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There are several groups in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.
There are several communities in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.
[[Image:NZTesters-photo6.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
[[Image:NZTesters-photo6.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]


* [Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see [[WellyNZTesters]])
* Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see [[WellyNZTesters]])
* Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly .
* Auckland testers and promoters meet weekly
* Welcome to Christchurch - our newest community
* Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
* Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
* Translations
* Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
* Translation to Maori
* [http://www.spc.int/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=1 Ian Thomson] is the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Oceania Oceania] Project Coordinator
* [http://www.spc.int/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=1 Ian Thomson] is the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Oceania Oceania] Project Coordinator


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Look at [http://laptop.org.nz laptop.org.nz] for current events in New Zealand.
Look at [http://laptop.org.nz laptop.org.nz] for current events in New Zealand.


Main contacts:
Main contacts: [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tabitha Tabitha], [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Shiny Brenda], [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:TimClicks Tim], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Aly Alastair]
# [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tabitha Tabitha], Youtube Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgZq23FlAg
# [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Shiny Brenda],
# [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:TimClicks Tim],
# [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Aly Alastair]


[[OLPC New Zealand/XO inventory|NZ XO Inventory]]
Upcoming Education and OLPC conference in Wellington New Zealand: [[/LCA2010]] January 18th to 23rd 2010.


[[OLPC New Zealand/Test Requests|Test Requests]]
===Wellington group===

The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.
=== Wellington community ===
The Wellington Testers meet every Saturday mid-morning at Southern Cross cafe to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.


[[Image:NZTesters-photo5.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
[[Image:NZTesters-photo5.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
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To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out [http://thecross.co.nz/ the Cross]
To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out [http://thecross.co.nz/ the Cross]


Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.
Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.


=== Auckland group ===
=== Auckland community ===
Meeting every Saturday at 11:00 am at the Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road. [http://thewindsor.co.nz/ The Windsor website]
Suz & Tamara Olliver are looking at creating an OLPC owners group to meet up in Auckland and Wellington to review progress, show off what we are doing, generally socialise and probably eat curry.
Considering other venue options for other days as the testing community grows. This community is carrying out tests on multiple builds for XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s as well as looking at educational use and sugar translations.
Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us.
Contact tabitha@tabitha.net.nz for more information.
Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK17YLofkI&feature=player_embedded Watch the Video to see for yourself]



Suz & Tamara Olliver are OLPC owners who like to meet up to review progress, show off what they are doing, generally socialise and eat. Their domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email them.

Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK17YLofkI&feature=player_embedded Watch the Video to see for yourself]
[[Image:NZTesters-photo4.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
=== Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ ===
=== Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ ===
Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City
Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City

=== Christchurch community ===
Greg Baker is starting a Christchurch community. Ask on olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org for further information.


=== Moodle Developers ===
=== Moodle Developers ===

[[Image:NZTesters-photo4.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ [http://www.catalyst.net.nz Catalyst] has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.
A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ [http://www.catalyst.net.nz Catalyst] worked on several aspects of the OLPC project.
: At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)
: At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)


==What else is going on?==
==What else is going on?==
[[Image:NZTesters-photo7.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
[[Image:NZTesters-photo7.jpg|Wellington Testers||right]]
[[Image:NZTesters-photo3.jpg | right]]
Tabitha has issued a Call For Papers for the education miniconf we're running at the LCA2010 conference mid January next year
[[Image:NZTesters-photo8.jpg | thumb|320px ]]
* http://laptop.org.nz/content/miniconf


We're testing the full activity bundle for the upcoming Peru deployment


Tabitha ran the education miniconf at the LCA2010 conference mid January 2010 and we had a "hacking the sugar layout" session
Some kind folks in Sydney are rounding up unused dust gathering XOs from the LCA2007 giveaway to ship to Wellington.


We are working on a translation to Maori in [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/mi/ Pootle].
We are working on translations to Maori, Samoan and Tongan in [http://translate.sugarlabs.org/mi/ Pootle]. A few other languages are being assisted here in NZ so anyone bilingual please feel free to join us if you would like to contribute.

We have volunteers visiting deployments: Tabitha and Tom went to Samoa in August to visit two schools; they setup the school server and access points; one of the volunteers is about to go to Rwanda so watch this space for more details.

We're testing the deployment activities on multiple builds on XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s, as well as testing Sugar on a Stick on other hardware.

We have some Auckland University students working with us on a project for sending data via radio. They are using an XO-1.0 and XO-1.5 and looking at doing tests in the field, maybe Solomon Islands. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_OneBeep Team OneBeep] came third in the international Microsoft Imagine Cup for their solution.


