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.

What I am currently working on

• 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, worked with Adam on ClassActs/Resources page.
• 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, edited Troubleshooting page, visit to MIT Media Lab with Adam (awesome!!)
• 13 July 2010: Worked from home due to class at 1pm. Phone & email updates, uploaded information from Troubleshooting Guide online
• 14 July 2010 (Bastille Day!): Finalizing Troubleshooting Guide, including editing for content and adding hyperlinks, added hidden links, 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.

Timeline/To Do List

Week July 28-31st:

• Complete two blog posts (1.5 hs and Afghanistan)
• Call US Embassy in Kabul office about past grant fundees
• Continue working on Wiki page on Nepal

Week August 2-August 5:

• Begin captioning XO 1.5HS photos
• Make wiki page for all country statistic (number of primary school students, public private distinction, gender gap) from UN report on education. Update Afghan page with this information.
• Create an OLPC Wiki page on Rwanda and Ethiopia

Week August 9-13:

• Create an OLPC Wiki page on Haiti