[OLPC_Boston] High school chapters helping with local pilots

[Mel Chua]

Another one I didn't send out to the whole list... perhaps there are 
other high schools that might be interested?
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org 
> <mailto:mel at laptop.org>> wrote:
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>     Christine - I thought of you and your high school chapter for the
>     Build team. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_pilots#Needed for
>     a general overview of what's needed - this is very similar to what
>     I do/facilitate in my Support Engineer role at OLPC, so I'd be
>     happy to mentor the group this school year to get you started, if
>     this is something you'd be interested in.
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>     It's a mix of technical and nontechnical/education roles, and
>     requires a lot of interaction with the other community teams and
>     schools. Your team would work with the schools (through their loop
>     teams) to design a software build that fits in with their
>     curriculum (with the curriculum and Activities teams), test the
>     heck out of that build (or better yet, coordinate/teach/mentor
>     younger students from the pilot schools to help with testing), and
>     package up the build onto an image that can be downloaded from the
>     internet or flashed from a USB stick. Then you'd head to the
>     schools themselves to work with the loop team to deploy the
>     software across classrooms.
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>     This sounds like a lot, but it's really not - a week or two of
>     afternoon test sessions with pilot kids, maybe a day to package
>     the final build (I'll sit with you the first time and show you how
>     to do this; it's not hard) - and generally keeping in the loop re:
>     software updates (released every 6 months), and then of course a
>     day to upgrade. Schools will be updating their builds once a
>     semester at the most, probably more like once a year.
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>     Ccing Mack and Katelyn from the Harvard loop team, as your team
>     would be working with them for the first pilot if you decide to
>     take this challenge on.
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>     Thoughts?
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>     -Mel
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