[Testing] The Tech Museum as a testing venue?

[Robert Stephenson]

Hi, folks, allow me to introduce myself.  I work at The Tech Museum of  
Innovation in San Jose, and we have been talking with Ed Cherlin about  
the possibility of setting up an XO cluster (or two).  It started with  
this question:
> The Tech has a lot of Title 1 schools that visit the museum as part  
> of their educational program.  We are planning a classroom area that  
> will be within and a part of the regular museum -- in other words  
> dual purpose: exhibit when not in use and classroom otherwise.  Is  
> it possible that we could get enough laptops (24-30, plus spares) to  
> outfit a whole class of students?

The focus of the classes, and of the exhibit the rest of the time,  
would be on media (music, remixes, graphics, videos, etc.)  
production.  We can easily provide access to OLPC folks, either  
physically or virtually (no firewall).  We have thousands of kids  
running loose every day, so it would be a great user and endurance  
test.  Does this sound like a possibility?

- Rob


> Mel Chua wrote:
> > About to have Big Conversation with Ed about Community QA moving
> > forward, and I think I've finished my Big Braindump at
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2#QA - review appreciated!
> >
> > The IRC backchannel is #olpc in case you want to join in, I'll try  
> to
> > get someone to transcribe since I'll likely be in the middle of a  
> lot of
> > this discussion.
> >
> > Please holler if any of this or any of the resources I've linked  
> to are
> > unclear (I'm writing this a bit frantically at the last moment so my
> > coherence is potentially dubious.)
> >
> > --Mel
> >


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