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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!]]


== Office Hours ==
== 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
Weekly office hours are held at 1CC on Friday and Sunday afternoons. Use this space to update and organize transportation, as well as giving [[user:SJ|SJ]] a heads-up on how many people to expect.


Our current (what exactly is our hierarchy? elsa fill me in here) [[User:Yifiy|yifiy]] 03:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
=== 4:30-6:30 pm, Friday 2/1 ===
* ''Greg''
* Nikki
* ''Andrea''
* Sandra


== Meetings ==
=== 2:00-5:00pm, Sunday 2/3 ===
We have weekly meetings on Friday 3-5pm (Friday Service Time).
* ''drivers''
* passengers


[[/archives | Meeting notes]]
== XOs on campus ==
There are currently 4 XOs on Olin's campus. To check out a machine, contact [[User:GregMarra|Greg]].


== Upcoming events ==
* 1 B1 machine with Andy Barry
* Friday Oct. 2 - Meeting with CFS and Mission Hill teachers for activity bundle (include link to appropriate page here)
* 1 B2 machine with [[User:nlee|Nikki]]
* 1 B2 machine with [[User:GregMarra|Greg]]
* 1 B4 machine with [[User:Nlee|Nikki]]


== Projects ==
== 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 [[Olin university chapter/Projects/Curriculum|Turtle Art After School Program]] page


=== XOBot ===
To see all projects associated with Olin's OLPC chapter, check out our [[Olin university chapter/projects|project page]].
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 ===
=== Repair Center ===
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_repair_center Olin Repair Center] page


=== Cambridge Friends School/Mission Hill Deployment ===
We are in the planning stages of creating a repair center at Olin. Feel free to contribute and comment at [[Olin university chapter/Repair center]].
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cambridge_Friends_School CFS deployment] page


=== Support Gang participation ===
== Current tasklist ==


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


== Past projects/events ==
* get involved with rt and bug triage
* get B1s and B2s running latest builds of Sugar (Andy Barry is working on this; contact him to help out)
* nameplates for XOs on campus
* t-shirt designs (open to everyone)


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


* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GuruFest Gurufest]
* schedule visit to the Trotter School, coordinate with Engineering Discovery
* Sugar on a stick
* continue Yalp interface design
* Programming Design Challenge
* schedule office hours
* Olin/IMSA Intersession deployment at CFS
* brainstorming
* Olin Hackathon
* documentation
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_Chapter_Jam_Boston Game Jam]


== Meeting notes ==
== Helpful info ==
*[[/wikiarchive|Archival]]
*[[/installation_guide|how to install images]]
*[[/xos|how to get an xo]]
*[[/Software/PythonTutorial|python wiki]]


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== Contact Information ==
[[Image:Olin-university-chapter-students.JPG|right|Olin students visit the OLPC Boston office]]


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The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is [[User:estar|Elsa Culler]]. Contact her for general questions.
Archives of minutes can be viewed at the [[Olin university chapter/archives]] page.

=== 1/25/08 (Proposed agenda) ===

* discuss getting involved with [[Repair centers]]
* helping out with Give Many, Get Many (GMGM)?
* having a "hackathon" (similar to a jam, but hopefully less stressful to set up) at Olin (I want this to happen. A lot. Will be visiting campus the week after and wants to talk to you all about this. Flash conference? [[User:Mchua|Mchua]])
* partnering up with [[Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter|IMSA]]
* doing more projects!
* shameless plug: PyCon is in Chicago this spring, they have student scholarships, and THEY WANT OLPC STUFF TO HAPPEN THERE. Mike Fletcher is already running a Sugar tutorial, see [http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/SugarFletcher/ here], and there will probably be open OLPC hacking space throughout. If you're a Pythonista, they'll probably want you. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]
* help out [[User:DyD|Ian]] with a circuit (this was forwarded to the list earlier by [[User:Mchua|Mel]], but nobody has picked it up)
* videotaping XO disassembly (with commentary from different Olin profs, to boot [[User:Mchua|Mchua]])
* [[Yalp]] as an HFID project

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== Contact Information ==


[[Category:College]]
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The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is [[User:nlee|Nikki Lee]]. Contact her for general questions.
[[Category:XO User Group]]

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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