OLPC New Zealand
There are several groups in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.
- [Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see WellyNZTesters)
- Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly .
- Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
- Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
- Translation to Maori
- Ian Thomson is the Oceania Project Coordinator
Watch the NZ video made by Spring TV Join our Facebook group
Come join us
To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz
Look at laptop.org.nz for current events in New Zealand.
Main contacts: Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Alastair
Upcoming Education and OLPC conference in Wellington New Zealand: /LCA2010 January 18th to 23rd 2010.
Wellington group
The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.
We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.
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. Check out the Cross
Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.
Auckland group
Meeting every second Saturday at 11:00 am at the Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road. Considering other venue options for other days as the testing group grows. Contact tabitha@tabitha.net.nz for more information.
Suz & Tamara Olliver are looking at creating an OLPC owners group to meet up in Auckland and Wellington to review progress, show off what we are doing, generally socialise and probably eat curry.
Our domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email us.
Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. Watch the Video to see for yourself
Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City
Moodle Developers
A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.
- At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)
What else is going on?
Tabitha ran the education miniconf at the LCA2010 conference mid January 2010 and we had a "hacking the sugar layout" session
We are working on a translation to Maori in Pootle.
We're testing the deployment activities on 802B5 on XO-1.0 and testing 116 on XO-1.5s.
We have some Auckland University students working with us on a project for sending data via radio. They are using an XO-1.0 and XO-1.5 and looking at doing tests in the field, maybe Solomon Islands.
Who's got what
| Laptop | Serial Number | Who | Where | Project | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laptop 1 (Karora) | Andrew McMillan | Wellington | Testing 8.2-767 | ||
| Laptop 2 (Loco) | CSN74701D32 | Liz Quilty | Hamilton | XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 767, firmware Q2E18 | |
| Laptop 3 (Pyro) | SHF8150259E | Alastair Munro | Wellington | Testing 8.2.1, build 802B5, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 4 (Simba) | CSN74802FFC | Tabitha Roder | Auckland | XO-1.0, Testing 0.82.1, build 802B1, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 5 (Shrek) | SHF81502638 | Jaco freakalad@gmail.com | Auckland | 8.21 build 802 | |
| Laptop 6 (Rocco) | CSN7480015B | Bex | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21, build 767, firmware Q2E18 | |
| Laptop 7 (Moodle) | Fabiana | Auckland | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 | ||
| Laptop 8 (Josh) | CSN749028BA | Steve Vincent | Tauranga | XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 9 (Tio) | SHF7250080F | Grant | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 10 (Pogo) | CSN74802463 | Julian Carver or Luci | Christchurch | Testing 8.2-767 | |
| Laptop 11 (Zephyr) | SHF80802932 | Julian Carver or Luci | Christchurch | Testing on....656 | |
| Laptop 12 (Rambo) | CSN74802145 | With Brenda | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 13 (Mojo) | CSN74701F41 | Fabiana | Auckland | XO-1.0, testing 0.82.1 build 802B5, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 14 (Twilight) | CSN74804BF8 | Bex | Wellington | Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 15 (Monkey) | CSN74804D7E | With Alastair | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 16 (Ollie) | SHC937010DB | Tim | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18 | |
| Laptop 17 (Shadow) | SHC93701143 | With Alastair | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35 | |
| Laptop 18 (Aslan) | SHC93701128 | Grant | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35 | |
| Laptop 19 (Poppy-Copy) | SHC9370114B | Vinny | Auckland | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18 | |
| Laptop 20 (Camelot) | SHC937010FF | With Alastair | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35 | |
| Laptop (Pinchy) | own | David and Sigi | Melbourne | Testing 8.2-767 on own machine, moved to Melbourne | |
| Laptop 21 (Anna) | CSN75000DC0 | Vinny | Auckland | XO-1.0 on 802 | |
| Laptop 22 (Tux) | CSN75002073 | Tim | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing on 8.2.1, build 802B5, firmware Q2E41 | |
| Laptop 23 (me) | SHF7250056A | Steven Vincent | Tauranga | Showing teachers and geeks in Tauranga and Rotorua | |
| Laptop 24 (Milo) | SHC0050090D | Tim | Wellington | X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 201 customised, firmware Q3A33 | |
| Laptop 25 (Ada) | SHC00500850 | Bex | Wellington | X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 201 customised, firmware Q3A33 | |
| Laptop 26 (Tank) | SHC005008D1 | Fabiana | Auckland | X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35 |
Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about
We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to the WellyNZTesters page Also check out the laptop.org.nz site for our stories.
See us in action
Testing | Volunteer | User:Tabitha |