Organizing organizing

Clarify current volunteer roles/opportunities/processes

• Syndicate intern opportunities in one space on wiki
• ...and from various countries and organizations.
• Help redirect orgal interest away from donating funds and towards hosting and mentoring interns.

  (Which requires info on how they might mentor said intern, and what s/he might do).

• Merge OPLCwiki volunteer pages, which are:

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Online “welcome wagon" packet... what would this include?

• Basic checklist for getting started
• Model/templates for creating a local wiki, blog, & photojournal (see below).
• Links to (or pdfs of) some of the crucial OLPCwiki pages

  OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines

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OLPC blog & photojournal

Ideally, this would document our own organizing/development process, and could be a model for others.

• Templates for creating OLPC user "homepage" (currently wikipage) w/ instructions on how to set up a free blog (blogger/wordpress) etc.
• Who is everyone, and what are they working on
• Have users take pix w/ XO
• 3D tour of XO
• Anecdotal users like the "Poster Child"

How to document pilot programs (Category:Pilot site)

Globally...

• Aggregate program-specific blogs, including:

  Uruguay/Ceibal: http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com

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• Some sort of OurStories project?
• XO map

Locally...

• Photos
• Stories/anecdotes
• Examples of use
• Profiles of kids and their laptops (maybe via the OurStories project)
• Screenshot app-- develop + have kids take a screenshot of their laptop in its favorite use/config

Roles and Teams

Define and document...

• Install Team
  • Instructions on getting the emulator installed
  • A core team of people that help others to install the emulator
    • IRC Channel, Private chat on AIM, whatever it takes.
• Facilitators
  • Direct volunteers toward projects they might be interested in by making themselves available for private chat or in a group chat. Someone comes in and says, hey I want to help, these are my skills. A director can help direct them where to go.
  • Facilitators are most likely people who just lurk all the time on IRC or something along those lines.
• Candy Stripers
  • coating community members and their computers in fine layers of Sugar... until the emulators are really good.
  • helping launch locos

Todo List for Vols

• • Todo list should have difficulty levels, like the art of computer programming. E.g., If you know Python then a problem is a:
    • 10 if you could do debug/fix/add feature in a couple minutes,
    • 17 if you could do it in one sitting, but it may take a few hours,
    • 20, means you could do it in a few days
    • 29, means you could do it in a couple weeks with a lot of creativity.
    • 30, maybe a couple weeks to a couple of months, but it's hard.
    • 34, maybe a couple of months with a lot of creativity and innovation
    • 40, Maybe a couple of years
    • 50, you may be lucky to knock the problem into the 40s in a couple years.
    • 51, first find a new base and reduce to a previous problem
  • Todo list should indicate the urgency of the item for the project.
  • ... and the necessity of the item to the project.
  • Should maybe be sorted by skill and subject?
  • One possible model is the mysociety volunteer list. Might be people worth talking to.
  • Another is a bugtracker (or more user-friendly version thereof). Should we use the current OLPC bugtracker for these tasks as well?