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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"

  • Help
  • the 4 TamTams
  • Pippy
  • Turtle Art
  • Calculate
  • Measure
  • Distance
  • Ruler
  • Scratch
  • WikiBrowse English
  • Log

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
  • 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 2008-12-6, 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.
  • Group test 2009-01-24, testing 8.2-767, Help, Browse, TurtleArt, Wikipedia, Tamtam Mini.
  • Presentations by Walter Bender - Sugarlabs

Who are we

If you want to follow what we do in detail and hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz

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/

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