Grassroots bootcamp/Schedule

June 7-8 (Sat-Sun) - Grassroots unconference

See Grassroots unconference for more information.

June 9 (Mon) Grassroots day

• 10am-11:30am - Introductions and round-table mini-spiels on what everyone's grassroots group is up to, biggest vents/gripes/problems-to-fix; updating list of projects to tackle during the week.
• 11:30am-12:30pm - Information gathering party - create/update a survey/directory of existing grassroots groups and projects those groups are doing
• 12:30pm-2pm - Lunch, open work time
• 2pm-4pm - break up into subteams to work on various problems (we may have a brainstorm for each first, if teams want them)
  • "How to start a grassroots group" - a guide on what you'd tell new grassroots groups leaders about what you wish you'd known. Be sure to cover communication, meetups, events, and partnerships.
  • grassroots group frameworks
  • How to run a Jam - fleshing out details of the upcoming weekend, generalizing this into a skeleton howto for putting together such an event
  • So you want to run a grassroots bootcamp - meta-exercise on how others could run a bootcamp like the one we're in right now (it won't be finished, but a framework to put notes into throughout the week should be in place).
  • guide to communications and finding info in the community
  • Other subgroups that may have been defined during the morning
• 3:30pm - subteams present their deliverables, whatever state they're in
• 4pm - official end, but people can stay to work on projects

June 10 (Tue) Education day

• 10am-noon - Roleplay being kids in an XO pilot (volunteer to serve turns as a "teacher")
  • Constructionism 101
• noon-1:30pm - Lunch with Kim Quirk. Kim will talk about (topics tentative, but likely)
  • "OLPC APIs" - what interfaces between 1cc and olpc grassroots should exist? which ones do exist now?
  • supply chain flow of laptops - how does the factory decide how many to produce, how do they get from quanta to whom, who decides that allocation? Essentially, the process that many view as "OLPC" is really a number of organizations working together to get XOs out to people... how does that work?
• 1:30pm-3:30pm - open work time. projects can include finishing up yesterday's, or things like
  • how to start a pilot guide
  • working with a classroom guide
  • getting laptops and hardware guide
  • "what's up with deployments?" guide
• 3:30pm - stand-up presentations on project progress
• 4pm - official end, but people can stay to work on projects

June 11 (Wed) Infrastructure day

The schedule isn't fleshed out yet, but we'll again be going from 10am-4pm and staying later if people want to continue wrok

• Grassroots groups support program / developers program / community program from OLPC: what's needed? Let's make it. (Follow-up on Kim's talk the previous day)
• Newsletter/communications
• Set up your group's webpage/wiki/mailing list/RT/trac/etc time
• Practice setting up the above for the test Jam
• Joining global efforts : support-gang, open working groups
• Projects for today can include things like
  • bootcamp guide
  • jam guide
  • working with a field deployment
  • fundraising and financing a project

June 12 (Thu) Laptop day

Again, schedule is not fleshed out yet, but we'll be going from 10am-4pm with people staying later if they want to continue work.

• How to disassemble/repair an XO + how to run a repair center
• Running a content project
• Running a translation/il8n project
• Running an Activity-making project
• Getting involved in core development
• possible projects
  • repair manual
  • activity guide

June 13 (Fri) Jam prep day

This day is deliberately left open so that people can finish up projects, tie up loose ends, and travel to NYC (make your own arrangements, or group together to book hotels/bus during the week). We will convene at 7:30pm at the headquarters of the Open Planning Project, 349 West 12th Street #3.

Plans for the evening:

• Review of how to run a Jam
• Presentation/timeline of the upcoming Jam from core team (selected on Grassroots day)
• Teleconference with teachers at various deployments

June 14-15 (Sat-Sun) Grassroots Jam NYC

See Grassroots Jam for more details.