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

[Phil Berryman]

Thanks for hosting and providing the chocolate brownie cake, beers and pizza.



2009/7/12 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
> 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
>>
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