Support meetings

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Support Gang meetings occur every Sunday 4PM, Eastern Time. The guest speaker begins ~4:10pm and call-in discussion follows. We've had over 30 great meetings since we began late Dec 2007 -- and will continue to have many more throughout 2008 -- sorry we don't always have time to publish minutes!

If you want to join and/or become a Community Support Volunteer, contact Adam Holt right here!

Agenda/Minutes Below: (may require teamwiki password, until private info redacted)

• 2008 Oct 05 - BBQ in Medford, MA chez Holt/Seth, w/ Cincy visitors!
• 2008 Sep 28 - Guest Speaker: Elana Langer on her coordinating Mongolia Deployment, throughout the summer of 2008.
• 2008 Sep 21 - Guest Speaker: Michael Stone on Give1Get1's new release schedule, likely to include Build 708 (initially) AND Build 8.2.x. Separately Fedora 10 (Linux) may be available.
• 2008 Sep 14 - Guest Speaker: #1 Erik Garrison's Peru Deployment Report, an Engineer's Perspective; #2 SJ Klein on Rebuilding the Contributors Program; #3 G1G1 2008/2009 Evolves
• 2008 Sep 07 - Guest Speakers: Ian Daniher of OLPCinci and Diane Serley of XOexplosion.com. Topic: Repair Center & Spare Parts, Success Stories, & The Future!
• 2008 Aug 31 - Guest Speaker: Caryl Bigenho (longtime teacher & volunteer), Brian Jordan (OLPC Intern) and David Cavallo (OLPC VP Learning) examine: Educators' Learning Content. Public Mtg (90 min) Co-Hosted With Aug 29-31 Physics Game Jam.
• 2008 Aug 24 - Guest Speaker: Kim Quirk (OLPC VP SW/Support) standing in for Chuck Kane (OLPC President/COO) Topic: Open Questions from Volunteers

• 2008 Aug 17 - Guest Speaker: Daniel Drake (OLPC Intern) Topic: Build 8.2.0
• 2008 Aug 10 - Guest Speaker: Rachel Kropa (CAA) Topic: 200-XO Laptop Deployment in Mozambique
• 2008 Aug 03 - Guest Speaker: Mike Lee (AARP, founder of DC's http://olpclearningclub.org) Topic: OLPC History
• 2008 Jul 27 - Guest Speaker: Christoph Derndorfer (OPLC News Editor) Topic: Documentation, Europe, Testing
• 2008 Jul 20 - Guest Speaker: Seth Woodworth (OLPC Intern & Underground Director of Development) Topic: Documentation
• 2008 Jul 13 - Guest Speaker: Chris Leonard (OPLC Volunteer) Topic: Volunteer Tools
• 2008 Jul 05 - NO MEETING (HOLIDAY)
• 2008 Jun 29 - Guest Speaker: Sayamindu Dasgupta (OLPC Translation Manager) Topic: Pootle
• 2008 Jun 22 - Guest Speaker: Chuck Kane (OLPC President/COO) Topic: Give1Get1 2008
• 2008 Jun 15 - Guest Speaker: Michael Stone (OLPC Release Manager) Topic: Topic: Build 8.2.0
• 2008 Jun 08 - Guest Speaker: Rabi Karmacharya (OLE Nepal Exec Director) Topic: OLE Nepal, Volunteerism
• 2008 Jun 01 - Guest Speaker: Yianni Galanis (OLPC Intern) Topic: Wireless/Mesh testing
• 2008 May 25 - NO MEETING (HOLIDAY)
• 2008 May 18 - Guest speaker: Chuck Kane (OLPC President/COO) Topic: Peace in the (Volunteer-Driven!) Valley
• 2008 May 11 - Open Meeting
• 2008 May 04 - Open Meeting
• 2008 Apr 27 - Guest Speaker: Kim Quirk (OLPC Director of Tech) & Michael Stone (OLPC Core SW Developer)
• 2008 Apr 20 - Open Meeting
• 2008 Apr 13 - Open Meeting
• 2008 Apr 06 - Guest Speaker: Bryan Berry (OLPC Nepal) Topic: OLPC Nepal
• 2008 Mar 30 - Open Meeting
• 2008 Mar 23 - Guest Speaker: Ric Holt (UWaterloo, SW Engineering Prof) Topic: SW Arch & Mental Models
• 2008 Mar 16 - Open Meeting
• 2008 Mar 09 - Guest Speaker: Yianni Galanis (OLPC Intern) Topic: Wireless
• 2008 Mar 02 - Guest Speaker: Enky Zurgaanjin (OLPC Mongolia deployment team)
• 2008 Feb 24 - Guest Speaker: Darah Tappitake (OLPC Country communications)
• 2008 Feb 17 - Guest Speaker: C. Scott Ananian (OLPC software engineer)
• 2008 Feb 10 - Guest Speaker: Henry Hardy (OLPC sysadmin)
• 2008 Feb 03 - Guest Speaker: Richard Smith (OLPC hardware engineer)
• 2008 Jan 27 - Guest Speaker: Manu Gupta (OLPC consultant from India)
• 2008 Jan 20 - Guest Speaker: Anders Mogensen (Nigeria)
• 2008 Jan 13 - Guest Speaker: Amit Gognaa (OLPC India)
• 2008 Jan 06 - Open Meeting
• 2007 Dec 30 - Open Meeting
• 2007 Dec 23 - Open Meeting
• 2007 Dec 19 - Open Meeting

Yes meetings are open to volunteers only -- thank you for volunteering!!