57Z<p>IainDavidson: Added RightTOC.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{OLPC}}<br />
{{Translations}}<br />
{{RightTOC}}<br />
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<br />
Questions about how to learn and use the XO can be posted to [[New Users]].<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
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* Read the "'''[[Official OLPC FAQ]]'''";<br />
* If you own an XO laptop and have technical questions, read the "'''[[Support FAQ]]'''";<br />
* Search the wiki for an answer to your questions (using the '''search''' field in the column on the left, or [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=laptop.org&sitesearch=laptop.org Google]), and add a targeted question or comment to the discussion associated with that page;<br />
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* Some classes of questions have their own forums:<br />
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* There is a discussion page to dispel various [[OLPC myths|rumors]] about the project.<br />
* There is a new developers FAQ at http://aaa.opensourcehost.com/~thoughts/faq/.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== User support ==<br />
===[[Support FAQ]]===<br />
Common questions about how to use your XO laptop (also see our ''[[Getting Started]]'' guide)<br />
<br />
== Project and Goals == <br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Our Mission|Ask about Our Mission]]===<br />
Questions about our goals and approach to our mission<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Our Team|Ask about Our Team]]===<br />
Questions about our team and how to get involved<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Social Issues|Ask about Social Issues]]===<br />
Questions about the social impact of our mission<br />
<br />
== Purchasing, Distribution, and Countries ==<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Give 1 Get 1|Ask about Give One Get One]]===<br />
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<br />
Questions about the Give One Get One program<br />
<br />
====([[Ask OLPC a Question about Give One Get One orders|Ask about Give One Get One orders]])====<br />
Questions about the status of your Give One Get One order<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Distribution|Ask about Distribution]]===<br />
Questions about how we plan to distribute laptops<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Countries|Ask about Countries]]===<br />
Questions about the countries that are deploying one laptop per child<br />
<br />
== Technology == <br />
Be sure to see our '''[[Support FAQ]]''' page and the ''[[Getting Started]]'' guide.<br />
<br />
===[[Our technology|Ask about Our Technology]]===<br />
General questions about OLPC technology<br />
<br />
===[[Ask_OLPC_a_Question_about_the_Network|Ask about Our Network]]===<br />
Specific questions about how to connect an XO laptop to the Internet<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Hardware|Ask about Our Hardware]]===<br />
Questions about our hardware<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Software|Ask about Our Software]]===<br />
Questions about our software<br />
<br />
====([[Ask OLPC a Question about the XO|Ask about the XO]])====<br />
Ask detailed questions about using the XO laptop (Also see the [[Support FAQ]], the [[General Release Notes]], and the ''[[Getting Started]]'' guide)<br />
<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question about Product Life-cycle|Ask about Our Product Life-cycle]]===<br />
Questions about our environmental impact<br />
<br />
==Uncategorized Questions==<br />
===[[Ask OLPC a Question/New]]===<br />
A place to ask new questions<br />
<br />
==Archives==<br />
===[[Ask_OLPC_a_Question/Archive|Archive of ''Older Questions'']]===<br />
An archive of questions that have been asked about the program that are less current<br />
<br />
[[Category:OLPC FAQ]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=97070Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-15T07:41:03Z<p>IainDavidson: /* XO Spotlights */ veteran usage</p>
<hr />
<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
{{RightTOC}}<br />
<br />
== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
<br />
2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
<br />
3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
<br />
4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
<br />
5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
<br />
6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
<br />
7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
<br />
8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
<br />
9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
<br />
10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
<br />
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
<br />
11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
<br />
12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
<br />
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
<br />
:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
<br />
14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
<br />
== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
<br />
* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
<br />
== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
** (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
<br />
== Initial Editorial Board ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
<br />
== XO Spotlights ==<br />
Interview candidates<br />
: from pool of irc/wiki/help volunteers<br />
* dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
* cafl <br />
* kate davis<br />
* neskaya<br />
* kikka <br />
* misha <br />
* ffm <br />
* molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
* Other youngest (or oldest?) users<br />
<br />
Community XO in action 'spotlights'<br />
* Bike ride partner - http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=rRse&doc_id=520&v=0<br />
* Schools (US vs developing countries)<br />
* vetern usage (in RT, "Timothy C. Hodge", disabled vet, use puff/INTEGRA MOUSE by TASH plus )<br />
<br />
XO Projects in development/release/in use<br />
* SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
<br />
== Iain's meeting notes ==<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
(brief notes)<br />
<br />
Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth, (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
<br />
TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
<br />
Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
<br />
<br />
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
<br />
<br />
Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
<br />
<br />
Welcoming committee, new user greeter -- is disparately needed !<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
<br />
Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
<br />
<br />
Blog/Forum Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment needed)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Druple - http://drupal.org/node/141198<br />
** mburns experience<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
* Nanorimo, www.nanowrimo.org <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Goal:<br />
Regular published electronic magazine (by end of sunday?)<br />
<br />
Pilot project<br />
* First issue out this Sunday (week from today).<br />
<br />
<br />
Initial Volunteers/Coordinators/editorial staff<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
* Education/research:<br />
* Mailing List/annoucements: <br />
<br />
<br />
Topics/sections:<br />
* Media updates<br />
* Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* Mailing lists / announcements<br />
* Country/trial school<br />
* personal <br />
* Content projects<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
<br />
Wiki editors<br />
* Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm<br />
<br />
<br />
Interview:<br />
* IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?<br />
* Other younger users<br />
<br />
== Topics of coverage ==<br />
<br />
''aka editorial departments''<br />
<br />
I can try to keep up with l10n and help to cover support.<br />
<br />
What other territory has been claimed?<br />
<br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adricnet]] 00:31, 14 January 2008 (EST)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Xavi&diff=97067User talk:Xavi2008-01-15T06:34:12Z<p>IainDavidson: Xoxo/Statistics</p>
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<div class="plainlinks" style="text-align:right; float:right; ">«[http://www.marillion.com/music/lyrics/brave.htm#made Made Again]»<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion Marillion]</div><br />
Like a bright new morning <br><br />
Like a bright new day <br><br />
I woke up from a deep sleep <br><br />
I woke up from a bad dream <br><br />
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To a brand new morning <br><br />
To a brand new day <br><br />
Like the whole world has been made again<br><br />
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'''New beginning...''' clean talk page!<br />
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Don't worry, '''all''' your posts have been preserved in [[User talk:Xavi/Archive|my archive]]. The only thing that I changed there is that I tried to group the posts by subject area: [[User talk:Xavi/Archive#Translation|translations]], the [[User talk:Xavi/Archive#Wiki|wiki]], and [[User talk:Xavi/Archive#Social & others|others]]. They've also been ''chronologically reversed'', so in each area, the oldest are at the bottom.<br />
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That said: welcome to my talk page! Please feel free to post in english, spanish or french &mdash; portuñol I may be able to decipher, maybe some italiano (sorry, no asian languages in my bag) &mdash; on whatever subject :) [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 01:16, 17 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== It's about time :) just joking. ==<br />
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I just couldn't resist being the first to post something on your '''Clean''' page <br>:) --[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 08:04, 17 September 2007 (EDT) <br />
¿ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion ?<br />
: thanks! and oops! wikipedia.org vs. .com ... much better! [[User:Xavi|Xavi]]<br />
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== [[Benjamin Mako Hill]] ==<br />
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As you can perhaps see from history of [[Benjamin Mako Hill|the page in question]], I did not create that page. It is a biographical page about me because of my involvement with the project. I have a user page which I have created.<br />
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If you don't think the main namespace should exist, please go ahead and delete it. It does not bother me. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 00:35, 20 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== RE: Status of Measure in OBX template ==<br />
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''follow-up to [[User talk:Xavi#Status of Measure in OBX template]]<br />
: Oops! yes you're right. And yes, 'bundled' seems fine. The categorization is still not totally defined (that's why they are red/missing), so any suggestions & feedback are more than welcome.<br />
: I haven't removed the old {{tl|Status box}} as I want to make sure there are no objections, and that the OBXes are helpful. Comments? :) --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 11:20, 22 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
::I love the OBXes! They concisely convey all the most important things a new user might want to know about any activity. Although, I cannot think of any now, I would let you know of any suggestions for additional fields in the OBXes. Great work on the OBXes! --[[User:Arjs|Arjs]] 11:53, 22 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== RE: Talk:Greece_Test_Reports not in english ==<br />
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It seems that I keep stumbling across some of your past requests :) and wish you had added a Category:Needs Translation to english or ??? <br>Said page has been Translated: I opened two tabs of edit the page, translated first with babel fish, and cut / pasted line for line after the Δεδομένα (''Data'') into the second tabbed page. This only works good for me on short pages.<br />
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For many languages not available at google translate try Yahoo! BabelFish. I don't know if it could work as a parser function template though?<br />
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service<br />
--[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 04:09, 24 September 2007 (EDT) "'''This User edits using Firefox-2'''" :)<br />
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== Maintain the PO files. ==<br />
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Really nice job of you.Awesome! Thanks for your co-operative activities.<br />
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One thing i would like to acknowledge you ,it would be more effective if we maintain the po files <br />
much more generic.Since some string or sentences has been frequently repeated in different po files,so if <br />
we resolve this redundancy in each po file it would more efficient to work.<br />
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: Thanks [[User:Nirmal|Nirmal]], I'm just trying to help :)<br />
: As for making more effective the POs (or rather the POTs) that depends (mostly? exclusively?) on the developers, afaik. BTW, I agree totally with you as I've seen lots of replicated strings (specially in [[TamTam]] files). I'm not an expert on the subject, but some tools do provide things like 'memory' so you will actually be reusing the translated strings associated to previous translations, saving you the effort. BTW, the in-wiki solution is not really optimal as the tools can't be used, but at least it address some issues we are having :) [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 09:40, 29 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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:: ticket updated... [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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== deleting popular pages ==<br />
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dont forget that it is more than just the in'wiki linksthat break when a page i deleted rather than left asa redirect. for pages that have become popular over months, or even a few very prominent weeks, including any page that was linked rom the main page, it is good to leave the original page title and have it redirect [once] to the nerw page. at the same time, fix doubleredirects by removing anything that is onwiki and points to the old page title...<br />
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finally ,in addition to keeping links on the web and in blog posts from breaking, you want people who are typing a url by handto go somewhere expected...even if it is no longer the page title, ifsomeone might guess it, better to save them from having to search. that said, nice celanup job :) andthx for helping finishthe demo notes title moves [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 22:05, 3 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== re: wiki admin? ==<br />
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It looks like someone tagged me as admin, because I have a whole lot more tabs now. Thanks, Xavi! &mdash;[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 19:50, 9 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== opentasks! ==<br />
Please start using and updating [[:Template:Opentasks]] ... [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 01:30, 14 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== blocks ==<br />
try 3 months blocks for the gibberish-spammers; they come back. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 09:47, 14 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== Bulgaria Translation ==<br />
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Hey, thanks for moving the pages. However, I had left them outside the naming convention, because they were not done. In a way, I created the new pages as my temporary working place. So, please, next time ask me before you make serious changes. Again, I appreciate your help! --[[User:Cryout|Cryout]] 14:46, 16 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== time for commons-style multilingual guidelines? ==<br />
[[Cang_Jie_imes]] is my favorite new page in a while. It looks like we'll need some standard way to help people find all of the pages in their language; and to have short messages in many languages on a single talk page... have you looked at some of the multilingual extensions wikimedia commons uses? They manage to keep lots of languages together on a single page. we also need a proper water cooler where community members can share questions and ideas less formally than creating new pages for the mor added them to 'olpc lists' and FAQ... [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 05:07, 17 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== Portuguese changes ==<br />
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Hi Xavi... FYI: Someone changed a Portuguese language template in a way that is similar to the vandalbots, but not identical: [[Template:Translation/changes/lang-pt]]. I'm not sure if this is actually vandalism, so I reverted my rollback; perhaps you are more familiar with the language? &mdash;[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 21:29, 28 October 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== Publishing translation on the laptop.org website ==<br />
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Hi, Xavi,<br />
I am now almost down with the Bulgrian translation of laptop.org and I don't know how to close the project. What is the process for getting the translation live? Currently I enlisted a few people to make corrections, so I am doing some quality control. What is next? Thanks a lot. --[[User:Cryout|Cryout]] 10:47, 4 November 2007 (EST)<br />
: Thank you for directing me to Walter. I wrote to him and will be waiting for his answer. About recruiting more translators, I am in the process at the moment. A name was suggested to me from a Bulgarian Linus-translating community and I am now trying to get in contact. --[[User:Cryout|Cryout]] 10:31, 5 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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== [[OLPC_Brasil/Porto_Alegre]] (A pilot School?) ==<br />
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Hi, I translated this from Portuguese-English but, ¿is it truly a '''Pilot school''' located there as you marked/tagged it? <br>:) [[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 05:04, 8 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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== Thanks for restoring me ==<br />
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Hi, thanks for re-creating me and the other users who were maliciously deleted 11/21/07. So sorry we live in a world where that task is necessary..... ~ [[User:Hexagonal|Hexagonal]]<br />
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== [[Translation terms]]: to delete or not to delete ==<br />
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Hi I just noticed that you tagged [[Translation terms]] which I started to use yesterday as a page to be deleted. I know about Pootle translation project, but there are a couple of reasons why I wanted to have an en-ru translation glossary page. First of all we came across a situation when one term (Activity, to be exact) may be translated differently in different contexts. Then in some cases we feel a need to discuss the best translation for each case before it is finalized, and it is better to do it in an open way rather than in private correspondence. So this page was created as a draft page for translation terms before they go to Pootle. I asked a question about it on the discussion page, but nobody seemed to respond :-) --[[User:Biarm|Biarm]] 23:05, 28 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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: Hi Xavi. I would appreciate any technically sound solution that will allow to suggest variants of translations and discuss them. If it is possible to arrange that as a part of Pootle's terminology project, it is fine with me. I just think that PTP is something more advanced. And my concern is about volunteer translators who come to localize various wiki pages and need some easy to handle wiki glossary to play with the translation template and have some initial practice. It is just to early to redirect those people to the Pootle server. (This is exactly the situation that we have with Russian translations). So my suggestion would be to keep a draft glossary wiki page somewhere (to me [[Translation terms]] serves this purpose well and, as soon as a term is finalized, transfer it to the Pootle glossary. Does that make sense? :-) --[[User:Biarm|Biarm]] 09:42, 30 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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== Thanks for the gallery markup on the Simplified user guide ==<br />
Great edits on the user guide, I really appreciate it. Makes for much easier scrolling. And I wouldn't have known about the markup for layout so I appreciate it - teaching me wikitext, awesome.<br />
