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 (see WellyNZTesters)
- Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly .
- Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
- Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
- Translation to Maori
- Ian Thomson is the Oceania Project Coordinator
Watch the NZ video made by Spring TV Join our Facebook group
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.
Main contacts: Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Alastair
Upcoming Education and OLPC conference in Wellington New Zealand: /LCA2010 January 18th to 23rd 2010.
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.
We are working on a translation to Maori in Pootle.
Who's got what
| Laptop | Who | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Laptop 1 (Karora) | Andrew McMillan | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 2 (Loco) CSN74701D32 | M Fabiana Kubke | XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 767, firmware Q2E18 |
| Laptop 3 (Pyro) SHF8150259E | Alastair Munro | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC | Tabitha Roder | XO-1.0, Testing 0.82.1, build 802B1, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 5 (Shrek) SHF81502638 | John Roder j.roder@auckland.ac.nz | Attempting to start Auckland group |
| Laptop 6 (Rocco) CSN7480015B | Tabitha | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21, build 767, firmware Q2E18 |
| Laptop 7 (Moodle) | Tabitha | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 8 (Josh) CSN749028BA | Tabitha | XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 9 (Tio) SHF7250080F | Callum and Brenda | XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 10 (Pogo) CSN74802463 | Julian Carver, Christchurch | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 11 (Zephyr) SHF80802932 | Julian Carver, Christchurch | Testing on....656 |
| Laptop 12 (Rambo) CSN74802145 | Tabitha | XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 13 (Mojo) CSN74701F41 | With Brenda | XO-1.0, testing 0.82.1 build 802B1, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 14 (Twilight) CSN74804BF8 | Grant | Testing on 8.2 |
| Laptop 15 (Monkey) CSN74804D7E | Bex | XO-1.0 Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 16 (Ollie) SHC937010DB | Tabitha | XO-1.5 Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18 |
| Laptop 17 (Shadow) SHC93701143 | Alastair | Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11 |
| Laptop 18 (Aslan) SHC93701128 | Alastair | Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11 |
| Laptop 19 (Poppy-Copy) SHC9370114B | Tabitha | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18 |
| Laptop 20 (Camelot) SHC937010FF | Grant | Testing on 0.84.2, OLPC release 11, Q3A11 |
| Laptop (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
Testing | Volunteer | User:Tabitha |