OLPC New Zealand
There are several groups in NZ and the Pacific working on OLPC related projects and initiatives.
- [Wellington testers and promoters - they have met weekly since mid 2008 (see WellyNZTesters)
- Auckland group and Christchurch group starting to meet regularly .
- Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
- Moodle developers (Martin Langhoff plus others from Catalyst IT)
- Translation to Maori
- Ian Thomson is the Oceania Project Coordinator
Watch the NZ video made by Spring TV Join our Facebook group
Come join us
To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz
Look at laptop.org.nz for current events in New Zealand.
Main contacts: Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Alastair
Wellington group
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.
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. Check out the Cross
Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.
Auckland group
Meeting every Saturday at 11:00 am at the Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road. The Windsor website Considering other venue options for other days as the testing group grows. This group is carrying out tests on multiple builds for XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s as well as looking at educational use and sugar translations. Contact tabitha@tabitha.net.nz for more information.
Suz & Tamara Olliver are OLPC owners who like to meet up to review progress, show off what they are doing, generally socialise and eat. Their domain is olliver.family.gen.nz and email addresses are of the form <firstname>@<domain>. Please feel free to email them.
Vik has been working on a one reprap per child project and is now an established supplier of viewfinders for XOs. He prints them on the RepRap using an XO to drive the printer. Watch the Video to see for yourself
Computer Clubhouse Manukau City NZ
Is looking at deploying a 1-1 Learning Programme in Otara Manukau City
Moodle Developers
A team of Moodle developers led by Martin Langhoff @ Catalyst has been working on several aspects of the OLPC project.
- At the moment, I am working on an OpenID implementation for Moodle, and doing some work on the School Server (XS). Others, more hardware tinkerers, have been playing with the ATest1 and B2 machines and debugging OS problems. At the moment there is a custom Moodle branch for OLPC in my development tree, and that is where my work is concentrated. (Martin Langhoff)
What else is going on?
Tabitha ran the education miniconf at the LCA2010 conference mid January 2010 and we had a "hacking the sugar layout" session
We are working on translations to Maori, Samoan and Tongan in Pootle.
We have volunteers visiting deployments: Tabitha and Tom went to Samoa in August to visit two schools; they setup the school server and access points.
We're testing the deployment activities on multiple builds on XO-1.0s and XO-1.5s.
We have some Auckland University students working with us on a project for sending data via radio. They are using an XO-1.0 and XO-1.5 and looking at doing tests in the field, maybe Solomon Islands. Team OneBeep came third in the international Microsoft Imagine Cup for their solution.
Who's got what
| Laptop | Serial Number | Who | Where | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laptop 1 (Karora) | Andrew McMillan | Wellington | Testing 8.2-767 | |
| Laptop 2 (Loco) | CSN74701D32 | Nicoletta for Tongan translation (June 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.0 |
| Laptop 3 (Pyro) | SHF8150259E | Alastair Munro | Wellington | Testing 8.2.1, build 802B5, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 4 (Simba) | CSN74802FFC | Tabitha Roder (confirmed 24 May 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.0 testing os300py for Samoa |
| Laptop 5 (Shrek) | SHF81502638 | Tom Parker 30 July 2010 | Auckland | XO-1.0 testing os300py for Samoa |
| Laptop 6 (Rocco) | CSN7480015B | Tim | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21, build 767, firmware Q2E18 |
| Laptop 7 (Moodle) | Leslie (confirmed 22 May 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.0, Testing os851 - this laptop has a replaced battery | |
| Laptop 8 (Josh) | CSN749028BA | Steve Vincent (confirmed 24 May 2010) | Tauranga | XO-1.0 Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 9 (Tio) | SHF7250080F | Tim (confirmed 20 Sept 2010) | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing 8.21 - build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 10 (Pogo) | CSN74802463 | Tim (confirmed 20 Sept 2010) | Wellington | Testing 8.2-767 |
| Laptop 11 (Zephyr) | SHF80802932 | Luci luci@wellsuited.co.nz (confirmed 24 May 2010) | Christchurch | Testing on....656 |
| Laptop 12 (Rambo) | CSN74802145 | Loaned to Chris Cormack, for maori translation work 202.78.240.7 23:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC) | Wellington | XO-1.0, Testing on 8.21, build 802, firmware Q2E41 |
| Laptop 13 (Mojo) | CSN74701F41 | Fabiana (confirmed 22 May 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.0, testing os373pyg |
| Laptop 14 (Twilight) | CSN74804BF8 | Tom (27 August 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.0, testing os373pyg |
| Laptop 15 (Monkey) | CSN74804D7E | Fabiana | Auckland | XO-1.0 testing os851 (the latest signed build) |
| Laptop 16 (Ollie) | SHC937010DB | With Miroslav of Catalyst, for Serbian translation work 202.78.240.7 23:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC) | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 54, OLPC release 11, Q3A18 |
| Laptop 17 (Shadow) | SHC93701143 | Tabitha (returned from Tamaki 27 August 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.5, build 205 |
| Laptop 18 (Aslan) | SHC93701128 | Tim (confirmed 20 Sept 2010) | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.14, build 116, Q3A35 |
| Laptop 19 (Poppy-Copy) | SHC9370114B | Tom (returned from Tamaki 27 August 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.5, build 205 |
| Laptop 20 (Camelot) | SHC937010FF | Alli | Wellington | XO-1.5, Testing on 0.84.16, build 852, Q3A48 |
| Laptop 21 (Anna) | CSN75000DC0 | Calvin (21 August 2010) | Auckland - North shore school | XO-1.0 testing on os373pyg |
| Laptop 22 (Tux) | CSN75002073 | Tom Parker (17 July 2010) | Auckland | XO-1.0, Testing on os767 (the build shipped to Pacific deployments initially) |
| Laptop 23 (me) | SHF7250056A | Steven Vincent (confirmed 24 May 2010) | Tauranga | Showing teachers and geeks in Tauranga and Rotorua |
| Laptop 24 (Milo) | SHC0050090D | Tim's niece | Wellington | X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 201 customised, firmware Q3A33 |
| Laptop 25 (Ada) | SHC00500850 | Greer | Wellington | X0-1.5, Testing on 0.84.2, build 201 customised, firmware Q3A33 |
| Laptop 26 (Tank) | SHC005008D1 | Calvin (21 August 2010) | Auckland - North Shore school | X0-1.5 testing os373pyg |
| Laptop 27 (test) | SHC016013FB | Tom | Auckland | X0-1.5 testing Dextrose |
| Battery | 00802091020110003534 | Tom | Auckland | Replacement Battery from I Love My XO |
Log of things done and cool stuff we want to talk about
We keep a log of what we do every week. To view this log go to the WellyNZTesters page Also check out the laptop.org.nz site for our stories.
See us in action
Come to a testing session in New Zealand. Check laptop.org.nz or email olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org to make contact.
Peer-reviewed educational content to implement in your pilot classes
Come and explore:
Interactive online schoolbook A cool new type of textbook. Please try it out.
We love to learn:
Einstein.School 2.0 The interactive schoolbook that you can edit, update and improve. It makes passion the primary tool for learning.
This peer-reviewed [1] [2] educational content [3] is written under an open license [4] and gives everyone the freedom to use or modify the material to suit his or her own needs.
Testing | Volunteer | User:Tabitha |