--[[User:Annegentle|annegentle]] 08:58, 30 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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==Getting started in Pootle==1/<br />
hi..I've signed up to Pootle as my girlfriend might be able to translate some sections into Turkish, but when I go here https://dev.laptop.org/translate/tr/ there are no entries... How do I get started? --[[User:Tomhannen|Tomhannen]] 10:13, 9 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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== In Argentina in January ==<br />
Xavi! I'm traveling to Argentina for a wedding in January. I'll be in BA <br />
1/10 and 1/11, in Mendoza 1/12 through 1/14, and back in BA from 1/15 to 1/17. Where are you? And will you be around? --[[User:Lauren|Lauren]] 12:06, 13 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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== interwiki linking ==<br />
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Xavi:<br />
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Here's my [[User:BlankVerse/test|page]] testing interwiki links. It looks like most of the common MediaWiki interwiki links are enabled. It's just the one to the English-language Wikipedia that doesn't work (e.g. [[WikiPedia:User:BlankVerse]] or [[WikiPedia:Argentina]]). I left a message on [[User:sj]]'s [[User talk:sj#Interwiki|talk page]], since he is as close as I've found to a MediaWiki expert on the OLPC wiki. ''[[User:BlankVerse|<font color="green">Blank</font>]][[User talk:BlankVerse|<font color="#F88017">Verse</font>]]'' 19:59, 28 December 2007 (EST)<br />
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== Hola! ==<br />
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Welcome back. Lauren should be there for another few days. I believe she is in Uruguay now and then coming back through Arg... email may be the best way to reach her. And Tomeu is here in Boston for a week and says 'hello!'. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 21:04, 14 January 2008 (EST)<br />
: ps -- there was some recent korean spam here, reminding me we should check up on our friend [[user:php5|php5]]... --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]]<br />
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== Xoxo/Statistics ==<br />
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Xavi,<br />
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Saw your cool stats pages, in [[Xoxo/Statistics]]. I'm guessing that those pages were auto-generated. And I'd be interested in seeing them continue (But maybe not in the main user space... maybe 'OLPC:Statistics' ???<br />
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Also, I don't know if you have heard, but a bunch of the recent new users (myself included) are interesting in starting up a regular online [[Weekly_zine|'XO Laptop 'zine ']]. With a little background search, I discovered that you and several others tried to do something similar 3 to 4 months ago.<br />
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Would you be interested in helping us out, or chipping in ... in someway? Lots of chatter about it on irc #olpc-support-gang ....<br />
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Thanks, --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
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<div>== Weekly Zine ==<br />
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FYI,<br />
Saw your note on the Zine talk page. Read it a few more times, and finally got it. Updated [[Weekly_Zine]] with revisions.<br />
--[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
----</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine&diff=97054Weekly zine2008-01-15T05:32:24Z<p>IainDavidson: Cleanup and colorizing</p>
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Currently: [[Weekly zine/proposed urls]]<br />
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== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th-Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement and seeing out to the mailing lists.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : pre-final copy to Phil for copy editing.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation.<br />
* Jan 15th to 18th : Gathering of community activities and summaries.<br />
* Jan 13th to 15th : [[Talk:Weekly_zine|Discussions]] , [[Weely_zine/proposed urls|URL/Names]], and gathering input, about [[Talk:Weekly_zine|format, volunteers, and ideas]].<br />
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== Contact info ==<br />
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Editor-in-feathered-hat: <br/><br />
Copy-editor/Proof reader: <br/><br />
Interview/profiles: <br/><br />
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Media/Press: <br/><br />
Wiki Summary: <br/><br />
Software/development: <br/><br />
Education/research: <br/><br />
Mailing List/annoucements:<br/> <br />
l10n and support updates: <br/><br />
Country and trial schools: <br/> <br />
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Translations: <br/><br />
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[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc : Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc : isforinsects) <br/><br />
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[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc : isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:IainDavidson|Iain D]] (irc : IainD)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc : Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:?|vacant]] (irc : ?)<br/><br />
[[User:?|vacant]] (irc : ?)<br/><br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adric]] (irc : adric_work)<br/><br />
[[User:Mchua|Mel]] (irc : mchua)<br/><br />
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?[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] ?<br/><br />
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=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
* XO photo of the week. <br />
** only 1 or 2<br />
** Sized to fit side-by-side on page)<br />
** Or scattered on the page(s)<br />
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(See Discussion page for details on [[Talk:Weekly_zine|what's to come]] !)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=97048Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-15T04:54:53Z<p>IainDavidson: minor smoothing of lists and organization of notes.</p>
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<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
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== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
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2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
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3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
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4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
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5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
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6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
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7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
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8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
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9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
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10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
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Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
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11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
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12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
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13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
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:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
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14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
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== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
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* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
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== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
** (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
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== Initial Editorial Board ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
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== XO Spotlights ==<br />
Interview candidates<br />
: from pool of irc/wiki/help volunteers<br />
* dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
* cafl <br />
* kate davis<br />
* neskaya<br />
* kikka <br />
* misha <br />
* ffm <br />
* molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
* Other youngest (or oldest?) users<br />
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Community XO in action 'spotlights'<br />
* Bike ride partner - http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=rRse&doc_id=520&v=0<br />
* Schools (US vs developing countries)<br />
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XO Projects in development/release/in use<br />
* SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
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== Iain's meeting notes ==<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
(brief notes)<br />
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Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth, (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
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TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
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Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
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Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
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Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
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Welcoming committee, new user greeter -- is disparately needed !<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
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Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
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Blog/Forum Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment needed)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Druple - http://drupal.org/node/141198<br />
** mburns experience<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
* Nanorimo, www.nanowrimo.org <br />
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Goal:<br />
Regular published electronic magazine (by end of sunday?)<br />
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Pilot project<br />
* First issue out this Sunday (week from today).<br />
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Initial Volunteers/Coordinators/editorial staff<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
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=What is the Give One Get One Program?=<br />
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Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.<br />
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=How does it work?=<br />
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===Where or how can I get one?===<br />
'''Short answer: through the [http://www.xogiving.org Give 1, Get 1] program.'''<br />
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Qualified developers can apply for an XO through the [[Developers_program#How_to_apply_for_an_XO|developer's program]].<br />
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'''Medium answer:'''Given the [[Our Mission|characteristics of the project]], the OLPC is initially available '''<u>only</u>''' to national government agencies—ie. Ministry of Education—allowing us to achieve the initial economy of scale and a sufficiently large impact to make it sustainable. There are [[Retail|plans and ideas]] on how to expand [[our market]] to include other smaller and/or distributed organizations that will cater to people, places and situations where government agencies are unavailable - in the future and most likely collaborating through and with other parties (Please see [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml]).<br />
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The G1G1 program is intended in part to enable individuals to participate in our global education mission. <br />
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Our focus on large programs does thi preclude or try to impede that private, NGO and other grass-root organizations or people lobby in their target [[countries]] to be included as recipients or [[Getting involved in OLPC|to get involved]]&mdash;it just means that they'll have to be a little patient and not lose sight of their dreams and try to match it with our timings.<br />
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Keep alert, maybe in the near future there'll be [[News|news]] that will allow us to cater your special demand.<br />
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=== What is the minimum order? ===<br />
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:The minimum order for the G1G1 program is 1. There are other programs for donating larger quantities of laptops (Please see [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml]).<br />
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In theory, an NGO or retailer could order many millions of laptops. <br />
: In practice, NGOs and socially conscious companies are helping with laptop distributions in countries such as India already. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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::The fact is that the OLPC does not want to sell large numbers of laptops. Rather, they want to get large numbers of laptops in the hands of children along with educational support for those children to ensure that they actually receive educational value from the laptops. In addition, the OLPC is at a very early stage in its project, so they need to focus their relationships on a small number of countries which are willing to put a lot of energy into pilot projects.<br />
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=== Please consider non-US buyers with some US citizen forwarding stuff ===<br />
Please make it possible to have the BILLING-address (and credit card data) different from the SHIPPING-address, so that non-US residents can charge the purchase to their own credit cards, having a friend receive (and forward) the computer.<br />
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''NOTE: As of 30 Dec 2007, it is still not possible to enter separate billing/shipping addresses when ordering via PayPal. PLEASE have PayPal fix this!'' Thanks.<br />
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===Who will "get one"?===<br />
The person making the donation will get a laptop as a gift. In addition, a laptop will be given to a child in the developing world, in a country designated by OLPC. <br />
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As much as we would like to see an OLPC in the hands of every child on the planet, practical issues and humanitarian criteria help decide the first people to get G1G1 laptops:<br />
* Children and teachers in developing countries that have partnered with OLPC<br />
* Especially children and teachers in LDCs<br />
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''Update: Jan'13'2008: 80,000+ G1G1 'give' laptops shipping to the following areas: <br />
:: Mongolia (10,000+), Haiti (1,000+), Rwanda (1,000+), Ethiopia (1,000+), Cambodia (1000+), and Afghanistan (1000+).<br />
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===Can NGOs and charities get them?===<br />
The short answer: yes, they can send quantities of 100 or more to schools of their choice. '''See the [[XO Giving]] page'''; groups should refer to the [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml Give Many] page. See also this question about the [[Our market#Can a legitimate NGO or foundation apply for your program?|target market]].<br />
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=== Payment plans? for low income ===<br />
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Will you take $40.00 a month for ten or even twelve months? To get the buy 1 give 1 program? My daughter and I live in poverty,but can pay $40 a month for this most wonderful program. I want to help with the success of 'One laptop per child' program. What can I do? Please reply.<br />
:OLPC does not yet have this functionality on its website. We are working with our credit card vendors and hope to introduce it in the next couple of months.<br />
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=== How many XO laptops per person? ===<br />
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May a person make multiple $400 donations and get an XO laptop for each one under the buy one get one program?<br />
: Yes. See {{G1G1}}. Note that a very limited number of computers will be made available through this program in November. Contact [mailto:webmaster@xogiving.org webmaster@xogiving.org] to ask a question or be added to the mailing list for notifications.<br />
: The [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/ One Laptop Per Child Foundation] has a page where you can make larger donations if that is your goal.<br />
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=== Is there a warranty? ===<br />
There will be a 30-day limited warranty.<br />
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=== Technical Help ===<br />
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In the Give 1 Get 1 Program, how do private users, receive technical help if needed? <br />
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: Through Internet resources such as this Wiki, the bug tracking system, IRC, and mailing lists. So far the technical help has been outstanding. --gnu<br />
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=== Is purchase of an XO by the relatively wealthy unethical? ===<br />
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I am very attracted by the simplicity and rugged design of the XO but as a citizen of arguably the wealthiest nation in the world is it an ethical choice for me to own one? I travel and commute by motorcycle so the ruggedness and simplicity of the XO is perfect for my uses as my only computer.<br />
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My misgivings about owning an XO come from the following thoughts. The production numbers of the XO are limited therefore would it be more ethical for me to spend $200.00 (US) for a used laptop and give another $200.00 to provide an XO for a child? By doing this I am keeping a used machine out of the bin longer and providing a purpose built machine for it's intended user.<br />
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I am not passing or implying judgment on those in wealthy nations that purchase one but asking an open question. Because the XO is available and the wealthy can afford them should they when the available numbers are relatively low and therefore the supply to the intended users is reduced by their purchase?<br />
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:The more production, the lower the per-unit cost. Ignoring environmental effects and short-term supply issues, purchasing a few million for your local landfill might ultimately help kids by getting the per-unit cost down closer to $100. :-)<br />
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:Of course the better solution for wealthy people is to [http://xogiving.org/ Give 1, Get 1] and then donate money for additional laptops to go to kids. If you have PayPal, you can donate money now on the Give 1, Get 1 site. Or, if you want to write a cheque, then send it to the address on the [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/ One Laptop Per Child Foundation] page.<br />
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=== Financial support for OLPC? ===<br />
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How is OLPC supported? How does one make a financial contribution?<br />
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: You can make a financial contribution to the [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/ OLPC foundation], which is not the same as the OLPC association. Contributions will be used for "grants and loans for the development and use of open educational resources and grassroots learning innovations that enhance the effectiveness of the XO" and for the [[Special Laptop Program]]. --[[User:Fasten|Fasten]] 17:30, 27 February 2007 (EST)<br />
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=== Donations ===<br />
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after tonight's 60 minutes' show, you should revamp the site to accommodate the flood of donation offerings. How may i send one? best wishes, tom<br />
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Try this site[http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/] Bakersdz<br />
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=What do I get?=<br />
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In consideration of your donation, you get an XO laptop.<br />
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===OLPC package dimensions and weight?===<br />
