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* FINALLY got housing for ILXOers, they moved in, this took all morning. WILL NEVER SPEND THAT MUCH TIME ON HOUSING AGAIN. Dealing with landlords is ''incredibly'' inefficient.
* FINALLY got housing for ILXOers, they moved in, this took all morning. WILL NEVER SPEND THAT MUCH TIME ON HOUSING AGAIN. Dealing with landlords is ''incredibly'' inefficient.
* Made a set of USB keys for quickie keyboard reflashing
* ILXOers are now on support-gang
* ILXOers trained for demos
* Reflashed, installed, and tested 13 of 15 laptops for tomorrow (the remaining 2 are with Eben for Sugar-2 demos and we couldn't get to them tonight)
* Dismantled parts for the "disassembly table" and prepped ''those'' for tomorrow
* Bucketloads of ILXO coordination - staff/volunteers/projects, website


== tuesday ==
== tuesday ==


* MASSIVE DEMOS AT THE MEDIA LAB HURRAH ALL DAY
DEMO DAY HURRAH
** Disassembly/repair table a [http://blog.melchua.com/2008/05/20/presentations-at-the-media-lab-today/ special hit]

== wednesday ==

* got a crash course on development / getting funding / negotiations
* started [http://blog.melchua.com/2008/05/21/looking-for-successors/ looking for successors] for jams, uni programs
* got andrea started on ILXO website
* taught all the ILXOers python. in an hour. they are amazing.

== thursday ==

* running around helping attendees use their XOs
* attended Kim's roadmap talk and Wad's repair talk - transcribed the latter
* LOCATION FOR GRASSROOTS JAM SECURED HURRAH!
* dev program spreadsheets SUCH FUN OH JOY (I have a lot of respect for the patience data entry jobs require; I don't have it.)

== friday ==

* Chris Carrick has agreed to run this round of Summer of Content. Hurrah!
* Sent out spares & repairs survey for Kim & Adam to get a gauge of the community need for parts
* Reserved truck for ILXO relocation - grr
* Spent way too long manually entering shipping data into a spreadsheet so people in the developers' program can get their machines. This needs to be automated, darn it.
* ILXO website launched - all thanks to Tank, Nikki, and Chris! http://ilxo.org
* call mnn for grassroots jam location finalizing - we're at midnight networks, sweet. [[Grassroots Jam]] has details.
* insightful and fruitful weekend spent with learning club dc - need to write up all the results still

Latest revision as of 16:01, 20 December 2009

monday

  • FINALLY got housing for ILXOers, they moved in, this took all morning. WILL NEVER SPEND THAT MUCH TIME ON HOUSING AGAIN. Dealing with landlords is incredibly inefficient.
  • Made a set of USB keys for quickie keyboard reflashing
  • ILXOers are now on support-gang
  • ILXOers trained for demos
  • Reflashed, installed, and tested 13 of 15 laptops for tomorrow (the remaining 2 are with Eben for Sugar-2 demos and we couldn't get to them tonight)
  • Dismantled parts for the "disassembly table" and prepped those for tomorrow
  • Bucketloads of ILXO coordination - staff/volunteers/projects, website

tuesday

  • MASSIVE DEMOS AT THE MEDIA LAB HURRAH ALL DAY

wednesday

  • got a crash course on development / getting funding / negotiations
  • started looking for successors for jams, uni programs
  • got andrea started on ILXO website
  • taught all the ILXOers python. in an hour. they are amazing.

thursday

  • running around helping attendees use their XOs
  • attended Kim's roadmap talk and Wad's repair talk - transcribed the latter
  • LOCATION FOR GRASSROOTS JAM SECURED HURRAH!
  • dev program spreadsheets SUCH FUN OH JOY (I have a lot of respect for the patience data entry jobs require; I don't have it.)

friday

  • Chris Carrick has agreed to run this round of Summer of Content. Hurrah!
  • Sent out spares & repairs survey for Kim & Adam to get a gauge of the community need for parts
  • Reserved truck for ILXO relocation - grr
  • Spent way too long manually entering shipping data into a spreadsheet so people in the developers' program can get their machines. This needs to be automated, darn it.
  • ILXO website launched - all thanks to Tank, Nikki, and Chris! http://ilxo.org
  • call mnn for grassroots jam location finalizing - we're at midnight networks, sweet. Grassroots Jam has details.
  • insightful and fruitful weekend spent with learning club dc - need to write up all the results still
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