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This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin college OLPC university chapter.


This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin College OLPC university chapter. [[User:Mchua/Braindumps/Wiki song|Please edit!]]
== Projects ==
Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for [[Developers program]] support (like XOs to use).


== Welcome!==
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The Olin College OLPC chapter is a student-run volunteer organization that works with Sugar Labs and OLPC. Our group is a mixed group of software and hardware engineer students, as well as people interested in curriculum design and technology-driven education. Our goals include learning and participating in a philanthropic cause as well as developing and exercising engineering and education skills


Our current (what exactly is our hierarchy? elsa fill me in here) [[User:Yifiy|yifiy]] 03:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
<tr>
<th>Project Name</th>
<th>Project Description</th>
<th>Professor</th>
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Materials needed</th>
<th>Additional Information</th>
</tr>
<!-- you can copy this template, and put it below -->
<tr>
<td>the title/name of your project</td>
<td>a basic description of your project</td>
<td>which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required)</td>
<td>your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account)</td>
<td>what do you need to do it?</td>
<td>anything else you want to say</td>
</tr>


== Meetings ==
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We have weekly meetings on Friday 3-5pm (Friday Service Time).


[[/archives | Meeting notes]]
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== Meeting notes ==
== Upcoming events ==
* Friday Oct. 2 - Meeting with CFS and Mission Hill teachers for activity bundle (include link to appropriate page here)


== Current big projects ==
Olin students visited the OLPC office on August 29, 2007. Here are the notes as transcribed from the board.
=== TurtleArt After School Program ===
We're developing a curriculum to teach various math and engineering concepts using Turtle Art. The program will run spring 2010 with 10 3rd-5th graders from the Needham area
Click here to visit the main [[Olin university chapter/Projects/Curriculum|Turtle Art After School Program]] page


=== Random ===
=== XOBot ===
A robot that can be controlled directly from Turtle Art.
Click here to visit the main [[Olin university chapter/Projects/XOBot|XOBot]] page


=== Repair Center ===
* Community service group led by Nikki
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_repair_center Olin Repair Center] page
* Mel is OLPC liason, will be on IRC (nick mchua) every Friday 3-5, and available through email.


=== Why University chapters are great ===
=== Cambridge Friends School/Mission Hill Deployment ===
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cambridge_Friends_School CFS deployment] page


=== Support Gang participation ===
* Cutting edge technology
* Variety of perspectives
** catching details
** more dedication
** more experience
* publicity
** awards


=== Standards ===
== Ideas for projects ==
(hey look, I'm so empty. how sad.)


== Past projects/events ==
* Financial independence
* Professional quality


(we should really link these to something at some point.)
=== Impact ===


* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GuruFest Gurufest]
What you do goes beyond your classroom walls - instead of making your
* Sugar on a stick
software design project available to... say, Allen Downey, you make it
* Programming Design Challenge
available to thousands of children. "You're going to do it anyway... why
* Olin/IMSA Intersession deployment at CFS
not release your work in a way that other people can benefit from it?"
* Olin Hackathon
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_Chapter_Jam_Boston Game Jam]


=== Continuity ===
== Helpful info ==
*[[/wikiarchive|Archival]]
* easier to make big things, long-term projects - can "pass it on" to
*[[/installation_guide|how to install images]]
later students
*[[/xos|how to get an xo]]
* "apprenticeships" with students learning from those with more experience
*[[/Software/PythonTutorial|python wiki]]
* transfer of information between colleges
* development communities keep people motivated


=== Networking ===
== Contact Information ==
* between schools
* between students at Olin
* between students and profs at Olin
* between Olin profs and profs from other schools
* between Olin students and students at other schools
* between all of the above and the free culture development community
=== What you can do ===
* development
** hardware
** software
** content
*** textbooks
*** pictures/art
*** curriculum
*** games
*** lessons
*** music
* translation
* outreach
** to local businesses
** give demos
** work with local kids
** to government
* research/IS/passionate pursuits
** in education
** in engineering
** in computer science
** in sociology...
** you want to do it, we'll find a way to make it happen


The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is [[User:estar|Elsa Culler]]. Contact her for general questions.
== Current tasklist ==


[[Category:College]]
Things to do or start on before next week's Friday meeting.
[[Category:XO User Group]]

=== General ===
* administrative support - serv/core/"hey president miller, dr m., et al, we're doing this!" (greg, ellen, andyp)
* outreach program - running demo requests (ollie, once Olin gets some XOs; ollie, ping mel when the XOs arrive)
* flash conference through ideatree (molly)
* wellesley liason - do they want to help? start their own chapter? (andyp)
* talk to professors about advising projects, helping out, and ''especially'' about allowing Olin students to do OLPC projects for course assignments
** POE (abarry)
** SCOPE - coordinate student interest in a team (sallen)
** ECS (steveo)
** ICB (velin & ollie)
** focs (yifan)
** wired ensemble (greg)
** analog digital (steveo)
** discrete (yifan)

=== Olin todo for OLPC ===
* apply to [[Developers program]] ([[user:nlee|Nikki]] coordinating)
* Olin chapter blog (kelliott coordinating)

=== OLPC todo for Olin ===
* development image (w/ Steveo)
* swag
* documentation (w/ Molly, Yifan, Sallen)
* "volunteer day" at the office
* spring OLPC conference w/ other area schools (later)
* university chapter blog (later)

Latest revision as of 19:10, 25 September 2010

This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin College OLPC university chapter. Please edit!

Welcome!

The Olin College OLPC chapter is a student-run volunteer organization that works with Sugar Labs and OLPC. Our group is a mixed group of software and hardware engineer students, as well as people interested in curriculum design and technology-driven education. Our goals include learning and participating in a philanthropic cause as well as developing and exercising engineering and education skills

Our current (what exactly is our hierarchy? elsa fill me in here) yifiy 03:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Meetings

We have weekly meetings on Friday 3-5pm (Friday Service Time).

Meeting notes

Upcoming events

  • Friday Oct. 2 - Meeting with CFS and Mission Hill teachers for activity bundle (include link to appropriate page here)

Current big projects

TurtleArt After School Program

We're developing a curriculum to teach various math and engineering concepts using Turtle Art. The program will run spring 2010 with 10 3rd-5th graders from the Needham area Click here to visit the main Turtle Art After School Program page

XOBot

A robot that can be controlled directly from Turtle Art. Click here to visit the main XOBot page

Repair Center

Click here to visit the main Olin Repair Center page

Cambridge Friends School/Mission Hill Deployment

Click here to visit the main CFS deployment page

Support Gang participation

Ideas for projects

(hey look, I'm so empty. how sad.)

Past projects/events

(we should really link these to something at some point.)

  • Gurufest
  • Sugar on a stick
  • Programming Design Challenge
  • Olin/IMSA Intersession deployment at CFS
  • Olin Hackathon
  • Game Jam

Helpful info

Contact Information

The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is Elsa Culler. Contact her for general questions.

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