Could you publish the package dimensions and the weight of the complete box (if you could use metric units, it would be great)?<br />
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We need it to estimate cost for shipping when we forward the package from the US to the final destination.<br />
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===Papers?===<br />
Does the recipient of the "get1" machine get papers that clearly indicate that:<br />
* he purchased a laptop / notebook computer (NOT: a toy)<br />
* the price of the "get1" laptop is 180 USD<br />
* price of intra-US shipping is 20 USD<br />
* a separate piece of paper acknowledging the giving of 200 USD for tax-deduction<br />
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Having that stuff clearly declared and separated is important for insurance and tax purposes, esp. when forwarding this stuff to final destination (e.g. in Europe).<br />
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===Will the laptop work on a open wifi network (such as is found in a bookstore or internet cafe)?===<br />
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I realize that OLPC uses 802.11s and that is based on 802.11b/g.<br />
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Will it be able to communicate on an open wifi network that is common<br />
in the better bookstores and coffee shop, colleges etc.<br />
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:Yes. The laptop can communicate with most 802.11b/g access points. Some older access points are problematic (See [[Mesh and WDS]]) and some levels of access point encryption are currently unsupported (e.g., WPA). You should generally have no problems with open networks utilizing reasonably recent hardware.<br />
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=== What power source will come with the November Give one get one XO for the purchaser? ===<br />
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What Power source will come with the xo laptop for the purchaser during this November's give one get one? WIll it be an AC adaptor and/or a pull cord?<br />
Thanks,<br />
Greg<br />
:AC adaptor.<br />
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What voltage and frequency range? Could I exchange the (US?) power cord with a European (German) one? We have 230V AC.<br />
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:The power adapter will accept EU voltages.<br />
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=== Will we be able to purchase a pull-cord generator and/or solar cell for the Give 1 Get 1 laptop? ===<br />
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You have answered that the G1G1 laptop will come with an AC adapter.<br />
The unique (and amazing) capabilities for manual and solar power are<br />
something I would like for my "keep 1" laptop.<br />
Will there be a way for us to obtain these OLPC laptop accessories?<br />
Additional cost would be acceptable.<br />
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:We are working a parallel mechanism for making solar- and human-power options available.<br />
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=== G1G1 for school servers too? ===<br />
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These are not currently part of G1G1. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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=== Is there a way to find local developers/testers with the physical units? ===<br />
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I hope to participate in the Give 1 Get 1 program. I would like to find someone in my local area to test (read as 'play with') the mesh concept in real equipment. Emulation is neat, but not ''real''. Is there any plans to provide a place on the Wiki for finding fellow OLPC'ers for testing, development, etc? Or have a I completely overlooked an existing feature of the Wiki?<br />
:See [[Presentations]]<br />
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=== Unlimited Give 1 Get 1 program? ===<br />
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I think that OLPC has underestimated the general interest and strong demand for their laptops. I think that the Give 1 Get 1 program should run for now and forever, and not be just a limited 2 week engagement - there are far too many people in the US that want to provide a laptop for their children, like the laptop designed, and think that the Give 1 Get 1 program is perfect - they can get 1 for their children or relatives, and at the same time they can give 1 to another country that needs it. As many other people have requested in previous questions and comments, they wanted the ability to directly purchase the laptop or somehow provide it to their communities in the US. The Give 1 Get 1 program helps to fill BOTH needs simultaneously. Do not just run this program for the limited time. You accidently hit upon what can push this program into overdrive. As you have found, Governments will never shovel out cash for anything. BUT private individuals will - if they can get something for their efforts as well.<br />
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: I don't speak for OLPC, but my guess is that they're going to gather up all the orders over that two-week period and then order and ship that number of laptops, so that they're ordering thousands at once for efficiency, rather than one or two at a time. I presume that if the first burst of orders doesn't satisfy the demand, they will be amenable to doing something similar every few months. (Of course, anyone who wants to invest in buying a bunch of XO's during that two weeks is free to sell them to others -- for whatever price they can get -- after the order period closes. So an enterprising person could make some money selling them for e.g. $500 during times OLPC is unwilling to do so. And people could then get them in small quantities at any time.) --gnu<br />
:: That's spot on. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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=== How can I get an XO outside USA and Canada? ===<br />
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Why is the Give One, Get One program being restricted to the USA and Canada only? Lots of application/content developers in other countries will also be interested in buying an XO to work with. If you use the services of an international shipping company like DHL and accept credit card payment only, then it is really no more difficult to ship to other countries than to North America.<br />
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: I don't know the details of any country restrictions for the Give One Get One program, but please note that developers in other countries can also [[Developers_program#How_to_apply_for_an_XO | apply for a machine through the developer's program]]. &mdash;[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 12:31, 24 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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: You've obviously never tried shipping outside the USA... shipping the XO prototypes had its saga of glitches caused by local bureaucracies and some 'issues' (to put it mildly) from the shipping company. So I would disagree that it would be ''no more difficult to ship to other countries''... [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 14:05, 24 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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::I realize that there are some countries in the world where it can be difficult to ship things. I myself have experienced difficulties with Russia and Ukraine. But surely Western Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are pretty straightforward. In any case, this is not a prototype circuit board that someone thinks might be a bomb controller. It is a finished and packaged laptop. Every single box going out should be identical. This is the type of situation that a shipping company like DHL can easily deal with. --[[User:Memracom|Memracom]] 16:16, 24 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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::: [[User:Xavi/My XO#Problem delivering|My story]], heard similar ones for Peru, Brazil, but also in Switzerland & France (iirc). Each country has their own rules governing imports & customs, and unfortunately DHL (and others) together with the recipient have to abide by them. So I wouldn't assume that shipping is some kind of fire-and-forget deal... [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 16:44, 24 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
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=== Distribution over missionaries? ===<br />
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The project wants the country governments for the buying and distribution of the XO to their students.<br />
But is there a possibility for missions (Christian) to buy laptops for their development projects?<br />
In many countries missions found schools and start educational programs. Are there possibilities for missions to get involved into the distribution of the XOs?<br />
The "give 1 get 1"-program is not an opportunity for the missions, because they can't afford the doubled price. <br />
I think missions could be a great distributor, because they go with schools where governments aren't.<br />
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: We are open to discussions with NGOs.<br />
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=== Is there a Parallel Purchasing Program? ===<br />
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Have you investigated the idea of having Dell or other major manufacturers give people the option of adding an OLPC Laptop to their orders? I think this is something my company and others could easily support; throwing in one of these laptops every time we buy a new computer. It would be nice, simple method of supporting your efforts.<br />
Just a thought.<br />
: That's an interesting thought.<br />
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= School to school =<br />
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=== Link between the two give 1 get 1 laptops ? ===<br />
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Wouldn't it be great to have some kind of link between the laptop I get and the laptop I give?<br />
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The kid getting the laptop I give could write me an email, maybe send a picture.<br />
This way there could be great contacts with people who otherwise would or could never communicate with each other. That would really broaden the mind of me and of the kid, too.<br />
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I know this should be difficult to accomplish, but think about the possibilities.<br />
Think about how happy both the donor and the donee would feel to have such a bond.<br />
Think about how many many people in the richer countries would gladly give money,<br />
because they can really really see where their money is going.<br />
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Since all laptops surely have some unique number or sth. like that, it should be doable.<br />
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Ok, so my question is, could there be such a link between two OLPC?<br />
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: We are planning to connect schools, but not individuals. <br />
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=== School Sponsors? ===<br />
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After I saw the 60 Minutes piece I thought this would be a great school fundraiser. It would be cool to have US children e-mail children in third world countries. Much of today's issues, I think, could be improved with an understanding of each other. Do you have plans for schools to invest in a laptop and then have the US children e-mail the laptop's recipient? I know there are such opportunities in developed countries, but I know of none for third world countries. cmshaughnessy@msn.com<br />
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There has been some interest shown by the US and other First World nations.<br />
As the program grows this could be a very good idea for children to <br />
have email pals across the globe. Bakersdz<br />
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:That would be great, but the OLPC software doesn't handle email. --gnu<br />
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::Say what? The XO has a full-featured web browser, which is more than adequate for using gmail, among other email systems. We haven't ported a native email client to the laptop yet, as it is not as high a priority as other activity development. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 21:35, 7 July 2007 (EDT)<br />
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=== Partnering Schools? ===<br />
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My children visit a small primary school in Scotland, which is actively looking to find a partner school in the developing world. From talking to other parents, I believe I would be able find enough interest to purchase 30-40 OLPC laptops on your 'buy two - get one' scheme. Would it be possible to distribute the 'donated' laptops in one particular school and such create a community between the two schools?<br />
: I don't know if it's possible to designate which country or school your "donated" laptops go to -- I doubt it, since that would increase the overhead of selling them to the public (and they're trying to keep the overhead very low). But what I suggest is that your Scottish school children find another school (anywhere in the world) which is also using the XO, and partner with that school. Nigeria might be a good candidate, since there would be less of a language barrier. -gnu<br />
: Also, you can probably run your own "School Server" by getting an ordinary PC and downloading the appropriate server software that's published on this site. You'll need either a Marvell USB-based Mesh WiFi dongle (not yet available, but maybe soon), or you'll need to use one of the OLPC laptops as your mesh portal (gatewaying the school server onto the mesh, so the kids can access it). -gnu<br />
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Is it possible to get an "official" answer on this question? I would like to purchase some laptops in the "Give Many" plan for a school in Kenya. During the November 12th - 26th time frame, when I intend to make my donation, may I designate at that time where the laptops go? Thanks,<br />
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:In this program, the "give" laptops are directed to schools designated by OLPC. You may be interested in the "Give Many" program (See http://www.laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml), which has provisions for directing donated laptops.<br />
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=== Can I raise funds to purchase OLPC computers for a third world school and my own? ===<br />
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I am a principal of an elementary school in the United States with a significant number of students who are impacted by poverty. If I were able to mobilize my community to raise enough money to purchase these computers for a school in a third world country, would it be possible for us to purchase these computers for ourselves? I believe our community could raise $30,000 to fund the purchase of these laptops for a school of 300 students. I actually have a school in mind?<br />
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: You might want to read the [[Ask_OLPC_a_Question_about_Distribution#Where_or_how_can_I_get_one%3F | Ask OLPC a Question about Distribution page]]. —[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 13:30, 1 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
:: For the two week period between November 12-26, 2007, if you donate $30,000, you will be able to send 100 laptops to a school of your choice (and 50 will be send to a lesser developed country on your behalf). [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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= What about needy children in the United States? =<br />
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===How come these laptops are going to kids in developing nations when we have needy children in the U.S.?===<br />
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In the U.S., the average expenditure for education is $10,000 dollars per child. In developing countries, the average expenditure is typically less than $300 dollars per child. One Laptop Per Child is initially focused on where the need is most urgent. A number of U.S. states have approached One Laptop Per Child and expressed interest in the program, and in the long run, One Laptop Per Child hopes to work with those states and help children everywhere.<br />
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I think the idea of distributing these laptops to the countries you have listed is a great idea! However, what about the parents here that can not afford to buy laptops for their children. I am a single parent and work two jobs and then after working 10 hrs and cooking/cleaning we then have to go to the library so my son can finish doing his homework on their computers at 10:00 at NIGHT!. Why isn't our goverment involved in this project? Why isn't our government taking care of it's own? people!<br />
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====Why not the USA?====<br />
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See above. For further discussions on the subject see [[OLPC4USA]] and [[retail]].<br />
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=== Individual use in USA? ===<br />
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If I "buy one - get one," I would give mine to my 6 year old grandson. Will he be able to network with kids around the world? Can the camera-mic be used to communicate with kids in Nigeria, Peru, etc?<br />
: Yes. Don't forget that Peruvian kids probably don't speak the same language as your grandson. But they may be able to play together and show each other things. -gnu<br />
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Along the same lines, how will networking work outside the expected Mesh Network environment. For instance, can my 6 year old nephew use the WiFi hub in his home?<br />
: Yes. -gnu<br />
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=== Give 1 Get 1 for a U.S. school? ===<br />
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If I were able to convince enough local parents and other donors to raise $400 times the number of students in our kindergarten, could we participate as a group in the Give 1 Get 1 program, thereby equipping all our local students entering elementary school and an equal number of children in some other part of the world? If we were to do so, could the OLPC provide us with contact information for a corresponding class in some other part of the world, so the school children here and there could engage in cross-cultural dialog as a mutual learning experience?<br />
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===How can a country get involved?===<br />
By starting talks with the OLPC at '''national or ministerial level'''&mdash;minister or similar high-ranking government officials&mdash;'''not''' at individual level. Individuals should lobby '''their''' government to participate. [[How can my country get involved|More info]].<br />
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=== Where can I see an OLPC in the UK? ===<br />
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Hi,<br />
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I'm really interested in the OLPC project, and often add things to the wiki... But I've never actually seen one in real life... How many are there in the UK, and what are the chances of actually viewing one? Maybe you should do a grand tour?!<br />
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:Well, you can try the alpha software in emulation: [[Using QEMU on Windows XP]]. If you run into problems, you'll have to research and learn. --[[User:Jcfrench|Jeff]] 27 Feb 2007<br />
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===Are home schoolers going to be able to get a laptop like this?===<br />
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Home schoolers are welcome to participate in the G1G1 program.<br />
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== Will OLPC get in trouble if I aid Intl friends to Give 1 Get 1? ==<br />
: Quick answer: No. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 21:29, 8 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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Update: Ideally I would like to receive a usable answer to this question in time for my international friends to know if I can aid them, get me money and addresses and/or a way for XOgiving to accept their money...... in time for them to successfully offer/receive a "give1get1" donation on this cycle.<br />
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I have people asking me if I, who am well connected and very techical, will aid them to get one in (England, Germany) by being the point of recieve, and then transporting it onward to them. They want both the warm-fuzzies of supporting the One Laptop Per Child plus the geek factor of getting a physically small laptop for various geeky purposes (including but not limited to having one for the geek-child of their family. One is high-functioning autistic and would surely improve vastly by having such a focus for their intelligence).<br />
