Olin university chapter
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This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin college OLPC university chapter.
Projects
Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for Developers program support (like XOs to use).
Project Name | Project Description | Professor | Contact | Materials needed | Additional Information |
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the title/name of your project | a basic description of your project | which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required) | your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account) | what do you need to do it? | anything else you want to say |
Meeting notes
Olin students visited the OLPC office on August 29, 2007. Here are the notes as transcribed from the board.
Random
- Community service group led by Nikki
- Mel is OLPC liason, will be on IRC (nick mchua) every Friday 3-5, and available through email.
Why University chapters are great
- Cutting edge technology
- Variety of perspectives
- catching details
- more dedication
- more experience
- publicity
- awards
Standards
- Financial independence
- Professional quality
Current tasklist
Things to do or start on before next week's Friday meeting.
General
- administrative support - serv/core/"hey president miller, dr m., et al, we're doing this!" (greg, ellen, andyp)
- outreach program - running demo requests (ollie, once Olin gets some XOs; ollie, ping mel when the XOs arrive)
- flash conference through ideatree (molly)
- wellesley liason - do they want to help? start their own chapter? (andyp)
- talk to professors about advising projects, helping out, and especially about allowing Olin students to do OLPC projects for course assignments
- POE (abarry)
- SCOPE - coordinate student interest in a team (sallen)
- ECS (steveo)
- ICB (velin & ollie)
- focs (yifan)
- wired ensemble (greg)
- analog digital (steveo)
- discrete (yifan)
Olin todo for OLPC
- apply to Developers program (Nikki coordinating)
- Olin chapter blog (kelliott coordinating)
OLPC todo for Olin
- development image (w/ Steveo)
- swag
- documentation (w/ Molly, Yifan, Sallen)
- "volunteer day" at the office
- spring OLPC conference w/ other area schools (later)
- university chapter blog (later)