User:Sj/2008/Week 7

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the week in review: Week 7, 2008* feel free to comment and update with footnotes and links to the talk page.

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^ Overview

The wiki community passes a tipping point : self reporting, 500 edits a day for 2 days
The first 'zine comes out, with work in 4 languages
Dirakx and sebastian start organizing a latin american support group

Specs and guidelines

• A community news exemplar : Weekly zine/0
• Last week's Week in Review got some in-kind feedback from Mel.
• Early design discussions:
  • Bundle and Share activities (one or both may be built deeply into sugar, so that you can first bundle something, then drag it onto an XO in your mesh view; or enter a 'bundling' context from within any other view).
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x Synergies

opportunities, people, engagements

Groups

Curriki

Peter Levy is visiting Boston this week; at OLPC for a couple of afternoons. We are discussing when to schedule a content partner meeting around late March. we are moving ahead with a joint effort in India, with Manu's Curriki group and the Hindi localization of their site. updates Tuesday afternoon

In the field

Kliptown, South Africa

Peter Johannsen and Whitney Hunter-Thomson are helping organize the delivery of 100 XOs to children in Kliptown, via the Kliptown Youth Program and one of its directors, Thulani Madondo. They are visiting one day this week in preparation of W.H-T. travelling to Joburg. Needed: local community members there to make the program a wild success.

NTS: we need to make youtube embedding work better on the wiki --sj

Connections

DC metro

Jonathan Blocksom (of golly gee fame) and Mike Lee have been helping organize the local DC meetup groups. Justin Thorp there just finished his work for the World Digital Library, and is back to making nifty Web 2.0 widgets. Todo: reconnect with the WDL team. (NB: some very active wiki contributors live in the area as well.)

Games

With help from Jamil M, we're hoping to help connect XO groups with game developers at GDC next week. OLPCers in the vicinity will include: Kent Quirk, Zvi B, Jesper T; and the SF LUG (including user:scorche, user:mokurai, &c.)

Gatherings and events

• Content partner workshop: Under discussion is a collaborative workshop where partners bring devs and designers, to work with our design team to figure out how to make a) great interfaces for computer-novice educators, which is often closest to their existing interfaces, and b) great interfaces for children (browsing, sharing). We've been focused on a single interface here for core XO interactions, but a variety, with searate efforts at major potential content partners, is useful.

  Other groups to get involved : IA (via Alexis and Aaron), WDL (see above, via John vO and Peter K), BigU (via Anil) EFK (via AJ vdV), ccLearn (via AB)

  • Topical attendees (virtual whiteboard?) -- music: Jamendo/OpenMuse open-license search: Jon Phillips, Chris Waterguy, PM

· Artefacts

projects, events, news, materials

= Fundament

status, deadlines, assumptions, processes

• Kliptown plans: we should have details from them by mid-week.
• Wiki policies: we're building out a framework for them
• Sidebar priorities : adding a section for topics (health, biology, music, math, literacy)

+ Priorities

milestones, sequences, first and next

o Reflection

review, updates, analysis, feedback

• Biweekly meetings : Friday and Sunday. Community collaboration on (this) week-in-review and related teamwiki WIR