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There is no OLPC UK repair centre yet, but there are plans to start one under the OLPC UK umbrella.
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== Vision ==
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== Objectives ==
The repair centre will serve both to:


The combined Lending Library / Repair Centre serves to:
1. facilitate XO repairs as a volunteer effort; and
2. serve as a local, grassroots centre of excellence resource for OLPC / Education communities in the UK


* support the OLPC mission and community via lending out laptops to UK volunteers / contributors; and
== Proposal ==


* facilitate with space, materiel, and expertise XO repairs by volunteers; and
We're applying for some used hardware:


* encourage, enable, and support Contributor Program applicants from the UK.
>> * What you want, exactly how many of each


We see the Lending Library and Repair Centre concepts as symbiotic and synergistic: the same set of hardware and volunteers can both encourage the OLPC mission and supply a volunteer-run Repair Centre. For more specifics, read on.
1) 10 D stock (would accept less)
2) 20 M stock (would accept less)
2) 35 chargers (would accept less)


== How do I get a Laptop? ==
>> how you intend to use them.


* Just ask. If there's one free we'll lend it to you (within reason). Email olpc-uk@lists.laptop.org and say "I would like to borrow a laptop for X months to do Y thing".
We intend to use them to:


== Now that I've got a Laptop, what do I do? ==
1) D stock: repair them and 1) set up a Lending Library of laptops for
OLPC-UK members / community; 2) generate enough interest and proven
contributions to justify a Contributors Program application by OLPC-UK
members / community.


* See the Sugar Labs [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved Getting Involved page].
2) M stock: use for a UK repair centre / Lending Library


* Some activity development FAQs: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac
3) Chargers: use to supplement the Lending Library / repair centre


* Ideas - Get excited about something to implement; [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Project_Ideas some existing project ideas].
== Initial feedback ==


* Community
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** Sign up to the olpc-uk list ( http://lists.laptop.org )
** Sign up to the sugar-devel list ( http://lists.sugarlabs.org )
** Use irssi or another IRC client to get on to irc.freenode.net channels #sugar and #olpc to chat with other developers.
** Both OLPC and Sugar Labs will give you shell accounts and git hosting space ( http://git.sugarlabs.org and http://dev.laptop.org/git ). Check IRC (below) for contacts or google/wiki for how to do that.


* Get accounts on:
18:37 < mtd> CanoeBerry: I'd ask for feedback on my email, but as I've only
** wiki.laptop.org
sent it recently it's unfair. Will you consider giving such
** wiki.sugarlabs.org
feedback if you have time, later?
** dev.laptop.org
18:37 < CanoeBerry> bz_g: yes I have Lionel's proposal for a sizable amount of
** dev.sugarlabs.org
used hardware, thanks! OLPC France is doing really great

work.
== What do we do? ==
18:37 < CanoeBerry> mtd: definitely today

18:37 < mtd> CanoeBerry: thanks
Some examples of how the LLLL / Repair Centre could help:
18:39 < CanoeBerry> mtd: can you explain a bit more about your UK plans, and

how you will grow your group? Only if you have a sec. 30
=== LLLL ===
used/broken laptops is a large amount (France similar) but

I will definitely consider it if you make your case!
* UK professor interested in prototyping a contributors program application
18:39 < CanoeBerry> Alabama is asking for even more :)

18:40 < mtd> CanoeBerry: OLPC UK is targeting a pilot of 30 laptops in a
A professor (or Linux User Group or...) might be considering a contributors program application but hesitant to commit the time / effort. The LLLL could bootstrap this effort with a loan of two (2) XOs for 1-3 months and two part-time mentors, in order to guide the professor and students towards a first prototype activity and a full Contributors Program application.
school in London in September. This is aggressive but we have

funding and initial buy-in from the headmistress...
* OLPC UK member organises teachers mini ContentCamp
18:40 < mtd> CanoeBerry: This proposal is *not* for hardware for that pilot...

