OLPC New Zealand

There are several groups in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.

• [Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see WellyNZTesters)
• Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly .
• Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
• Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
• Translation to Maori
• Ian Thomson is the Oceania Project Coordinator

Watch the NZ video made by Spring TV Join our Facebook group

Come join us

To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz

Look at laptop.org.nz for current events in New Zealand.

Main contacts: Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Alastair

Upcoming Education and OLPC conference in Wellington New Zealand: /LCA2010 January 18th to 23rd 2010.

Wellington group

The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.

We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.

To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out the Cross

Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.

Auckland group

Meeting every second Saturday at 11:00 am at the Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road. Considering other venue options for other days as the testing group grows. Contact tabitha@tabitha.net.nz for more information.

Suz & Tamara Olliver are looking at creating an OLPC owners group to meet up in Auckland and Wellington to review progress, show off what we are doing, generally socialise and probably eat curry. Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us. Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. Watch the Video to see for yourself

Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ

Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City

Moodle Developers

A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.

At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)

What else is going on?

Tabitha has issued a Call For Papers for the education miniconf we're running at the LCA2010 conference mid January next year

• http://laptop.org.nz/content/miniconf

We're testing the full activity bundle for the upcoming Peru deployment

Some kind folks in Sydney are rounding up unused dust gathering XOs from the LCA2007 giveaway to ship to Wellington.

We are working on a translation to Maori in Pootle.

Who's got what

Where are the laptops?

Laptop	Who	Project
Laptop 1 (Karora)	Andrew McMillan	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 2 (Loco) CSN74701D32	Liz in Hamilton	XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 767, firmware Q2E18
Laptop 3 (Pyro) SHF8150259E	Alastair Munro	Testing 8.2.1, build 802B5, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC	Tabitha Roder	XO-1.0, Testing 0.82.1, build 802B1, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 5 (Shrek) SHF81502638	Jaco freakalad@gmail.com	Auckland group
Laptop 6 (Rocco) CSN7480015B	Bex	XO-1.0, Testing 8.21, build 767, firmware Q2E18
Laptop 7 (Moodle)	Fabiana	XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 8 (Josh) CSN749028BA	Steve Vincent, Tauranga	XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 9 (Tio) SHF7250080F	Callum and Brenda	XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 10 (Pogo) CSN74802463	Julian Carver, Christchurch	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 11 (Zephyr) SHF80802932	Julian Carver, Christchurch	Testing on....656
Laptop 12 (Rambo) CSN74802145	With Brenda	XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 13 (Mojo) CSN74701F41	Fabiana	XO-1.0, testing 0.82.1 build 802B1, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 14 (Twilight) CSN74804BF8	Bex	Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 15 (Monkey) CSN74804D7E	Bex	XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 16 (Ollie) SHC937010DB	Grant	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18
Laptop 17 (Shadow) SHC93701143	Alastair	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35
Laptop 18 (Aslan) SHC93701128	With Brenda	Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11
Laptop 19 (Poppy-Copy) SHC9370114B	Tabitha	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18
Laptop 20 (Camelot) SHC937010FF	Alastair	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35
Laptop (Pinchy)	David and Sigi	Testing 8.2-767 on own machine
Laptop 21 (Anna) CSN75000DC0	Tabitha	XO-1
Laptop 22 (Tux) CSN75002073	With Brenda	XO-1.0 testing on....
Laptop 23 (me) SHF7250056A	Tabitha
Laptop 24
Laptop 25 SHC0050090D	Bex
Laptop 26 SHC00500850	Bex
Laptop 27 SHC005008D1	Bex

Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about

We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to the WellyNZTesters page Also check out the laptop.org.nz site for our stories.

See us in action

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