OLPC:News/2008/Week 25
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the week in review: Week 24, 2008* |
^ Overview
Weekly updates : our new crop of summer interns have been filing weekly project updates, and GSoC interns are discussing their work on the gsoc mailing list. Take a look below and leave them personal feedback on their talk pages.
Calendar : Mark the date --
- OLPC Grasscon, an online conference starting at 10am on July 19, sponsored by OLPC@Duke.
- This Sunday, Jun 22, in Manhattan : a Make event for hacking the XO.
x Connections
opportunities, people, engagements
Reports from the field:
- SJ, Seth and Alex Levenson each attended parts of a technology and training conference held in Norfolk, VA. It was largely a trade show, but useful connections were made with people from Ericsson, ALION, CSC; the two town-sized floating hospitals maintained by the US Sealift Command; and technologists from Chile, Romania, and Brasil. Attendees generally expressed their support for "targeting the root of the problems facing poor countries, not their symptoms".
From around 1CC:
- Most of the development team has been in Cambridge since the middle of last week, and are staying through this coming Friday. We held a few days of presentations about basic technology for the new interns and staff, with videos being posted to the presentations page.
- We are having our weekly support meeting Sunday at 4pm, as per usual.
· Artefacts
projects, events, news, materials
- A number of OLPCers attended FUDCon 2008 here in Boston, notably mstone and Martin Langhoff.
From Sugarlabs:
- A Sugarlabs planet has been set up. A separate server is being prepared over the next two weeks for hosting other tools.
Grassroots updates:
- OLPC Grasscon, an online conference starting at 10am on July 19, organized by OLPC@Duke and Alex Keybl.
- Following up on the Grassroots bootcamp, we are preparing for an end-of-summer gathering to show off work that has been done by our interns and other projects. This is tentatively scheduled for three days starting August 20; stay tuned for details.
= Fundament
status, deadlines, assumptions, processes
Weekly updates
- Interns @ 1Cc :
- Daniel Drake
- Alex Levenson
- Brian Jordan has been rocking out all week.
- Seth Woodworth and Femslade have been travelling this past week
- GSoC efforts :
- Tarun Pondicherry - developing a blog framework
- Hemant goyal - first text-to-speech integration
- Assim Deodia - command-line talkntype working with WordNet data
- Nirav Patel - publishing code regularly; in need of more mentor assistance to revise milestones
- Other mentored summer projects/internships :
- Rajan Vaish
- Prakhar Agarwal
- Shikhar Bushan - update on tinymail project needed
Process suggestions
- ChristophD writes "We still wanted to rework the Tech internships entry as it's currently only showing the profiles, catered to a different use-case. Any suggestions? Maybe something such as mentors?
Offers of help
- ChristophD is interested in being a mentor for documentation.
- A norlandic bag manufacturer is offering to make carrying bags for the XO. This hinges on our getting the Preferred Vendor agreement boilerplate squared away.
Help wanted
- Lucia Lovison is organizing some geography bundles, and wants to work with someone who is teaching about historical geography, and will be looking for help tomorrow in the office.
+ Priorities
milestones, sequences, first and next
o Reflection
review, updates, analysis, feedback
Exhibit gear and handouts: Last week's presentation by OLPC in an exhibit hall would have been smoother with a booth kit for presentations, including press, printed material, swag, and a set of gear packed for checking on a plane.