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=== Clarify current volunteer roles/opportunities/processes === |
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* Syndicate intern opportunities in one space on wiki |
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* ...and from various countries and organizations. |
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* Help redirect orgal interest away from donating funds and towards hosting and mentoring interns. |
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*: (Which requires info on how they might mentor said intern, and what s/he might do). |
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* Merge OPLCwiki volunteer pages, which are: |
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*: ? |
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*[[Volunteer process]] |
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=== Online “welcome wagon" packet... what would this include? === |
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*Basic checklist for getting started |
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*Model/templates for creating a local wiki, blog, & photojournal (see below). |
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*Links to (or pdfs of) some of the crucial OLPCwiki pages |
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*: [[OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines]] |
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*: ? |
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*"Official" OLPC documentary |
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*:From OLPC-open: |
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What I'm looking for is a fairly systematic presentation of the XO computer and how it is being used. There are some basic pieces of information that I want to see, in addition to the scenes of children demonstrating various activities. These include: |
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* What kind of Internet connection does the school have? How fast? What does it cost? |
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* When the children take the XO computers home, does the mesh network really keep them connected to the Internet? At what distances, and what speeds? |
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* If hundreds of XOs are distributed at a school, do icons for all of them appear on the screen in Neighborhood view? |
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* Which icons will appear in Neighborhood view in an urban area that might have several schools? |
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* Which icons appear in Friends view? How does the user control this? |
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* Does the school or teacher have to agree to apply the Constructivist approach to education before they get XO computers for their students? |
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=== OLPC blog & photojournal === |
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Ideally, this would document our own organizing/development process, and could be a model for others. |
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*Templates for creating OLPC user "homepage" (currently wikipage) w/ instructions on how to set up a free blog (blogger/wordpress) etc. |
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*Who is everyone, and what are they working on |
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*Have users take pix w/ XO |
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*3D tour of XO |
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*Anecdotal users like the "Poster Child" |
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=== How to document pilot programs ([[:Category:Pilot site]]) === |
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Globally... |
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*Aggregate existing self-documentation, including: |
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*:Uruguay (blog): [http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com] |
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*:Brazil (YouTube): [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lecufrgs http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lecufrgs] |
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*:Thailand (on wiki): [[Thailand/trial-200705]] |
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*Some sort of [[OurStories]] project? |
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*[[XO map]] |
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Locally... |
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*Photos |
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*Stories/anecdotes |
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*Examples of use |
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*Profiles of kids and their laptops (maybe via the OurStories project) |
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*Screenshot app-- develop + have kids take a screenshot of their laptop in its favorite use/config |
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*Questions for [[self documentation]] |
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=== Roles and Teams === |
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Define and document... |
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* Install Team |
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** Instructions on getting the emulator installed |
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** A core team of people that help others to install the emulator |
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*** [[IRC]] Channel, Private chat on AIM, whatever it takes. |
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* Facilitators |
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** 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. |
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** Facilitators are most likely people who just lurk all the time on [[IRC]] or something along those lines. |
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* Candy Stripers |
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** coating community members and their computers in fine layers of Sugar... until the emulators are ''really good''. |
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** helping launch locos |
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=== Todo List for Vols === |
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* Todo list should have difficulty levels, like the art of computer programming. E.g., If you know Python then a problem is a: |
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** 10 if you could do debug/fix/add feature in a couple minutes, |
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** 17 if you could do it in one sitting, but it may take a few hours, |
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** 20, means you could do it in a few days |
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** 29, means you could do it in a couple weeks with a lot of creativity. |
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** 30, maybe a couple weeks to a couple of months, but it's hard. |
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** 34, maybe a couple of months with a lot of creativity and innovation |
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** 40, Maybe a couple of years |
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** 50, you may be lucky to knock the problem into the 40s in a couple years. |
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** 51, first find a new base and reduce to a previous problem |
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*Todo list should indicate the urgency of the item for the project. |
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*... and the necessity of the item to the project. |
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*Should maybe be sorted by skill and subject? |
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*One possible model is the [http://www.mysociety.org/volunteertasks mysociety volunteer list]. Might be people worth talking to. |
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*Another is a bugtracker (or more user-friendly version thereof). Should we use the current OLPC bugtracker for these tasks as well? |
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[[Category:OLPC ideas]] |
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[[Category:Feedback]] |
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Revision as of 18:02, 31 May 2007
Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, and Stewie