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.

Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.

Come join us

To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz

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. tabitha.roder@gmail.com

Check out the Cross - http://thecross.co.nz/

Our Plans for this week

1. Testing Activities 2. Keep working on our testing strategy to ensure we are getting it right. 3. Keep having fun!

List of activities to "test more"

Help
the 4 TamTams
Pippy
Turtle Art
Calculate
Measure
Distance
Ruler
Scratch
WikiBrowse English
Log

Thanks to Ian Thomson, Project Coordinator for Pacific RICs and Oceania OLPC. Ian came to testing on Saturday 10th January to talk about Pacific deployments. Thanks to Callum O'Hagan for showing us how to pull apart and rebuild our XOs. Nice hardware session.

Who's got what

Where are the laptops?
Laptop	Who	Project
Laptop 1 (Karora)	Andrew McMillan	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 2 (Loco)	Callum O	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 3 (Pyro)	Alastair Munro	Testing 8.2-767 User:Aly
Laptop 4 (Simba)	Tabitha Roder	Testing 8.2-767 User:Tabitha
Laptop 5 (Shrek)	Dan Marsden	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 6 (Rocco)	Tabitha Roder	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 7 (Moodle)	Uli Muellner	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 8 (Josh)	Grant Patterson	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 9 (Tio)	Grant Patterson	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 10 (Shiny)	Tabitha Roder	Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 11 (Zephyr)	Grant Patterson	Testing on....
Laptop 12 (Rambo)	Alastair Munro	Testing on....
Laptop 13 (Mojo)	Tabitha Roder	Testing on....
Laptop 14 (name?)	name?	Testing on....
Laptop 15 (name?)	name?	Testing on....

Log of things done

Group tests 2008-11-16, Testing 8.2-764 to 8.2-767, tested Moon-8, Implode-5, Maze-6, Memorize-28

Group tests 2008-11-23, Testing 8.2-767, tested Analyze, Speak-9, Read-52, Browse-98, attempted tests on bookreader, made changes to shared test result spreadsheet - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pw29kBR10gwSAHxMTv6VfEA&hl=en

Tabitha and Dan ran demo at Effusion-1 office: 190 Hereford St, Christchurch for Egressive. About half a dozen people had a decent play with the 5 XOs we brought with us. Now 2 XOs loaned out in Christchurch for potential test group.

Group tests 2008-11-29, Testing 8.2-767, tested geoquiz-3 and record-59, tried out spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pyBIsSK_3IlsHBpwk1EFNcQ

Group tests 2008-12-6, testing 8.2-767, chat, paint, terminal

Group tests 2008-12-13, testing 8.2-767, eToys

Group test 2009-01-10, testing 8.2-767, Food Force II, Chat, met Ian Thomson and had great chats

Group test 2009-01-17, testing 8.2-767, Food Force II, Gnubook, Socialcalc, Tamtam Mini. Also learned about XO hardware.

Group test 2009-01-24, testing 8.2-767, Help, Browse, TurtleArt, Wikipedia, Tamtam Mini.

Presentations by Walter Bender - Sugarlabs

Group test 2009-01-31, testing 8.2-767, sensors for turtleart (thanks Mel Chua), turtleart portfolio 9, modifying sugar, chat across 3 o/s

Group test 2009-02-7, testing 8.2.1 staging 25 and staging 27, turtleart portfolio 12, chat-48, solar play, wacom tablet play

Group test 2009-02-14, testing 8.2.1 staging 25 and staging 27, eToys, Tangram, Foodforce, Gnash/flash, wacom tablet

Group test 2009-02-21, testing 8.2.1, staging 27, Record, Write, TamTam, SchoolPlay

Group test 2009-02-28, testing 8.2.1, staging 27, Physics, SchoolPlay, Pipi

Group test 2009-03-07, testing 8.2.1, staging 27, Physics, tested Sugar on a Stick on a couple of different HP laptops

Group test 2009-03-14, special event for Unlimited Potential

Group test 2009-03-21, new laptops had arrived! no developer key :-( cannot update build

Group test 2009-03-28, testing 8.2.1 - geography, tuxtype, tuxmath, xolympics, cellgame, map

Group test 2009-04-04,testing 8.2.1 - Bridge, Playgo, Cobble, Roadmap

Group test 2009-04-11,testing 8.2.1 - Foodforce

Group test 2009-04-18,testing 8.2.1 - had so much fun we forgot to write what we did

Group test 2009-04-25,testing 8.2.1 - had so much fun we forgot to write what we did

Group test 2009-05-02,testing 8.2.1 - Sokoban, Spacetag, Record, Write, Memorise

Group test 2009-05-09,testing 8.2.1 - Foodforce

Group test 2009-05-16,testing 8.2.1 - general play time

Group test 2009-05-23,testing 8.2.1 - XOEditor-1, Screencast-1,

Cool stuff we have done that I can't bear to delete from the page yet

Make sensors for TurtleArt - Mel Chua will be in Wellington for Saturday 31 January and has offered to help us build sensors for the XOs to use in TurtleArt. Mel is also eager to learn about and document how the Welly test group works, because of interest in starting a similar group back in Boston.

Test request for this Saturday - the developer of TurtleArt has requested we test this for him. ;-)

Focus for 27 January was Walter Bender visiting - sugarlabs founder - event hosted by Catalyst New Zealand - OLPC Wellington, Computer Clubhouse and Catalyst IT Ltd invited interested parties to meet Walter Bender, founder of sugarlabs, a non-profit foundation. The venue was Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington.