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Teachers' Mini-Deployment Guide (Washington DC)
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Sept 6 Sunday: Whiteboard TOC; Dinner to meet fellow writers    
Sept 7 Monday: Labor Day (no holiday for us!)
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Sept 11 Friday: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)
Come and join our Community Book Sprint!

The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a Mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced.This idea arose from our Support Gang volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there.

The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like:

For some sense of how a book sprint works, see the Book Sprints manual on the FLOSS Manuals web site, as well as Anne Gentle hot-off-the-press book Conversation and Community: The Social Web of Documentation, prominently featuring August 2008's pioneering OLPC/Sugar Austin book sprint.

Join a Historic Book Sprint

Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ lists.laptop.org explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :)

Possible Book Titles

(Very Tentative)

20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers

Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them
 Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang

alt Practical Classy Constructionism with OLPC XOs Across the World

alt++ Pragmatic Design and Implementation Patterns for Little XOs Hands Across The World

Needs

  • Ready to contribute to a chapter ? sign up here, please
  • ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
  • READ: "how to conduct an effective book sprint"
  • Graphics Designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
    • Robust & Accessible "Community Media Archive"
    • Graphics Librarian to help organize key photos/illustrations from: http://flickr.com/olpc/sets
  • Experienced:
    • Tech Writers
      • Tech to "Grannie" translators!
    • Copy Editors
    • Photographs, Illustrations & Screenshots!!
  • Finalize evening events: VA dinner likely Sunday, http://hacDC.org likely for Tue night, help suggest other outings!
  • Blog to Invite DC and World: Sarah Burns's Community Invitation, OLPC News Story (add your link here!)
  • Stunning Posters (almost complete, thanks to Mike Lee!)
  • MONGO HAPPY NOW shirts for OLPC/Sugar proselytizers crafting miracles the world doesn't yet see
  • Memorable URL
  • Post-production (lulu.com sales, chapters that stand alone as PDF case studies, e-book for XO and beyond?)

Materials

Think like a Librarian?! Please help sort/aggregate our growing archive of Fantastic Resources in preparation.

Table of Contents

Moved to this page.

Likely Attendees (identify topic you want to help with!)

  • Mel Chua
  • Kevin Cole (how to bridge open-source culture for teachers; Gallaudet Univ facilities)
  • Paul Commons
  • Sarah Elkins, OLPC Learning Club DC, maybe Monday
  • Luke Faraone (labor day + setup; finding whiteboard or posterboard to facilitate Sunday Sept 6 freezing of TOC)
  • David Farning (invited)
  • Cathy Ginther, AARP Managing Editor (Friday only)
  • Adam Holt (event logistics & community coordination, professional speakerphone w/ Kevin Cole?)
  • George Hunt, Tech Educator from NYC (repair & troubleshooting, explaining community repair center entrepreneur Ian Daniher's OLPCinci success story)
  • SJ Klein (evening event at http://hacDC.org w/ MLee; follow-on books?
  • Mike Lee (Attending Monday and Friday for sure and evening events; live blogging and photographing of events; large Posters)
  • Phoebe Bennett from OLPC Learning Club (can come by during the weekdays to help. martialing Arlington PTA families for future sales?)
  • Kim Toufectis from OLPC Learning Club (can come by Monday or Friday to help with writing)
  • Pat Paul of the OLPC Learning Club (can come by Monday and one other day to help with proofing, researching)
  • Yamandu Ploskonka (involving NEW teachers in the developing world, with no prior computer experience; what would current deployers have liked to know IN ADVANCE)
  • Sameer Verma (pending flight)
  • Seth Woodworth (invited)
  • DancesWithCars (disability /accessibility/ readability testing, to learn & how to help, etc)
  • Bobby Powers (can come nights & sunday, has a 3x4 foot whiteboard, help where needed)
  • Hanalei & Wayan Mon & Tues for sure
  • Ian Daniher (invited, working with George Hunt)

Totals: ~20 but not all at the same time. How to synch?

Remote Attendees (identify topic you want to help with!)

