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This user is a Support gang volunteer.
Specializes in: documentation, peripherals, new volunteers, grassroots

IRC	Nick: mchua

This user is a spare parts hound.

This user is a member of the Volunteer Infrastructure Group.

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

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这个用户是能够有助于满足于基本水平的 中国人。.

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この利用者は少しだけ日本語を話すことができます。

This user's time zone is UTC-5.

My name is Mel Chua. I'm not active in OLPC these days since returning to graduate school; this page is more an archive than anything else. Feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or ideas you might have.

English is my native language. I have a basic understanding of ASL und mittelstufe (B1-B2) Deutsch.

Quick reference

You might be looking for...

My talk page - for leaving me a message.
My Planet Laptop blogposts.
My projects - to see what I'm working on, have worked on, or should/would-like-to work on.
My braindumps - Thoughts in progress that are not yet fully formed or ready to go to main wiki. Probably inaccurate, half-baked, or some combination of the two. You have been warned.
/Templates - things I've made that may be useful for wiki-users, including Firefox bookmark shortcuts.

Interests

My volunteering interests include Community testing, Support gang, OLPC Chicago, and the ILXO grassroots office in Illinois. I am an alumni from (and involved in the OLPC groups of) IMSA and Olin as well as University chapters, Boston pilots, and Grassroots in general. I ran the first Jam in Boston 2007 and continue to assist with coordinating and presenting at Jams and other events. On the technical side, I'm a wiki sysop and create documentation and templates on this wiki on a regular basis and generally like making it easy for new contributors to get started. I'm also involved upstream with Sugar Labs, the project that creates the user-facing software that ships on OLPC's XO laptops, and with Fedora, the project that creates the underlying operating system that ships on the same.

Current goals and projects

I tend to set my goals in 6-month cycles. This list is super-flexible; stuff changes all the time, random cool ideas come up, and so this has deliberately been planned with lots of wiggle room. As things change, I (usually remember to) edit this page to reflect that.

My current goals are working with OLPC's software upstreams - namely, Fedora and Sugar Labs - to build capacity there and give OLPC a richer selection of resources (both code and people) to draw from as a downstream that is doing great things.

My last cycle focused on (grassroots) Boston pilots and having them running as a self-sustaining, scalable, distributed, and well documented model that can be adapted to other locations. Much of my initial focus was on the Cambridge Friends School deployment, as it was the first in the area to go live. It's an example of a deployment with no full time deployment employees (or indeed, employees at all) anywhere; this is a model optimized for a $0 manpower budget.

History

I've been an OLPC intern (content and grassroots) twice (summers of 2007 and 2008), an employee once (QA/Support engineer for 3.8 months between 2008 and 2009), and - what I consider to be my most important role - a volunteer since January 2007. There is an archive of weekly updates that sporadically describe in more detail what I was doing at any given point in time.

