[olpc-nz] Fwd: [support-gang] plz welcome new Community Support Volunteer *Brenda Wallace* (subscriber 203)

[Tabitha Roder]

FYI - Brenda joined the support gang! :-) Great news.


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Subject: [support-gang] plz welcome new Community Support Volunteer *Brenda
Wallace* (subscriber 203)
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From: *Adam Holt* <holt at laptop.org>
Date: 2009/9/25
To: Support Gangsters <support-gang at laptop.org>


 Please welcome Brenda Wallace from New Zealand!  She has long
worked volunteering with Tabitha Roder's renowned testing team there:
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters
    http://laptop.org.nz

And her personal sites and blog are:
    http://br3nda.com
    http://www.coffee.geek.nz

I'm really hoping she can work with others here to write a "Class Acts"
chapter, explaining to the world how they put together such a vital QA
resource for our worldwide community:
    http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ClassActs
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources

Please ask Brenda directly if you might help her here?  Even if I've not
yet fully trained Brenda aound RT -- please also reach out to her here
for any reason:
    shiny at cpan.org
    irc/wiki/teamwiki/RT: Shiny

EG. helping her with CJL's RT tips and Mafe's volunteer kit:
    http://laptop.org/team/index.php/RT
    http://laptop.org/team/index.php/Team:New_Support-gang_Orientation_Kit
    http://rt.laptop.org/RTFM/Article/Search.html?Class=OLPCFAQ

Try to help her get up to speed learning not only on RT, but also
our values /\ accomplishments \/ mission /\ programs...
    http://support.laptop.org
    http://flickr.com/olpc/sets
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Participate
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internships
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Africa
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program !
    http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/onlinetraining/resolution !!


Dear Brenda,
Kindly introduce yourself to the group, with a very short personal
statement of what you are working on, your interests and/or photos...

Add a link to your name and hometown in the roster here if possible:
http://laptop.org/team/index.php/Team:Supporters#mainly_support

All questions are welcome here on this non-public mailing list, during our
Sunday 4PM EDT/EST conference calls, and over live chat (our "volunteers
only" IRC channel is #olpc-support-gang on irc.freenode.net).  Remember
ask ANY question anytime here, using http://forum.laptop.org/chat and then
typing at bottom:

/join #olpc-support-gang
/query CanoeBerry

Thank you **Brenda Wallace**** for joining :)

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From: *Brenda Wallace* <shiny at cpan.org>
Date: 2009/9/25
To: Support Gangsters <support-gang at laptop.org>


There's lotsa info on laptop.org.nz on our group - it's just started
to really take off in the last month.

One of our team members is leading a "one reprap per child" project -
reprap are the open source 3d printers.
We've recently made many XO viewfinders on one of our repraps - get in
touch if you'd like info on how to make these.
http://coffee.geek.nz/olpc-viewfinders-made-reprap.html
I'm part of the Wellington test group - we've been meeting every
saturday for over a year now, focused on testing sugar and activities.
We spend our saturdays eating brunch, drinking coffee, and playing
with sugar on XOs - then sending test reports, detailing any bugs or
unexpected behaviour we found. A large group together means we get to
test all the sharing/collaboration aspects.

We've been going to government events, had a few speaking engagements,
and just in the last month we've started getting interest from school
principals. We're trying to get sugar deployed into a local school,
especially the lower decile ones. All a volunteer effort so far.

Last weekend we had a very successfull software freedom day, including
a learn to programme session by one of our team members. They use
scratch running on XO laptops. There's a strong interest from the kids
and parents for more of these. We handed out > 160 sugar-on-a-sticks
at SFD.

This saturday we're having our regular Wellington testing meetup, and
the first ever meetup in another city: Auckland - which we'll link
together by the powers of the intarnets.

We're also building schoolservers. We've played with a few using
virtualbox, but this weekend we'll build a dedicated one (in an old
laptop) to run all the New Zealand volunteers from. Probably we'll be
screwed if the harddrive dies, but it's a way to get using it, finding
bugs from longer term use, and start contributing back code. (as well
as bulding experience to volunteer for deployments around the world)

Some members of the team (myself included) are contributing to sahana,
a webapp for managing large scale disasters (think tsunami). We use
XOs for this, as they're well suited to the harsh environments
following an earthquake or bushfire.

As for myself - i'm a coder mostly. I contribute to statusnet (the
project that powers http://identi.ca, distributed microblogging), and
have contributed alot to Drupal in the past, as well as lots of perl
module, some projects for health sector, and lotsa non-opensource for
cellular telecommunications (SMS/ SMPP stuff, wap gateware, realtime
billing systems, J2ME apps etc).  My opensource contributions are
mostly findable on ohloh https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Br3nda
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