OLPC:News/2008/Week 6

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Style note: bolded terms in items from the week indicate pages on this wiki that have been updated with new information as a result.

x Interactions

opportunities, people, engagements

Weekly meetings

• Sunday, 1300 EST / 1800 UTC : health projects and content : on #olpc-meeting
• Sunday, 1400 EST / 1900 UTC : general meeting : community and grassroots projects, local trial development, q&a
• Sunday, 1400-1700 EST : office hours @ the OLPC offices in Cambridge
• Tuesday, 1600 EST / 2100 UTC : library meeting
• Thursday, 1600 EST / 2100 UTC : testing meeting (time change this week)
• Friday, 1600 EST / 2100 UTC : open discussion on IRC and by phone

There are also regular team meetings for other specific teams. If you have a meeting or gathering you want me to include next week, drop me a line.

Conferences and events

• Alp Simsek of the MIT Turkish Student Association (MIT-TSA) has been drumming up support among MIT students and students in Turkey to develop an active OLPC Turkey chapter. They organized a press conference on Friday with partner NGO Ari Movement, who hosted the affair. Reporters fom national papers Milliyet and Hurriyet attended. They are pursuing close ties with university groups in Turkey and hope to attract contributors from the humanities and from computer science.

· Artefacts

projects, events, news, materials

News

• OLPC:News : 16 updates from the office and the field

• The pilot issue of the Community zine is finally underway, with a separate section for the new activity within OLPC Europe

• Help wanted : We could use help wikifying OLPC:News when it comes out, and updating individual pages on this wiki with notes from current and past editions of (including pulling out the we're keeping the archives and keeping them on-wiki) --Sj talk

In the press

• Maharashtra trial under discussion

Milestone: Update.1 RC2

• Please test Update.1's rc2 release (Build 691) and report your results.

  For activities : please test all activities to see what has changed; test the browser and its speed with various javascript apps

  For collections: Test installation and uninstallation of new collections; in particular, test the on-disk collections that can be installed via the "find activities" sidebar from the browser's home page.

= Fundament

tools, status, deadlines, process

Portals

• The OLPC Forum has a slightly updated look. olpchelp and olpc.osuosl.org redirect here; now with more security. Thanks to Peter Harrison and Michael Burns for making the recent merge so smooth.
• The Activities page

Timeline: Update.2

There is discussion of relying more on community review and assessment of activities and collections for update.2. Help us refine our critera for the best projects, and nominate activities and collections you like for featuring/testing or for peer review.

Update.2 Library

We're working to make the creation, assessment, and packaging of bundles easier and more compatible with existing systems. See discussions about a move to more sensible and unified bundle metadata, and new auto-bundling tools being developed with curriki.

Please make sure any bundles you work on include needed metadata about their sources, authors, and licenses : including the info included in Template:project-summary and any bibliographic information

Update.2 Features

see the git milestones page for a rought timeline with features.

+ Priorities

milestones, sequences, first and next

o Reflection

review, updates, analysis, feedback