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+My name is [http://blog.melchua.com/about/ Mel Chua]. I'm not active in OLPC these days since returning to graduate school; this page is more an archive than anything else. Feel free to [http://blog.melchua.com/contact/ contact me] with any comments, questions, or ideas you might have.
+English is my native language. I have a basic understanding of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_sign_language ASL] und mittelstufe (B1-B2) Deutsch.
 == Quick reference ==
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 * [[User_talk:Mchua|My talk page]] - for leaving me a message.
-* [http://blog.melchua.com/category/olpc/ My running log] of what I'm working on. Also see [[/Weekly updates|weekly updates]].
+* [http://blog.melchua.com/category/olpc/ My Planet Laptop blogposts.]
 * [[/Projects|My projects]] - to see what I'm working on, have worked on, or should/would-like-to work on.
 * [[/Braindumps|My braindumps]] - Thoughts in progress that are not yet fully formed or ready to go to main wiki. Probably inaccurate, half-baked, or some combination of the two. You have been warned.
-* [[/Templates]] - things I've made that may be useful for wiki-users, including Firefox bookmark shortcuts
+* [[/Templates]] - things I've made that may be useful for wiki-users, including Firefox bookmark shortcuts.
-* [[/Sandbox]] - For testing wiki syntax, templates, etc.
-* [[/About]] - obligatory bio thing
-== Who are you? ==
+== Interests ==
+My volunteering interests include [[Community testing]], [[Support gang]], [[OLPC Chicago]], and the [[ILXO]] grassroots office in Illinois. I am an alumni from (and involved in the OLPC groups of) [[Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter|IMSA]] and [[Olin university chapter|Olin]] as well as [[University chapters]], [[Boston pilots]], and [[Grassroots]] in general. I ran the first [[Jam]] in [[Game Jam Boston|Boston 2007]] and continue to assist with coordinating and presenting at Jams and other events. On the technical side, I'm a wiki sysop and create documentation and templates on this wiki on a regular basis and generally like making it easy for new contributors to get started. I'm also involved upstream with [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua Sugar Labs], the project that creates the user-facing software that ships on OLPC's XO laptops, and with [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua Fedora], the project that creates the underlying operating system that ships on the same.
-My name is Mel Chua, and I am an itinerant hack of all trades. I've been a [[Testing|QA]]/[[Support]] engineer at OLPC (in Boston) since September 2008. I'm also active as a community volunteer.
+== Current goals and projects ==
-Volunteering interests include [[Support gang]], [[OLPC Chicago]], and the [[ILXO]] grassroots office in Illinois. I am an alumni from (and involved in the OLPC groups of) [[Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter|IMSA]] and [[Olin university chapter|Olin]] as well as [[University chapters]] and [[Grassroots]] in general. I ran the first [[Jam]] in [[Game Jam Boston|Boston 2007]] and continue to assist with coordinating and presenting at Jams and other events. On the technical side, I'm a wiki sysop and create documentation and templates on this wiki on a regular basis, tend to write [[Developer tutorials]] when I develop code, and generally like making it easy for new contributors to get started. More info about past, current, and future work is on my [[/Projects]] page.
+I tend to set my goals in 6-month cycles. This list is super-flexible; stuff changes all the time, random cool ideas come up, and so this has deliberately been planned with lots of wiggle room. As things change, I (usually remember to) edit this page to reflect that.
-You may also know me from the [http://robotic.media.mit.edu MIT Media Lab], [http://dcontinuum.com Design Continuum], or [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]. I'm an electrical and computer engineer by [http://www.olin.edu training], educator by passion, artist by hobby, journalist by accident, and everything else out of sheer curiosity. Pressed for a short job description, I would say that I engineer educations. More at http://melchua.com.
+My current goals are working with OLPC's software upstreams - namely, Fedora and Sugar Labs - to build capacity there and give OLPC a richer selection of resources (both code and people) to draw from as a downstream that is doing great things.
-== Contact ==
+My last cycle focused on (grassroots) [[Boston pilots]] and having them running as a self-sustaining, scalable, distributed, and well documented model that can be adapted to other locations. Much of my initial focus was on the [[Cambridge Friends School]] deployment, as it was the first in the area to go live. It's an example of a deployment with no full time deployment employees (or indeed, employees at all) anywhere; this is a model optimized for a $0 manpower budget.
-To find out where I am, check the Doppler badge on my [http://blog.melchua.com blog]. Leaving a message on my [[User_talk:mchua|talk page]] or sending me an email (my first name at laptop dot org) is the best way to reach me 99% of the time. I usually respond within 48 hours. You can also find me on [[IRC]] (mchua) and skype (mel_chua). If something's truly urgent, text or call me at 847.970.8484 - please don't leave a voicemail though, as they're extraordinarily difficult for me to understand (I have a hearing loss).
+== History ==
-=== Upcoming events I'll be at ===
+I've been an OLPC intern (content and grassroots) twice (summers of 2007 and 2008), an employee once ([[Testing|QA]]/[[Support]] engineer for 3.8 months between 2008 and 2009), and - what I consider to be my most important role - a volunteer since January 2007. There is an archive of [[/Weekly updates|weekly updates]] that sporadically describe in more detail what I was doing at any given point in time.
-''None currently listed.''
+[[category:OLPC interns]]
-Let me know if you'd like help at your event; I might be able to pitch in or know someone who can.