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== Meeting 3, May 27, 6.30pm ==

=== Attendance ===

Attendees: Kunal Vora, Warren Pimm, Martin Dengler, Peter Robinson, Dom
Baker, Michael Jordan, Paul Dorrell

=== Pilot September 2009 ===

*	School pilot discussions to be held with 2 schools next week
*	Peter on top of deployment issues; managing the technical aspects of the deployment
*	The pilot discussions to be managed by Warren Pimm, Peter Robinson
*	Paul advised that the pilot should include XO's for other teachers to encourage future involvement in OLPC

=== OLPC UK Promotion ===

*	Marketing was discussed by the group and the decision was to set up separate committee meetings focused on Marketing and PR to plan the post pilot marketing activity
*	Decision that OLPC UK needs to have runs on the board prior to full marketing effort being launched; but that the planning process for that marketing need begin immediately
*	Request for everyone to email in to the mailing list all suggestions, thoughts and ideas for the marketing of OLPC UK for consideration at the Marketing and PR Meeting.

* Time and date for this meeting has been sent to the mailing list separately.

 
=== OLPC UK Organisation ===

An expert in charity structure and management has been engaged to identify
the most relevant structure and plan this component. This will be presented
to the group in the July meeting


=== Any other business ===

We had the pleasure of an educator attending - Paul - and he gave some interesting feedback on a variety of topics:

* for the "pitch", reams of paperwork / slides = bad; sit down with cool hardware = good
* teachers still developing their lesson plans are more apt to be receptive (and enthusiastic about the possibilities)
* Year 5 is a good target
* budget for a larger rollout won't be a problem, probably
* the new national cirriculum is like 5 pages long from hundreds of pages, so it leaves teachers with a large amount of leeway (good and bad)
* the new cirriculum has some significant emphasis on collaboration, which of course is a strength (...for XO/Sugar)
* the form factor - that kids can move the laptop around and/or use it in their own classroom, rather than an ICT room, is great - space for hardware is evidently a big limitation in a lot of schools (much more so than budget).


=== Colophon ===

[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-uk/2009-June/000149.html Original version] of these notes was sent to the olpc-uk mailing list.