18:41 < Caryl> We would all love to start pilots somewhere with D&M stock.
XOs might be lent to ContentCamp organisers to supplement a majority of sugar-jhbuild / Sugar-on-a-Stick instances to give teachers a hands-on sense of the deployment scenario, and enable testing the content on "real" XOs. As mentioned in the OLPC UK LLLL FAQ, with OLPC and Sugar Labs encouraging software development that makes use of the unique OLPC hardware, what's lacking often is a sense of what exists and what incremental developments are best (witness some of the GSoC proposals that start off very rough even after a motivated student has gotten so far as to reach out and get involved)
There aren't enough to go around. Not the best use.

18:41 < mtd> CanoeBerry: ...but in order to build community for that project I
* OLPC UK publicity efforts
thought a lending library would be something people could get

into on a volunteer basis, and hopefully that would lead to more
OLPC UK can enable "XO demos" at conferences / LUGs without having to rely on the same volunteers giving up their laptops.
involvement both in OLPC-UK and in the pilot programs.

18:41 < mtd> Caryl: This proposal is *not* for hardware for that pilot...
* OLPC UK member wants an XO to look cool
18:41 < mtd> Caryl: I want to make that clear.

18:42 < CanoeBerry> mtd: are you coordinating with dsd?
This is not a good enough reason to lend out an XO.
18:42 < mtd> CanoeBerry: I chatted with him yestrday, but before I saw the

used hardware email.

18:42 < mtd> CanoeBerry: I'd be happy to work through him if that'd be esasier.
=== Repair Centre ===
18:42 < mtd> CanoeBerry: he is involved in the OLPC-UK organizational

discussion on olp-uk@lists.latop.org
* Community member's XO develops a fault
18:43 < mtd> CanoeBerry: also I'd like to stress I am new to this, so

appreciate guidance on numbers of amachines, etc.
: Repair Centre could assist in triage and repair. RC would use its own volunteers (see People section), liase with RCs, mailing lists, IRC participants, OLPC UK members to execute this.
18:43 < CanoeBerry> Ask dsd to take a look, and cc me.

18:43 < mtd> CanoeBerry: thanks, will do.
* Remote Repair Centre requires hardware
18:43 < CanoeBerry> I will support proposals like yours when they have

multiple backers.
: Repair Centre would consider a swap / help in sourcing the hardware.
18:44 < CanoeBerry> Caryl: There is a lot of M Stock to go around. But a

pile-of-broken-parts does not a Pilot make ;)

18:45 < mtd> CanoeBerry: no, definitely - please let me stress this is *not*

for the poilot.
== People ==
18:45 < mtd> CanoeBerry: ...but in order to build community for that project I

thought a lending library would be something people could get

into on a volunteer basis, and hopefully that would lead to more
* All: [[User:PeterRobinson|Peter Robinson]]
involvement both in OLPC-UK and in the pilot programs.
* Happy to help remotely: [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
18:45 < CanoeBerry> Repair Centers are the focus here, and general support of
* Happy to help on promoting and publicising the OLPC library: Dom Baker
others, first and foremost :)
* Happy to help with the library; repairing laptops and administrating the library: [[User:Seveneleven|David Craddock]]
18:45 < mtd> CanoeBerry: it's about building the community

18:45 < mtd> CanoeBerry: sure, understood.

18:47 < CanoeBerry> mtd: i think you already know this, but just a reminder
== I want to help ==
all chargers here are US chargers (and being used, may not

all work!)
Great - please add your name above and then join the
18:48 < mtd> CanoeBerry: yes, thanks. We can get adapters easily, and my US
[http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-uk olpc-uk] mailing list. Here
G1G1 one works here fine :).
is a list of suggested areas that we can definitely use help in:
18:49 < CanoeBerry> mtd: OK. While we cannot sell US chargers in Europe, I

think surplus parts on a very limited basic like this are
* being an available contact person for the combined LLLL/RC
OK.

