Olin university chapter/hackathon

Website

External site is at repairkid.com Internal site is connected to this wiki (not yet generated)

The Event

Modules

• Education
  • Ken Hawes (Wellesley Education prof) leading discussion on learning with technology and self directed learning

• Usability and Design
  • Stein
  • Jadud
  • IDEO/Continuum?
  • Linder/Eris/MurMiranda?

• Power Generation
  • Carrick
  • MechE prof?

• Open Source Software
  • Downey - short lecture with a discussion to follow about open source software development
  • Jadud - Short presentation regarding tools, infrastructure, and (most importantly) "social infrastructure" of open-source development. Will reference experience working on the Transterpreter project.

• Social Entrepreneurship - a discussion on new distribution models for OLPC
  • Manu?
  • Bourne?
  • Shiffman?
  • Gold?

• Impact
  • Mel Chua leading a discussion on global effect of OLPC, along with the complete industry growing around it

• Materials Testing
  • Jon Stolk? - ripping apart the XO and taking it to the limit

Schedule of Events

Event starts at noon on Saturday, Feb 16, the first day of a 3 day weekend at Olin.

• 12:00 - 5:30pm: Structured lectures and discussions going on, participants come and go freely or do independent/small group projects
• 5:30 - 6:30pm: Round 1 presentations of projects and progress
• 10:30 - 11:00pm: Round 2 presentations
• 6am - everyone is kicked out

People to Invite as Participants

• Ken's Wellesley education students
• OLPC interns, grassroots list
• Publicize at Babson, primarily in Social E! class
• Publicize at Olin
• Email all students, faculty, listserve at Olin (faculty can bring their kids too!)
• Ritter and a few hand picked friends (not a list spam) from MIT
• Olin community invite to bring along friends from off campus

Interested Speakers and Special Guests

• Allen Downey - doing a talk on open source software dev
• Lynn Stein - (maybe HFID talk)
• Ken Hawes on things to consider in designing a curriculum
• Mel Chua leading a brainstorm room(s), may not be there until 130
• (maybe Rob Martello) - chat on tech transfer re: OLPC
• (maybe Caslin / SEM guy) - social entrepreneurship models of distribution
• Matt Jadud
• Jon Stolk

Problem Tasks to Work On

• Emulation package for PC and MAC networks, especially schools
• Talk to Nikki and SJ for bug list of software flaws to be resolved
• Make B1 and B2's work with recent builds.

To do

Andy

• Delegate the generation of handouts for people as they show up and leave, also planning of welcome booth (email sign-up, etc)
• Ad-Astra rooms in dhall area
• Talk to Rob M about doing a talk on tech transfer between cultures and design considerations for OLPC software
• Connect with Arjun and Manu in particular, Yani and Andriani, Jessica and Chih-yu about coming
• Email Mel a forwardable letter for Continuum
• Find and email Richard Freeland (former president of Northeastern University, something to do with the Graduate School of Education at Harvard this year) recommended by Rod
• Email Lauren (Guatemala girl) about BC email lists for OLPC like things
• Make website with Ollie
• SENT - Talk to Nick Tatar about a big conf with off campus guests Feb 16
• SENT - Follow up with Chris C about his Friday conference and about his plans for his power generation section
• SENT - Talk to SJ at 1cc Friday to get education people, OLPC people, get XOs for Feb 16
• DONE - ALSO - ask him to champion open source stuff (talk to Allen Downey to be the “champion” of open source)
• DONE - Talk to Stolk (after Ollie does on Friday in class)
• DONE – Email Rod about Ted Sizer talking and speaking - no can do. He recommends Stolk.
• DONE - Email Ritter about MIT people for an OLPC day
• DONE - Email Lynn Stein about her coming as an HFID designer and programmer and pass on to Harvard lists
• DONE - Email Ken Hawes about him and Wellesley education students coming

Ollie

• Done, Follow Up in ProgressTalk to Blinder/Ozgur/Oscar about coming as design guys, also which student could champion it
• Olin faculty recruitment – targeting talking and mass email
• Done 8x11 small poster
• Table tents for dining hall
• Big poster for dining hall
• Talk it up amongst the frosh before plans are made to leave for the 3 day weekend
• Bring it up in Babson Social E! class, bring Caslin and Charles?
• Do website with Andy, also do an internal site for participants on the day of to have access to useful wiki links and such
• Done SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
• DoneTalk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours

Nikki

• DONE - Email Matt Jadud – tell him the plan and get him to recruit and come too
• DONE - Email Mel and keep her up to date with plan and seek advice and contacts, other OLPC groups?
• Get XOs to develop on (note that Andy is already emailing SJ, Nikki is CC’d)
• Build up support within OLPC chapter members at Olin and thru SJ in the greater Boston area

Yifan

• Need Tax ID Call panara and peets coffee to ask for free stuff feb 16 around noon.
• Works for Windows, painful. Still trying for Fedora Create a simple procedure for porting programs from PC to OLPC and testing
• Acquire supplies for free, make shopping list of the rest for Andy

Day of Logistics

• Create a schedule with time slots and rooms for speakers/discussions/brainstorming,

• Nametags (bright ones for "leaders")
• Pizza and beverage
• Power strips and extension cords (talk to logan)
• Ethernet and WEP keys printed
• Whiteboards (steal morning of)
• Dry erase markers (steal morning of)
• Normal markers and paper and design materials
• Post its

(more suggested:)

• flash drives
• projector checked out and working