[Olpc-uk] Preparation for pilot deployment and teacher training

[Peter Robinson]

Hi All,

We had a very successful initial build out and test of the laptops.

I would like to make specific mention of Luke and Phil who put in a
spectacular effort to go through all 50 laptops and get them flashed,
unlocked and tested. My plan was to get half done and we did an
initial run through them all! Even thought it was a mammoth 9 hour
stint.  With initial testing we currently only have 2 that look like
they have issues which is pretty impressive given the state of one of
the boxes from the courier!

Photos of the day are available here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/an0key/sets/72157621149154301/

Another big thanks to Warren for getting the laptops over to me while
I was racing off to a Data Centre for work in the morning, and Daniel
for being online for doing dev keys and random support stuff.

For the rest of you..... there's going to be other days where your
assistance will be required..... you haven't got out of it because
this pilot will not be successful with the efforts of one or two.

Peter

PS martin... i hope you get over your (swine?) flu soon :-)

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Peter Robinson<pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Now that we have laptops on their way from the US its time to ramp up
> the planning for the deployment.
>
> There are a number of issues and upcoming milestones that will need
> quite a bit of planning and lots of hands on deck for assistance.
>
> We have 50 laptops on their way but somewhere between 1 and 50 of
> these don't work. So the plan is to have a test day to go through all
> the laptops and test them, document them (hardware issues, serial
> numbers etc), unlock them (developer codes etc) and generally do some
> testing on them with an initial software image (SoaS Strawberry). I'll
> host this at my house with the date possibly being this weekend
> dependant on whether the laptops have made it through customs etc.
> Keep your diary open :-) I'm based right near clapham junction station
> which has good connections from Victoria, Waterloo and London
> overground as well as buses. Reply to this mail if your interested in
> helping out. I will confirm the date once we know we'll have laptops.
>
> The teacher training day is one week from today (Tuesday 14th July).
>
> The web team is getting together on the following day (Wednesday 15th July).
>
> I'll be leading the hardware/software side of the pilot with Martin
> Dengler's help :-)
>
> Questions/queries/offers of assistance all welcome :-)
>
> Peter
>