Deployment Guide/deployment schedule

III. Sample Deployment Schedule

	Activity	Owner	Status/Next Steps
Preparation	Assemble team
	Define budget
	Define any unique deployment requirements
	Initial training sessions at OLPC
	Census
	Site survey
	Homologation, certification process
Day 0	Purchase order/Letter of credit issued
	Laptops ordered
	Servers, active antennae, power and connectivity equipment ordered
	Localization/translation begins
	Connectivity planning begins
	Pedagogical planning begins
	Community outreach begins
	Content planning begins
Day 30	Keyboard design delivered to factory
	Training manuals completed
	Local technical training begins
	Site preparation begins
Day 60	Teacher preparation begins
Day 90	Laptops delivered ex works
	Country software “image” completed
	Country content “image” completed (ebooks, etc.)
	Order of activities on tool bar completed
	Software QA begins
Day 120	Laptops arrive in country
Day 125	Laptops clear customs
	Inventory begins (including scanning process);
	Software update begins
	Activation keys generated
Day 135	Regional distribution begins
Day 150	Laptops begin arriving at schools
	IT infrastructure completed
	Activation process performed at schools
	Laptops distributed to teachers and children