Hi Adam<br><br>We are very excited to see Wellington testers at the top of the agenda for your meeting. <br><br>1) Several Dramatic (honestly heroic is the better word here) Stories
now need to be cultivated, plucked and mapped out -- alongside our
Resources/Repository ecosystem above:<br>
A) Tabitha's NZ Testing Lab!<br>
<br>This is Monday at 8am for us here and we will be at work :-( so unlikely we can join in at late notice.<br><br>News update from us for your meeting:<br>Today we were at Software Freedom Day, Wellington Town Hall. We gave out roughly 60 USB keys with SoaS Strawberry preloaded. We had about ten XOs on display and in use during the Day. This Software Freedom Day agenda included - 1 hour XO session for kids, 1 hour XO session for tertiary students, 1 hour Scratch session with XOs supporting the desktop machines. Then four hours of come and see us. We had a lot of interest including some school teachers and a Principal of an intermediate school (that is 11 and 12 year olds) who asked us to do a research project with them. <br>
We also took the XOs to Open Government Data Barcamp a couple of weeks ago to raise awareness of OLPC vision. <br>We are using SoaS to get more people involved and our test group is growing with more and more interest from schools and language translators to help with Maori translation. <br>
We are still meeting every week - Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith St, Wellington - on Saturdays at 10.30am. We are always keen for developers to contact us and ask us to test things for them. <br><br>What do you need from us for your story cultivating,and what is your resources/repository ecosystem please? You might want to see our site - <a href="http://laptop.org.nz">laptop.org.nz</a> - where we keep people updated on what we do, also we have - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters</a> - where we put in weekly one liner on what we have been doing (mostly to show people that we are hear every week and want to help out with testing).<br>
<br>If you want to talk to our group on IRC or skype, can we look at a more NZ friendly time? Weekends are easier for us than week days. <br><br>Looking forward to hearing from you. <br><br clear="all">Kind regards<br>Tabitha <br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Holt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>></span><br>Date: 2009/9/20<br>
Subject: [support-gang] 4PM EDT Sunday Call: "Class Acts" Post-Production<br>To: Support Gangsters <<a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a>><br>Cc: David Norman <<a href="mailto:davidwalternorman@yahoo.com">davidwalternorman@yahoo.com</a>>, Joshua Gay <<a href="mailto:joshuagay@gmail.com">joshuagay@gmail.com</a>>, Jeff Elkner <<a href="mailto:jeff@elkner.net">jeff@elkner.net</a>>, Frank Linton <<a href="mailto:linton@mitre.org">linton@mitre.org</a>>, Mel Chua <<a href="mailto:mel@redhat.com">mel@redhat.com</a>>, Billy Grissom <<a href="mailto:sasafetch@gmail.com">sasafetch@gmail.com</a>>, Kyle Ferlic <<a href="mailto:kferlic@gmail.com">kferlic@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Call Agenda:<br>
<br>
1) Several Dramatic (honestly heroic is the better word here) Stories
now need to be cultivated, plucked and mapped out -- alongside our
Resources/Repository ecosystem above:<br>
A) Tabitha's NZ Testing Lab!<br>
B) Mel's July 2007 Game Jam that seeding the Sugar Activities we
know today<br>
C) Olin College as our most successful univ chapter -:- what + who
makes it tick?<br>
D) Mike's DC Magic: Get a City Off its Butt<br>
E) Jeff Elkner's El Salvador Village+University Dedication<br>
F) Frank Linton's HoneyBee Timelapse Audio on XO<br>
G) Dave Norman's Kenya OLPCorps story<br>
H) Billy Grissom's Uganda OLPCorps story<br>
I) China's deployment if someone can summarize ?<br>
J) O yeah, my own intro chapters on transpo/shipping/import
logistics<br>
<br>
2) Polish matters -- we will be judged by it -- how we will now go
about achieving it. Whether or not we produce accompanying:<br>
A) 3 one-pager high-gloss "National Geographic" studies (for
principals)<br>
B) 30-page tight booklet (for teachers/parents/after-school
programs)<br>
C) a professionally curated library of
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources</a><br>
D) later including a growin ecosystem of "open lesson plans" ?<br>
<br>
See you Sunday 4PM Boston time:<br>
<br>
866 213-2185 / 609 454-9914<br>
Access Code: 1671650#<br>
<br>
Back channel for texties:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://forum.laptop.org" target="_blank">http://forum.laptop.org</a><br>
/join #olpc-support-gang<br>
<br>
Save your energy for what matters most!!<br>
<br>
<img src="cid:part1.02000002.02080600@laptop.org" alt="">
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
support-gang mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</a><br>
<br></div><br>