OLPC New Zealand

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

• [Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see WellyNZTesters)
• Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly .
• Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
• Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
• Translation to Maori
• 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: Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Alastair

Upcoming Education and OLPC conference in Wellington New Zealand: /LCA2010 January 18th to 23rd 2010.

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.

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 group

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. Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us. 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

Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ

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

Moodle Developers

A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working 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?

Tabitha has issued a Call For Papers for the education miniconf we're running at the LCA2010 conference mid January next year

• http://laptop.org.nz/content/miniconf

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

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 Pootle.

Who's got what

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	Alastair Munro	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC	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	? 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

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.

See us in action

Testing | Volunteer | User:Tabitha |