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* make wiki templates for grassroots groups, uni chapters, projects - send to [[User:Arjs|Arjun]]
* make wiki templates for grassroots groups, uni chapters, projects - send to [[User:Arjs|Arjun]]


=== While at Olin ===


* Chris Carrick and chargers
* Nikki, Greg, and the Disassembly Film
* Read Greg's "Made To Stick" book - take notes
* Get Olin kids hooked up with IMSA ones
* Get Olin and IMSA kids to support other uni groups, write uni group docs
* Springtime Jam at Olin? Flash conf? Chargers + health periphs needed sorely. W/ other schools?
* Chris and HFID group - wiki cleanup/redesign
* Nikki and task tracking interfaces/docs
* Ollie and the internship-finding page
* Chris Carrick + Appropedia + mechE development ftw?
* Nikki, Chris, Andy, and OLPC Chicago office. We must talk.
* Game Jam Boston 2008 - MIT might host, but Olin has experienced runners
* [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Update.1#RF_Saturation_.28salut.2Flocal_link_scaling_test.3F.29|wireless saturation test]]


=== Once in NYC ===
=== Once in NYC ===

Revision as of 04:14, 18 March 2008

Current

Reading list

While in 1cc


Once in NYC

  • Contact local support-gangers about starting NYC grassroots activities
  • Get hacking equipment with paltry streams of discretionary income
  • find python users groups. attend.


Ongoing

  • Jams
  • Testing
  • Wiki cleanup
  • Metacontent - Finding information can be tricky. Let's try to fix that.
  • Metapresentations - Compiling a review/summary of presentations on Laptop demonstrations and Presentations. Can you help?
  • Metawiki - Doing clean-up as per the Style guide whenever I can
  • Being a sort of wiki welcome wagon and helping out newcomers. Let me know if you're interested; we could always use more people to help show newbies around.
  • Grassroots groups I'm actively involved in
  • School chapters I actively mentor
  • Wiki pages I created/maintain

Back burner


Someday

Projects and ideas I'd like to do, or see done, but haven't committed to yet. Usually the missing part is a collaborator, knowledge, resources, or just plain old activation energy and free time. If you'd like to take one of these projects (the important thing is that they happen, not who makes them happen), collaborate with me on any of them, offer support, or just talk and brainstorm about related ideas, please contact me.

  • OLPC webcomic
  • Rosetta Stone clone in Pygame (Update: An IMSA student is now doing this as her research project.)
  • Front-end for music composition (GUI for Lilypond? Something to translate between TamTam and Lilypond?)
  • "Heathkit" style build-your-own peripheral kits for the XO (solder your own gamepad, etc)
  • Intro to electrical engineering through taking apart & developing for the XO
  • Ad Libris, a lightweight metadata structure spec for the Library. (Update: This may have been taken up by OLE Nepal, but I can't tell from their descriptions yet.)

Past

  • Was one of the coordinators of the first OLPC Game Jam (and indeed, the first OLPC Jam), Game Jam Boston June 2007. We even got on TV.
  • Helped out at Free Content Jam Taipei and represented OLPC at Wikimania, including (loosely) staffing the "XO station"
  • Co-ran a week-long OLPC project camp with Scott Swanson at IMSA in Jan. 2008
  • "Unofficial cat-herder" (read: instigator) of the first OLPC Chicago meetup at Google Chicago in Jan. 2008.
  • Was at the Olin hackathon in Needham, MA on Feb. 16, 2008
  • Was at the NYU OLPC Jam on Feb. 23, 2008, but spent most of it working on open-source fabrication with Smari, although some hacking on XOs did get done.