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This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin college OLPC university chapter. |
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== Office Hours == |
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Weekly office hours are held at 1CC on Friday and Sunday afternoons. Use this space to update and organize transportation, as well as giving [[user:SJ|SJ]] a heads-up on how many people to expect. |
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''' Suspended until after winter break ''' |
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=== 4:30-6:30 pm, Friday === |
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* ''drivers' names here (please include how many seats you have)'' |
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** ''passengers get listed under driver'' |
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** ''even if there are no drivers yet'' |
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=== 2:00-5:00pm, Sunday === |
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* ''drivers'' |
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** ''passengers |
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== XOs on campus == |
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There are currently 4 XOs on Olin's campus. To check out a machine, contact [[User:GregMarra|Greg]]. |
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* 1 B1 machine with Andy Barry |
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* 1 B2 machine with [[User:nlee|Nikki]] |
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* 1 B2 machine with [[User:GregMarra|Greg]] |
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* 1 B4 machine with [[User:Nlee|Nikki]] |
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== Projects == |
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Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for [[Developers program]] support (like XOs to use). |
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<th>Project Name</th> |
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<th>Project Description</th> |
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<th>Professor</th> |
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<th>Contact</th> |
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<th>Materials needed</th> |
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<th>Additional Information</th> |
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<td>the title/name of your project</td> |
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<td>a basic description of your project</td> |
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<td>which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required)</td> |
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<td>your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account)</td> |
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<td>what do you need to do it?</td> |
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<td>anything else you want to say</td> |
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<td>[[Yalp]]</td> |
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<td>Audio sampling toy</td> |
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<td>n/a</td> |
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<td>Ben Fisher</td> |
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<td>nothing - done</td> |
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<td>[[Distributed mesh weather sensors]] (as an educational and research tool)</td> |
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<td>Create a USB weather data collection unit that can be inexpensively produced and provided to (students / schools).</td> |
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<td>Software Design / POE</td> |
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<td>[[User:GregMarra|Greg]]</td> |
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<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> |
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<td>Just an idea Andy Barry, myself, and Evan Morikawa came up with.</td> |
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<td>"Lights" game for OLPCs</td> |
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<td>Implement the "lights" game for the OLPC. [[http://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/lights_out/ Online version of game]].</td> |
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<td>Software Design</td> |
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<td>[[User:GregMarra|Greg]]</td> |
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<td>An OLPC and someone who knows a bit about PyGame type stuff.</td> |
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<td>It's a super fun addictive game.</td> |
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<td>[[Unicoder character pad|"Unicoder" Character Pad]]</td> |
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<td>Simple text editor for quickly entering non-ascii characters.</td> |
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<td>Unknown</td> |
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<td>Ben Fisher</td> |
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<td>Completion, ideas, feedback, maybe someone who knows Sugar</td> |
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<td>I'm not sure whether this should be a dhtml-js or Python-gui. I have something that kinda works in Firefox.</td> |
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<td>[[MIDIpad]]</td> |
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<td>A program for creating electronic music.</td> |
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<td>Unknown</td> |
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<td>Ben Fisher</td> |
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<td>A bit more planning, implementation. I don't have enough time to do this alone.</td> |
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<td>Although many people associate MIDIs with cheap crappy audio, this is only only because modern computers tend to use low-quality instruments. Back in the day, there were actually good-sounding MIDI sound cards. Timidity can also render using SoundFonts, and there are some very good SoundFonts available online.</td> |
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<td>Mp3 tagger</td> |
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<td>Program for adding/changing ID3 tags for mp3/ogg audio files. The freeware program Mp3Tag is very good but its source is closed. Also, I'd like to add some ways to make metadata entry faster.</td> |
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<td>Unknown</td> |
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<td>Ben Fisher</td> |
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<td>Finishing it, help with the gui</td> |
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<td>Will the user need to organize files? What is the XO's filesystem?</td> |
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<td>[[USB GPS|USB GPS Device]]</td> |
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<td>Hardware GPS to connect to XO.</td> |
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<td>Unknown</td> |
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<td>Andy P</td> |
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<td>Software modification</td> |
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<td>This is another example of hardware that could produce value to international companies, creating income generation opportunities.</td> |
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<td>Development Image on ACL Machine</td> |
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<td>Install Sugar onto an ACL machine so we can play with it, and test things out faster than on the XOs</td> |
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<td>Mark Chang, hopefully</td> |
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<td>Stephen L</td> |
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<td>ACL Machine, Sugar image, Fedora</td> |
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<td>Should be useful</td> |
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== Meeting notes == |
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[[Image:Olin-university-chapter-students.JPG|right|Olin students visit the OLPC Boston office]] |
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Archives of minutes can be viewed at the [[Olin university chapter/archives]] page. |
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=== 12/16/07 (Office Hours) === |
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I took notes on stickies. I will add them ASAP. --[[User:Nlee|Nikki]] 17:02, 17 December 2007 (EST) |
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== Current tasklist == |
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* schedule visit to the Trotter School, coordinate with Engineering Discovery |
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* continue Yalp interface design |
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* schedule office hours |
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* brainstorming |
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* documentation |
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