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==Needs==
==Needs==
*ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
*ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
*READ: [http://en.flossmanuals.net/booksprints "how to conduct an effective book sprint"]
*Graphics Designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
*Graphics Designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
**Graphics Librarian to help organize key photos/illustrations from: http://flickr.com/olpc/sets
**Graphics Librarian to help organize key photos/illustrations from: http://flickr.com/olpc/sets

Revision as of 20:54, 16 August 2009

Teachers' Mini-Deployment Guide (Washington DC)
Green and white machine.jpg
Sept 6 Sunday: Dinner to meet fellow writers
Sept 7 Monday: Labor Day (no holiday for us!)
...
Sept 11 Friday: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)    
Come and join our Community Book Sprint!

The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a Mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced.This idea arose from our Support Gang volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there.

The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like:

Join a Historic Book Sprint

Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ lists.laptop.org explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :)

Possible Book Title

(Very Tentative)

20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers

Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them
 Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang

Needs

  • ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
  • READ: "how to conduct an effective book sprint"
  • Graphics Designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
  • Experienced:
    • Tech Writers
      • Tech to "Grannie" translators!
    • Copy Editors
    • Photographs, Illustrations & Screenshots!!
  • Blog to Invite DC and World
  • MONGO HAPPY NOW shirts for OLPC/Sugar proselytizers crafting miracles the world doesn't yet see
  • Draft Table of Contents
    • Map Representative Deployments (opening page of book?)
    • Key Community Success Stories Illustrated for diverse audiences (10p?)
    • Electricity, XO Hardware, Import/Legal Issues, Volunteer vs. Staff Teams, Finance, Sustainability (10p?)
    • Best Classroom Tricks & Tips using Sugar especially! (15p?)
    • Getting Started Guide for Absolute Beginners
  • Think like a Librarian?! Please help sort/aggregate Fantastic resources in preparation:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Deployment_Resources
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Resources
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Technical_Manual
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Workbook
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar
      http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/  Click around this colorful, well illustrated elementary ed. curriculum site from down under, for set up and organizational ideas.                    
       Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post)
       GuideXOGabon2.pdf Pedagogic Guide (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French, not yet published])
        Billy's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published)
  • Post-production (lulu.com sales, chapters that stand as PDF case studies, e-book for XO and beyond, etc)

Likely Attendees (identify topic you want to help with!)

Remote Attendees (identify topic you want to help with!)

Daytime/Workroom Venues

Currently under consideration:

Local Transportation and Navigation Aids

Parks & Recreation, Evening Tête-a-Têtes

Do suggest Great humble Restaurants & Evening Itineraries!

Accommodations

Until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:

Please Join Our Online Venues Today!


“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”— Antoine de Saint Exupery

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