Organizing organizing

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  • Clarify volunteer roles/opportunities/processes
    Syndicate intern opportunities in one space?
    ...from various countries and organizations.
    Help redirect orgal interest away from donating funds and towards hosting and mentoring interns
    Merge volunteer pages
  • Online “welcome wagon" packet... what would this include?
  • OLPC blog & photojournal
    Templates for creating OLPC user "homepage" (currently wikipage) w/ instructions on how to set up a free blog (blogger/wordpress) etc.
    Who is everyone, and what are they working on
    Pix w/ XO
    3D tour of XO
    "Poster Child"ren
  • How to document pilot programs (Category:Pilot site)
    Photos
    Stories/anecdotes
    Examples of use
    Profiles of kids and their laptops (maybe via the OurStories project)
    Screenshot app-- develop + have kids take a screenshot of their laptop in its favorite use/config
  • XO map
  • Roles and Teams
    • Install Team
      • Instructions on getting the emulator installed
      • A core team of people that help others to install the emulator
        • IRC Channel, Private chat on AIM, whatever it takes.
    • Facilitators
      • Direct volunteers toward projects they might be interested in by making themselves available for private chat or in a group chat. Someone comes in and says, hey I want to help, these are my skills. A director can help direct them where to go.
      • Facilitators are most likely people who just lurk all the time on IRC or something along those lines.
    • Candy Stripers
      • coating community members and their computers in fine layers of Sugar... until the emulators are really good.
      • helping launch locos
  • Todo
    • Todo list should have difficulty levels, like the art of computer programming. E.g., If you know Python then a problem is a:
      • 10 if you could do debug/fix/add feature in a couple minutes,
      • 17 if you could do it in one sitting, but it may take a few hours,
      • 20, means you could do it in a few days
      • 29, means you could do it in a couple weeks with a lot of creativity.
      • 30, maybe a couple weeks to a couple of months, but it's hard.
      • 34, maybe a couple of months with a lot of creativity and innovation
      • 40, Maybe a couple of years
      • 50, you may be lucky to knock the problem into the 40s in a couple years.
      • 51, first find a new base and reduce to a previous problem
    • Todo list should indicate the urgency of the item for the project.
    • ... and the necessity of the item to the project.
    • One possible model is the mysociety volunteer list. Might be people worth talking to.
    • Another is a bugtracker (or more user-friendly version thereof). Should we use the current OLPC bugtracker for these tasks as well?