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== Website ==

External site is at repairkid.com
Internal site is connected to this wiki (not yet generated)

== The Event ==

=== Modules ===

* Education
* Hawes
* Stolk

* Usability and Design
* Stein
* Jaded
* IDEO/Continuum?
* Linder/Eris/MurMiranda?

* Power Generation
* Carrick
* MechE prof?

* Open Source Software
* Jaded
* Downey

* Social Entrepreneurship
* Caslin
* Charles

* Impact
* Martello?
* Chua

=== Schedule of Events ===

Event starts at noon on Saturday, Feb 16, the first day of a 3 day weekend at Olin.

* 12:00 - 5:30pm: Structured lectures and discussions going on, participants come and go freely or do independent/small group projects
* 5:30 - 6:30pm: Round 1 presentations of projects and progress
* 10:30 - 11:00pm: Round 2 presentations
* 6am - everyone is kicked out

=== People to Invite as Participants ===

* Ken's Wellesley education students
* OLPC interns, grassroots list
* Publicize at Babson, primarily in Social E! class
* Publicize at Olin
* Email all students, faculty, listserve at Olin (faculty can bring their kids too!)
* Ritter and a few hand picked friends (not a list spam) from MIT
* Olin community invite to bring along friends from off campus

=== Interested Speakers and Special Guests ===

* Allen Downey - doing a talk on open source software dev
* Lynn Stein - (maybe HFID talk)
* Ken Hawes on things to consider in designing a curriculum
* Mel Chua leading a brainstorm room(s), may not be there until 130
* (maybe Rob Martello) - chat on tech transfer re: OLPC
* (maybe Caslin / SEM guy) - social entrepreneurship models of distribution
* Matt Jadud
* Jon Stolk

=== Problem Tasks to Work On ===

* Emulation package for PC and MAC networks, especially schools
* Talk to Nikki and SJ for bug list of software flaws to be resolved
* Make B1 and B2's work with recent builds.

== To do ==

=== Andy ===

* Delegate the generation of handouts for people as they show up and leave, also planning of welcome booth (email sign-up, etc)
* Ad-Astra rooms in dhall area
* Talk to Rob M about doing a talk on tech transfer between cultures and design considerations for OLPC software
* Connect with Arjun and Manu in particular, Yani and Andriani, Jessica and Chih-yu about coming
* Email Mel a forwardable letter for Continuum
* Find and email Richard Freeland (former president of Northeastern University, something to do with the Graduate School of Education at Harvard this year) recommended by Rod
* Email Lauren (Guatemala girl) about BC email lists for OLPC like things
* Make website with Ollie
* '''SENT''' - Talk to Nick Tatar about a big conf with off campus guests Feb 16
* '''SENT''' - Follow up with Chris C about his Friday conference and about his plans for his power generation section
* '''SENT''' - Talk to SJ at 1cc Friday to get education people, OLPC people, get XOs for Feb 16
* '''DONE''' - ALSO - ask him to champion open source stuff (talk to Allen Downey to be the “champion” of open source)
* '''DONE''' - Talk to Stolk (after Ollie does on Friday in class)
* '''DONE''' – Email Rod about Ted Sizer talking and speaking - no can do. He recommends Stolk.
* '''DONE''' - Email Ritter about MIT people for an OLPC day
* '''DONE''' - Email Lynn Stein about her coming as an HFID designer and programmer and pass on to Harvard lists
* '''DONE''' - Email Ken Hawes about him and Wellesley education students coming

=== Ollie ===

* '''Done, Follow Up in Progress'''Talk to Blinder/Ozgur/Oscar about coming as design guys, also which student could champion it
* Olin faculty recruitment – targeting talking and mass email
* '''Done''' 8x11 small poster
* Table tents for dining hall
* Big poster for dining hall
* Talk it up amongst the frosh before plans are made to leave for the 3 day weekend
* Bring it up in Babson Social E! class, bring Caslin and Charles?
* Do website with Andy, also do an internal site for participants on the day of to have access to useful wiki links and such
* '''Sent initial email''' SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
* '''Done'''Talk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours

=== Nikki ===

* '''DONE''' - Email Matt Jadud – tell him the plan and get him to recruit and come too
* '''DONE''' - Email Mel and keep her up to date with plan and seek advice and contacts, other OLPC groups?
* Get XOs to develop on (note that Andy is already emailing SJ, Nikki is CC’d)
* Build up support within OLPC chapter members at Olin and thru SJ in the greater Boston area

=== Yifan ===

* Call panara and peets coffee to ask for free stuff feb 16 around noon.
* Create a simple procedure for porting programs from PC to OLPC and testing
* Acquire supplies for free, make shopping list of the rest for Andy

=== Day of Logistics ===

* Create a schedule with time slots and rooms for speakers/discussions/brainstorming,

* Nametags (bright ones for "leaders")
* Pizza and beverage
* Power strips and extension cords (talk to logan)
* Ethernet and WEP keys printed
* Whiteboards (steal morning of)
* Dry erase markers (steal morning of)
* Normal markers and paper and design materials
* Post its

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