WellyNZTesters

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The main New Zealand page is OLPC_New_Zealand

It tells you about all the groups in New Zealand:

  • Auckland
  • Wellington
  • Christchurch

It tells you about the projects we are supporting, testing we are doing, promotional events we organise and/or attend.

To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz and look at [laptop.org.nz]

We welcome new people and those that want to get involved.


The information below is for those wanting the history of the Wellington test group.

Our Plans

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"

  • Turtle Art
  • Screencast

Make movies and upload them on the internet so others can see how easy all this is :-)

Preparation for Linux Conference - Wellington, NZ, January 2010 - http://docs.google.com/View?id=dqrh3jr_4fk347fgv

See the Linux conference info here - http://www.lca2010.org.nz

What else is going on?

WellyNZTesters have issued a Call For Papers for the education minicof we're running at the LCA2010 conference on mid January next year

We're testing the full activity bundle for the upcoming Peru deployment

An Auckland group has started and Christchurch is starting

Some kind folks in Sydney are rounding up unused dust gathering XOs from the LCA2007 giveaway to ship to Wellington.

Vik has the XO driving the RepRap machine to make view finders for itself!


Who's got what

Where are the laptops?
Laptop Who Project
Laptop 1 (Karora) Andrew McMillan Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 2 (Loco) CSN74701D32 Tim McNamara Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 3 (Pyro) SHF8150259E Alastair Munro Testing 8.2-767 User:Aly
Laptop 4 (Simba) CSN74802FFC Tabitha Roder Testing 8.2-767 User:Tabitha
Laptop 5 (Shrek) SHF81502638 Tabitha Roder Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 6 (Rocco) CSN7480015B Callum and Brenda Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 7 (Moodle) Uli Muellner Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 8 (Josh) CSN749028BA Grant Patterson Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 9 (Tio) SHF7250080F Callum and Brenda Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 10 (Pogo) CSN74802463 Tabitha Roder Testing 8.2-767
Laptop 11 (Zephyr) SHF80802932 Grant Patterson Testing on....656
Laptop 12 (Rambo) CSN74802145 Alastair Munro Testing on 8.2
Laptop 13 (Mojo) CSN74701F41 M Fabiana Kubke f.kubke@auckland.ac.nz Attempting to start Auckland group
Laptop 14 (Twilight) CSN74804BF8 Tabitha Roder Testing on 8.2
Laptop 15 (Monkey) CSN74804D7E Bex Testing on....
Laptop 16 (Pinchy) David and Sigi Testing 8.2-767


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
  • 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 2008-12-6, 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,
  • Group test 2009-05-30 - tested PlayGo-5, Bridge, Screencast-1, TurtleArt-51
  • Group test 2009-06-06 - general play time
  • Group test 2009-06-13 - general play time
  • Group test 2009-06-20 Hosted by National Library of New Zealand with free wifi and food :-) and Alastair updated some XOs O/Ss, showed people XOs
  • Group test 2009-06-27 - back at the Cross, tried getting devkeys, changing dates, played cellgame-1 and XOlympics-1, wrote draft proposal for the Linux Conference (Wellington, January 2010 - http://www.lca2010.org.nz/)
  • Group test 2009-07-04 - showing Shane how it all works, tested Sugar on a Stick on IBM hardware, Model, Physics-2, GeoQuiz-4, Cellgame-1, Bridge, GeoCompris, and gave feedback on sugarlabs website usability.
  • Group test - 2009-07-11 - showing Tim how it works, started testing Strawberry, Pippy-29, GeoQuiz-4, working on our website http://laptop.org.nz to help NZers learn about OLPC and Sugar and points people to the official sites.
  • Group test - 2009-07-18 - soas-Strawberry experiments, multiple XOs sharing activities experiments, helping m_stone with network experiment
  • Group test - 2009-07-25 - IRC activity tests, prep for upcoming events and promotion activities
  • Group test - 2009-08-01 - Write, Maze tests
  • Group test - 2009-08-08 - general play time
  • Group test - 2009-08-15 - Maze, Implode, Write across XOs and Sugar in VM, Flipsticks
  • Group test - 2009-08-22 - SoaS preparation and trials, Software Freedom Day preparation
  • Group test - 2009-09-05 - SoaS preparation and trials (80 USB keys donated by Sun Microsystems to Software Freedom Day require SoaS installation)
  • Group test - 2009-09-12 - SoaS installed on 53 USB keys successfully! Locked and loaded for Software Freedom Day! Also worked on Maori translation in Pootle
  • Group test - 2009-09-19 - preparing for Software Freedom Day, more USB keys have been sugared up, talked about kids and students programme, have made cards to give out with website on them
  • Group test - 2009-09-20 - Software Freedom Day! Absolutely rocked with lots of interest in OLPC and Sugar. The kids kept coming back for more! Handed out SoaS on Sun's donated USB keys.
  • Group test - 2009-09-26 - Wellington testing group and Auckland first meet up! Showing newbies, getting SoaS on eee PCs, testing activities for Peru
  • Group test - 2009-10-03 - Wellington testing group, joined online by "Lerc" Neil Graham in Christchurch and "Mojo" Fabiana in Auckland, interviewed Tim McNamara for volunteer interviews, tested Nexo for Lerc, learned more about Scratch
  • Group test - 2009-10-10 -

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

Made sensors for TurtleArt - Mel Chua was in Wellington for Saturday 31 January and helped us build sensors for the XOs to use in TurtleArt. Mel was eager to learn about and document how the Welly test group works, because of interest in starting a similar group back in Boston.

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.

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.

Thanks to Alastair for updating Sugar when the rest of us are stuck!


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