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My name is [http://www.mirwin.net Michael Burns] and I am a Support Gang volunteer for OLPC. |
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Michael Burns is a Computer Science student at Oregon State University. He is working for the Network Engineering Team and is focused on Network Security and distributed systems. He runs [http://www.mirwin.net Mirwin] - a professional weblog of his work projects. Michael can be reached at [mailto:maburns@gmail.com maburns@gmail.com]. |
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Some of the areas I volunteer in with OLPC are: |
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For the $100 laptop, Michael is keenly interested in the efficiency of largescale deployment of 802.11s, distributed network services and building service discovery without the presense of a traditional network infrastructure. He regularly follows the Networking@ Security@ Sugar@ and OLPC-Dev@ mailing lists. |
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* Run the [http://olpc.osuosl.org/ Community Support Forum]. Mostly that means I tweak CSS, backup the database and pick neat extensions to help make the forum awesome-er. |
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* Helping get up and running the OLPCZine website, (with lots of help from the [http://osuosl.org/ Open Source Lab] using Drupal as a basis. The site will feature weekly Zine content as well as multi-user blogs for coordinators, volunteers and content creators and the like to document all the great stuff they are doing in OLPC space. |
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* Previously participated in the Google Summer of Code 2007 with OLPC |
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* Coordinated with the OSL and Real, Inc. to create a multimedia player project, [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Helix_media_activity Watch & Listen]. This development was spear-headed by [http://jirwin.net Justin Gallardo] and the rest of the team at the OSL. |
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* Work for the [http://osel.oregonstate.edu/ Open Source Education Lab] to advocate Open Source development in academia. |
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Latest revision as of 23:28, 20 January 2008
My name is Michael Burns and I am a Support Gang volunteer for OLPC.
Some of the areas I volunteer in with OLPC are:
- Run the Community Support Forum. Mostly that means I tweak CSS, backup the database and pick neat extensions to help make the forum awesome-er.
- Helping get up and running the OLPCZine website, (with lots of help from the Open Source Lab using Drupal as a basis. The site will feature weekly Zine content as well as multi-user blogs for coordinators, volunteers and content creators and the like to document all the great stuff they are doing in OLPC space.
- Previously participated in the Google Summer of Code 2007 with OLPC
- Coordinated with the OSL and Real, Inc. to create a multimedia player project, Watch & Listen. This development was spear-headed by Justin Gallardo and the rest of the team at the OSL.
- Work for the Open Source Education Lab to advocate Open Source development in academia.