User:GJavetski

About Me

My name is Gillian Javetski and I am an intern at OLPC's Cambridge office this summer. I am a senior at Tufts University, where I am double majoring in international relations and community health. I took this past semester off to work at the United Nations Development Programme's HIV/AIDS unit in Geneva. At OLPC, I will be conducting research on UN and international partnerships.

General Synopsis

• Blog posts (both writing and editing)
  • Afghanistan blog posts, including one, two, three --> Go through and select photos for Afghanistan blog posts
  • Other blog posts, including XO 1.5HS, Indonesian laptop
• UNICEF/Afghanistan research for wiki page, including foreign aid data
  • Correspond with Mike Dawson, met with Matt and Salim
  • Afghanistan budget research for Matt; spoke with contacts at a variety of think tanks and USAID
  • Research on incorporating an NGO in Afghanistan
  • Work on Afghanistan grant process, do research, create google docs, beginning to add information, met with Barbara for information
  • UNICEF/Afghanistan memo
• WFP/Nepal wiki page: corresponded with Nepal team
• Haiti Partners/Haiti wiki page: met with Adam to discuss Haiti
• Working with/checking in on volunteers on IRC Chat
  • Worked on Class/Act Resources with Shirish
• Events: Conference call on education with tinygames (6/17), meeting on Realness Conference (6/17), call with Reverend Franck Boah (6/18), RIT Hackfest (7/8), MIT Media Lab (7/12), meeting with Salim (7/16), OLPC Conference (7/17)
• Twittering daily
  • Updating microblog wiki page
• XO 1.5 HS teardown and photos

Timeline/To Do List

• Week of July 28-31st: wrote blog posts about Afghanistan and 1.5HS, put grant application and SF424 up, continue working on wiki page on Nepal.
• Week August 2-August 6: Look at Matt's research request about incorporating an office in Afghanistan, email Nepal group for feedback and incorporate feedback, go through OLE newsletters, make wiki page on country statistics (number of primary school students, public private distinction, gender gap) from UNESCO, Haiti wiki page, Ethiopia wiki page
• Week of August 9-13: post tear down instructions, Rwanda wiki page, work on white pages
• August 16-24: home for vacation
• August 24-September 4: finishing up white pages, possibly writing a page on Paraguay

Daily Breakdown

• 30 June, 2010: Selected and uploaded photos for new Afghanistan blog posts, continued to collect research for UNICEF Afghanistan memo.
• 1 July, 2010: Created a google reader account, went through and read past blog posts on OLPC's work in Afghanistan, began uploading findings onto wiki account.
• 6 July, 2010: Finalized wiki page, worked with volunteers on IRC, continually formatting and editing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources#OLPC_Deployment_Stories, published one blog post, revising other three.
• 8 July 2010: Sat in on a hackfest with students from RIT (so cool!), continued editing and adding parts to the Afghanistan memo, worked with volunteer Shirish about how to improve certain wiki pages
• 9 July 2010: Discussed feedback, added an "OLPC in Afghanistan" section to wikipage, created a two page memo on OLPC in Afghanistan with recommendations
• 10 July 2010: Finalized Afghanistan memo, sent off for input
• 12 July 2010: Reviewed Afghanistan memo, visit to MIT Media Lab with Adam (awesome!!)
• 13 July 2010: Worked from home due to class at 1pm. Phone & email updates
• 14 July 2010 (Bastille Day!): Finalizing Troubleshooting Guide, including editing for content and adding hyperlinks, added hidden links, uploaded information from Troubleshooting Guide online discussed UNICEF Afghanistan memo, set up an appointment to speak with Mike Dawson regarding OLPC in Afghanistan
• 15 July 2010: Began applying feedback to both Afghanistan memo and wiki page, OLPC Salad day!
• 16 July 2010: Finalized feedback from Afghanistan project, updated Afghanistan memo, brainstormed questiosn for Mike Dawson, talked to Mike Dawson about gender/curricular/non-traditional schools in Afghanistan, met with SJ, Salim, Matt, Roberta, Mike, and Adam about Afghanistan.
• 17 July 2010: Attended first four talks at OLPC meeting at Media Lab; wonderful.
• 19 July 2010: Twitter, moved Afghanistan information to separate page, did extensive research on Afghanistan numbers
• 20 July 2010: Twittered, set up final meeting, finished up Afghanistan research, emailed it off for feedback, put it on Wiki, created OLPC Nepal background page
• 21 July 2010: Twittered, followed up on Matt's question (had issues finding education numbers in budget), contacted a few USAID people and will follow up to get numbers, wrote blogpost on Afghanistan and uploaded as draft to website, wrote and uploaded blogpost on newest low-cost Indonesian laptop.
• 22 July 2010: Not in office today. Spent some time on the phone with people from USAID about Afghanistan, created contacts within the office. Twittered.
• 23 July 2010: Twittered, edited microblog wiki, spent majority of the day disassembling and photgraphing the top and bottom of the XO 1.5HS.
• 26 July 2010: Twittered, read and took notes on Afghanistan grant proposal, began writing up sections of it. Need to meet with SJ to go over what needs to be done here.
• 27 July 2010: Half day (left early to go to class). Twittered, talked with Barbara about grant, began looking at things and putting it together on google doc, twittered, wnet to class, updated application online, replied to emails.
• 28 July 2010: Phone call with Matt, wrote up SF424 onto Google Docs, added information from Barbara's email into Google Doc, created a to do list of remaining few weeks, wrote up two blog posts about Afghanistan and 1.5 HS
• 29-30 July 2010: Created OLPC Nepal Background page
• 2 August 2010: spoke with Mike about teardown photos for blog photos, final touches to OLPC Nepal, Twittered, cleaned up proposed dents on microblog wiki page, researched Matt's request about incorporating an office in Afghanistan and sent findings to SJ, emailed Nepal group about page and asking for feedback, began working on UNESCO education wiki page