Organizing organizing

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  • Clarify volunteer roles/opportunities/processes
    Syndicate intern opportunities in one space (on wiki)
    ...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?
    Checklist for getting started
    Templates for creating a local wiki
    Links to (or pdfs of) some of the crucial OLPCwiki pages
  • 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?