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

[Warren Pimm]

To confirm, I will be there, but not until later in the session  
(6:00pm) due to prior scheduled work commitments.

Best,

Warren

On 2009-07-12, at 12:47 PM, Warren Pimm <wpimm at mac.com> wrote:

> A huge thank you goes out Peter, Luke, Phil, and Daniel, for their
> work this weekend to check, test, and upload the XO's for the upcoming
> September OLPC Pilot.
>
> Thank you guys!!
>
> If the team that met on Saturday via IRC to go through the upcoming
> teacher orientation would provide a brief update in afvance of the
> session on Tuesday, and also confirm who is attending (RSVP if you are
> attending) it would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Warren
>
> On 2009-07-12, at 12:23 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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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