FYI - Brenda joined the support gang! :-) Great news.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Forwarded conversation</span><br>Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">[support-gang] plz welcome new Community Support Volunteer *Brenda Wallace* (subscriber 203)</b><br>
------------------------<br><br><span class="undefined"><font color="#000000">From: <b class="undefined">Adam Holt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>></span><br>Date: 2009/9/25<br>
To: Support Gangsters <<a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a>><br></font><br></span><br>
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welcome Brenda Wallace from New Zealand!</font> She has long<br>
worked volunteering with Tabitha Roder's renowned testing team there:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters</a><br>
<a href="http://laptop.org.nz" target="_blank">http://laptop.org.nz</a><br>
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And her personal sites and blog are:<br>
<a href="http://br3nda.com" target="_blank">http://br3nda.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.coffee.geek.nz" target="_blank">http://www.coffee.geek.nz</a><br>
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I'm really hoping she can work with others here to write a "Class Acts"<br>
chapter, explaining to the world how they put together such a vital QA<br>
resource for our worldwide community:<br>
<a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ClassActs" target="_blank">http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ClassActs</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources</a><br>
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Please ask Brenda directly if you might help her here? Even if I've not<br>
yet fully trained Brenda aound RT -- please also reach out to her here<br>
for any reason:<br>
<div lang="x-unicode"> <a href="mailto:shiny@cpan.org" target="_blank">shiny@cpan.org</a><br>
irc/wiki/teamwiki/RT: Shiny<br>
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EG. helping her with CJL's RT tips and Mafe's volunteer kit:<br>
<a href="http://laptop.org/team/index.php/RT" target="_blank">http://laptop.org/team/index.php/RT</a><br>
<a href="http://laptop.org/team/index.php/Team:New_Support-gang_Orientation_Kit" target="_blank">http://laptop.org/team/index.php/Team:New_Support-gang_Orientation_Kit</a><br>
<a href="http://rt.laptop.org/RTFM/Article/Search.html?Class=OLPCFAQ" target="_blank">http://rt.laptop.org/RTFM/Article/Search.html?Class=OLPCFAQ</a><br>
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Try to help her get up to speed learning not only on RT, but also<br>
our values /\ accomplishments \/
mission /\ programs...<br>
<a href="http://support.laptop.org" target="_blank">http://support.laptop.org</a><br>
<a href="http://flickr.com/olpc/sets" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/olpc/sets</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Participate" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Participate</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internships" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internships</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Africa" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Africa</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program</a>
!<br>
<a href="http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/onlinetraining/resolution" target="_blank">http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/onlinetraining/resolution</a>
!!<br>
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Dear Brenda,<br>
Kindly introduce yourself to the group, with a very short personal
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statement of what you are working on, your interests and/or photos...
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<br>
Add a link to your name and hometown in the roster here if possible:
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<a href="http://laptop.org/team/index.php/Team:Supporters#mainly_support" target="_blank">http://laptop.org/team/index.php/Team:Supporters#mainly_support</a><br>
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All questions are welcome here on this non-public mailing list, during
our<br>
Sunday 4PM EDT/EST conference calls, and over live chat
(our "volunteers<br>
only" IRC channel is #olpc-support-gang on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>). Remember<br>
ask ANY question anytime here, using <a href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat" target="_blank">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a>
and then<br>
typing at bottom:<br>
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/join #olpc-support-gang<br>
/query CanoeBerry<br>
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Thank you <b>*<font color="#000000">Brenda Wallace</font></b><b><span>*</span></b>
for joining <span><span> :) </span></span><br>
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<br><br>----------<br><span class="undefined"><font color="#000000">From: <b class="undefined">Brenda Wallace</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shiny@cpan.org">shiny@cpan.org</a>></span><br>Date: 2009/9/25<br>To: Support Gangsters <<a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a>><br>
</font><br></span><br>There's lotsa info on <a href="http://laptop.org.nz" target="_blank">laptop.org.nz</a> on our group - it's just started<br>
to really take off in the last month.<br>
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One of our team members is leading a "one reprap per child" project -<br>
reprap are the open source 3d printers.<br>
We've recently made many XO viewfinders on one of our repraps - get in<br>
touch if you'd like info on how to make these.<br>
<a href="http://coffee.geek.nz/olpc-viewfinders-made-reprap.html" target="_blank">http://coffee.geek.nz/olpc-viewfinders-made-reprap.html</a><br>
I'm part of the Wellington test group - we've been meeting every<br>
saturday for over a year now, focused on testing sugar and activities.<br>
We spend our saturdays eating brunch, drinking coffee, and playing<br>
with sugar on XOs - then sending test reports, detailing any bugs or<br>
unexpected behaviour we found. A large group together means we get to<br>
test all the sharing/collaboration aspects.<br>
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We've been going to government events, had a few speaking engagements,<br>
and just in the last month we've started getting interest from school<br>
principals. We're trying to get sugar deployed into a local school,<br>
especially the lower decile ones. All a volunteer effort so far.<br>
<br>
Last weekend we had a very successfull software freedom day, including<br>
a learn to programme session by one of our team members. They use<br>
scratch running on XO laptops. There's a strong interest from the kids<br>
and parents for more of these. We handed out > 160 sugar-on-a-sticks<br>
at SFD.<br>
<br>
This saturday we're having our regular Wellington testing meetup, and<br>
the first ever meetup in another city: Auckland - which we'll link<br>
together by the powers of the intarnets.<br>
<br>
We're also building schoolservers. We've played with a few using<br>
virtualbox, but this weekend we'll build a dedicated one (in an old<br>
laptop) to run all the New Zealand volunteers from. Probably we'll be<br>
screwed if the harddrive dies, but it's a way to get using it, finding<br>
bugs from longer term use, and start contributing back code. (as well<br>
as bulding experience to volunteer for deployments around the world)<br>
<br>
Some members of the team (myself included) are contributing to sahana,<br>
a webapp for managing large scale disasters (think tsunami). We use<br>
XOs for this, as they're well suited to the harsh environments<br>
following an earthquake or bushfire.<br>
<br>
As for myself - i'm a coder mostly. I contribute to statusnet (the<br>
project that powers <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">http://identi.ca</a>, distributed microblogging), and<br>
have contributed alot to Drupal in the past, as well as lots of perl<br>
module, some projects for health sector, and lotsa non-opensource for<br>
cellular telecommunications (SMS/ SMPP stuff, wap gateware, realtime<br>
billing systems, J2ME apps etc). My opensource contributions are<br>
mostly findable on ohloh <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Br3nda" target="_blank">https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Br3nda</a><br>
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