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=== Schedule of Events === |
=== Schedule of Events === |
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Event starts at noon on Saturday, Feb 16, the first day of a 3 day weekend at Olin. |
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Complete here |
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* 12:00 - 5:30pm: Structured lectures and discussions going on, participants come and go freely or do independent/small group projects |
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* 5:30 - 6:30pm: Round 1 presentations of projects and progress |
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* 10:30 - 11:00pm: Round 2 presentations |
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* 6am - everyone is kicked out |
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=== People to Invite as Participants === |
=== People to Invite as Participants === |
Revision as of 21:16, 3 February 2008
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
To do
Andy
- 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 ProgressTalk 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
- Talk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours
Nikki
- 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