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- Clarify volunteer roles/opportunities/processes
- Syndicate intern opportunities in one space?
- ...from various countries and organizations.
- Help redirect orgal interest away from donating funds and towards hosting and mentoring interns
- Merge volunteer pages
- Online “welcome wagon" packet... what would this include?
- Checklist for getting started
- Templates for creating a local wiki
- Links to (or pdfs of) some of the crucial OLPCwiki pages
- OLPC blog & photojournal
- Templates for creating OLPC user "homepage" (currently wikipage) w/ instructions on how to set up a free blog (blogger/wordpress) etc.
- Who is everyone, and what are they working on
- Pix w/ XO
- 3D tour of XO
- "Poster Child"ren
- How to document pilot programs (Category:Pilot site)
- Photos
- Stories/anecdotes
- Examples of use
- Profiles of kids and their laptops (maybe via the OurStories project)
- Screenshot app-- develop + have kids take a screenshot of their laptop in its favorite use/config
- XO map
- Roles and Teams
- Install Team
- Instructions on getting the emulator installed
- A core team of people that help others to install the emulator
- IRC Channel, Private chat on AIM, whatever it takes.
- Facilitators
- Direct volunteers toward projects they might be interested in by making themselves available for private chat or in a group chat. Someone comes in and says, hey I want to help, these are my skills. A director can help direct them where to go.
- Facilitators are most likely people who just lurk all the time on IRC or something along those lines.
- Candy Stripers
- coating community members and their computers in fine layers of Sugar... until the emulators are really good.
- helping launch locos
- Install Team
- Todo
- Todo list should have difficulty levels, like the art of computer programming. E.g., If you know Python then a problem is a:
- 10 if you could do debug/fix/add feature in a couple minutes,
- 17 if you could do it in one sitting, but it may take a few hours,
- 20, means you could do it in a few days
- 29, means you could do it in a couple weeks with a lot of creativity.
- 30, maybe a couple weeks to a couple of months, but it's hard.
- 34, maybe a couple of months with a lot of creativity and innovation
- 40, Maybe a couple of years
- 50, you may be lucky to knock the problem into the 40s in a couple years.
- 51, first find a new base and reduce to a previous problem
- Todo list should indicate the urgency of the item for the project.
- ... and the necessity of the item to the project.
- One possible model is the mysociety volunteer list. Might be people worth talking to.
- Another is a bugtracker (or more user-friendly version thereof). Should we use the current OLPC bugtracker for these tasks as well?
- Todo list should have difficulty levels, like the art of computer programming. E.g., If you know Python then a problem is a: