[OLPC_Boston] CFS pilot status? (for IL deployment team)

[Yifan]

Hi guys

So the IMSA people will be here January 4 through 10, spending Sunday
probably preparing. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Yifan

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Katelyn Foley <kfoley at fas.harvard.edu>wrote:

> Hey Mel,
>
> Great! Thanks for getting us all in touch. I will talk to Mack and we will
> be sure to respond asap. In the meantime, though, when are the exact dates
> that IMSA will be in Boston?
>
> Thanks,
> Katelyn
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Mack and Katelyn!
>>
>> What's been happening with the CFS pilot lately? The deployment team from
>> IL is gearing up to come, and Yifan Sun, the local coordinator for the IMSA
>> deployment team, is cc'd here - you should sync up with her to make plans
>> for how they'll operate during their time in Boston.
>>
>> Ccing the olpc_boston list so that local groups can chime in with
>> ideas/suggestions - feel free to push back, propose, counter-propose, and
>> make suggestions. I'm hoping that by publishing our process and our
>> conversations, we can give other communities a better idea of what goes on
>> behind the scenes of getting a deployment to go.
>>
>> Services the deployment team plans on setting up when they arrive:
>> a: XS (school server)
>> b: teacher support (being there in the classrooms for the first week,
>> full-time, to help as needed)
>> c: community talks (FAQ seminars for parents, etc.)
>> d: general wiring/networking
>>
>> (b and c will have to be heavily coordinated with the CFS Harvard loop
>> team.)
>>
>> Some questions from Yifan:
>>
>> How many teachers would we be working with? Do we have specific people at
>> cfs who we might coordinate with or who has given us a list of things he/she
>> wants done?
>>
>> Thanks - looking forward to this!
>>
>> -Mel
>>
>>
>
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