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These are ongoing projects. For a more immediate slice of what I'm working on, see [[User:Mchua/Weekly updates]].
These are ongoing projects. For a more immediate slice of what I'm working on, go [http://blog.melchua.com/category/olpc/ here].


== Present ==
* Writing [[Developer tutorials]] for various parts of the stack.
* Rewriting the [[Accessibility]] portal, followed by [[Internships]], [[Summer of Content]], [[Peripherals]], [[Health]], [[University program]], [[Review squad]], and a refactor of [[OLPC Chicago]].
* Compiling material for the first edition of the [[Weekly zine]] (particularly Education/Research materials).
* Getting up to speed on [[TeleHealth Hardware]] in the hopes of getting equipment to prototype with soon.
* Working on [[Support gang]]
* Laying the groundwork for a full-time OLPC office in Chicago this summer.


The line between what I do for work and what I do in my "spare time" as a community volunteer is occasionally blurry, but in general...
* '''Jams'''
:* Working on resources and a framework for future content [[Jams]] of different types. Writing the woefully neglected [[How To Run A Jam]] cookbook.
:* [[Health Jam]] - Seattle, spring 2008
:* [[Game Jam Chicago]] - summer 2008


=== Work ===
* '''Testing'''
:* Starting a program for [[Review squad|Review squads]] of young testers and teachers to give feedback on our content. Now recruiting.
:* Learning-by-documenting with [[Test issues]] (creating portal at [[Community Test]])
:* Battery testing under different conditions - see [[Battery Results]]
:* [[Update.1]] testing (with the intent of creating a walkthrough for testing future builds)
:* [[Tests/Suspend Resume]] - add directions
:* [[Test Group Release Notes]] - restructuring, making easier to navigate
:* Clarifying different upgrade/activation paths and what they do. See [http://laptop.org/teamwiki/index.php/Team:Main_Page#How_to_change_Manufacturing_data changing mfg data.]
:* Alpha-testing and documenting [[Test automation]] by Mitchell, see [[X Window System event scripting]] and [http://dev.laptop.org/~mncharity/olpc_xo_qemu/ code here] - intended first application is school server load testing (Australia?)


* [[OLPC deployment system]]
* '''Wiki cleanup'''
* [[Test harnesses]]
:* '''Metacontent''' - [[Finding information]] can be tricky. Let's try to fix that.
* [[Testing]]
:* ''Metapresentations'' - Compiling a review/summary of presentations on [[Laptop demonstrations]] and [[Presentations]]. ''Can you help?''
:* ''Metawiki'' - Doing clean-up as per the [[Style guide]] whenever I can
:* Being a sort of wiki welcome wagon and helping out newcomers. Let me know if you're interested; we could always use more people to help show newbies around.


=== Volunteer ===
* '''Grassroots groups I'm actively involved in'''
:* [[OLPC Philippines]]
:* [[OLPC Indonesia]]
:* [[OLPC Taiwan]]


* [[Infrastructure gang]]
* '''School chapters I actively mentor'''
:* [[Olin university chapter]]
* [[Support gang]]
* [[University chapters]]
:* [[Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter]].
* Upcoming Boston-area pilot school, scheduled for deployment in Jan 2009.


== Past ==
* '''Wiki pages I created/maintain'''
:* [[Participate]]
:* [[Wiki getting started]]
:* [[Wiki cleanup]]
:* [[Style guide]] (Actually started by SJ in response to my newbie wiki mistakes.)
:* [[How laptop delivery works]] and [[How laptop delivery breaks]]
:* See my [[Special:Contributions/Mchua|Contributions]] for more.


Many of the things I do aren't listed here. I tend to wander around the community nudging grassroots stuff into existence and just don't bother writing much of what I do down, mainly because I haven't figured out how to do it in a way that doesn't take up time I could be spending doing More Work. As [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] said, my outputs tend to be the fact that other people are producing output.
== Back burner ==


