OLPC:News/2008/Week 23
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the week in review: Week 23, 2008* |
^ Overview
x Connections
opportunities, people, engagements
- Francesca Slade has been here now for her second week, and has worked on setting up regular Open Jams (the first was last weekend; the second will take place tomorrow)
- In the spirit of a weekly interview of an OLPC luminary, Andriani Ferti shared her thoughts on how she got involved with OLPC and her thoughts for the future
Jams : Mel is looking for others.
We are looking for likely community ambassadors to help smooth the growth of our developer and other communities.
· Artefacts
projects, events, news, materials
- Robertofaga has been working on an RPG-creation tutorial to go with his game creator.
- Repair centers details have been cleaned up, thanks to much work by mchua, nlee, and ccarrick. A small repair center has been set up by mchua, and is being put to use and expanded Saturday afternoon during our weekly Open Jam, with help from femslade. The related Repair draft page is also useful for anyone planning such a center.
- andreatl, nlee and ccarrick also worked on a set of five simple language-free repair photoesays for the most common DIY entries in the repair guide.
- Help for content bundlers : a Content bundle making script was posted by mchua, and has been used by cjl, among others.
= Fundament
status, deadlines, assumptions, processes
- Potential local trials : Cambridge Friends School Pilot
- Local grassroots office updates : ILXO and ilxo.org. Work planned on XO Accessibility and other projects.
- A rigorous application process for the grassroots bootcamp is proposed.
+ Priorities
milestones, sequences, first and next
o Reflection
review, updates, analysis, feedback
- Grassroots ideas : Grassroots experimentation
- Creation : A content workflow process is being written to match the practices of current contributors.