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=== Is there a limitation on which countries the device can be sent to? ===<br />
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Is it against any given countries' technical specifications or permissions? <br />
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I am ''assuming'' that it's tried to hold to a high standard since poisoning the techie youth of poor countries wouldn't exactly win a high score in later life.<br />
: This is one of the limiting factors in which countries we can ship to. It is a matter of paperwork and passing the official gauntlet, not of our not meeting actual standards. OLPC would not get in trouble, but you might end up with laptops stuck in customs. Stay tuned. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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=== Will I, or OLPC, get in trouble for aiding them to make such purchases? ===<br />
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I'm not expecting to avoid any of the fees that go with such transport. I just want to know if there's any reason you guys would be shot at just because more of the First World wants in on the fun.<br />
: This is unlikely. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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=== Is there a limitation on how many give1get1 I can purchase? ===<br />
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Other than the obvious one of general availability, which hasn't been addressed even in ballpark amounts. <br />
I know geeky people with kids in the US too.<br />
: There is no limit. See also [http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml Give Many]. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 21:29, 8 November 2007 (EST)<br />
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We are not an ''organization'' - we are a bunch of friends hoping to pool a sense of sanity in shipping plans. If, however, gathering a "interested individuals list" on this wiki will result in the ability for it to be done at a scale of less than 100, then maybe I can help. I don't have room for 100 XO laptops in my living room. What we are looking at is the philanthropist equivalent of carpooling to work; order-pooling, to make it work. -- Heather<br />
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=== Are Pre-Orders available for the next batch once you run out? ===<br />
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In the music world people who want albums from aspiring artists pre-purchase the albums and this aids their production costs, plus gives their managers a more solid number for how much support there is in which regions of the country. I know many people who would gladly have provided money already if they knew it was putting them on a waiting list.<br />
: We plan to accept orders for two weeks. Later orders may be shipped later, but they will not be cut off. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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=== What if a child is the intended 'get1' recipient? ===<br />
<br />
Some of these people have kids, some are simply very tall kids with paychecks.<br />
It's one heck of a gift from Santa though... Would a child involved have any affect on availability? Wouldn't it be worth noting to the "give1" distant-countries recipient, there's some other kid out there with the sister-system to theirs that is enjoying the machine too?<br />
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I'm not expressing an opinion on either side of the privacy coin about ''who'' are the recipients, just that encouraging the contact and support, in my opinion, goes both directions if you do the job right.<br />
: See above. At the moment we are not planning to provide explicit ties between givers and recipients; but between schools. [[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]<br />
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UPDATE: the child I know that's specifically interested became even more interested when he heard it's supposed to be sturdy for kids. Now he's actually asking the german equivalent of Santa. '''sigh''' you have succeeded too well at gathering enthusiasm, if I have no way to get him one :(<br />
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=== When will it be more directly available elsewhere and what is holding it back? ===<br />
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It is harmful to the project to let the rumor mill make up this answer. If there are specific difficulties which you are attempting to overcome, you should describe them so people or entities can try to aid you in solving those. If there's plans for a later phase, you should '''say so''' - and give some sort of roadmap for it. Letting the question fester lets the most paranoid elements mouth off while the most gentle and supportive have nothing solid to defend your point with. - Heather<br />
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:The only think holding us up in doing G1G1 globally is logistics. For example, in order to distribute laptops in the EU, one must establish a take-back program. We've got our hands full getting the laptops to children in the early days of mass production, but as we hit our stride, it will be easier for us to reach out to anyone anywhere who wants to participate in our global learning initiatve.<br />
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[[Category:FAQ]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine/proposed_urls&diff=97022Weekly zine/proposed urls2008-01-15T03:08:45Z<p>IainDavidson: some more ideas.</p>
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<div>== URL ==<br />
* xozine.org<br />
* mixo.cc<br />
* myxo.cc<br />
* olpczine.org<br />
* zine.laptop.org<br />
* xoox.laptop.org<br />
* ox.laptop.org<br />
* xo.laptop.org<br />
* CommunityXO.org<br />
* MyXO.org<br />
* XO.net<br />
* XO.coop<br />
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<br />
NOTES:<br />
<br />
* Some comments keeping 'OLPC' in the URL/name.<br />
** PROS/for:<br />
** CONS/against:<br />
<br />
* Some comments keeping 'OX' in the URL/name.<br />
** PROS/for:<br />
** CONS/against:<br />
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* Some comments keeping 'laptop.org' in the URL/name.<br />
** PROS/for:<br />
** CONS/against:<br />
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== Names ==<br />
<br />
* xoZine<br />
* XOZine<br />
* XOzine<br />
* XO'Zine<br />
* XO News Zine</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine/proposed_urls&diff=96993Weekly zine/proposed urls2008-01-15T01:55:31Z<p>IainDavidson: more ideas.</p>
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<div>== URL ==<br />
* xozine.org<br />
* mixo.cc<br />
* myxo.cc<br />
* olpczine.org<br />
* zine.laptop.org<br />
* xoox.laptop.org<br />
* ox.laptop.org<br />
* xo.laptop.org<br />
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NOTES:<br />
<br />
* Some people vote for/against keeping 'OLPC' in the URL/name.<br />
** PROS:<br />
** CONS:<br />
<br />
* Some people vote for/against keeping 'OX' in the URL/name.<br />
** PROS:<br />
** CONS:<br />
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== Names ==<br />
<br />
* xoZine<br />
* XOZine<br />
* XOzine<br />
* XO'Zine<br />
* XO News Zine</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine&diff=96984Weekly zine2008-01-15T01:24:42Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Sections */ Added XO-Photo idea from IRC.</p>
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Currently: [[Weekly zine/proposed urls]]<br />
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== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th-Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement and seeing out to the mailing lists.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : pre-final copy to Phil for copy editing.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation.<br />
* Jan 15th to 18th : Gathering of community activities and summaries.<br />
* Jan 13th to 15th : [[Talk:Weekly_zine|Discussions]] and gathering input, about [[Talk:Weekly_zine|format, volunteers, and ideas]].<br />
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== Volunteer coordinators ==<br />
{| style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border:1px #AABBDD dashed;font-size:smaller;"<br />
|-<br />
| style="padding:0px;background:#CCDDFF;border:2px;border-bottom:2px #BBCCEE solid;border-top:2px #BBCCEE solid;text-align:center" colspan=2 | Zine Volunteers - Editorial Board<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Editor-in-funny-hat:<br/><br />
Interview/profiles: <br/><br />
Copy-editor/Proof reader:<br/><br />
Media/Press: <br/><br />
Wiki Summary: <br/><br />
Software/development: <br/><br />
Education/research: <br/><br />
Mailing List/annoucements:<br/> <br />
Translation: <br/><br />
|<br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects) <br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc:Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:IainDavidson|Iain D]] (irc:IainD)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc: Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Mchua|Mel]] (irc:mchua)<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
?[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] ? [[User:Adricnet| Adric]]<br/><br />
|}<br />
=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
* XO photo of the week. <br />
** only 1 or 2<br />
** Sized to fit side-by-side on page)<br />
** Or scattered on the page(s)<br />
<br />
(See Discussion page for details on [[Talk:Weekly_zine|what's to come]] !)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo/Script&diff=96979User:Ixo/Script2008-01-15T01:09:38Z<p>IainDavidson: added xo-info script, CC info on all scripts.</p>
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Various bash and other scripts, frequently used.<br />
: (All submitted under CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license)<br />
: (I know bash not python, so if you want to offer python versions, please send them my way. :)<br />
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== xo-info ==<br />
Summary<br />
* Quickly display various useful troubleshooting information about the XO Laptop<br />
<br />
Description<br />
* Duickly display various useful troubleshooting information about the XO Laptop<br />
* Shows current os version: /etc/issue /boot/olpc_build <br />
* Shows available os versions /versions/pristine/*/boot/olpc_build<br />
* Show available os hash info <br />
** /versions/running /versions/boot<br />
** /versions/* /versions/contents/* /versions/pristine/* /versions/configs/*<br />
<br />
Benefits<br />
* Show both versions (current and alt-boot) of OS installed on the system<br />
<br />
<br />
#!/usr/bin/bash<br />
#### FILE: xo-info ########<br />
# 2008 01 12, Iain Davidson, xo AT myna DOT ws<br />
## RELEASED under CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license.<br />
<br />
grep -v "garbage-to-ignore" /etc/issue /boot/olpc_build /versions/pristine/*/boot/olpc_build<br />
ls -Ld /versions/* /versions/contents/* /versions/pristine/* /versions/configs/*<br />
ls -ld /versions/running /versions/boot<br />
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<br />
== get-xo ==<br />
Summary<br />
* Get a local copy/backup of your XO Laptop <br />
<br />
Description <br />
<br />
* From server (or any other computer), backup copy files from XO Laptop. <br />
* Script can ran multiple times, will only copy over files which have changed.<br />
<br />
Benefits<br />
<br />
* Allows examination of files on different machine, with better local tools and resources.<br />
* run between operations on the XO, to see files created or updated.<br />
<br />
#!/usr/bin/bash<br />
#### FILE: get-xo ########<br />
# 2008 01 12, Iain Davidson, xo AT myna DOT ws<br />
## RELEASED under CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license.<br />
<br />
rsync --verbose --progress --times --perms --recursive --compress --links --rsh="ssh" \<br />
olpc@192.168.0.12:/home /home/Downloads/OLPC-BACKUP<br />
<br />
NOTES:<br />
: Command is one single line.<br />
: '192.168.0.12' is the IP address of the OLPC XO Laptop.<br />
: Must setup password for '''olpc''' account<br />
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<br />
== log-update ==<br />
Summary<br />
* Do an olpc-update to specific build (joyride or Update), log results.<br />
<br />
Description <br />
* Log various system information during an olpc-update for later examination<br />
<br />
Benefits<br />
<br />
* Creates permanent record and timing of update, for later viewing.<br />
<br />
First script:<br />
<br />
<br />
#!/bin/bash<br />
## FILE: log-update ######<br />
# 2008 01 10, Iain Davidson, xo AT myna DOT ws<br />
## RELEASED under CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license.<br />
ver="update.1-681"<br />
cd ~olpc<br />
echo "------- $ver -------------------------------------"<br />
date<br />
# Below is various system information nice to log before the update <br />
# (aka xo-info)<br />
grep -v "garbage-to-ignore" /etc/issue /boot/olpc_build<br />
ls -Ld /versions/* /versions/contents/* /versions/pristine/* /versions/configs/*<br />
ls -ld /versions/running /versions/boot<br />
#<br />
/usr/sbin/olpc-update $ver<br />
#<br />
date<br />
echo "------- ______________________ $ver"<br />
<br />
<br />
Second script:<br />
<br />
#!/bin/bash<br />
## FILE: log-update-capture #######<br />
# 2008 01 12, Iain Davidson, xo AT myna DOT ws<br />
## RELEASED under CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license.<br />
cd ~olpc<br />
./log-update >>log-update.out 2>>log-update.out<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTES:<br />
: Assumed that scripts are in /home/olpc , both have 'x' execute bit set.<br />
: Currently need to set manually the version number to update, future feature is passing it along, or picking from list (or latest).</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:OLPC_Argentina&diff=96691Category:OLPC Argentina2008-01-14T10:39:40Z<p>IainDavidson: Undo spam revision 96652 by 198.173.203.7 (Talk)</p>
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<div>Esta categoria agrupa las paginas relacionadas con el proyecto [[OLPC Argentina]] tanto a nivel comunitario como el oficial por [http://weblog.educ.ar/ educ.ar].<br />
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Otras paginas / categorias que pueden resultar de interes son:<br />
<br />
[[OLPC Spanish America]] | [[Spanish]] | [[:Category:Spanish]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Countries|Argentina]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Content_principles/translations&diff=96690Content principles/translations2008-01-14T10:38:24Z<p>IainDavidson: Undo spam revision 96666 by 124.146.168.42 (Talk)</p>
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<div>[[Content|english]] |[[Content/lang-es|español]] | [[Content/lang-it|italian]] | [[Content/lang-ja|日本語]] | [[Content/lang-ko|한글]] | [[Content/lang-pt|português]] |[[Content/lang-ru|русский]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Developers_manual/translations&diff=96689Developers manual/translations2008-01-14T10:37:17Z<p>IainDavidson: Undo spam revision 96665 by 211.5.165.122 (Talk)</p>
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<div>[[Developers manual|English]] | [[Developers manual/lang-ja|日本語]] |[[Developers manual/lang-ko|한글]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Software_components/translations&diff=96688Software components/translations2008-01-14T10:34:50Z<p>IainDavidson: Undo spam revision 96663 by 211.5.165.122 (Talk)</p>
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<div>[[Software components|english]] | [[Software components/lang-it|italian]] | [[Software components/lang-ja|日本語]] | [[Software components/lang-ko|한글]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo/Presentation&diff=96686User:Ixo/Presentation2008-01-14T10:26:24Z<p>IainDavidson: added spec sheet link</p>
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<div>Notes for XO Laptop presentation:<br />
<br />
* http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/99/Poster-01-theXO.pdf - PDF poster<br />
* Spec sheet: http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml<br />
<br />
* [[Laptop_demonstrations]]<br />
* [[Presentations]]<br />
* [[Community_Building]]<br />
----<br />
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<br />
Leads on other presentation sources<br />
* kfx - 10 slides of key points<br />
* isforinsects: graphic design for above ?</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:MitchellNCharity/Old&diff=96676User:MitchellNCharity/Old2008-01-14T08:52:22Z<p>IainDavidson: /* How Big? - a possible activity */ reaally big,</p>
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<div>{{userboxtop}}<br />
{{user en-5}}<br />
{{user time zone|UTC-4|world}}<br />
{{user irc|mncharity}}<br />
{{userboxbottom}}<br />
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Hi. This is my slush pile. Currently ordered ''most recent at bottom''.<br />
<br />
I'm an ex-MIT Laboratory for Computer Science "systems" person, who dabbles in science education reform, dynamic language implementation, and assorted other things.<br />
<br />
I'm most interested in using the xo to help kids develop a feel for the physical world, by integrating "Powers of Ten" perspective, pervasive order of magnitude estimation and approximate quantitative reasoning, fermi questions, accessible foundational physics, storytelling and tangible representations.<br />
<br />
But the xo has to exist for any of it to happen, so that's my main objective. "Widen bottlenecks as you hit them" has me mostly: editing the wiki; wrestling with disk images and otherwise trying to make it easier for developers to get started (and other people to get a taste); and trying to figure out how folks can best help the project 'make the base system solid and compelling, and win some orders'.<br />
<br />
Google search: [http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=&domains=wiki.laptop.org&btnG=Search&sitesearch=wiki.laptop.org wiki.laptop.org] and [http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=&domains=laptop.org&btnG=Search&sitesearch=laptop.org laptop.org] (which in includes the mailing lists).<br />
<br />
I worked on OLPC in 2007, late Q2 through Q4. A lot changed. It went from a few activities, with collaboration not working, and sugar unstable, and much information trapped inside 1cc, to mass deployment in Uruguay, and an active community. In Q1, I ran into mako on the train. He mentioned OLPC, I mentioned [http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/paper_rulers/ printable rulers]. ... ''Resulting in ruler and graph paper prototypes. And (unfinished) angle/distance measurement... This "talk to everyone at hand about OLPC, both to generate interest and recruit volunteers" is something I've tried to do extensively, and found fairly fruitful. People with laptops can carry them visibly (rather than hidden in bags), providing opportunities for folks to ask questions.''<br />
:''draft notes - incremental commit into wiki editing, projects. Time spent on (in declining order) emulation, testing, wiki work and projects. Ruler. Stopwatch. VisualAcuityDemo. Wikipedia slicing. HowBig. [[Display]] page. Quantify use/usefulness of emulation?''<br />
<br />
==Converging lines to eyeball angles==<br />
A rough draft experimental tool to measure angles by holding up the laptop screen to your eye and looking along sight lines.<br />
Objective: measure the angle between things in the environment. The idea: hold up the laptop, and put your eye to the edge, so the lines all appear to converge at you.<br />
<br />
<strike>'''Show-stopper'''(?): kentquirk reports a 20% viewing angle limit on B2 in both modes (with color artifacts at 45%). 20% seems perhaps borderline. But experiments on mockups suggest 20% could still leave you with ~1/3 degree accuracy. My current plan is to try it on a laptop.</strike><br />
:I briefly tried it on an XO. Worked just fine. Seemed better than 1/4 deg. :) [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 15:14, 18 May 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
The camera is an another way to measure environmental angles.<br />
<br />
Here is a quick draft. I'll wait for the reality check before fleshing it out. Lines are at 1 degree intervals. The eye convergence is currently set at 100 mm from the screen edge.<br />
[[Image:Converging_lines_01.png|400px]]<br />
<br />
SVG might be a better tech. Or even python.<br />
<br />
==Random brainstorming==<br />
In [[User_talk:MitchellNCharity]].<br />
And [[Talk:Educational_content_ideas#Laptop as flexible physical object (ruler, etc)]].<br />
:Hmm. Email went by on devel which suggested that using xo's for photometry was an unanticipated idea, possibly best noticed sooner rather than later due to hardware/microcode impact. Perhaps scavenge the brainstorm cruft for any other similar things which might have fallen through the cracks, and write up a post? (Doable) [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 21:05, 3 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
[http://www.vendian.org/howbig/?&ppdm=800&ph=150&page=millipaper How Big Are Things? at 800dpi] might show up life-size on the laptop.<br />
:No, because the browser is scaling, so it's not 200dpi. Umm, why did I do 800 dpi? You can use the [http://www.vendian.org/howbig/?page=calibration calibration page] to get arbitrary corrections. (Doable: determine browser scaling and fix.) [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 21:05, 3 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
