OLPC Friends/SydneyUG
The Has location city::Sydney (Has location country::Australia) OLPC User Group meets monthly to do testing, hacking and general techie activities around the OLPC. Announcements are made through the OLPC Friends mailing list.
Many thanks to the Welly NZ Testers who have created such a great model for OLPC testing.
Please call Pia on 0400 966 453 if you have any questions (or get lost when looking for events :))
Next meeting
The hackfest is back this month and we will be meeting at Macquarie University on Start date::Saturday 25th April 2009 1:00pm - 5:00pm.
Previous meetings
Next meeting with be Saturday the 28th February from 11am till 3pm. We skipped January due to all the post http://linux.conf.au catchup needed by several people involved :)
This month, we will be trying a venue called Curious Works at Suite 402 (level 4), 11 Randle St, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010. Details on their website here http://www.curiousworks.com.au/about/
Actions for next meeting
- Testing Activities for G1G1; use http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_Activity_testing and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_smoke_testing to report testing.
- Testing Image 8.2.1 - has new patches to deal with network issues discussed here.
- Keep working on our testing strategy to ensure we are getting it right.
- Keep having fun!
Bonus testing options
- Write usage instructions and expected feature lists on the Activity wiki page, so users know more what to expect - http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/Analyze as an example.
- Contact Activity maintainers (all of them have emails listed on their userpages now) with your feedback, and ask how it can be made most helpful to them. (Cc the testing list, please, so we hear their feedback too!)
- After every testing sprint Pia will report on the groups progress to http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing and to the OLPC Friends website which is aggregated at http://planet.laptop.org.
Who's got what
Add your laptop below to the testing group. Pia will bring 5 or 10 extra XOs every session.
| Laptops | Who | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 laptops | Pia Waugh | |
| 3 laptops | John Ferlito | |
| 2 laptops | Margaret |
Tips for Testing
- Developer information - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers
Log of things done
We'll list our achievements as we go.
Saturday 20th December 2008
- Attendees - Pia Waugh, Jeff Waugh, Aimee Forsstrom + 2, John Ferlito, Benjamin Pfeiffer, Nick Cross + 1, Henry, David Schweinsberg, Nick, Margaret
- About half the group were doing testing of the G1G1 Activities, others were discussing potential trials, partnerships and potential development projects.
- Hours: ~3hrs