User:Martinlanghoff/Deployment Team Questionnaire

Operations (Procurement, Finance, and Logistics

XO Needs:

What is the total quantity of XO laptops you are interested in ordering?

What is the preferred keyboard language for your XO order? Current options include: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Nepali, Amharic, Thai, Dari/Pashto, Kreyol, Arabic, and Mongolian. If you are interested in an alternate keyboard language please provide the contact information for the appointed representative who will work on this project with OLPC.

What is the preferred XO power adapter for your order? Options include: US (2 flat prongs); EU (3 round prongs); and UK (3 flat prongs)

Are you interested in a custom image for the XO laptops you are ordering? If so, please provide the contact information for the technical contact that will coordinate this task with OLPC.

Education team

• How many in the team? What are their roles?

What time can each member of the team dedicate to the deployment, both during the initial as well as follow up phases?

• Have you identified local experts (university, NGOs, or governmental programs) to advise and support the program?
• Are what is the national approach to education?
• What is the profile of the schools you will be working with (number of students in schools and outside the school) number of students per classroom, teacher preparation, etc.?
• Is there a current culture of computers in schools? What about Internet? are there any statistics?
• Are there programs or projects (at the national and local level) that can become strategic ally to the project?
• What platform (Windows or Linux) is mainly used in schools?

Technical team

• How many in the team?
• Is the team associated to a university or tertiary where Linux / Unix is actively taught?
• Are there local "technical gurus" at hand? Who are they?
• What time can the team dedicate to the deployment -- for the initial deployment and for follow up...

Questions for each member in the team

• Are you fluent in English? Written technical English?
• What OSs are you familiar with?
• What programming languages do you use yourself?
• Have you managed large networks? How many machines?
• Are you familiar with content content filtering tools? HTTP proxy setup?
• Do you know Linux? Have you used it?
• Have you administereed linux in servers? for how long?
• Have you used or administered linux on desktops? for how long?
• What Linux distributions are you familiar with?
• Where do you usually find documentation about procedures in Linux?
• Are you subscribed to mailing lists or forums for open projects? Which?
• When you need help with Linux, who do you go to for help?
• Have you got a RHCE certificate or similar?
• Are you comfortable with the command line?
• What commandline tools are you familiar with?
• Are you comfortable with shell scripting?
• What scripting languages do you use?
• Have you contributed patches, translations, bugreports, documentation to any Open Source / Free Software project? (Ideally provide links)