'''Invitation by physical proximity'''. Creating a set of laptops using physical proximity. Say kids A,B, and C are physically adjacent, and wish to collaborate. Or you want laptop X to be, say, a remote control for laptop Y. Currently, you have to mentally map the already physically localized laptops into user space, and then gather the users by hand. It would ''much'' nicer if folks could do this automagically. Eg, a group points laptops at each other, hit a key, and bang, everyone's invited. The low resolution audio-delay determination of distance should be perfectly adequate for this. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 13:23, 14 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
Using one xo as a '''remote keyboard/mouse''' for another. Eg, when the other is in ebook mode, on the ground, with a microscope, sample, and slides perched on it. One side is an activity RemoteControl, the other an unmodified activity plus... what? [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 08:33, 18 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
Addressing child/parent '''[[disassembly]] of xo's''' -- A "visible xo" document might reduce the appeal of xo disassembly? (If it didn't encourage it instead;). Taking apart and reassembling the xo seems a reoccurring user activity. As does the xo not quite coming back together (missing screws, disconnected wires). And I assume some static fried chips, though I've not seen that reported. Nicely connectionist, but maybe we want to make this less common? Maybe not. If so, perhaps each xo could have a "visible xo" document in the library, showing the inside of the xo so thoroughly, in such detail, that looking inside had less appeal? "Been there, seen that, why bother?" Maybe it gets done once, the pictures are seen to show it all, and other folks don't bother. Maybe. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 00:49, 20 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
<strike>xometry (noun) - measuring with an xo. :)</strike> [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 11:29, 20 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
:No. "xometry" is the easuring ''of xo's''. A much less interesting concept. :) [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 11:15, 28 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
'''Help wanted'''. wiki page?. mailing list?<br />
*"Nerd with hardware wanted". Examples: "I don't have hardware. Could you download this draft activity and stopwatch how long it takes to do mumble?". "I have a B2. Could someone with a B3 run a profile of this code, so I can better prioritize my performance optimizations?".<br />
*"User(s) with hardware wanted". Examples: "Could you download this 'put a ruler on the screen' draft activity, try going around measuring things, and then provide user feedback? Do you find you are dinging up your screen?".<br />
*"User testing wanted". Examples: "I have a new sugar game. Player testing and feedback wanted".<br />
*"Quick experiment wanted". Examples: "What color is the top left pixel?"; "At how shallow an angle can you read the xo screen?"; "If you browse this webpage image of converging lines, can you successfully use it to eyeball angles? How precisely?".<br />
I'm not sure the community is large enough to sustain this yet, as turnaround time is usually important. And .xo (un)install isn't easy yet. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]]<br />
<br />
'''Printable xo mockups''': cheap and easy creation of xo mockups for developers without hardware to do crude user testing. Printable to-scale images of various xo profiles. Tool/recipe for sugar screen dump -> printed screen mock. Is there actually any demand for this, or is it just specific to my "measure the world with your xo" interests? [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 11:21, 28 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
:Created [[Life-size laptop pictures]].<br />
<br />
'''puzzle construction'''. cut up images/drawings, play and share. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 09:59, 8 July 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
'''Geology storytelling'''. This is more of a todo item for myself than a random brainstorm. One can create wonderful stories about the geologic history of places, but it is an opportunity only very very rarely taken. It would be nice to have stories for the pilot schools. For very brief example, Boston sits on a couple of scrapped off and smushed volcanic island chains, and you can still see vocano cores in parks. And despite being an inhabited area for 10+ thousand years, there aren't any artifacts that old... because people lived on the coast... which 12 thousand years ago, during an ice age and thus lower sea level, was nowhere near the Boston highlands, but rather out beyond Georges Bank. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 00:28, 6 August 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
'''Keyboard overlays''' for language learning. Eg, when learning a language which uses a different script than yours, switch the xo's language, and put an overlay on the keyboard. Instant 'xo for a different language'. Either a printable overlay (could derive from the keyboard images; perhaps use self-adhesive label stock), or perhaps a form-fitting rubber keyboard overlay. Idea due to person in Davis Sq. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 23:28, 30 September 2007 (EDT)<br />
<br />
==NASA's Visible Earth images for OLPC countries - Possible demo content?==<br />
NASA's [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Visible Earth] has images [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2046 sorted by country].<br />
Perhaps they might make good demo fodder.<br />
Some are whole country, others just a feature. Some are topical (some fire, or erosion, etc). Most have descriptive text (in english). Some stereo pairs. <br />
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2246 Argentina]<br />
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2249 Brazil]<br />
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2073 Libia]<br />
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2083 Nigeria]<br />
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2260 Uruguay]<br />
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2085 Rwanda]<br />
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==TCC Tiny C Compiler - Include C toolchain on OLPC laptop?==<br />
My impression is a gcc toolchain is not planned for the laptop, due to space limitations (a fuzzy recollection - I now can't find it mentioned). So I note [http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ TCC], a Tiny C Compiler for x86. GCC compatible, small and fast. Same author as QEMU.<br />
So a C toolchain ''would'' fit on the laptop.<br />
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I also note its libtcc, which permits disk-less run-time C compilation and linking. Just in case anyone encounters a need for it.<br />
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== ''Wow, I've never seen that!'' ==<br />
''From [[Educational content ideas]].''<br />
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If you have never seen snow, a short video clip of snow falling in the woods could have a high "wow" factor. The kind of thing kids watch again and again and again. Similarly for ocean, mountain, desert, farm, rainforest, savanna, metropolis, cow, whale, raptor, etc, etc. TV and movies take some of the edge off, and you can surf... but consider an example. Say I want a "cow" moment. Just as if I walked up to one. I want a cow face in front of mine, with a ear twitch, blink, and swipe of a big wet nose with a long flexible tongue. What I don't want is fifteen minutes of wading through the internet, google, youtube, etc, trying (unsuccessfully) to find something similar. I want someone to have already groveled around and collected wonderful breathtaking clips. Volunteers? [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 18:44, 1 May 2007 (EDT) (further thoughts on my user page)<br />
*And perhaps flesh out each clip with pictures, which can be more diverse, and higher resolution, without blowing space budgets.<br />
*Exposure to the unfamiliar world.<br />
*Office, lab.<br />
*Might creating these be a task for kids using the olpc camera?<br />
*Also "task videos" - riding a train, a plane; filling out paperwork; ... And familiar tasks in unfamiliar contexts, eg, women surgeon washing hands, US "all employees must wash hands" bathroom sign, a paw being washed, chimp washing hands, mumble.<br />
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*Videos of children playing games and with toys from their native culture. <br />
*Clips of children eating foods using utensils from their native culture: chopsticks, forks, hands, etc.<br />
*Clips of children dressed in school clothes: Inuit children layering clothes for snow, Hawaiian children in shorts and slippers, etc.<br />
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== How Big? - a possible activity ==<br />
One thing I'm working on is an exploratory technology prototype for a "How Big?" activity. It's still vanilla pygtk rather than sugar. Currently, cairo image scaling speed is the biggest challenge, <strike>and appearance on an actual laptop display the biggest unknown</strike>. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 22:13, 12 May 2007 (EDT)<br />
:Screenshots looked great on a B2 XO! :) Leaving speed and space (10 MB or so:/) as current challenges. And perhaps doing the sugar/hippo ui. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 15:22, 18 May 2007 (EDT)<br />
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[[Image:Activity_howbig_01.png|400px]]<br />
[[Image:Activity_howbig_02.jpg|400px]]<br />
[[Image:Activity_howbig_04.jpg|400px]]<br />
[[Image:Activity_howbig_03.jpg|400px]]<br />
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Doables:<br />
*include a "How Big?" screenshot of south-america.<br />
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:How about something loosely based on this. http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/<br />
: --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]] 03:52, 14 January 2008 (EST)<br />
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== Towards a better calculator - augmented and bantering ==<br />
Calculators on computers are vastly more boring than they could be.<br />
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Examples:<br />
*Enriched keycaps. The key has a "3" on it. When pressed, or randomly, that "3" could become "lll" (3 hashes). Or the local word "three". Or accompanied by the word "three". Or 3 dots in a line, or equilateral triangle, or right triangle. Stationary or spinning. Or a triangle with lines rather than dots. With lines emphasized one at a time. Switching from dots to lines one at a time. Accompanied with counting. Etc, etc.<br />
*Slide the decimal point (either grabbing it, or with buttons), zero padding and going exponential as needed.<br />
*Say the number. The "kid randomly hits keys, generates content, and wants adult/computer to say it" game.<br />
*Sidebar banter, see below.<br />
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=== Sidebar banter ===<br />
A calculator doesn't need much screen realestate even in full color. So we use it! Everything described for keycaps can be show on the side, for the whole number. And it can be manipulatable. Add another dot, the number goes up. Grab and move the pie wedged edge, and the fraction changes. Much of what is normally taught about numbers in isolation can be "fun stuff happening on the side". Counting; counting with hash marks; counting on fingers; how to draw a number; place-value system; geometric characteristics of numbers (ways to arrange dots; shapes); decimal point; number line; exponential notation; fractions; pie charts; graphs. And a whole lot more. It's not even hard. Just a framework, and then one hippo widget at a time as folks get around to it.<br />
:Other examples of "so much more one could do":<br />
:*Notable numbers - calc says "1111", banter that town population is "1300". Population (class, school, town, etc), age (students, teachers, parents), time (minutes, hours, etc), durations (of school day, holidays, etc), distance (in km, travel time, etc), length (of... everything), mass, prices, food consumption, energy/sunlight, characteristics of materials, etc, etc. Which of course sets them up to be able to do fermi questions. Also mathematical properties (prime, factors, etc).<br />
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Notes:<br />
*Banter should be replicable. For doing repetition. And so having found a neat one, you can show it to someone. Ideally even on the others' machine. How? A banter history with sharable entries?<br />
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== Vision screening ==<br />
[[User:Sj|Sj]] expressed some interest in vision testing, so...<br />
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=== Lighting ===<br />
Illumination levels have to be within certain ranges. Order 1k lux. I'm not sure yet how critical it is, or whether we can compensate. And I don't have a feel for how large the range is subjectively, and thus how amenable to "give the human instructions".<br />
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Can use a laptop in photometer mode to judge the illumination on another.<br />
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What is the backlit illuminance? #olpc silent. I don't know if the backlight might be useful or not.<br />
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=== Screening plans ===<br />
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*http://www.aafp.org/afp/980901ap/broderic.html aafp (but a decade old)<br />
*http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mch/hlth-vis/vismaterials.html one state's plan<br />
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=== Visual acuity ===<br />
*http://www.i-see.org/block_letter_eye_chart.ps ([http://www.i-see.org/block_letter_eye_chart.pdf pdf]) public domain snellen chart. easy to convert letters to cairo. double check the letter shapes?<br />
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There is various better-that-Snellen literature. Some won't apply, as we can show letters one at a time and choose arbitrary sizes. Some will... but I've no medical closed-literature access anymore. :(<br />
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==== Internationalization ====<br />
Symbol charts tend to be culture specific. Letter charts script specific. For our target age group, letter charts are recommended. Near-term, we can just use latin. One can get the letter sized right in any script, but judging the letter's difficulty requires experimentation to create a baseline. Not a ''big'' deal, order 100 people should do it, but one more thing to worry about.<br />
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=== Misc ===<br />
*http://www.v2020.org/ WHO. Useful politics. Not sure anything technically helpful for us.<br />
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== Game Jam feedback ==<br />
Random ideas...<br />
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Intake procedure:<br />
*have a punch-list; tinderbox&amp;milestones?<br />
*wiki page; who am<br />
*skills inventory<br />
*photo<br />
*svn repo up<br />
*xo or emulation up; hello world activity running<br />
*on irc<br />
*automate more<br />
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Support:<br />
*"best way to learn topic x" pointers (with better docs it won't matter, but for now...)<br />
*mit zephyr-like announcement channel, ie, popups. less invasive than group shout, more visible than irc chatter.<br />
*irc in/out flag - eg key developer sleeping -> "he's there but not responding"<br />
*"events" to give time texture. brownies&amp;lemonade; cookies&amp;milk; accompany with demo.<br />
*code review; experts on call; "lab TA's" (mit sense)<br />
*TDMultiplexing experts - need to self monitor, or timeout, or have badguy, or... better: expert moves to questioner, so easier to leave, other questioners can come and draw them away. virtual "raised hands". request assistance in domain x queue? skill level escalation mechanism.<br />
*pairing with offsite mentors (individuals or teams)<br />
*active facilitation role needed/useful - emergent social organization generally suboptimal. someone whose job is it to know peoples interests, status, and plans; make sure useful/interesting connections happen; smooth the path for folks getting stuck; watch for large scale issues/problems.<br />
*visible team status; maybe support folks help maintain; entire jam current state at a glance. attempting the benefit of everyone walking around asking "what's up?", without the cost.<br />
*faq/bulletin board - eg, "both sets of game keys unfortunately currently have the same codes, and they are foo".<br />
*might use intro tutorials to bootstrap "folks gather at lounge tables for mini-seminars" behavior.<br />
*''generalize/explore/expand - task-oriented efficiency, "on a roll", principle programmer model, vs "rtfm/c and good luck".''<br />
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Misc:<br />
*really really need good mono-color explanation<br />
*questions re degree of intended olpc-gnash integration<br />
*dedicated xo's for each kid attending (even unanticipated kids w/o xo's in room full of xo's just seems wrong)<br />
*have a water cooler<br />
*extra batteries. this jam, most everyone was stationary and could be plugged in. i suspect this will change. "coding better than charging". maybe.<br />
*quiet room automated <strike>enforcement</strike>/encouragement? ie, sound meter.<br />
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Excellent job by the Olin folks, [[User:Sj|Sj]] and [[User:Mchua|Mchua]].<br />
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== Determining the bounding box of a cairo surface ==<br />
I've no idea where in the wiki this should go, so...<br />
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There is no easy way to determine the bounding box of a cairo surface. Two approaches come to mind:<br />
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1. During drawing, you can use stroke_extent() on individual strokes (and fill_extents() for fills). So create an "extent logging" wrapper proxy for surface classes, which records extents as the strokes and fills go by. This might be a nice solution, but I haven't tried it.<br />
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2. Kludge. Render twice, first to a large postscript surface, and then run<br />
gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH file.ps<br />
Given an output of<br />
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0.000000 359.981989 245.002985 410.021987<br />
the bounding box is 245 by 50.<br />
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{{anchor|simulate display}}<br />
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== Display simulation for screenshots ==<br />
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[http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/olpc/simulate_display.py simulate_display.py] takes a screenshot, a lighting ratio, and creates a simulation of what an xo screen would look like. For those of us without hardware to check for color artifacts.<br />
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Here is a photograph of the real screen [[Image:EToys_-_new_display.jpg|50px]].<br />
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Doables:<br />
*doc or fix pgm "the snapshot must have at least some color to work" bug<br />
*move this to {a section in [[Display]], it's own page, it's own page redirecting to a section in display (so I don't have to keep updating links)}.<br />
*rename "simulation"->fake. Simulation implies ground truthing, or at least the expectation of successful truthing. No such exist at present.<br />
*the bogus border is unnecessary now - remove it.<br />
*cairo canvas wrapper which renders to pixmap, and simulates for some (ENV?, time cycle?) specified lighting. Can overwrite canvas class?<br />
*find out what color the top left pixel is.<br />
*maybe find the etoys page and truth?<br />
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:Hi, maybe it would be usefull to tell that xwdtopnm and pnmtopng are needed for the script. In ubuntu they're in package netpbm, btw.[[User:HoboPrimate|HoboPrimate]] 22:45, 25 June 2007 (EDT)<br />
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== Doables - week of 25 June ==<br />
*find out what's going on with the mini content release. can I get ruler/grid on it?<br />
*shift to a public repository. coderanger and/or dlo. ask cr if he's ok with a "common" tree, to which he/I can give others access. maybe dlo for releases, and common for dev. common is an opportunity to nudge dev towards a more social model, rather than me being just another person who surmounted the barrier to entry.<br />
*write yrgb->rgb mapper. in Lab.<br />
*generate palette using color mapper.<br />
*break activities into smaller chunks. use this to prototype a 'common' layout.<br />
*explore 'bundle tree as a single python file'? to make activity (re)assembly/renaming more fluid.<br />
*figure out how much of the sub-activity code is still useful.<br />
*vision screening. get Sj his demo..<br />
**contemplate scope<br />
**visual acuity -> standalone<br />
**create toy driver. review va math and optotypes.<br />
**create vision screening page. oy, there's a slog. (postmortem note: assume all activity projects will escalate; even though current hardware makes it a pain, do full proj docing as you go).<br />
*clean up protractors. explore colorization.<br />
