University Chapter Jam Boston/Planning

Project ideas

Delegate the generation of handouts for people as they show up and leave, also planning of welcome booth (email sign-up, etc)
Ad-Astra rooms in dhall
Talk to Rob M about doing a talk on tech transfer between cultures and design considerations for OLPC
Connect with Arjun and Manu in particular, Yani and Andriani, Jessica and Chih-yu about coming
Email Mel a forwardable letter for Continuum
Find and email Richard Freeland (former president of Northeastern University, something to do with the Graduate School of Education at Harvard this year) recommended by Rod
Email Lauren (Guatemala girl) about BC email lists for OLPC like things
Make website with Ollie
SENT Talk to Nick Tatar about a big conf with off campus guests Feb 16
SENT Follow up with Chris C about his Friday conference and about his plans for his power generation section
SENT Talk to SJ at 1cc Friday to get education people, OLPC people, get XOs for Feb 16
DONE ALSO - ask him to champion open source stuff (talk to Allen Downey to be the “champion” of open source)
DONE Talk to Stolk (after Ollie does on Friday in class)
DONE Email Rod about Ted Sizer talking and speaking - no can do. He recommends Stolk.
DONE Email Ritter about MIT people for an OLPC day
DONE Email Lynn Stein about her coming as an HFID designer and programmer and pass on to Harvard lists
DONE Email Ken Hawes about him and Wellesley education students coming

DONE Follow Up in ProgressTalk to Blinder/Ozgur/Oscar about coming as design guys, also which student could champion it
DONE Olin faculty recruitment – targeting talking and mass email
DONE 8x11 small poster
DONE Table tents for dining hall
DONE Big poster for dining hall
DONE Talk it up amongst the frosh before plans are made to leave for the 3 day weekend
Bring it up in Babson Social E! class, bring Caslin and Charles?
DONE Do website with Andy
do an internal site for participants on the day of to have access to useful wiki links and such
DONE SERV SERV SERV!!! Especially money, probably pizza and soda and maybe design materials, $300 max
DONE Talk to George Butler about dining hall usage upstairs during the day and at all after hours

DONE Email Matt Jadud – tell him the plan and get him to recruit and come too
DONE Email Mel and keep her up to date with plan and seek advice and contacts, other OLPC groups?
DONE Get XOs to develop on (note that Andy is already emailing SJ, Nikki is CC’d)
DONE Build up support within OLPC chapter members at Olin and thru SJ in the greater Boston area

Need Tax ID Call panara and peets coffee to ask for free stuff feb 16 around noon.
Works for Windows, painful. Still trying for Fedora Create a simple procedure for porting programs from PC to OLPC and testing
Acquire supplies for free, make shopping list of the rest for Andy

Create a schedule with time slots and rooms for speakers/discussions/brainstorming,
Nametags (bright ones for "leaders")
Pizza and beverage
Power strips and extension cords (talk to logan)
Ethernet and WEP keys printed
Whiteboards (steal morning of)
Dry erase markers (steal morning of)
Normal markers and paper and design materials
Post its

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