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=College Users Groups= |
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Lauren (from BU) and Katelyn (from Harvard) were at the meeting to learn more about OLPC and how students at their respective schools can organize XO Users Groups. |
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=Local School Deployment= |
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A local private school wants to run a small deployment. The XOs will be acquired through G1G1-2008. We discussed how OLPC Boston can help: |
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* 10 afternoon workshops in early November 2008. Approx 4-6PM. These workshops will not be "official" OLPC events and therefore need sponsorship. OLPC Boston has agreed to sponsor the events. Sponsorship duties: |
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** Publicize workshops. Newspaper, local colleges, personal contacts, Boston Linux Users Group (BLUG), |
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** Solicit presenters for the workshops. Proposed format for workshops: 1/2 time spent in familiarizing users with Sugar and various activities. 1/2 time spent in demonstrating how activity can be used to engage students in learning about "fill-in-subject-here". |
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*** Examples: Learn about TamTam and then have a musician lead a group in creating a piece of music. Or, learn about Record then go on a field trip to take pictures of "fill-in-subject-here". |
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* Physical issues at school. The school wants ownership of pilot to be by the teachers not IT. So these issues have to be resolved by external support. |
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** Is there wireless in the rooms? |
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** Will they have XS server? |
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*** Where will hardware come from? [[User:bogstad]] tentatively enlisted BLUG. |
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*** Will the XS use Moodle? |
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**** Teacher training for Moodle |
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* Burn and distribute LiveCDs so teachers/students can get comfortable with Sugar. |
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* Fund raising. The school has many scholarship students, and purchasing the XOs through G1G1 would be a hardship. The deployment will need approx $6k in funds to purchase equipment. Lauren and Katelyn tentatively enlisted the Harvard/BU student Users Group (HUG)/(BUUG) to work on this. Enlistment of the school's PTA was discussed. |
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==Deployment Team== |
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A volunteer deployment team from [[Illinois_Math_and_Science_Academy_Chapter|IMSA]] will be doing the actual physical deployment in January at the school. They will handle: |
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* Distributions of XOs (loading activity bundle) |
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* Pull cable / setup wireless |
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* setup XS |
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* power infrastructure |
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==What OLPC Boston is being asked to do== |
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* Keep people in the loop team (IMSA liaison, school liaison, etc.) |
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* XS team (BLUG? -- sysadmin/IT) |
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* Business/fund raising team (Lauren from BU Users Group (BUUG) and Katelyn (from Harvard Users Group (HUG) expressed tentative enlistment) |
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* Make an activity bundle team (work with teachers to determine bundle) |
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* Edu research team (HUG) |
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* Repairs team (Olin UG has already agreed to this) |
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* Documentation team (deployment procedures and workshops) |
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=OLPC Boston future topics= |
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# mplayer (& other non-sugar apps in 8.2) |
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# screenshot uploader |
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# wik userpages |
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# floss manuals |
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Revision as of 18:04, 21 April 2010
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