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===1. Project Title & Shipment Detail===
<center><span style="font-size:200%">OLPC Bavaria Library</span></center>
:'''Name of Project: ([[Projects|WEB-PUBLISHED]])'''
:'''Shipping Address You've Verified:'''
::* IS [http://fedex.com FEDEX] AND [http://ups.com UPS] SHIPPABLE (NO POST OFFICE BOXES)
::* INCLUDES A PHONE NUMBER
::* CONTAINS TEAM LEADER'S LEGAL NAME
:'''Number of Laptops (or other hardware) You Request to Borrow:'''
:'''Loan Length&mdash;How Many Months:'''
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===2. Team Participants===
:'''Name(s) & Contact Info: (include all email addresses & phone numbers)'''
::''Teams of more than 1 person are not required, but favored!''
:'''Employer and/or School:'''
:'''Past Experience/Qualifications:'''
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===3. Objectives===
:'''Project Objectives: ([[Projects|WEB-PUBLISHED]])
::''Concrete proposals with defined, measurable outcomes are much more likely to result in a laptop than "it would be cool to play with these and demo them".''
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* what is your active library URL? This should be a page describing what you have in mind, what you hope to receive, and who is organizing the program.
* spell out policy mechanics of loans/returns: EG. mail order? in-person? monthly meetings? other?
* spell out how you (and your library "clientele") will [[Contributors_program/Project_proposal_form|Give Back]] to the OLPC/Sugar community
* what is the long-term plan for the library? who will coordinate your library if you move on?
* how will you report statistical patterns on lending/recirculation trends (important: to help all laptop libraries worldwide!)


== Introduction ==
* demonstrate detail-oriented [http://librarian.net librarian] skills; articulating how laptops will continually recirculate & new projects seeded & fertilized
* what innovative techniques do you have to spur on local projects? demonstrate outreach & buzz-creating acumen!
* describe the team of people helping you and/or your institutional backing
* have you reached out to other [[Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries|XO Libraries]] and [[Groups]] to learn what works and doesn't?
* are you the kind of person that might later [[Support Gang|Mentor]] other library entrepreneurs?
* what is your personal long-term plan; what will you get out of this?
[[Category:XO Lending Libraries]]


This is a [[Lending Library]] beta test (main contact person is [[User:kadia|Kadia Meckes]]).
===4. Plan of Action===
:'''Plan and Procedure for Achieving the Stated Objectives:'''
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===5. Needs===
:'''Why is this project needed?'''
:'''Locally?'''
:'''In the greater OLPC/Sugar community?'''
:'''Outside the community?'''
:'''Why can't this project be done [[Emulating_the_XO|in emulation]] using non-XO machines?'''
:'''Why are you requesting the number of machines you are asking for?'''
::''Will you consider (1) salvaged/rebuilt or (2) damaged XO Laptops?''
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===6. Sharing Deliverables===
:'''Project URL:'''
::''Please web-publish this entire completed proposal, removing any sections affecting your personal privacy. Ask if you want help!''
:'''How will you convey tentative ideas & results back to the OLPC/Sugar community, prior to completion?'''
:'''How will the final fruits of your labor be distributed to children or community members worldwide?'''
:'''Will your work have any possible application or use outside our community?'''
::''If yes, how will these people be reached?''
:'''Have you investigated working with nearby [[Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries|XO Lending Libraries]] or [[Groups|Project Groups]]?'''
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== Process ==
===7. Quality/Mentoring===

:'''Would your Project benefit from Support, Documentation and/or Testing people?'''

:'''Teachers' input into Usability?'''
* Find "mitstreiter" for the project. Lend the laptop to different people for testing purposes and to make it more public
:'''How will you promote your work?'''
* Ask the tester what experiences they have with the online documentation, if it is understandable or not
:'''Can we help you with an experienced mentor from the OLPC/Sugar community? ([[Projects|WEB-PUBLISHED]])'''
* Improve the customer documentation and translate it into German language.
::''If YES: specify the kind of Ongoing Mentoring that will benefit you most.''
* Lend laptops for testing purposes
::''If NO: specify who will help you share your progress, creations & results.''
* Improve the customer documentation and translate new elements into German.
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* Review the current process and define the next steps and milestones.
===8. Timeline (Start to Finish)===

:'''Please include a Proposed timeline for your Project life-cycle: (this can be in the form of Month 1, Month 2, etc rather than specific dates)
== Lending Library members ==
::''Include a couple milestones, even if tentative.

:'''Specify how you prefer to communicate your ongoing progress and obstacles!
=== Contacts ===
::''[ ] I agree to pass on the laptop(s) to a local OLPC group or other interested contributors in case I do not have need for the laptop(s) anymore or in case my project progress stalls.''

* [[User:kadia|Kadia Meckes]]

=== General members ===

* Denise Thiele
* [[User:dogi|Stefan Unterhauser]]
* Veronika Claeys
* Olga Sidorova

== Project ==

=== German Manual ===

Translate the English manuals into an understandable German version.
See how the look and feel of the laptop is and how to provide more
useful online help about the laptop for different target groups (e.g.
developer, child, teacher, other people...)
Test the help and search in order to improve its potential
The idea of OLPC is good. To see what potential is possible in
technical writer environment, I will have a look on the system,
depending on my daily work. I do know the how to write useful help texts for users.

=== Bayern for Brasil ===

[http://www.rua-ev.de/ RUA] is an Organisation which is has been helping streetkids
in Brasil for more then 10 years with food and education.
Therefore we will help them in setting up a little pilot and fundraising site
for them.

[[Category:Lending Library]]
[[Category:Europe]]

Latest revision as of 23:41, 15 March 2010

Olpc logo.jpg
OLPC Bavaria Library

Introduction

This is a Lending Library beta test (main contact person is Kadia Meckes).

Process

  • Find "mitstreiter" for the project. Lend the laptop to different people for testing purposes and to make it more public
  • Ask the tester what experiences they have with the online documentation, if it is understandable or not
  • Improve the customer documentation and translate it into German language.
  • Lend laptops for testing purposes
  • Improve the customer documentation and translate new elements into German.
  • Review the current process and define the next steps and milestones.

Lending Library members

Contacts

General members

Project

German Manual

Translate the English manuals into an understandable German version. See how the look and feel of the laptop is and how to provide more useful online help about the laptop for different target groups (e.g. developer, child, teacher, other people...) Test the help and search in order to improve its potential The idea of OLPC is good. To see what potential is possible in technical writer environment, I will have a look on the system, depending on my daily work. I do know the how to write useful help texts for users.

Bayern for Brasil

RUA is an Organisation which is has been helping streetkids in Brasil for more then 10 years with food and education. Therefore we will help them in setting up a little pilot and fundraising site for them.

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