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=== Ollie ===
=== Ollie ===


* Done, Follow Up in ProgressTalk to Blinder/Ozgur/Oscar about coming as design guys, also which student could champion it
* '''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
* Olin faculty recruitment – targeting talking and mass email
* Done 8x11 small poster
* '''DONE''' 8x11 small poster
* Table tents for dining hall
* Table tents for dining hall
* Big poster for dining hall
* Big poster for dining hall
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* Bring it up in Babson Social E! class, bring Caslin and Charles?
* 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
* Do website with Andy, also do an internal site for participants on the day of to have access to useful wiki links and such
* Done SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
* '''DONE''' SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
* DoneTalk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours
* '''DONE''' Talk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours


=== Nikki ===
=== Nikki ===

Revision as of 20:47, 12 February 2008

Tasks for individuals

=== Andy

  • Delegate the generation of handouts for people as they show up and leave, also planning of welcome booth (email sign-up, etc)
  • Ad-Astra rooms in dhall
  • Talk to Rob M about doing a talk on tech transfer between cultures and design considerations for OLPC
  • 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
  • DONE SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
  • DONE Talk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours

Nikki

  • DONE - 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

  • Need Tax ID Call panara and peets coffee to ask for free stuff feb 16 around noon.
  • Works for Windows, painful. Still trying for Fedora 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 

(more suggested:)

   * flash drives
   * projector checked out and working