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Current

Reading list

While in 1cc

  • 'Zine articles: finish and upload to Weekly_zine/0 for isforinsects
    • Interview/talk-to Adam about support-gang
    • Talk to Adam & Kim about shipping situation
  • Talk to SJ and Adam about community-building, documentation situation
  • Talk to SJ about university infrastructure (with Seth et al)
  • SJ, Nikki, Chris, etc. about OLPC America (Sally Ford), grassroots, community centers, OLPC Chicago.
  • Read http://privacy.org, http://michaelgeist.ca, and http://epic.org to understand more about the privacy issues Adam has mentioned.
  • Testing: see User:Chihyu/Help_wanted
  • make wiki templates for grassroots groups, uni chapters, projects - send to Arjun
  • Recruit for Health. Recruit for Health. Recruit for Health.
  • Recruit for Peripherals. Recruit for Peripherals. Recruit for Peripherals.
  • Health and Peripherals activities?
    • Jam/Flash conf at Olin? (health periphs, chargers)
    • tv show filming design challenge for chargers?
    • d-lab? idds?
  • peripherals that could be built
    • sensor logging module (mcolyer's poe + my dcontinuum projects combined - or find a chip that's > pic, cheaper too)

While at Olin

  • Chris Carrick and chargers
  • Nikki, Greg, and the Disassembly Film
  • Read Greg's "Made To Stick" book - take notes
  • Get Olin kids hooked up with IMSA ones
  • Get Olin and IMSA kids to support other uni groups, write uni group docs
  • Springtime Jam at Olin? Flash conf? Chargers + health periphs needed sorely. W/ other schools?
  • Chris and HFID group - wiki cleanup/redesign
  • Nikki and task tracking interfaces/docs
  • Ollie and the internship-finding page
  • Chris Carrick + Appropedia + mechE development ftw?
  • Nikki, Chris, Andy, and OLPC Chicago office. We must talk.
  • Game Jam Boston 2008 - MIT might host, but Olin has experienced runners
  • [saturation test]

Once in NYC

  • Contact local support-gangers about starting NYC grassroots activities
  • Get hacking equipment with paltry streams of discretionary income
  • find python users groups. attend.

Upcoming events I'll be at

Ongoing

  • Jams
  • Testing
  • Wiki cleanup
  • Metacontent - Finding information can be tricky. Let's try to fix that.
  • Metapresentations - Compiling a review/summary of presentations on Laptop demonstrations and Presentations. Can you help?
  • Metawiki - Doing clean-up as per the Style guide whenever I can
  • Being a sort of wiki welcome wagon and helping out newcomers. Let me know if you're interested; we could always use more people to help show newbies around.
  • Grassroots groups I'm actively involved in
  • School chapters I actively mentor
  • Wiki pages I created/maintain

Back burner

Notes

  • /Todo - OLPC task list of things I've committed to getting done. If you'd like to assign me a task, leave a message on my talk page and I'll notify you when I accept (and move it to my tasklist). Feel free to harass me about anything on the Todo list.
  • /Braindumps - Thoughts in progress that are not yet fully formed or ready to go to main wiki. Probably inaccurate, half-baked, or some combination of the two. You have been warned.
  • /Sandbox - For testing wiki syntax, templates, etc.

Someday

Projects and ideas I'd like to do, or see done, but haven't committed to yet. Usually the missing part is a collaborator, knowledge, resources, or just plain old activation energy and free time. If you'd like to take one of these projects (the important thing is that they happen, not who makes them happen), collaborate with me on any of them, offer support, or just talk and brainstorm about related ideas, please contact me.

  • OLPC webcomic
  • Rosetta Stone clone in Pygame (Update: An IMSA student is now doing this as her research project.)
  • Front-end for music composition (GUI for Lilypond? Something to translate between TamTam and Lilypond?)
  • "Heathkit" style build-your-own peripheral kits for the XO (solder your own gamepad, etc)
  • Intro to electrical engineering through taking apart & developing for the XO
  • Ad Libris, a lightweight metadata structure spec for the Library. (Update: This may have been taken up by OLE Nepal, but I can't tell from their descriptions yet.)

Past

Goodies