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

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

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 group grows. This group 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

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 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.

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.

We're testing the deployment activities on multiple builds on XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s.

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.

Who's got what

Where are the laptops?

Laptop	Serial Number	Who	Where	Project
Laptop 1 (Karora)		Andrew McMillan	Wellington	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 2 (Loco)	CSN74701D32	Nicoletta for Tongan translation (June 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.0
Laptop 3 (Pyro)	SHF8150259E	Alastair Munro	Wellington	Testing 8.2.1, build 802B5, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 4 (Simba)	CSN74802FFC	Tabitha Roder (confirmed 24 May 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.0 testing os300py for Samoa
Laptop 5 (Shrek)	SHF81502638	Tom Parker 30 July 2010	Auckland	XO-1.0 testing os300py for Samoa
Laptop 6 (Rocco)	CSN7480015B	Tim	Wellington	XO-1.0, Testing 8.21, build 767, firmware Q2E18
Laptop 7 (Moodle)		Leslie (confirmed 22 May 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.0, Testing os851 - this laptop has a replaced battery
Laptop 8 (Josh)	CSN749028BA	Steve Vincent (confirmed 24 May 2010)	Tauranga	XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 9 (Tio)	SHF7250080F	Grant	Wellington	XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 10 (Pogo)	CSN74802463	Luci luci@wellsuited.co.nz (confirmed 24 May 2010)	Christchurch	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 11 (Zephyr)	SHF80802932	Luci luci@wellsuited.co.nz (confirmed 24 May 2010)	Christchurch	Testing on....656
Laptop 12 (Rambo)	CSN74802145	With Alastair	Wellington	XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41
Laptop 13 (Mojo)	CSN74701F41	Fabiana (confirmed 22 May 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.0, testing os373pyg
Laptop 14 (Twilight)	CSN74804BF8	Tom (27 August 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.0, testing os373pyg
Laptop 15 (Monkey)	CSN74804D7E	Fabiana	Auckland	XO-1.0 testing os851 (the latest signed build)
Laptop 16 (Ollie)	SHC937010DB	Brenda's colleague "Son" is using for Vietnamese translation work	Wellington	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18
Laptop 17 (Shadow)	SHC93701143	Tabitha (returned from Tamaki 27 August 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.5, build 205
Laptop 18 (Aslan)	SHC93701128	Grant	Wellington	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35
Laptop 19 (Poppy-Copy)	SHC9370114B	Tom (returned from Tamaki 27 August 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.5, build 205
Laptop 20 (Camelot)	SHC937010FF	Alli	Wellington	XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.16, build 852, Q3A48
Laptop 21 (Anna)	CSN75000DC0	Calvin (21 August 2010)	Auckland - North shore school	XO-1.0 testing on os373pyg
Laptop 22 (Tux)	CSN75002073	Tom Parker (17 July 2010)	Auckland	XO-1.0, Testing on os767 (the build shipped to Pacific deployments initially)
Laptop 23 (me)	SHF7250056A	Steven Vincent (confirmed 24 May 2010)	Tauranga	Showing teachers and geeks in Tauranga and Rotorua
Laptop 24 (Milo)	SHC0050090D	Tim's niece	Wellington	X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 201 customised, firmware Q3A33
Laptop 25 (Ada)	SHC00500850	Greer	Wellington	X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 201 customised, firmware Q3A33
Laptop 26 (Tank)	SHC005008D1	Calvin (21 August 2010)	Auckland - North Shore school	X0-1.5 testing os373pyg
Laptop 27 (test)	SHC016013FB	Tom	Auckland	X0-1.5 testing Dextrose
Battery	00802091020110003534	Tom	Auckland	Replacement Battery from I Love My XO

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

Come to a testing session in New Zealand. 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:

Interactive online schoolbook A cool new type of textbook. Please try it out.

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 [3] is written under an open license [4] and gives everyone the freedom to use or modify the material to suit his or her own needs.

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