*add in 'angle site lines'<br />
*contemplate pragmatics of string inclinometer. generate protractor for it. separate activity? embedded docs? lesson plan? use this to explore content context.<br />
*experiment with "numbers on the diagonal" with grids<br />
*tooling up: explore creating a widget, gtk timers, gtk mouse and move (eg, for click-n-drag ruler), gtk dragging, gtk/pygame integration. web embedding. is widget layering/stacking possible?<br />
*explore possible constraint/data propagation infrastructures. sigh.<br />
*stopwatch. quickie or tool driver? both? tooling path: widget. then integrate with a dot-per-second widget.<br />
*coin stack widget. for widget exploration, and random prettiness.<br />
*proto bantering infrastructure: calc widget + coin stack + dots + propagation (likely out of scope for week)<br />
*Camera dupe with angle grid overlay. gstreamer level or cairo? gstreamer would make it a trivial mod, ease upstream tracking. another approach would be a click-n-drag angle "ruler". The 'how far is your friend' gets positive reactions. perhaps combine with 'angle sight lines' in a laactivity.<br />
*do some vocabulary creation. "little-a activity" isn't a long term solution. sound out T. just how much of problem is "activity" being rebound going to be?<br />
*toolbar icons should have ENTITY stroke and fill_color overridden just like frame icons. at the moment (build443), it seems for compatibility, you should use toolbar's FFFFFF/none in both places, which sacrifices previewability. an itch, and opportunity for first sugar core contribution. Perhaps "Icon could have a way to set entities", "the code to do entities is in canvasicon.py right now", "we need to factor it out in a way that allows both canvasicon and icon to use it" (marcopg).<br />
*explore rulers/grids in other programming environments. squeak, what else?<br />
*howbig<br />
**sugarize proto. check performance, clarity.<br />
**project plan.<br />
**try 'get image from net, as url or bits, and save to journal'.<br />
**screen ruler. scale meta info -> image/journal (exists?) or file.<br />
**prototype stacks ui<br />
*screen faker<br />
**proj space exploration and plan sketch. is there really a need?<br />
**clean up code<br />
**doc pgm bug<br />
**can parasitize cairo canvas? then, any low-hanging performance tweaks? current local+pos input permit different pixel access mechanism? inline C? :).<br />
*wiki infrastruct<br />
**look for download/upload tools. tool driver: grab activities, add 'Ticket for component' links. Next step maybe an auto-generated 'activity page status' report page.<br />
*olpc hardware access<br />
**missed meeting. :( when's next window?<br />
**assemble test list<br />
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<br />
== Why aren't more people developing for OLPC? ==<br />
&lt;semi-flame&gt;<br/><br />
A month or few ago, someone (approximately) asked me "Why aren't more people developing for OLPC?". My answer was that, to a zeroth approximation, they can't. I believe this is still the case, so I'm revisiting the topic here.<br />
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The official story is that it is easy to start developing for sugar. You can use the Live CD, or use sugar-jhbuild, or run in emulation, or use real hardware. That this last is even on the list, gives a feel for how narrow the current audience is.<br />
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The Live CD. Last updated 3 months ago. Doesn't run 1200x900. While handed out after talks as an easy way to start developing, I have never actually seen sign of anyone developing on one of these. But, to be fair, I've seen the occasional email suggesting someone is trying, and I've never sent a survey to the list, so maybe they are out there. I would be unsurprised to find no one is actually using this.<br />
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Emulation. At least on some platforms, emulation now works. Sort of. It took something like a man month of effort to get things like network and 1200x900 working, and minimally documented. On some platforms at least. Though it hasn't been bootable this last month. With some additional workarounds, as of today, it again boots. Yay. Oh, and there's never been sound or video. Nor internationalization. The core developers don't use emulation, and there is no automated testing.<br />
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Sugar-jhbuild. "It's easy" is often said. Meaning it might work on 32-bit Fedora or Ubuntu. If you can manage to download all the sources, from servers which are not infrequently down. And then build them. There was, briefly (a couple of weeks), a working tinderbox. Lots of red. It is not clear whether this is really a viable option for people, and on what platforms. It well might be. Or not. Once you get it working, it can be kept working, as it's use by the core development team shows. But we don't even know how often an attempted download will succeed. No testing.<br />
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So maybe Live CD, emulation, and sugar-jhbuild, are all working just great. Sort of. Or maybe they all have prohibitive barriers to use. It's hard to tell without testing and otherwise gathering that information. And thus hard to address problems.<br />
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The status quo seems to be: those few who scale a substantial barrier to entry, find some stable niche, and hang out there. And that no one is tasked with road building.<br />
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Road building. Which brings us to the development model. OLPC is currently using what I think of as the historical Red Hat closed open-source development model. Closely held repos; dependency on non-public build context; no public compute infrastructure for community tool building, so a tool impoverished environment; still in "the world consists of the core developers, and those which distract them" mode, never having grown into a diverse self-sustaining community in which the core developers are embedded. It's not that community involvement was tried and failed. It seems to never have been an objective. Contrast the resources, and approach, which have gone into the OLPC wiki.<br />
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For folks who have never been part of an open development project, let me use an example. Say I, as a random non-core community member, notice the tinderbox is broken. In say the perl6/pugs project, I would already have commit access to the one repo (by virtue of merely not having avoided the collective community effort to give a commit bit to everyone who looks even slightly interested). The tinderbox code is in the repo. Shell access to the public services machine is slightly more closely held - if one of the many random community members with access isn't on irc, I would have to send an email with... my email address. In summary, I could fix the tinderbox. I, or anyone else in the community. In OLPC, I can nag one of the vastly overcommitted core developers to fix it. One of only two or three candidates. This difference in barrier is the difference between having a tinderbox, and irc doc-bots, and commit-bots, and, well, eval-bots doesn't really apply for sugar, but the difference between having a rich environment or an impoverished one.<br />
<br />
There are lots of variously skilled python programmers and others out there. And OLPC has a potential attractiveness that literally no other OSS project comes anywhere even vaguely close to matching. But this vast resource is just not being tapped. And TRIAL-2 is less than a month away.<br />
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TRIAL-2 is less than a month away. I could send mail out to python lists saying "Have some time? Off for the summer? Come change the world! 1000 kids could be using your software within two months. With your help, maybe a million by end of year". Inspiring. Sure to draw a crowd if explained. But what would I then suggest they do? "Well, if you are on fedora or ubuntu, I can get you started with an old disk image running under qemu, no sound. Or you might be able to run sugar-jhbuild, if you've a day, though I've never managed it."<br />
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We need a single unpartitioned repository which is just about as easy to suck people into as the wiki is. We need a semi-publicly accessible infrastructure machine. We need a serious effort at development community building.<br />
<br />
And, well, I have no idea when it has to get done by. At best, you get that kind of information by reading between the lines, and never being sure if you've read correctly. But to have any impact at all by month end (July), it would have to happen explosively.<br />
<br/>&lt;/semi-flame&gt;<br />
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==Todo - 2008wk01==<br />
*todo '08w01<br />
*2008 summary. include postmortem?<br />
*wrapup olpc work. "I've been meaning to do x" changes. hand off projects. future-proof pages. what to do with wrapper? (used? useful? invoke mstone?)<br />
**cleanup home pages (perhaps /Archive rather than trash? kind of interesting to see the old stuff...)<br />
**have enough testing working ''before'' Mon test meeting to allow Kim to estimate interest, discuss handoff.<br />
*sketch numeracy project vision? maybe someone else will have time?<br />
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* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
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* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
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Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=File:User-IainDavidson-glow.png&diff=96668File:User-IainDavidson-glow.png2008-01-14T07:48:17Z<p>IainDavidson: A glowing inspiration. {{CC-BY-SA}}</p>
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Born Nov 26 2007<span style="font-size:.7em;line-height:1.2em;"><br/>(C2/MP) Build 650 (rev latest)<br/>See [http://radian.org/notebook/ Uruguay]</span><br />
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* My Top wiki pages:<br/><br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[Glossary]], [[Sitemap]]<br />
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* Top offsite:<br/> <br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
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* My notes on my [[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]].<br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
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= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-glow.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Real-Life #2)]]<br />
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Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
<br />
Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
<br />
Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
<br />
= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
<br />
= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
<br />
= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
<br />
Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Template:CC-BY-SA&diff=96662Template:CC-BY-SA2008-01-14T07:38:36Z<p>IainDavidson: created redirection for common template for pictures.</p>
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{|style="float:right;border:green 1px dotted"<br />
|<span style="float:left">[[Image:Tall-badge-white-green.png]]</span><br />
Born Nov 26 2007<span style="font-size:.7em;line-height:1.2em;"><br/>(C2/MP) Build 650 (rev latest)<br/>See [http://radian.org/notebook/ Uruguay]</span><br />
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{{RightTOC}}<br />
* My Top wiki pages:<br/><br />
[[Weekly zine]], [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], [[Curators_and_coordinators]], [[Hardware_specification|Hardware Specs]], [[Keyboard_Shortcuts|Keyboard shortcuts]], [[Glossary]], [[Sitemap]]<br />
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* Top offsite:<br/> <br />
[http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap Roadmap], [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ OSUOSL.org], [http://iain-davidson.stumbleupon.com Stumbleupon], [http://www.olenepal.org/activities_download.html Nepal, Learning Org]<br />
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* My notes on my [[User:IainDavidson/Notes|XO laptop]], [[User:IainDavidson/TODO|TODO]], [[User:IainDavidson/Scripts|scripts]], [[User:IainDavidson/Presentation|Presentation]], or using [[User:IainDavidson/rsync backup|rsync for backup]].<br />
* Some wiki Templates I've added: <code>{{</code>:[[Template:RightTOC|RightTOC]]<code>}}</code><br />
* G1G1: Seeding '''Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K)'''.<br />
<br />
= My Background =<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-sl.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Second Life)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-lego.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture from Lego World)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson-xo.jpg|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture taken on XO)]]<br />
[[Image:User-IainDavidson.png|thumb|100px|Right|(Picture Real-Life)]]<br />
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Summary Details<br />
* Name: '''Iain D'''<br />
* Location: '''Bellingham, WA, USA''' <br />
** (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)<br />
* Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007. <br />
** (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)<br />
<br />
Experience<br />
* IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years<br />
* Server/Services Management: 15+ years<br />
* Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.<br />
* Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years<br />
* Wiki management / user: 7+ years<br />
* Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE<br />
<br />
Equipment working, available for testing<br />
* i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6<br />
* Mac Plus, iMac 350/500<br />
Odd factoid<br />
* Has '''Museum of Technology''': 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.<br />
** ''Examples:'' IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,<br />
** Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .<br />
<br />
= Further details =<br />
* More available: http://notes.homelinux.org/index.php/User:IainDavidson<br />
* Full Resume: http://resume.homelinux.org<br />
<br />
= Offsite linkages =<br />
* Assoc of Bellingham Neighborhoods: http://aobn.org<br />
* RE Sources : http://RESources.org<br />
* Womencare Shelter : http://WomencareShelter.org<br />
* One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop: http://laptop.org<br />
* Free Geek : http://freegeek.org<br />
* 10 Dollar e Reader : http://wikibox.googlepages.com/home<br />
* Stumbleupon image-blog: http://Iain-Davidson.stumbleupon.com<br />
* [[http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?p1=234&p2=179&p3=136&p4=0|Global time zone array]] <br />
<br />
= Approach =<br />
Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.<br />
<br />
Preferred sharing license: {{OBX license cc|by-nc-sa|3.0}}</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=File:User-IainDavidson.png&diff=96657File:User-IainDavidson.png2008-01-14T07:34:50Z<p>IainDavidson: Real life pictures.
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<br />
XOs are regularly demonstrated or on display at conferences and other events.<br />
You can set up a remote display that will let you give a presentation directly from your laptop; see [[remote display]].<br />
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If you are going to be at a conference with your XO, and are willing to show it off and let others play with it for a while, please add the event details below. <br />
If you are giving a full-fledged demonstration of some number of XOs at an event, please note it below in bold. If you or someone you know is attending or hosting an event and wants to include an XO display [but doesn't have one], please leave details in the second list.<br />
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== Posters ==<br />
<br />
Let's build some slick marketing bling:<br />
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*[[media:poster-01-theXO.pdf|the XO]]<br />
*[[media:poster-02.-olpcQuotes.pdf|OLPC Quotes]]<br />
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== Presentation Slides ==<br />
<br />
You may need to provide some audiences with an introductory presentation to explain the concepts behind this project. Here are a couple of presentations that you may find useful. We need a solid presentation for software and hardware developers. Note that you can give presentations effectively in Etoys, including an olpc-style toolbar.<br />
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'''Videos of presentations'''<br />
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* [http://www.tele-task.de/page50_lecture2675.html Bert Freudenberg on OLPC]<br />
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'''Posted Presentations'''<br />
*[http://olpc.lo-res.org/presentation_www.linuxwochen.at.pdf OLPC_Austria - Aaron Kaplan's slides from the Vienna Linuxwochen] <br />
*[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:OLPC-Nepal-Presenation-w-script.ppt OLPC Nepal] OLPC Nepal uses this presentation to promote OLPC. It is geared towards a Ministry of Education. Please note that it comes with a talking script.<br />
*[http://el-directorio.org/OLPC/Presentacion?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=presentacion2.odp OLPC Colombia Presentation] in Spanish<br />
* Developer Relations:<br />
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/pictures/pygta-2007-03-20/sugar-introduction.odp Python User's Group] Developer Relations Presentation to large Python user's group in Toronto, Canada. English, 46 slides, approximately 30 minutes speaking time.<br />
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/sugar-introduction-uoft-2007-04-12.odp University of Toronto Systems Group] slightly more refined version of the previous presentation including images from OLPC Nepal and OLPC Colombia presentations. English, 60 slides, approximately 40 minutes speaking time.<br />
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/sugar-introduction-tirana-albania.odp Tirana University Computer Engineering] presentation at the state University of Albania. More background/general introduction than the previous set. English, 49 slides, approximately 1.5 hours speaking time.<br />
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/sugar-techknowfile-criticality.odp University of Toronto TechKnowFile] (closing plenary) presentation at an internal conference of IT professionals and educators at the University of Toronto. Focus is on making the case for academics to join the project in order to increase the relevance of their work. English, 63 slides, approximately 1 hour speaking time.<br />
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/olpc-ignite-toronto.odp Ignite Presentation] at DemoCamp Toronto #14, 5 minutes, 20 slides, also used for a 10 minute presentation at another event. Basic project introduction and request for volunteers.<br />
*[http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/061004-slides-olpc.pdf Stanford University] Mark Foster's excellent talk given at Standford University. Somewhat technical presentation.<br />
*[http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/olpc-presentation/presentation.html Ian Bicking's slides] from the UniForum talk, April 24 2007. General OLPC introduction for a technical audience. 26 slides. I talked for an hour, but it entirely depends on how chatty you are.<br />
*[http://www.cozybit.com/whitepapers/olpc-mesh.pdf OLPC Mesh] Javier Cardona's presentation at FISL 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Details about mesh networking and useful information for developing applications that use the mesh on the OLPC.<br />
* [http://www.laptop.org.za/slides/olpc-dev-talk/presentation.html Antoine's Slides] [http://www.laptop.org.za/slides/olpc-dev-talk.tar.gz Source] From a presentation to the Cape Linux Users Group in South Africa on XO application development. Technical audience. Talked for two hours. Has a Hello World for Sugar.<br />
* [http://www.n5dux.com/OLPC/OLPC.ppt LeTourneau University] - [[User:TommyGober|TommyGober]]'s brief overview of OLPC for local ACM chapter - mainly talking points, laptop needed at end for demonstration purposes.<br />
* [http://jonahboss.fastmail.fm/presentations/teach_think_play2007/html/ttp2007_olpc_bossewitch.html Portable Culture Machines] - Jonah Bossewitch's presentation of OLPC at Teachers College's [http://continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/default.aspx?pageid=652 Popular Culture in the Classroom Conference] (3/07)<br />
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'''Needed Presentations'''<br />
* ''Technical''<br />
** For software Developers -- How to build an activity.<br />
** For Software Developers -- Hardware and Firmware Related Stuff. <br />
** Power Mechanisms for OLPC<br />
* ''Education-Specific''<br />
** Introduction to Constructivism<br />
** Role of the teacher in OLPC<br />
** Teaching art and the XO<br />
** How to create content for OLPC and how not to<br />
** In French<br />
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=== Etoys demonstrations ===<br />