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...and one or more of:

# help lending out laptops
# help mentoring laptop lendees
# help administering the library
# help repairing laptops
# help administering repair processes
# help publicising the LLLL/RC
# provide inventory space



== Prior proposals archive ==

The earlier proposals have been moved [[OLPC UK/Lending Library and Repair Centre/Old Proposals|an archive page]]


== Inventory ==

=== Library ===

TODO

=== Repair Centre ===

TODO

== Status updates ==

[[OLPC UK/Lending Library and Repair Centre/Status 20090505|Status 20090505]]

[[OLPC UK/Lending Library and Repair Centre/Status 20090925|Status 20090925]]




[[Category:XO Lending Libraries]]

Latest revision as of 20:15, 25 September 2010

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Objectives

The combined Lending Library / Repair Centre serves to:

  • support the OLPC mission and community via lending out laptops to UK volunteers / contributors; and
  • facilitate with space, materiel, and expertise XO repairs by volunteers; and
  • encourage, enable, and support Contributor Program applicants from the UK.

We see the Lending Library and Repair Centre concepts as symbiotic and synergistic: the same set of hardware and volunteers can both encourage the OLPC mission and supply a volunteer-run Repair Centre. For more specifics, read on.

How do I get a Laptop?

  • Just ask. If there's one free we'll lend it to you (within reason). Email olpc-uk@lists.laptop.org and say "I would like to borrow a laptop for X months to do Y thing".

Now that I've got a Laptop, what do I do?

  • Get accounts on:
    • wiki.laptop.org
    • wiki.sugarlabs.org
    • dev.laptop.org
    • dev.sugarlabs.org

What do we do?

Some examples of how the LLLL / Repair Centre could help:

LLLL

  • UK professor interested in prototyping a contributors program application

A professor (or Linux User Group or...) might be considering a contributors program application but hesitant to commit the time / effort. The LLLL could bootstrap this effort with a loan of two (2) XOs for 1-3 months and two part-time mentors, in order to guide the professor and students towards a first prototype activity and a full Contributors Program application.

  • OLPC UK member organises teachers mini ContentCamp

XOs might be lent to ContentCamp organisers to supplement a majority of sugar-jhbuild / Sugar-on-a-Stick instances to give teachers a hands-on sense of the deployment scenario, and enable testing the content on "real" XOs. As mentioned in the OLPC UK LLLL FAQ, with OLPC and Sugar Labs encouraging software development that makes use of the unique OLPC hardware, what's lacking often is a sense of what exists and what incremental developments are best (witness some of the GSoC proposals that start off very rough even after a motivated student has gotten so far as to reach out and get involved)

  • OLPC UK publicity efforts

OLPC UK can enable "XO demos" at conferences / LUGs without having to rely on the same volunteers giving up their laptops.

  • OLPC UK member wants an XO to look cool

This is not a good enough reason to lend out an XO.


Repair Centre

  • Community member's XO develops a fault
Repair Centre could assist in triage and repair. RC would use its own volunteers (see People section), liase with RCs, mailing lists, IRC participants, OLPC UK members to execute this.
  • Remote Repair Centre requires hardware
Repair Centre would consider a swap / help in sourcing the hardware.


People

  • All: Peter Robinson
  • Happy to help remotely: Martin Dengler
  • Happy to help on promoting and publicising the OLPC library: Dom Baker
  • Happy to help with the library; repairing laptops and administrating the library: David Craddock


I want to help

Great - please add your name above and then join the olpc-uk mailing list. Here is a list of suggested areas that we can definitely use help in:

  • being an available contact person for the combined LLLL/RC

...and one or more of:

  1. help lending out laptops
  2. help mentoring laptop lendees
  3. help administering the library
  4. help repairing laptops
  5. help administering repair processes
  6. help publicising the LLLL/RC
  7. provide inventory space


Prior proposals archive

The earlier proposals have been moved an archive page


Inventory

Library

TODO

Repair Centre

TODO

Status updates

Status 20090505

Status 20090925

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