Hey guys,<br><br>Sorry to keep bugging you guys, but I was wondering if there was any sort of timeline going on for this. Sandra was telling me that deployment wasn't actually scheduled until February, but the IMSA people will be here in early January... Will CFS be in session, and what sort of things could we do and can't we do given that time restraint? Thanks,<br>
<br>Yifan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Mel Chua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mel@melchua.com">mel@melchua.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Answers that I can provide:<br>
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a: server<br>
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XS setup is the big one - I want to find a local team to take on maintenance if possible, but much of this can probably be done remotely. I'm not sure how much - whoever on the deployment team is doing XS stuff should find out.<br>
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A thought for the Harvard loop team: It would be awesome to identify and recruit a small group of older students who want to be the "student tech team" on-site at CFS - 6th-8th graders that the deployment team can teach things like basic laptop repair, XS administration, and the like while they're there, so you'll have tech kids "on the ground" to work with at all times. Like a junior IT.<div class="Ih2E3d">
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what else? checking to make sure all the laptops work and all that?<br>
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See <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_pilots#Needed" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_pilots#Needed</a> - Build is going to be a big one, and it'd be good to train the teachers on how to acceptance-test* builds and Activities, how to create and use customization keys, and how to upgrade. (This is the "so what software do we run on our XOs?" question.) I'd be happy to teach this if there's interest.<br>
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*this is the most difficult/involved part of the process - not technically difficult, but it takes time for people to figure out what their requirements actually are.<br>
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There's also...<br>
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* helping the kids unpack and reflash their XOs once they arrive (the exciting time!)<br>
* cool sugar/xo tricks 101; being general XO buddies<br>
* observing/joining the volunteer (translation, content, curriculum, deployment, development, test, support, etc.) communities - for teachers, parents, and students. Not every user will become a volunteer, but they should all have the ongoing opportunity to do so, know that the option exists, and how to take advantage of it if they want.<br>
* teaching the teachers how to use the XS - maybe see if moodle is something they want to use/learn.<br><font color="#888888">
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