Olin university chapter/hackathon
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Outline
Put what will happen, make an outline of the event here. Use subheadings to designate different sections ("="). --Nikki 00:55, 31 January 2008 (EST)
To do
Andy
- Email SJ to get education people, OLPC people, press release, get XOs for Feb 16
- DONE - ALSO - ask him to champion open source stuff (talk to Allen Downey to be the “champion” of open source)
- Talk to Stolk (after Ollie does on Friday in class)
- DONE – Email Rod about Ted Sizer talking and speaking - no can do. He recommends Stolk.
- Find and email Richard Freeland (former president of Northeastern University, something to do with the Graduate School of Education at Harvard this year) recommended by Rod
- Email Ritter about MIT people for an OLPC day
- Email Lynn Stein about her coming as an HFID designer and programmer and pass on to Harvard lists
- Email Ken Hawes about him and Wellesley education students coming
- Email Lauren (Guatemala girl) about BC email lists for OLPC like things
- Make website with Ollie
- Talk to Nick Tatar about a big conf with off campus guests Feb 16
- AGAIN - Follow up with Chris C about his Friday conference and about his plans for his power generation section
- Email Mel a forwardable letter for Continuum
Ollie
- Talk to Blinder/Ozgur/Oscar about coming as design guys, also which student could champion it
- Olin faculty recruitment – targeting talking and mass email
- Done 8x11 small poster
- Big poster for dining hall
- AP introduced idea to him - Talk to Stolk
- Talk it up amongst the frosh before plans are made to leave for the 3 day weekend
- Bring it up in Babson Social E! class, bring Caslin and Charles?
- Do website with Andy, also do an internal site for participants on the day of to have access to useful wiki links and such
- Sent initial email SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
- Talk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours
Nikki
- Email Matt Jaded – tell him the plan and get him to recruit and come too
- Email Mel and keep her up to date with plan and seek advice and contacts, other OLPC groups?
- Get XOs to develop on (note that Andy is already emailing SJ, Nikki is CC’d)
- Build up support within OLPC chapter members at Olin and thru SJ in the greater Boston area
Yifan
- Call panara and peets coffee to ask for free stuff feb 16 around noon.
- Create a simple procedure for porting programs from PC to OLPC and testing
- Acquire supplies for free, make shopping list of the rest for Andy
Day of Logistics
- Create a schedule with time slots and rooms for speakers/discussions/brainstorming,
- Nametags (bright ones for "leaders")
- Pizza and beverage
- Power strips and extension cords
- Ethernet and WEP keys printed
- Whiteboards
- Dry erase markers
- Normal markers and paper and design materials
- Post its
Problem Tasks to Work On
- Emulation package for PC and MAC networks, especially schools
- Talk to Nikki and SJ for bug list of software flaws to be resolved