User:Mchua/Projects

These are ongoing projects. For a more immediate slice of what I'm working on, see my user page or weekly updates.

• Writing Developer tutorials for various parts of the stack.
• Rewriting the Accessibility portal, followed by Internships, Summer of Content, Peripherals, Health, University program, Review squad, and a refactor of OLPC Chicago.
• Firmware development for TeleHealth Hardware (waiting for schematics to be finished)

• Grassroots groups I'm actively involved in

• OLPC Philippines
• OLPC Indonesia
• OLPC Taiwan

• School chapters I actively mentor

• Olin university chapter
• Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter.

• Wiki pages I created/maintain

• Participate
• Wiki getting started
• Wiki cleanup
• Style guide (Actually started by SJ in response to my newbie wiki mistakes.)
• See my Contributions for more.

Past

• Was one of the coordinators of the first OLPC Game Jam (and indeed, the first OLPC Jam), Game Jam Boston June 2007. We even got on TV.
• Helped out at Free Content Jam Taipei and represented OLPC at Wikimania, including (loosely) staffing the "XO station"
• Co-ran a week-long OLPC project camp with Scott Swanson at IMSA in Jan. 2008
• "Unofficial cat-herder" (read: instigator) of the first OLPC Chicago meetup at Google Chicago in Jan. 2008.
• Was at the Olin hackathon in Needham, MA on Feb. 16, 2008
• Was at the NYU OLPC Jam on Feb. 23, 2008, but spent most of it working on open-source fabrication with Smari, although some hacking on XOs did get done.
• Co-coordinated the Story Jam New York in Manhattan, March 28-30 2008. The ambassador from Ecuador even came to record stories!
• Co-coordinated the Health Jam - University of Washington, April 18-20 2008. There was an article in the student paper about the event.
• Linuxfest Northwest - ran the OLPC track with Iain Davidson.
• Participated in the Community Jam in Cambridge, MA at the Cambridge Science Festival. Edward Freedman and Pat Greninger organized the event, and Diane Serley led a disassembly party.