[Grassroots-l] NOW! Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting, 3:45PM Boston Time, Friday)

Fri Feb 26 15:48:50 EST 2010

Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community 
projects over IRC Live Chat:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat

Then type at bottom:
/join #olpc-meeting

AGENDA:

* XO-1.5 early production machines now available:

http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-production-laptops-free-to-contributors-worldwide/

* Fast Review of the 6 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
  join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

 1. XO-1.5 for activities for development and testing - Thailand
 2. XO-1.5 application and 2 Serials Adapters - Tuebingen, Germany
 3. XO-1.5 & XO-1's for SocialCalc, Newspaper Activity, Listen and 
Spell, Deducto, Color Deducto, Video Editor, Video Chat - New Delhi, 
India AND Uruguay; South Africa; Canada; Paraguay; Sri Lanka
 4. XO-1.5 for for Jolicloud by Krim International - Paris, France
 5. OLPC Learning Club DC / Sugar Labs DC Proposal to OLPC for XO 1.5 C2 
Machines
 6. The Graham and Parks Alternative Public School with Waveplace.org - 
Cambridge, Massachusetts

* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
  http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27

* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries

1. XO-1.5 for activities for development and testing - Thailand
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58119
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] 

   Requests 1 XO-1.5 over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   This was the game i had developed in 2007 so i want to develope similar
   academic activities for XO.

2. XO-1.5 application and 2 Serials Adapters - Tuebingen, Germany
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58156
   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Version_support_for_datastore
   http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
   http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
   http://bugs.sugarlabs.org
   http://dev.laptop.org
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 2 XO-1.5's and 2 Serial Adapters over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Add version support to the Sugar data store. Since data store
   performance directly impacts user experience, direct testing on the
   XO-1.5 with the built-in MicroSD card (=> slow write performance [5]
   in general, potentially write amplification effect) would be very
   useful.

   Additionally I'm -- as Bernie Innocenti phrased it --
   "hacking all over the place", including kernel and hardware work. My
   offer to diagnose & repair XOs (keeping in mind that I don't have
   advanced equipment like a scope - got everything list for the
   Repair Center Kit [21], though) still holds as well.

   [5] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9688
   [21] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_Center_Kit

3. XO-1.5 & XO-1's for SocialCalc, Newspaper Activity, Listen and Spell, 
Deducto, Color Deducto, Video Editor, Video Chat - New Delhi, India AND 
Uruguay; South Africa; Canada; Paraguay; Sri Lanka
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 4 XO1.5's and 4 XO-1's over 8 months

   Project Objectives:
   [CAPSULE SUMMARY NEEDED IN ADDITION TO...]
   http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar
   http://seeta.in/j/products/newspaper-activity.html
   http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Listen_Spell
   http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Deducto
   http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Color_Deducto
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/VideoEditing
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat
   http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/37.html

4. XO-1.5 for for Jolicloud by Krim International - Paris, France
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58248
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolicloud
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 1 XO-1.5's over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   *Jolicloud* is a Linux <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>-based 
operating system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> that is 
currently in development
   and Pre-beta <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-beta> testing. The 
project was founded in 2009 by Tariq Krim who is
   based in Paris, France.^[1] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolicloud#cite_note-Crunchbase_profile-0> 
Jolicloud is built upon Debian and Ubuntu 9.10,
   but is tweaked to be more suitable for computers that have weaker
   specifications in terms of disk storage 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_storage>, memory 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_memory> and screen size.^[2] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolicloud#cite_note-Liliputing_Review-1> It is
   designed to run on relatively low-powered netbook 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook> computers.^[3] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolicloud#cite_note-TechCrunch-2> Jolicloud
   relies heavily on Mozilla Prism-based packages for running web-based
   applications. [excerpt from Wikipedia]

5. OLPC Learning Club DC / Sugar Labs DC Proposal to OLPC for XO 1.5 C2 
Machines
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58264
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/2010-1
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157622339910700/ 
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 6 XO-1.5's over 18 months

   Project Objectives:

   * Serve as strong full-service grassroots presence for OLPC and Sugar
     Labs in mid-Atlantic U.S.
   * Sustain interest in monthly meetings with latest OLPC technology.
     Catalyze interest in special projects (such as XO laptop for capturing
     audio of bees)
   * Operate testbed of XO laptops for hardware testing, regression
     testing and software burn-in
   * Direct support for XO deployments in El Salvador and Zambia
   * Maintain XO Lending Library (In addition to existing XO 1.0s, XO
     1.5s to be available on demand for OLPC staff demos in D.C.-area as
     needed.)
   * Support and promote DC XO Repair Center
   * Continue releases of TimeLapse 3x /yr.
   * Exhibit at local events such as NECC, Takoma Park Folk Festival,
     TedXMidAtlantic Baltimore
   * Host MIT Scratch Day 2010 in May 2010
   * Host documentation sprints
   * Working closely with LEGO Denmark using XO 1.5 and 1.0 to test Sugar
     compatible robotics software (March - June 2010)

6. The Graham and Parks Alternative Public School with Waveplace.org - 
Cambridge, Massachusetts
   http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58296
   http://www.waveplace.com/news/
   http://www.cpsd.us/gap/
   [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]

   Requests 10 XO-1's over undetermined months

   Project Objectives:
   Encourage learning through guided discovery and creative problem
   solving. 1. Familiarize Haitian-American students at Graham and Parks
   Alternative Public School with Sugar and the XO Laptop. 2. Teach a basic
   curriculum in Etoys that empowers students to develop their own 
interactive
   books and games. 3. Cultivate an environment of continued project 
exchange
   between Haitian-American students in Cambridge with Haitian students in
   Haiti.
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