OLPC:News/2008/Week 23: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 08:04, 7 June 2008

the week in review: Week 23, 2008^*
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opportunities, people, engagements

Francesca Slade has been here now for her second week, and has worked on setting up regular Open Jams (the first was last weekend; the second will take place tomorrow)
In the spirit of a weekly interview of an OLPC luminary, Andriani Ferti shared her thoughts on how she got involved with OLPC and her thoughts for the future

We are looking for likely community ambassadors to help smooth the growth of our developer and other communities.

projects, events, news, materials

Robertofaga has been working on an RPG-creation tutorial to go with his game creator.
Repair centers details have been cleaned up, thanks to much work by mchua, nlee, and ccarrick. A small repair center has been set up by mchua, and is being put to use and expanded Saturday afternoon during our weekly Open Jam, with help from femslade. The related Repair draft page is also useful for anyone planning such a center.
andreatl, nlee and ccarrick also worked on a set of five simple language-free repair photoesays for the most common DIY entries in the repair guide.
Help for content bundlers : a Content bundle making script was posted by mchua, and has been used by cjl, among others.

status, deadlines, assumptions, processes

Potential local trials : Cambridge Friends School Pilot
Local grassroots office updates : ILXO and ilxo.org. Work planned on XO Accessibility and other projects.
A rigorous application process for the grassroots bootcamp is proposed.

milestones, sequences, first and next

review, updates, analysis, feedback

Creation : A content workflow process is being written to match the practices of current contributors.

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 * Robertofaga has been working on an RPG-creation tutorial to go with his game creator.
-* [[Repair centers]] details have been cleaned up, thanks to much work by [[user:nlee|nlee]], [[user:andreatl|andreatl]], [[user:mchua|mchua]], and [[user:ccarrick|ccarrick]].  A small repair center has been set up by mchua, and is being put to use and expanded Saturday afternoon during our weekly [[Open Jam]], with help from [[user:femslade|femslade]].
+* [[Repair centers]] details have been cleaned up, thanks to much work by [[user:mchua|mchua]], [[user:nlee|nlee]], and [[user:ccarrick|ccarrick]].  A small repair center has been set up by mchua, and is being put to use and expanded Saturday afternoon during our weekly [[Open Jam]], with help from [[user:femslade|femslade]].  The related [[Repair draft]] page is also useful for anyone planning such a center.
+*: [[user:andreatl|andreatl]], [[user:nlee|nlee]] and [[use:ccarrick|ccarrick]] also worked on a set of five [[Repairs_cookbook#Simple_repairs|simple language-free repair photoesays]] for the most common DIY entries in the [[Repair|repair guide]].
 * Help for content bundlers : a [[Content bundle making script]] was posted by [[user:mchua|mchua]], and has been used by [[user:cjl|cjl]], among others.