Schedule

Sat Sept 5
10-8.30PM Unofficial plug for | NEM-ElectronicaFest.com between Baltimore and Washington, for those packed and revving to go early

/back to more official OLPC/ ClassActs business danceswithcars 12:49, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

SUBJECT TO CHANGE -- CHECK BACK LATER!

Sun Sept 6
3PM-6PM - Table of Contents whiteboarding discussion at Arlington Career Center (1+ mile West of Pentagon in Arlington VA)
6PM-9PM - Opening Night Dinner & Drinks Nearby

Mon Sept 7 (Labor Day)
9AM-7PM - Work session at Gallaudet Univ

Tue Sept 8
9AM-7PM - Work session at Gallaudet Univ
EVENING - Presentation & event at http://hacDC.org (2+ miles directly north of the White House)

Wed Sept 9
9AM-7PM - Work session at Gallaudet Univ
1PM-2PM - Presentation on OLPC/Sugar and Accessibility at Gallaudet University (likely location: Student Academic Center/Student Union Building (SAC/SUB) Room 1011: Multimedia Theater)

Thu Sept 10
9AM-7PM - Work session at Gallaudet Univ

Fri Sept 11 (National Day of Service)
9AM-7PM - Work session at Gallaudet Univ

SUBJECT TO CHANGE -- CHECK BACK LATER!

Sat 10A-1-2?PM Unofficial plug for [| NoVALUG.com] Reston Library on RedHat Enterprise /About enough out of me for now danceswithcars 12:49, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

ClassActs/SprintSchedule

Thinking of a more detailed 24x7 +timezone for remotes? grid with day, time, participants signup for how to pack the room(s)?, locations (onsite, offsite social, etc),

Daytime/Workroom Venue

Friendly venues for possible later activities:

Remote "Venues"

Nice to have audio/video participation (using large meeting sharing tool such as Vyew) for remote attendees for:

  • Sun Sept 6 (3-6 p.m.) Whiteboarding of TOC
  • Tues Sept 8 (Evening) Presentaton and event
  • Wed Sept 9 (Noon) Presentation on OLPC/Sugar at Gallaudet Univ.

Small group (2 or more), collaboration remote to remote, onsite to remote using free sharing tool such as Vyew free sharing, Elluminate free vRoom, Google docs, or etherpad. Use throughout the conference as participants want to do it. Need to choose a common tool, sign-up and practice ahead of time.

Local Transportation and Navigation Aids

Parks & Recreation, Evening Tête-a-Têtes

Do suggest Great humble Restaurants & Evening Itineraries!

Parks

Transit /Tours

  • Bike the Sites - bike rentals and tours, DC & Old Town, Alexandria, VA.
  • DC Ducks- tours in original WW II DUKW amphibious vehicles

Maryland:

Virginia:

For the clubbers: DC

Guides

Accommodations

Until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:

Food Stuff Stores

Have a particular diet, vegan, adventurist, etc?

DC Farmers Market outside Galluadet Eastern Market near Capital Hill

Online Delivery Services (check limited area?)

Cafes

Meeting places, food, maybe wifi?

  • Teaism Tea shop several sites, Penn Qtr, Dupont, etc
  • Starbucks coffee chain, some wifi?

Bookstores

Some have cafes & internet

  • Politics And Prose NW DC cafe downstairs, book signings, press videos
  • Reiters High Tech professional & medical books, Downtown Farragut West MetroRail - GWU/ Georgetown

Computer Stores

Need parts/ supplies/ etc?

  • MicroCenter a superstore Vienna MetroRail, Pan Am Shopping Center, Nutley St, Vienna, VA & Rockville, MD

Local Rags & Media

Other media for connections, samples, maybe someone does a story on sprint process?

  • StreetSense.org homeless & poor community paper, office near MetroCenter & homeless vendors usually near Rail stations, poverty related...
  • WashingtonPost.com Big Mega Media
  • The Washington City Paper - Find your own fun.
  • Public Access
  • DCTV (Brookland/Catholic University of America MetroRail, Red LineNE DC)
  • NPR (where? was Braddock Road Yellow & Blue Lines, 1 up from King St, Alexandria, VA)
  • Newseum $$$ tours, print media, etc new building in downtown Central Business District, Penn Ave NW, DC
  • etc

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