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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!]]


== Projects ==
== 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
Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for [[Developers program]] support (like XOs to use).


Our current (what exactly is our hierarchy? elsa fill me in here) [[User:Yifiy|yifiy]] 03:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
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== Meetings ==
<tr>
We have weekly meetings on Friday 3-5pm (Friday Service Time).
<th>Project Name</th>
<th>Project Description</th>
<th>Professor</th>
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Materials needed</th>
<th>Additional Information</th>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>the title/name of your project</td>
<td>a basic description of your project</td>
<td>which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required)</td>
<td>your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account)</td>
<td>what do you need to do it?</td>
<td>anything else you want to say</td>
</tr>


[[/archives | Meeting notes]]
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== Upcoming events ==
<tr>
* Friday Oct. 2 - Meeting with CFS and Mission Hill teachers for activity bundle (include link to appropriate page here)
<td>Distributed Mesh Weather Sensors as Educational and Research Tool</td>
<td>Create a USB weather data collection unit that can be inexpensively produced and provided to (students / schools). Units will be able to log basic meteorological data, "sync" data with other XOs across the mesh, and try to dial the data home to a central server. Users can log actual weather conditions, and learn about how pressure and temperature can be used to predict weather trends. Also, having a large number of data collection units in normally not-monitored-for-this-type-of-stuff places could provide interesting data to researchers.
<br>
The first type of data collection we are considering is barometric pressure. That has advantages in that it is easy to collect -- the sensor can be inside, outside, in the sun, in the shade -- it doesn't matter. Moreover, barometric pressure would allow simple predictions of the weather without any communication with the outside world. In a mesh network setting it might be possible to see fronts move by watching the barometric pressure rise/fall throughout a large region.
<br>
In addition to the hardware sensor the project would include a software component for logging the data and for comments on the day's weather. Graphs of pressure over time could show how low pressure often coincides with rain.</td>
<td>''Pending''</td>
<td>[[User:GregMarra|Greg]]</td>
<td>Some money for prototyping, some people who like electronics, some people who want to develop the backend, some people who want to develop the XO mesh logging software.</td>
<td>Just an idea Andy Barry, myself, and Evan Morikawa came up with.</td>
</tr>


== Current big projects ==
</table>
=== 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


== Meeting notes ==
=== XOBot ===
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 ===
[[Image:Olin-university-chapter-students.JPG|right|Olin students visit the OLPC Boston office]]
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_repair_center Olin Repair Center] page


=== Cambridge Friends School/Mission Hill Deployment ===
Olin students visited the OLPC office on August 29, 2007. Here are the notes as transcribed from the board.
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cambridge_Friends_School CFS deployment] page


=== Random ===
=== Support Gang participation ===


== Ideas for projects ==
* Community service group led by Nikki
(hey look, I'm so empty. how sad.)
* Mel is OLPC liason, will be on IRC (nick mchua) every Friday 3-5, and available through email.


== Past projects/events ==
=== Why University chapters are great ===


(we should really link these to something at some point.)
* Cutting edge technology
* Variety of perspectives
** catching details
** more dedication
** more experience
* publicity
** awards


* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GuruFest Gurufest]
=== Standards ===
* Sugar on a stick
* Programming Design Challenge
* Olin/IMSA Intersession deployment at CFS
* Olin Hackathon
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_Chapter_Jam_Boston Game Jam]


== Helpful info ==
* Financial independence
*[[/wikiarchive|Archival]]
* Professional quality
*[[/installation_guide|how to install images]]
*[[/xos|how to get an xo]]
*[[/Software/PythonTutorial|python wiki]]


=== Impact ===
== Contact Information ==


The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is [[User:estar|Elsa Culler]]. Contact her for general questions.
What you do goes beyond your classroom walls - instead of making your
software design project available to... say, Allen Downey, you make it
available to thousands of children. "You're going to do it anyway... why
not release your work in a way that other people can benefit from it?"


[[Category:College]]
=== Continuity ===
[[Category:XO User Group]]
* easier to make big things, long-term projects - can "pass it on" to
later students
* "apprenticeships" with students learning from those with more experience
* transfer of information between colleges
* development communities keep people motivated

=== Networking ===
* between schools
* between students at Olin
* between students and profs at Olin
* between Olin profs and profs from other schools
* between Olin students and students at other schools
* between all of the above and the free culture development community
=== What you can do ===
* development
** hardware
** software
** content
*** textbooks
*** pictures/art
*** curriculum
*** games
*** lessons
*** music
* translation
* outreach
** to local businesses
** give demos
** work with local kids
** to government
* research/IS/passionate pursuits
** in education
** in engineering
** in computer science
** in sociology...
** you want to do it, we'll find a way to make it happen

== Current tasklist ==

Things to do or start on before next week's Friday meeting.

=== General ===
* administrative support - serv/core/"hey president miller, dr m., et al, we're doing this!" (greg, ellen, andyp)
* outreach program - running demo requests (ollie, once Olin gets some XOs; ollie, ping mel when the XOs arrive)
* flash conference through ideatree (molly)
* wellesley liason - do they want to help? start their own chapter? (andyp)
* talk to professors about advising projects, helping out, and ''especially'' about allowing Olin students to do OLPC projects for course assignments
** POE (abarry)
** SCOPE - coordinate student interest in a team (sallen)
** ECS (steveo)
** ICB (velin & ollie)
** focs (yifan)
** wired ensemble (?)
** analog digital (steveo)
** discrete (yifan)
** software design (greg) '''done'''

=== Olin todo for OLPC ===
* apply to [[Developers program]] ([[user:nlee|Nikki]] coordinating)
* Olin chapter blog (kelliott coordinating)

=== OLPC todo for Olin ===
* development image (w/ Steveo)
* swag
* documentation (w/ Molly, Yifan, Sallen)
* "volunteer day" at the office
* spring OLPC conference w/ other area schools (later)
* university chapter blog (later)

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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