You can import a standard powerpoint or open office slidestack into [[Etoys]]. You can also create a presentation from scratch in Etoys, including both static text and images (as with other presentation software), scripts and moving objects, and other (programmable) Etoys components.<br />
<br />
== XO demonstrations ==<br />
For a list of potential demonstration sites, see the list of [[events]] around open hardware, software, and content; educational networks and publishing; and global technology, communication and development.<br />
<br />
=== Current ''(ie: < 2-3 weeks)''===<br />
** September 11, 2007, 10:30 AM - [http://www.bop2007.org/ Base of the Pyramid Conference 2007] (University of Michigan) - Koessler Room, Michigan League. [[User:Andrewo]]<br />
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===Future ''(ie: > 3 weeks)''===<br />
** October 15-17, 2007, [http://www.unicodeconference.org/ Unicode Conference], San Jose, Ed Cherlin. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 5-6 pm. Language Support on the Children's Computer<br />
** late october: [http://www.andicom.org.co:8080/andicom/opencms/andicom2007/index.html andicom 2007]<br />
** December 2007, [http://wireafrica.org/?page_id=9 WIRE AFRICA Conference], Cotonou, Benin Republic, Ed Cherlin<br />
**TBD, [http://www.eBay.com eBay] talk and demo (not open to the public), Ed Cherlin<br />
**TBD, [http://rdvp.org/ Reuters Digital Vision Fellows] meeting, Stanford, Ed Cherlin<br />
**TBD, [http://www.presidiomba.org/ Presidio School of Management], San Francisco, Ed Cherlin<br />
**TBD, [http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer History Museum], Mountain View, Ed Cherlin<br />
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===Past===<br />
** ''January 2007, Silicon Valley LUG, Edward Cherlin. SVLUG wants to get involved worldwide, linking to other LUGs and helping schools connect.<br />
** ''Jan 28-31 : Asia Source II, Jaya Kumar&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Feb 23-25 : PyCon 2007, Addison Texas. Ivan Krstic (1+)&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Feb 24-25 : FOSDEM 2007, Brussels. Rob Savoye (1), Jim Gettys (1+)&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Mar 8 : [http://chipy.org ChiPy], Chicago Python User Group, Ian Bicking &mdash; lots of interest in doing a local one day coding sprint in the near future''<br />
** ''Mar 6-7 : Game Developers Conference 2007, San Francisco. SJ (1+)&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Mar 9 (and usually every Friday afterwards, too): [http://goslingcommunity.org Getting Open Source Logic Into Governments], Ottawa Ontario Canada, Andrew Clunis&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Mar 13 : [http://opag.ca Ottawa Python Authors' Group] Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Mar 15 : London Open Source Jam, London, UK. Paul Nasrat (1)&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Mar 18 : [http://hackmeetingwiki.dai5ychain.net/ Chicago Hackmeeting]. Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking&mdash;(nice chat, but no news)''<br />
** ''Mar 31 : [http://barcamp.org/BarCampOttawa3 BarCamp Ottawa #3]. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''Apr 2-5 : [http://www.aquops.qc.ca/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=65 Aquops] Conference 2007, Quebec City. Jean Piché, Nathanael Lécaudé (2)&mdash;any news to report?''<br />
** ''April 14, 2007, Linux Mafia/[http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ CABAL], Ed Cherlin'' Got updated XO software.<br />
** ''April 19/20, 2007, [http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za Digital Freedom Expo], Cape Town, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder''<br />
** ''Apr. 21st, 2007, SVLUG [http://www.svlug.org/installfest/index.php Installfest], Ed Cherlin''<br />
** ''Apr 24: [http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/meetings/100laptop.html UniForum Chicago], Wheaton IL, Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking''<br />
** ''Apr 28: [http://www.installfest.info/ Flisol (Latinoamerican Festival of Free software instalation)] Manizales and Bogota,Colombia [http://el-directorio.org/OLPC/GaleriaDeFotos/Flisol Photos] . Rafael Ortiz ''<br />
** ''April 26th, [http://www.innotechconference.com/pdx/Event/Portland_2007_Events/One_Laptop_Per_Child.php Innotech Conference] Portland, OR. NAME PLEASE<br />
** ''April 28/29,[http://people.redhat.com/jkeating/presentations/lfnw-2007-olpc.pdf LinuxFest 2007] Bellingham, WA.<br />
Jesse Keating (RedHat/Fedora)<br />
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** ''Apr 30-May 2 : Smalltalk Solutions 2007 at LinuxWorld / [http://www.it360.ca/smalltalk.cfm IT360], Toronto. Bert Freudenberg (1)''<br />
** ''May 8, 2007 - [http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Upcoming_Talks Cape Linux Users Group], Cape Town, South Africa, "Developing Activities For Sugar", Antoine van Gelder''<br />
** ''May 15-16, 2007, [http://www.techknowfile.utoronto.ca TechKnowFile] University of Toronto conference on the "criticality of technology in education". Mike Fletcher''<br />
** ''May 25-28 [http://baycon.org/2007/ Baycon] Science Fiction convention, San Mateo CA, USA. [[Ed Cherlin]]'' Alan Dean Foster loves the XO. Recruited several people to join us.<br />
** ''May 28, 2007 [http://wiki.geekdinner.org.za/wiki/Cape_Town_May_2007 Cape Town Geek Dinner], South Africa, Antoine van Gelder''<br />
** ''June 2, 2007 OLPC [[Chicago Interest Group]], Chicago IL, USA.''<br />
** ''June 5: [http://oclug.on.ca/ Ottawa Canada Linux Users' Group], Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis''<br />
** ''June 5-8 [http://www.isde5.org/ 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth], Berkeley CA USA. [[Ed Cherlin]] They recommend that we team up with globe.org.uk to get weather stations into the schools for global mapping. NASA, NOAA, and CITRIS are interested in working with us. [[Ed Cherlin]] I gave Doug Engelbart his first demo of the XO.<br />
** ''June 12: [http://www.nclug.org/ Northern Colorado Linux Users Group], Fort Collins, Colorado. Jordan Crouse (1+)''<br />
** ''June 30-July 3 [http://www.westercon60.org/ WesterCon] Science Fiction Convention, San Mateo CA. [[Ed Cherlin]] Recruited some more people to join us.<br />
** ''June 30: [http://www.cosperu.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=67 OLPC y Evento Internacional], Lima, [[OLPC Peru|Perú]]. [[User:Alfonsodg]]''<br />
** ''2nd and 4th Saturday, every month, 4-10 PM [http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ Linux Mafia/CABAL] (There is no Cabal.) Coalition of All Bay Area Linux, Menlo Park CA, hosted by Rick Moen. [[Ed Cherlin]]''<br />
** ''3rd Saturday of every month, 11 am-4 pm [[Silicon Valley LUG]] Installfest, Google, Mountain View CA, USA. [[Ed Cherlin]]''<br />
** ''July 10th - OLPC presentation given at MIT Entrepreneurs Club by Arjun. A repeat presentation given by Manusheel and Arjun on 24th July, 2007. --to do add link--''<br />
** ''July 17, [http://www.balug.org/ Bay Area Linux User Group] (BALUG), San Francisco. [[Ed Cherlin]]''<br />
** ''August 1-3, 2007, SqueakFest 2007, Chicago, IL. NAME PLEASE''<br />
** ''August 6-9, 2007, [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ Linux World], San Francisco, Ed Cherlin. BOF7, Room 308, Tuesday, 6-7 pm. No Child Left Out: The One Laptop Per Child XO computer and its consequences''<br />
** ''August 11, 2007, [http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix16/ Linux Picnic]. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin. ''<br />
** ''August 15-18, 2007, [http://www.bdpa.org/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=194 Black Data Processing Association Conference], Ed Cherlin''<br />
<br />
== Events ==<br />
''see also [http://laptop.org/teamwiki/Events team events]''<br />
* ''Base of the Pyramid'' conference, September 10, 2007 : Andrew Ott was there.<br />
* [[24C3]] : the 24th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Dec 27-30, 2007: OLPC austria and nederlands are sending delegations.<br />
<br />
== XO '''requests''' for demonstration ==<br />
''If you would like to have one XO in an event, please enter it, and 'sign' it to coordinate possibilities''<br />
* ''dates : event, location - contact info INCLUDING E-MAIL ADDRESS and preferably a phone number''<br />
<br />
*January 17, 2008: Meeting with the New York City Beacon Programs. Possible large scale youth fundraising initiative throughout NYC. This will bring awareness to the project as well as empower youth to make global change. Darryl Rattray 212-341-9579 drattray@dycd.nyc.gov<br />
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* Sept 2007: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines Rowen, wenmi01 (at) spymac (dot period) com, +63 927 702 0503 = 5 xo for demo, launching and promotion.<br />
* June 19-20 : [http://1to1.ed.psu.edu/conference/Purpose.html/ Pennsylvania One-to-One Conference] Penn State, Pennsylvania - Scott Garrigan will be presenting two OLPC-related sessions and would like an XO (or a demo). email: garrigans[AT]acape[DOT]org - phone 484-894-6162<br />
* May 19 : [http://aop.turuxi.org/ Open Software Day by Turuxi ] Turku Finland - antti.heinonen[at]mbnet[dot]fi +358504873453<br />
* March 9-13 : [http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/ South by Southwest, Interactive] Austin, TX, Jonah Bossewitch Email?<br />
* March 24-15 : [http://www.newteacheracademy.org/default.aspx?pageid=652 Popular Culture in the Classroom: "Teach, Think, Play"], Teachers College, New York, NY, Jonah Bossewitch<br />
* April 24: [http://fletcher.tufts.edu/ The Fletcher School] in [http://fletcher.tufts.edu/directions/Default.asp Medford, Massachusetts] is hosting an event on technologies for developments. [http://www.youcanhearmenow.com/ Nick Sullivan] will be speaking about the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Quadir Grameen Phone] project and we would be thrilled to host a knowledgeable representative of the OLPC project - and hopefully a laptop as well - to give an audience of students and practitioners of development a sense of the future of techs. 4 Development. Email: Andrew[DOT]Bennett[AT]Tufts[DOT]edu<br />
<br />
=== Suggestions for demonstrations ===<br />
So many conferences, so little time... maybe somebody is 'around' and it could be a good opportunity to show or demo the XO.<br />
<br />
<br />
* [http://www.uned.es/catedraunesco-ead/ Cátedra UNESCO de Educación a Distancia] keeps track of series of events related to open, flexible, virtual or distance learning globally (with some emphasis on spanish) '''[http://www.uned.es/catedraunesco-ead/abajo12.html here]''' [http://www.uned.es/catedraunesco-ead/abajo12.html#Marzo,%202007 March], [http://www.uned.es/catedraunesco-ead/abajo12.html#Abril,%202007 April], [http://www.uned.es/catedraunesco-ead/abajo12.html#Mayo,%202007 May]...).<br />
* [http://www.elearningworkshops.com/ eLearning Workshops] keeps a [http://www.elearningworkshops.com/modules.php?name=Calendario&op=list&d=4&m=2&y=2007 similar list] (or a [http://www.elearningworkshops.com/modules.php?d=4&m=2&y=2007&op=year&name=Calendario&col= calendar view])<br />
<br />
[[Category:Developers]]<br />
[[Category:General Public]]<br />
[[Category:Press]]<br />
[[Category:Community]]<br />
[[Category:Demo]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=XO_roadshows&diff=96655XO roadshows2008-01-14T07:29:45Z<p>IainDavidson: added presentations coming up.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Merge | Laptop demonstrations}}<br />
:'' see also [[Remote display]]''<br />
<br />
Page for discussion of presentations and XO demos to outside groups, including Linux user groups (LUGs), other software groups, wireless groups, schools, teachers' organizations, NGOs, governments, churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/whatever, business and civic clubs, Boy/Girl Scout troops...You tell us. Also conference presentations such as Linux World or Unicode.<br />
<br />
==To be called==<br />
Add your suggestions, please.<br />
<br />
*Pretty much everybody who has ever been listed on [http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ BALE] (Bay Area Linux events, sadly not currently up-to-date).<br />
*Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meetings, Stanford<br />
*Glide Memorial Church<br />
*SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)<br />
<br />
<br />
==Presenters==<br />
Sign here if you have given a presentation or want to, or if you can give a demo. Let us know where you have been, and where else you are invited to. Would they like us to come back sometime?<br />
<br />
===Edward [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] Cherlin===<br />
Cupertino CA<br />
[[Earth Treasury]], writing a [[book about the laptop program, and how to take an active role in ending poverty once the children are online.<br />
<br />
Google has loaned me an XO, and I will soon be ready to demonstrate it to anybody who is interested. I took it to the Silicon Valley LUG April meeting the day I got it. We got [[TiddlyWiki]] running on it.<br />
<br />
Past: <br />
*Silicon Valley LUG talk, January 2007. [[Ed Cherlin]]<br />
<br />
Future: <br />
*SVLUG [http://www.svlug.org/installfest/index.php Installfest], Apr. 21st, 2007<br />
*Linux Mafia/[http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ CABAL] (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007<br />
*[http://www.svlug.org/ SVLUG] demo, May 2, 2007<br />
*[http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix16/ Linux Picnic], August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!<br />
*[http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ Linux World], San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007.<br />
<br />
*[http://www.unicodeconference.org/ Unicode Conference], San Jose, October 15-17, 2007<br />
*[http://wireafrica.org/?page_id=9 WIRE AFRICA Conference], Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007<br />
*[http://www.eBay.com eBay] talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public)<br />
*[http://rdvp.org/ Reuters Digital Vision Fellows] meeting, Stanford, TBD<br />
*[http://www.presidiomba.org/ Presidio School of Management], San Francisco, TBD<br />
*[http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer History Museum], Mountain View, TBD<br />
<br />
===[[User:Mburns|Michael Burns]]===<br />
Corvallis OR<br />
Working for the [http://osuosl.org Open Source Lab] as an evangelist and administrator. OSL has contributed to Sugar, Abirword, and Helix, among other activites for the laptop.<br />
<br />
Past:<br />
*Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association 2007 Spring Conference, March 2007<br />
*Portland Linux User Group, October 2006<br />
*Oregon State Linux User Group, October 2006<br />
*Culture Shock, March 2007<br />
<br />
Future:<br />
*Innotech conference, April 2007<br />
<br />
===[[User:Dhopkins|Don Hopkins]]===<br />
Berkeley, CA<br />
Working on [http://www.DonHopkins.com/drupal/node/128 pie menus], [http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/129 SimCity], game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming. <br />
<br />
Past:<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb/414422075/ Demonstrated] SimCity at Game Developers Conference 2007, at the OLPC booth.<br />
<br />
===Rowen Remis Iral===<br />
Bulacan, Philippines<br />
<br />
Working to make developers involved. Willing to join OLPC for promotion, and selling XO and getting bulk orders of XO machine. Also developing XO machine and its component. Trying to squeeze and improve with the limits of B2-1 system.<br />
<br />
Future:<br />
Planning to have demos and presentations<br />
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines<br />
<br />
===[[User:mcfletch|Mike Fletcher]]===<br />
<br />
Toronto, ON, Canada<br />
<br />
Developer Relations for the OLPC project. Working on making it easier for developers to get involved and on getting developers to commit to the project. Willing to present to any group of developers who are interested in becoming involved in the project.<br />
<br />
Past:<br />
* PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group)<br />
* University of Toronto System's Group<br />
* University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007<br />
* TechKnowFile, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2007<br />
* CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions)<br />
* [http://openforum.elsacc.ca/ International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization], Sept. 13, 2007<br />
* Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007<br />
* Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007<br />
* Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007<br />
* Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007<br />
<br />
Future:<br />
* OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007<br />
* IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007<br />
* COSCUP, November 3, 2007<br />
<br />
===[[User:PaulReiber | Paul Reiber]]===<br />
[[Silicon Valley LUG]] President<br />
Smalltalk developer<br />
<br />
===[[User:TommyGober | Tommy Gober]]===<br />
Longview, TX, USA<br />
<br />
Secondary Education/Computer Science student at [http://www.letu.edu LeTourneau University]. Currently developing amateur radio txt-mode software for the XO (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31 PSK31]).<br />
<br />
Presentations:<br />
* LeTourneau Univeristy [http://www.acm.org ACM], Sept 7, 2007<br />
* [http://tcea.org Texas Computer Educators Association], Feb 4-8, 2008<br />
* ...others TBA<br />
<br />
Washington, USA<br />
<br />
I should have two XO's by about the 20th of December. I am willing to do demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested.<br />
<br />
===[[User:IainDavidson | Iain D.]]===<br />
Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest)<br />
<br />
Presentations:<br />
* Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - Feburary 7th - General membership meeting <br />
* Northwest LinuxFest ( http://linuxFestNW.org ) - April ? - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news.<br />
<br />
==Laptops==<br />
Sign here if you have a laptop and are willing to loan it out or bring it to demos. Tell us which version of the hardware and software you have.<br />
<br />
Google has loaned Ed Cherlin an XO. I've tried out Sugar a bit. More to come.<br />
Paul Reiber of [[Silicon Valley LUG]] is getting an XO.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:General Public]]</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=96650Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-14T07:17:43Z<p>IainDavidson: righttoc me. :)</p>
<hr />
<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
{{RightTOC}}<br />
<br />
== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
<br />
2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
<br />
3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
<br />
4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
<br />
5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
<br />
6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
<br />
7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
<br />
8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
<br />
9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
<br />
10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
<br />
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
<br />
11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
<br />
12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
<br />
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
<br />
:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
<br />
14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
<br />
== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
<br />
* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
<br />
== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
** (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
<br />
== initial demo edition ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
<br />
== good interview candidates ==<br />
dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
cafl <br />
kate davis<br />
neskaya<br />
kikka <br />
misha <br />
ffm <br />
molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
<br />
== more ==<br />
Iain D -- un-available starting friday. has time now<br />
<br />
SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
<br />
== Iain's notes (moved from main article) ==<br />
<br />
(brief notes)<br />
<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
<br />
Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth, (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
<br />
<br />
TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
<br />
<br />
Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
<br />
<br />
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
<br />
<br />
Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
<br />
<br />
Welcoming committee, new user greeting<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
<br />
<br />
Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment needed)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Druple - http://drupal.org/node/141198<br />
** mburns experience<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
* Nanorimo, www.nanowrimo.org <br />
<br />
Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
<br />
<br />
Goal:<br />
Regular published electronic magazine (by end of sunday?)<br />
<br />
Pilot project<br />
* First issue out this Sunday (week from today).<br />
<br />
<br />
Initial Volunteers/Coordinators/editorial staff<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
* Education/research:<br />
* Mailing List/annoucements: <br />
<br />
<br />
