Weekly zine/About

Weely'zine

The Weekly zine started from OLPC 'support-gang' germinating ideas from irc and the mailing list. Several volunteers stated it would be great to have an overview or summary view of all the activity going on around OLPC. A weekly Wiki newsletter was already started by ixo (Iain), and the ideas soon sprouted from there. More volunteers started offering assistance and ideas.

Original core group, of which, Weekly zine would not be possible:

• Iain (irc : ixo)
• Seth (irc:isforinsects)
• Mel (irc : mchua)
• Firefoxman (irc : ffm)
• Phil B. (irc : Phil_Bordelon)
• Adric (irc : adric_work)
• Sj
  
• ? Adam Holt ?

Current issues

Main index of All Weekly zine issues

• Issue 0: Blast off, initial issue: (2008 Jan-Feb 10th)
• Issue 1: The really big issue. (2008 Feb 10th - 17th)
• Issue 2: Even bigger issue.
• Issue 3: My issue is bigger than your issue.
• Issue 4: That's not an issue, this is an issue.
• Issue 5: The big puffy shirt issue.

Next Issue

Next issue is currently under way... looking for contributors. Go ahead and add your own reviews, summaries, and observations under the appropriate section !!!!

• Issue 0 (Pilot) -

Please use the following Guidelines

• Weekly zine/MoS - Manual of style: How are articles are to look.
• Weekly zine/Outline - Outline of basic structure of Weekly zine and issues.

Ideas for future issues

Future topics/features

• interview the original core OLPC who are still with OLPC (as per IRC chat on support gang)
• Project of the Day
• Summaries from each of the country News sites.
• Updates from BrightStar and Pariot (what's been happening there...)
• Estimates on current number of 'active' volunteers (i.e. made contact in last week / month?)
  • Encourage registering volunteer hours in database for local volunteer 'hour log'
  • aka. 1-800-volunteer

... other ideas