* [[Special:Contributions/Mchua|View all my wiki edits]]
* Developing the [http://wikieducator.org/Summer_Of_Content_Funding_Proposal Summer of Content] program, which had a [[Summer of Content 2007|summer 2007 pilot]] and needs to be picked up again when everyone has time. Also see [[Summer of Content]].
* Was one of the coordinators of the first OLPC Game Jam (and indeed, the first OLPC Jam), [[Game Jam Boston June 2007]]. We even [http://www.archive.org/details/TheNeedhamChannel_OLPCGameJamBroadcast2007 got on TV].
* Together with Andy Pethan, I am working on the design of [[Bounties for awesome]], a system of collecting open content problems, encouraging work on them, and moderating rewards for progress on their solutions. Not entirely OLPC-related, though.
* Helped out at [[Free Content Jam Taipei]] and represented OLPC at [[Wikimania]], including (loosely) staffing the "XO station"
* The [[Classrooms for Free Culture]] project would be a good follow-up to [[University program]].
* Co-ran a week-long OLPC project camp with [[User:ScottSwanson|Scott Swanson]] at [[Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter|IMSA]] in Jan. 2008
* Make an .xo package of Mutt for [[Email]]? Maybe with the zenburn theme.
* "Unofficial cat-herder" (read: instigator) of the first [[OLPC Chicago]] meetup at Google Chicago in Jan. 2008.
* A photo tutorial of XO disassembly - [http://flickr.com/photos/sethwoodworth/sets/72157603519282789/ Seth's pictures] are a good resource.
* Was at the [[Olin university chapter/hackathon|Olin hackathon]] in Needham, MA on Feb. 16, 2008
* OLPC-related research could be aggregated using http://researchblogging.org and other tools - or a similar system might be a good way for students to collaborate on documents, perhaps?
* Was at the [[NYU OLPC Jam]] on Feb. 23, 2008, but spent most of it working on open-source fabrication with Smari, although some hacking on XOs did get done.
* Co-coordinated the [[Story Jam New York]] in Manhattan, March 28-30 2008. The ambassador from Ecuador even came to record stories!
* Co-coordinated the [[Health Jam]] - University of Washington, April 18-20 2008. There was an [http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/4/23/nonprofit-group-visits-campus-hopes-give-one-lapto/ article] in the student paper about the event.
* [http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ Linuxfest Northwest] - ran the OLPC track with [[User:Ixo|Iain Davidson]]. He took [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mynaitconsulting/collections/72157604885287336/ photos!]
* Participated in the [[Community Jam]] in Cambridge, MA at the Cambridge Science Festival. Edward Freedman and Pat Greninger organized the event, and Diane Serley led a disassembly party.
* [[SimpleRPG]]
* [[Larry]]
* [[Power activity]]
* [[Activities trac]]
* [[Jam kit]] and [[Jam cookbook]]
* [[Cambridge repair center]]
* [[Serial adapters]]
* [[Grassroots bootcamp]]
* [[ILXO]]
* [[XO Accessibility]]
* [[Pilot proposal process]]
* [[Community liason]]
* [[User:Mchua/Braindumps/Community_program|Community program]]
* [[Review squad]] - [[User:Jonahsaltzman|Jonah Saltzman]] and Aiury Cavallo
* [[Repair centers]] - gathering data




== Potential ==

== Someday ==


Projects and ideas I'd ''like'' to do, or see done, but haven't committed to yet. Usually the missing part is a collaborator, knowledge, resources, or just plain old activation energy and free time. If you'd like to take one of these projects (the important thing is that they happen, not ''who'' makes them happen), collaborate with me on any of them, offer support, or just talk and brainstorm about related ideas, please [[User:Mchua#Contact|contact me]].
Projects and ideas I'd ''like'' to do, or see done, but haven't committed to yet. Usually the missing part is a collaborator, knowledge, resources, or just plain old activation energy and free time. If you'd like to take one of these projects (the important thing is that they happen, not ''who'' makes them happen), collaborate with me on any of them, offer support, or just talk and brainstorm about related ideas, please [[User:Mchua#Contact|contact me]].


=== Code ===
* OLPC webcomic

* Rosetta Stone clone in Pygame (Update: An [[IMSA]] student is now doing this as her research project.)
* Rosetta Stone clone in Pygame (Update: An [[IMSA]] student is now doing this as her research project.)

* Front-end for music composition (GUI for Lilypond? Something to translate between TamTam and Lilypond?)
=== Hardware ===

* "Heathkit" style build-your-own peripheral kits for the XO (solder your own gamepad, etc)
* "Heathkit" style build-your-own peripheral kits for the XO (solder your own gamepad, etc)
* Intro to electrical engineering through taking apart & developing for the XO
* Intro to electrical engineering through taking apart & developing for the XO
* Developing the [http://wikieducator.org/Summer_Of_Content_Funding_Proposal Summer of Content] program, which had a [[Summer of Content 2007|summer 2007 pilot]] and needs to be picked up again when everyone has time. Also see [[Summer of Content]].
* [[Ad Libris]], a lightweight metadata structure spec for the [[Library]]. (Update: This ''may'' have been taken up by OLE Nepal, but I can't tell from their descriptions yet.)


