OLPC New Zealand
There are several groups in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.
- Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008
- Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly
- Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
- Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
- Independent project proposals
Come join us
To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz Look at laptop.org.nz for current events in New Zealand.
Wellington group
The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.
We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.
To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. Check out the Cross
Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.
Auckland group
Suz & Tamara Olliver are looking at creating an OLPC owners group to meet up in Auckland and Wellington to review progress, show off what we are doing, generally socialise and probably eat curry. Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us. Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. Watch the Video to see for yourself
Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City
Moodle Developers
A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.
- At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)
What else is going on?
Tabitha has issued a Call For Papers for the education miniconf we're running at the LCA2010 conference mid January next year
We're testing the full activity bundle for the upcoming Peru deployment
Some kind folks in Sydney are rounding up unused dust gathering XOs from the LCA2007 giveaway to ship to Wellington.
Who's got what
| Laptop | Who | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Laptop 1 (Karora) | Andrew McMillan | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 2 (Loco) CSN74701D32 | Tim McNamara | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 3 (Pyro) SHF8150259E | Alastair Munro | Testing 8.2-767 User:Aly |
| Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC | Tabitha Roder | Testing 8.2-767 User:Tabitha |
| Laptop 5 (Shrek) SHF81502638 | John Roder j.roder@auckland.ac.nz | Attempting to start Auckland group |
| Laptop 6 (Rocco) CSN7480015B | Callum and Brenda | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 7 (Moodle) | Uli Muellner | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 8 (Josh) CSN749028BA | Grant Patterson | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 9 (Tio) SHF7250080F | Callum and Brenda | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 10 (Pogo) CSN74802463 | Tabitha Roder | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 11 (Zephyr) SHF80802932 | Grant Patterson | Testing on....656 |
| Laptop 12 (Rambo) CSN74802145 | Alastair Munro | Testing on 8.2 |
| Laptop 13 (Mojo) CSN74701F41 | M Fabiana Kubke f.kubke@auckland.ac.nz | Attempting to start Auckland group |
| Laptop 14 (Twilight) CSN74804BF8 | Tabitha Roder | Testing on 8.2 |
| Laptop 15 (Monkey) CSN74804D7E | Bex | Testing on.... |
| Laptop 16 (Pinchy) | David and Sigi | Testing 8.2-767 on own machine |
Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about
We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to the WellyNZTesters page Also check out the laptop.org.nz site for our stories.
See us in action