== Who's got what ==


{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+ Where are the laptops?
|-
! Laptop || Who || Project
|-
| Laptop 1 (Karora) || Andrew McMillan || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 2 (Loco) CSN74701D32 || M Fabiana Kubke || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 3 (Pyro) SHF8150259E || [[User:Aly|Alastair Munro]] || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC || [[User:Tabitha|Tabitha Roder]] || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 5 (Shrek) SHF81502638 || John Roder j.roder@auckland.ac.nz || Attempting to start Auckland group
|-
| Laptop 6 (Rocco) CSN7480015B || ? [[User:Shiny|Brenda]] || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 7 (Moodle) || Uli Muellner || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 8 (Josh) CSN749028BA || Grant Patterson || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 9 (Tio) SHF7250080F || Callum and Brenda || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 10 (Pogo) CSN74802463 || going to ChCh || Testing 8.2-767
|-
| Laptop 11 (Zephyr) SHF80802932 || going to ChCh || Testing on....656
|-
| Laptop 12 (Rambo) CSN74802145 || Alastair Munro || Testing on 8.2
|-
| Laptop 13 (Mojo) CSN74701F41 || With Brenda, sick needing repair || Attempting to start Auckland group
|-
| Laptop 14 (Twilight) CSN74804BF8 || ? || Testing on 8.2
|-
| Laptop 15 (Monkey) CSN74804D7E || Bex || Testing on 8.2
|-
| Laptop 16 (Ollie) SHC937010DB || ? || Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11
|-
| Laptop 17 (Shadow) || Tim || Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11
|-
| Laptop 18 (Aslan) SHC93701128 || ? || Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11
|-
| Laptop 19 (Poppy-Copy) SHC9370114B || ? || Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11
|-
| Laptop 20 (Camelot) SHC937010FF || Alastair || Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11
|-
| Laptop (Pinchy) || David and Sigi || Testing 8.2-767 on own machine
|}


=== Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about ===
=== Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about ===

We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to [http://wiki.laptop.org/project/WellyNZTesters the WellyNZTesters page]
We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WellyNZTesters the WellyNZTesters page]
Also check out [http://laptop.org.nz the laptop.org.nz site] for our stories.
Also check out [http://laptop.org.nz the laptop.org.nz site] for our stories.

[[Image:NZTesters-photo1.jpg | left]]


=== See us in action ===
=== See us in action ===


Come to a community gathering. Check laptop.org.nz or email olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org to make contact.
[[Image:NZTesters-photo1.jpg]]

[[Image:NZTesters-photo2.jpg]]
==Peer-reviewed educational content to implement in your pilot classes==
[[Image:NZTesters-photo3.jpg]]

[[Image:NZTesters-photo8.jpg]]
'''Come and explore:'''
Please try A cool new type of [http://www.pio-pio.de/html/0.Contents.htm interactive online schoolbook].

'''We love to learn:'''
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Einstein.school Einstein.School 2.0] The interactive schoolbook that you can edit, update and improve.
It makes passion the primary tool for learning.

This peer-reviewed [http://www.pio-pio.de/html/R_wissenschaftler.htm ] [http://www.online-educa.com/audio-video-28 ] [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Online_Schoolbook_%22GOLD_DUST%22 educational content] is written under an [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ open content licence] and gives everyone the freedom to use or modify the material to suit his or her own needs.






Latest revision as of 21:25, 19 June 2013

There are several communities in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.

NZTesters-photo6.jpg
  • Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see WellyNZTesters)
  • Auckland testers and promoters meet weekly
  • Welcome to Christchurch - our newest community
  • Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
  • Translations
  • Ian Thomson is the Oceania Project Coordinator

Watch the NZ video made by Spring TV Join our Facebook group

Come join us

To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz

Look at laptop.org.nz for current events in New Zealand.

Main contacts:

  1. Tabitha, Youtube Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgZq23FlAg
  2. Brenda,
  3. Tim,
  4. Alastair

NZ XO Inventory

Test Requests

Wellington community

The Wellington Testers meet every Saturday mid-morning at Southern Cross cafe to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.

NZTesters-photo5.jpg

We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.

To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out the Cross

Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.

Auckland community

Meeting every Saturday at 11:00 am at the Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road. The Windsor website Considering other venue options for other days as the testing community grows. This community is carrying out tests on multiple builds for XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s as well as looking at educational use and sugar translations. Contact tabitha@tabitha.net.nz for more information.


Suz & Tamara Olliver are OLPC owners who like to meet up to review progress, show off what they are doing, generally socialise and eat. Their domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email them.

Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. Watch the Video to see for yourself

NZTesters-photo4.jpg

Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ

Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City

Christchurch community

Greg Baker is starting a Christchurch community. Ask on olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org for further information.

Moodle Developers

A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst worked on several aspects of the OLPC project.

At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)

What else is going on?

NZTesters-photo7.jpg
NZTesters-photo3.jpg
NZTesters-photo8.jpg


Tabitha ran the education miniconf at the LCA2010 conference mid January 2010 and we had a "hacking the sugar layout" session

We are working on translations to Maori, Samoan and Tongan in Pootle. A few other languages are being assisted here in NZ so anyone bilingual please feel free to join us if you would like to contribute.

We have volunteers visiting deployments: Tabitha and Tom went to Samoa in August to visit two schools; they setup the school server and access points; one of the volunteers is about to go to Rwanda so watch this space for more details.

We're testing the deployment activities on multiple builds on XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s, as well as testing Sugar on a Stick on other hardware.

We have some Auckland University students working with us on a project for sending data via radio. They are using an XO-1.0 and XO-1.5 and looking at doing tests in the field, maybe Solomon Islands. Team OneBeep came third in the international Microsoft Imagine Cup for their solution.


Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about

We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to the WellyNZTesters page Also check out the laptop.org.nz site for our stories.

NZTesters-photo1.jpg

See us in action

Come to a community gathering. Check laptop.org.nz or email olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org to make contact.

Peer-reviewed educational content to implement in your pilot classes

Come and explore:

Please try A cool new type of interactive online schoolbook.

We love to learn:

Einstein.School 2.0 The interactive schoolbook that you can edit, update and improve. It makes passion the primary tool for learning.

This peer-reviewed [1] [2] educational content is written under an open content licence and gives everyone the freedom to use or modify the material to suit his or her own needs.


Testing | Volunteer | User:Tabitha |