== Past ==
=== Programs ===

* Was one of the coordinators of the first OLPC Game Jam (and indeed, the first OLPC Jam), [[Game Jam Boston June 2007]]. We even [http://www.archive.org/details/TheNeedhamChannel_OLPCGameJamBroadcast2007 got on TV].
* [[Bounties for awesome]], a system of collecting open content problems, encouraging work on them, and moderating rewards for progress on their solutions. Not entirely OLPC-related, though.
* Helped out at [[Free Content Jam Taipei]] and represented OLPC at [[Wikimania]], including (loosely) staffing the "XO station"
* The [[Classrooms for Free Culture]] project would be a good follow-up to [[University program]].
* Co-ran a week-long OLPC project camp with [[User:ScottSwanson|Scott Swanson]] at [[Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter|IMSA]] in Jan. 2008
* We need to get more reports back from pilot schools. OLPC-related research could be aggregated using http://researchblogging.org and other tools - or a similar system might be a good way for students to collaborate on documents. "Best-documented school" contest?
* "Unofficial cat-herder" (read: instigator) of the first [[OLPC Chicago]] meetup at Google Chicago in Jan. 2008.
* [[Review squad]]
* Was at the [[Olin university chapter/hackathon|Olin hackathon]] in Needham, MA on Feb. 16, 2008

* Was at the [[NYU OLPC Jam]] on Feb. 23, 2008, but spent most of it working on open-source fabrication with Smari, although some hacking on XOs did get done.
=== Resources ===
* Co-coordinated the [[Story Jam New York]] in Manhattan, March 28-30 2008. The ambassador from Ecuador even came to record stories!

* Co-coordinated the [[Health Jam]] - University of Washington, April 18-20 2008. There was an [http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/4/23/nonprofit-group-visits-campus-hopes-give-one-lapto/ article] in the student paper about the event.
* [[Developer tutorials]]
* [http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ Linuxfest Northwest] - ran the OLPC track with [[User:Ixo|Iain Davidson]].
* Writing the woefully neglected [[How To Run A Jam]] cookbook.
* Learning-by-documenting with [[Test issues]] (creating portal at [[Community Test]])
* Battery testing under different conditions - see [[Battery Results]]
* [[Update.1]] testing (with the intent of creating a walkthrough for testing future builds)
* [[Tests/Suspend Resume]] - add directions
* [[Test Group Release Notes]] - restructuring, making easier to navigate
* Clarifying different upgrade/activation paths and what they do. See [http://laptop.org/teamwiki/index.php/Team:Main_Page#How_to_change_Manufacturing_data changing mfg data.]
* Alpha-testing and documenting [[Test automation]] by Mitchell, see [[X Window System event scripting]] and [http://dev.laptop.org/~mncharity/olpc_xo_qemu/ code here] - intended first application is school server load testing (Australia?)
* [[Finding information]] can be tricky. Let's try to fix that.
* Compiling a review/summary of presentations on [[Laptop demonstrations]] and [[Presentations]], including some good templates and resources that presenters can customize.
* make wiki templates for grassroots groups, uni chapters, projects - send to [[User:Arjs|Arjun]]
* Rewriting the [[Accessibility]] portal, followed by [[Internships]], [[Summer of Content]], [[Peripherals]], [[Health]], [[University program]], [[Review squad]], and a refactor of [[OLPC Chicago]].
* [[Participate]]
* [[Wiki getting started]]
* [[Wiki cleanup]]
* [[Style guide]]

Latest revision as of 16:01, 20 December 2009

These are ongoing projects. For a more immediate slice of what I'm working on, go here.

Present

The line between what I do for work and what I do in my "spare time" as a community volunteer is occasionally blurry, but in general...

Work

Volunteer

Past

Many of the things I do aren't listed here. I tend to wander around the community nudging grassroots stuff into existence and just don't bother writing much of what I do down, mainly because I haven't figured out how to do it in a way that doesn't take up time I could be spending doing More Work. As Seth said, my outputs tend to be the fact that other people are producing output.


Potential

Projects and ideas I'd like to do, or see done, but haven't committed to yet. Usually the missing part is a collaborator, knowledge, resources, or just plain old activation energy and free time. If you'd like to take one of these projects (the important thing is that they happen, not who makes them happen), collaborate with me on any of them, offer support, or just talk and brainstorm about related ideas, please contact me.

Code

  • Rosetta Stone clone in Pygame (Update: An IMSA student is now doing this as her research project.)

Hardware

  • "Heathkit" style build-your-own peripheral kits for the XO (solder your own gamepad, etc)
  • Intro to electrical engineering through taking apart & developing for the XO
  • Developing the Summer of Content program, which had a summer 2007 pilot and needs to be picked up again when everyone has time. Also see Summer of Content.

Programs

  • Bounties for awesome, a system of collecting open content problems, encouraging work on them, and moderating rewards for progress on their solutions. Not entirely OLPC-related, though.
  • The Classrooms for Free Culture project would be a good follow-up to University program.
  • We need to get more reports back from pilot schools. OLPC-related research could be aggregated using http://researchblogging.org and other tools - or a similar system might be a good way for students to collaborate on documents. "Best-documented school" contest?
  • Review squad

Resources

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