Topics/sections:<br />
* Media updates<br />
* Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* Mailing lists / announcements<br />
* Country/trial school<br />
* personal <br />
* Content projects<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
<br />
Wiki editors<br />
* Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm<br />
<br />
<br />
Interview:<br />
* IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?<br />
* Other younger users<br />
<br />
== Topics of coverage ==<br />
<br />
''aka editorial departments''<br />
<br />
I can try to keep up with l10n and help to cover support.<br />
<br />
What other territory has been claimed?<br />
<br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adricnet]] 00:31, 14 January 2008 (EST)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=96649Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-14T07:17:03Z<p>IainDavidson: /* NOTES */ updates.</p>
<hr />
<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
<br />
<br />
== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
<br />
2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
<br />
3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
<br />
4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
<br />
5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
<br />
6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
<br />
7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
<br />
8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
<br />
9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
<br />
10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
<br />
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
<br />
11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
<br />
12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
<br />
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
<br />
:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
<br />
14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
<br />
== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
<br />
* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
<br />
== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
** (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
<br />
== initial demo edition ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
<br />
== good interview candidates ==<br />
dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
cafl <br />
kate davis<br />
neskaya<br />
kikka <br />
misha <br />
ffm <br />
molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
<br />
== more ==<br />
Iain D -- un-available starting friday. has time now<br />
<br />
SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
<br />
== Iain's notes (moved from main article) ==<br />
<br />
(brief notes)<br />
<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
<br />
Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth, (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
<br />
<br />
TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
<br />
<br />
Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
<br />
<br />
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
<br />
<br />
Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
<br />
<br />
Welcoming committee, new user greeting<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
<br />
<br />
Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment needed)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Druple - http://drupal.org/node/141198<br />
** mburns experience<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
* Nanorimo, www.nanowrimo.org <br />
<br />
Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
<br />
<br />
Goal:<br />
Regular published electronic magazine (by end of sunday?)<br />
<br />
Pilot project<br />
* First issue out this Sunday (week from today).<br />
<br />
<br />
Initial Volunteers/Coordinators/editorial staff<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
* Education/research:<br />
* Mailing List/annoucements: <br />
<br />
<br />
Topics/sections:<br />
* Media updates<br />
* Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* Mailing lists / announcements<br />
* Country/trial school<br />
* personal <br />
* Content projects<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
<br />
Wiki editors<br />
* Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm<br />
<br />
<br />
Interview:<br />
* IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?<br />
* Other younger users<br />
<br />
== Topics of coverage ==<br />
<br />
''aka editorial departments''<br />
<br />
I can try to keep up with l10n and help to cover support.<br />
<br />
What other territory has been claimed?<br />
<br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adricnet]] 00:31, 14 January 2008 (EST)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Ixo/Presentation&diff=96648User:Ixo/Presentation2008-01-14T07:16:29Z<p>IainDavidson: some hints.</p>
<hr />
<div>Notes for XO Laptop presentation:<br />
<br />
* http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/99/Poster-01-theXO.pdf - PDF poster<br />
<br />
<br />
* [[Laptop_demonstrations]]<br />
* [[Presentations]]<br />
* [[Community_Building]]<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
Leads on other presentation sources<br />
* kfx - 10 slides of key points<br />
* isforinsects: graphic design for above ?</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine&diff=96636Weekly zine2008-01-14T06:45:48Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Volunteer coordinators */ added some internationalism</p>
<hr />
<div>{{RightTOC}}<br />
<br />
== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th-Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement and seeing out to the mailing lists.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : pre-final copy to Phil for copy editing.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation.<br />
* Jan 15th to 18th : Gathering of community activities and summaries.<br />
* Jan 13th to 15th : [[Talk:Weekly_zine|Discussions]] and gathering input, about [[Talk:Weekly_zine|format, volunteers, and ideas]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Volunteer coordinators ==<br />
{| style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border:1px #AABBDD dashed;font-size:smaller;"<br />
|-<br />
| style="padding:0px;background:#CCDDFF;border:2px;border-bottom:2px #BBCCEE solid;border-top:2px #BBCCEE solid;text-align:center" colspan=2 | Zine Volunteers - Editorial Board<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Editor-in-funny-hat:<br/><br />
Interview/profiles: <br/><br />
Copy-editor/Proof reader:<br/><br />
Media/Press: <br/><br />
Wiki Summary: <br/><br />
Software/development: <br/><br />
Education/research: <br/><br />
Mailing List/annoucements:<br/> <br />
Translation: <br/><br />
|<br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects) <br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc:Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:IainDavidson|Iain D]] (irc:IainD)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc: Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
?[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] ? [[User:Adricnet| Adric]]<br/><br />
|}<br />
=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
(See Discussion page for details on what's to come !)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=96635Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-14T06:41:51Z<p>IainDavidson: /* Update site? */ added planet</p>
<hr />
<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
<br />
<br />
== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
<br />
2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
<br />
3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
<br />
4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
<br />
5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
<br />
6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
<br />
7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
<br />
8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
<br />
9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
<br />
10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
<br />
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
<br />
11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
<br />
12. Seth -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
<br />
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
<br />
:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
<br />
14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
<br />
== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
<br />
* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
<br />
== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
** (similar to Planet ? http://planet.laptop.org/ ?) --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]]<br />
<br />
== initial demo edition ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
<br />
== good interview candidates ==<br />
dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
cafl <br />
kate davis<br />
neskaya<br />
kikka <br />
misha <br />
ffm <br />
molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
<br />
== more ==<br />
Iain D -- un-available starting friday. has time now<br />
<br />
SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
<br />
== Iain's notes (moved from main article) ==<br />
<br />
== NOTES ==<br />
<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
<br />
Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
<br />
<br />
TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
<br />
<br />
Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
<br />
<br />
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
<br />
<br />
Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
<br />
<br />
Welcoming committee, new user greeting<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
<br />
<br />
Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Droople (mburns experience)<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
<br />
<br />
Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
<br />
<br />
A Weekly magazines (by end of sunday?)<br />
<br />
<br />
Volunteers Coordinators<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
* Education/research:<br />
* Mailing List/annoucements: <br />
<br />
<br />
Topics:<br />
* Media updates<br />
* Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* Mailing lists / announcements<br />
* Country/trial school<br />
* personal <br />
* Content projects<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
<br />
Wiki editors<br />
* Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm<br />
<br />
<br />
Interview:<br />
* IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?<br />
* Other younger users<br />
<br />
== Topics of coverage ==<br />
<br />
''aka editorial departments''<br />
<br />
I can try to keep up with l10n and help to cover support.<br />
<br />
What other territory has been claimed?<br />
<br />
[[User:Adricnet|Adricnet]] 00:31, 14 January 2008 (EST)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Talk:Weekly_zine&diff=96584Talk:Weekly zine2008-01-14T04:33:12Z<p>IainDavidson: /* general notes */ minor corrections.</p>
<hr />
<div>Meeting on 1/14 : '''xozine''' and community-space discussion:<br />
<br />
<br />
== general notes ==<br />
1. zine name, predecessors : mozillazine, &c. [[xoxo]] ([http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Xoxo&direction=prev&oldid=92284#xoxo_.235 last issue Sept 2007]), [[OLPC:Wiki News]], [[OLPC:News]], <br />
<br />
2. wordpress/blog system<br />
• give out subdomains of olpcblog.org or other.<br />
• email newsletter -- email * OTD<br />
• recommended rss feeds<br />
• phil - adamantly? virulently? anti-blog for a while.<br />
<br />
3. iain davidson -- weekly summary : on wiki-news.<br />
<br />
4. phil -- wikibooks.laptop.org for levelled readers, &c.<br />
<br />
5. comparison : chumby and bunnie. open source implementing closed flash widgets. cool hacking community based around it. bunnie chong did a lot of the original xbox hacks too... xboxlinux & dashboard. popular guy. the chumby blog wasn't a great implementation, but was fine. <br />
<br />
6. evolution to a community-driven wiki. change terminology...<br />
"this page is maintained by OLPC staff" ?<br />
<br />
7. Site map. how to help people participate. have a flowchart : are you a programmer? y/n illustrator? &c. and guiding people to ongoing projects/portals. <br />
seth: so carol, doing levelled readers could plug illustrators into ? <br />
idea: categories by 'X needed'<br />
<br />
8. Seth : wants to coordinate flickr things.<br />
<br />
9. for most people I have no idea what people are up to.<br />
<br />
10. ways to chat about what people work on.<br />
: blog post when a new project gets started<br />
: update sections in the wiki where developers are linked<br />
: poke dev and other lists to encourage ppl to update that<br />
<br />
Iain -- page focus : developers, general users, &c. <br />
:Talk with Kate? about suborganizing (Message sent to grassroots list. --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]])<br />
<br />
11. get an intern to poke all the contributors and developers... ask them tpo update things and become a real part of the community.<br />
<br />
12. PhilB -- cafl came into our group to help; she was in grassroots... now doing lots of other things.<br />
<br />
13. people : andriani, adam, SJ. phil, mburns, iain davidson, seth.<br />
<br />
:: Set up outreach website. multiuser wordpress / drupal [seth] - let seth/mburns/amit determine this.<br />
:: Set up summary bots for IRC, wiki, meetings. <br />
check how #cc does updates - a bot pushes updates into the chan<br />
<br />
14. olpc updates site : how to find updates, where to get/post them.<br />
<br />
== Tasks ==<br />
* find and import a few hundred userboxes. post general email to the grassroots list. (ian d)<br />
* pick columns for rss feed via sidebar. (install one) '''NB''': someone has been uploading rss images to the wiki...<br />
<br />
* schedule updates.<br />
** regular zine : daily notes with project highlights? <br />
* personal info updates -- ask office folks. <br />
* set time to talk about library dev and content connections<br />
* regular check-in.<br />
* give wiki subdomains / blog subdomains that post to userpage<br />
* infobox updates :IanD to find<br />
<br />
== Update site? ==<br />
Seth - supports having such a site (sj - even if only for developers).<br />
<br />
== initial demo edition ==<br />
: Editor : (Seth W)<br />
: Wiki summaries (Iain D)<br />
: Mailing lists and IRC ( same? )<br />
: Projects and software updates (Phil B)<br />
: Interviews & profiles (Seth W)<br />
: Media summary -- news and blogs (Seth W)<br />
: Proofing / copyediting : (Phil B)<br />
: Translating (es) : (SJ to find)<br />
: Content and collections (SJ)<br />
: XO media (taken with/made with...)<br />
: Education and research (workshop writeup? DC)<br />
: Country and trial schools ( -- )<br />
: Support and testing ( -- )<br />
<br />
== good interview candidates ==<br />
dydisme's working w/telehealth, hesperian. initial interest <br />
cafl <br />
kate davis<br />
neskaya<br />
kikka <br />
misha <br />
ffm <br />
molly fisher - flickr and forums (olpc group there)<br />
<br />
== more ==<br />
Iain D -- un-available starting friday. has time now<br />
<br />
SethW: EM spectrum diagram? other amazing images to broadcast / turn into readers<br />
<br />
== Iain's notes (moved from main article) ==<br />
<br />
== NOTES ==<br />
<br />
2008 01 13, phone conversation, 4pm to 8pm (EST) (1 to 5pm PST)<br />
<br />
Roll Call:<br />
* Phil (Phil), Seth (Adam, others in background?), IainD, mburns,<br />
<br />
<br />
TOPIC AREA:<br />
* Need better outreach to community and others<br />
<br />
<br />
Target readers, news/items/notes<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Software<br />
* Educators<br />
* User documentation (need more flushing out)<br />
<br />
<br />
Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* xo'Zine (editors speak up) <br />
* RSS<br />
<br />
<br />
Focus/Acknowledgment: <br />
* Projects underway<br />
* People volunteers.<br />
* Interesting stories, personal highlights.<br />
* Interest group overview.<br />
* Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?<br />
<br />
<br />
Welcoming committee, new user greeting<br />
* new volunteer <br />
* Devel<br />
* project creation<br />
* xo user groups<br />
<br />
<br />
Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment)<br />
* WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)<br />
* Droople (mburns experience)<br />
* Clone<br />
* Blog/Blogger<br />
* Forum/phpForum/phpBB<br />
* another wiki ?<br />
* Creative Commons (CC) license ?<br />
<br />
<br />
Documentation on redirection ideas<br />
* Ask question, redirection to proper channel<br />
* Goto list for redirection<br />
<br />
<br />
A Weekly magazines (by end of sunday?)<br />
<br />
<br />
Volunteers Coordinators<br />
* Editor: Seth<br />
* Interview/profiles: Seth<br />
* Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth<br />
* Media/Press: Seth<br />
* Wiki Summarizor: IainD, <br />
* Software/developer: PhilB, <br />
* Translation:<br />
* Education/research:<br />
* Mailing List/annoucements: <br />
<br />
<br />
Topics:<br />
* Media updates<br />
* Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)<br />
* Wiki<br />
* Mailing lists / announcements<br />
* Country/trial school<br />
* personal <br />
* Content projects<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
<br />
Wiki editors<br />
* Possible names: xavi, nlee ffm<br />
<br />
<br />
Interview:<br />
* IRC users - Ian (DyDisMe?), Neskaya?, ffm?, cafl?, Molly Fisher?<br />
* Other younger users</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine&diff=96581Weekly zine2008-01-14T04:30:49Z<p>IainDavidson: /* XO Magazine */ milestones.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{RightTOC}}<br />
<br />
== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th-Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement and seeing out to the mailing lists.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : pre-final copy to Phil for copy editing.<br />
* Jan 19th-Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation.<br />
* Jan 15th to 18th : Gathering of community activities and summaries.<br />
* Jan 13th to 15th : [[Talk:Weekly_zine|Discussions]] and gathering input, about [[Talk:Weekly_zine|format, volunteers, and ideas]].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Volunteer coordinators ==<br />
{| style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border:1px #AABBDD dashed;font-size:smaller;"<br />
|-<br />
| style="padding:0px;background:#CCDDFF;border:2px;border-bottom:2px #BBCCEE solid;border-top:2px #BBCCEE solid;text-align:center" colspan=2 | Zine Volunteers<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Editor-in-funny-hat:<br/><br />
Interview/profiles: <br/><br />
Copy-editor/Proof reader:<br/><br />
Media/Press: <br/><br />
Wiki Summary: <br/><br />
Software/development: <br/><br />
Education/research: <br/><br />
Mailing List/annoucements:<br/> <br />
Translation: <br/><br />
|<br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects) <br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc:Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:IainDavidson|Iain D]] (irc:IainD)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc: Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
?[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] ?<br/><br />
|}<br />
=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
(See Discussion page for details on what's to come !)</div>IainDavidsonhttp://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Weekly_zine&diff=96579Weekly zine2008-01-14T04:25:56Z<p>IainDavidson: condense/explain</p>
<hr />
<div>{{RightTOC}}<br />
<br />
== XO Magazine ==<br />
Milestones for 2008: <br />
* Jan 20th- Sunday : First edition - Public Announcement<br />
* Jan 19th- Saturday : All articles and text due to Seth for compilation/copy editing.<br />
<br />
<br />
{| style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border:1px #AABBDD dashed;font-size:smaller;"<br />
|-<br />
| style="padding:0px;background:#CCDDFF;border:2px;border-bottom:2px #BBCCEE solid;border-top:2px #BBCCEE solid;text-align:center" colspan=2 | Zine Volunteers<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Editor-in-funny-hat:<br/><br />
Interview/profiles: <br/><br />
Copy-editor/Proof reader:<br/><br />
Media/Press: <br/><br />
Wiki Summary: <br/><br />
Software/development: <br/><br />
Education/research: <br/><br />
Mailing List/annoucements:<br/> <br />
Translation: <br/><br />
|<br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects) <br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc:Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
[[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] (irc:isforinsects)<br/><br />
[[User:IainDavidson|Iain D]] (irc:IainD)<br/><br />
[[User:Phil|Phil B.]] (irc: Phil_Bordelon)<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
vacant ?<br/><br />
?[[User:Sj|SJ Klein]] ?<br/><br />
|}<br />
=== Sections ===<br />
* Media/Press updates<br />
* Summarize of various active areas.<br />
** OLPC Mailing lists<br />
** OLPC Wiki updates<br />
** OLPC news<br />
** OLPC forum<br />
** OLPC chat<br />
** Other announcements, Newly formed or active project updates.<br />
* Country/trials/schools - news from XO Laptop siets.<br />
* Personal focus: interview, background<br />
* Education/research projects<br />
<br />
(See Discussion page for details on what's to come !)</div>IainDavidson