Our Plans

Focus for 27 January is Walter Bender visiting - sugarlabs founder - event to be hosted by Catalyst New Zealand - OLPC Wellington and Catalyst IT Ltd invite you to meet Walter Bender, founder of sugarlabs, a non-profit foundation. Python based, Sugar enhances educational experience by emphasising collaboration and expression. Sugar is the interface used on XOs distributed around the world by OLPC. Venue - Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington. RSVP session 12-2 or 5-7 on 27 January by emailing <tabitha@learning.ac.nz>

1. Testing Activities 2. Keep working on our testing strategy to ensure we are getting it right. 3. Keep having fun!

List of activities to "test more"

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Thanks to Ian Thomson, Project Coordinator for Pacific RICs and Oceania OLPC. Ian came to testing on Saturday 10th January to talk about Pacific deployments. Thanks to Callum O'Hagan for showing us how to pull apart and rebuild our XOs. Nice hardware session.

Who's got what

Where are the laptops?
Laptop	Who	Project
Laptop 1 (Karora)	Andrew McMillan	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 2 (Loco)	Brenda	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 3 (Pyro)	Alastair Munro	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 4 (Simba)	Tabitha Roder	Testing 8.2-767 User:Tabitha
Laptop 5 (Shrek)	Dan Marsden	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 6 (Rocco)	Dave Lane	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 7 (Moodle)	Uli Muellner	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 8 (Josh)	Grant Patterson	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 9 (Tio)	Edward Murrell	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 10 (Shiny)	Callum	Testing 8.2-767

Log of things done

Group tests 2008-11-16, Testing 8.2-764 to 8.2-767, tested Moon-8, Implode-5, Maze-6, Memorize-28

Group tests 2008-11-23, Testing 8.2-767, tested Analyze, Speak-9, Read-52, Browse-98, attempted tests on bookreader, made changes to shared test result spreadsheet - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pw29kBR10gwSAHxMTv6VfEA&hl=en

Tabitha and Dan ran demo at Effusion-1 office: 190 Hereford St, Christchurch for Egressive. About half a dozen people had a decent play with the 5 XOs we brought with us. Now 2 XOs loaned out in Christchurch for potential test group.

Group tests 2008-11-29, Testing 8.2-767, tested geoquiz-3 and record-59, tried out spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pyBIsSK_3IlsHBpwk1EFNcQ

Group tests 2008-12-6, testing 8.2-767, chat, paint, terminal

Group tests 2008-12-13, testing 8.2-767, eToys

Group test 2009-01-10, testing 8.2-767, Food Force II, Chat, met Ian Thomson and had great chats

Group test 2009-01-17, testing 8.2-767, Food Force II, Gnubook, Socialcalc, Tamtam Mini. Also learned about XO hardware.

Who are we

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If anyone stumbles across this page and wants to join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. tabitha.roder@gmail.com

Check out the Cross - http://thecross.co.nz/