Greg's User Feedback URLs of the Week (Spanish): http://ceibalpuertosauce.blogspot.com/ and http://www.ceibalbellaunion.blogspot.com/ Two great teacher generated blogs out of Uruguay showing how XOs and activities are used in real schools.
Greg's User Feedback URLs of the Week (English): http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41706?show=full PhD Thesis of OLPC Learning team member Claudia Urrea. Includes detailed overview of and analysis of 1:1 learning projects in Latin America. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/019994.html Input on devel list from Elena based on experience in Mongolia. See also the extensive thread that grew out of this. ****************** Status of last weeks goals: 1 - Get sign off and incorporate final edits on 8.2 release notes. GS - Done. That upgrade section was a bear! Thanks to Frances, Mel, and Lionel who helped get it finalized and as clean as possible. 2 - Prepare 8.2 marketing launch. Update Releases wiki pages and write announcement e-mail, wiki home page update, post for OLPC News, open source participants acknowledgment list, (other source material or communication vehicles?). All of the above should be in place for posting Monday 10/13. GS - Done. Release announcement e-mail written. On Tuesday 10/14, I will send it to all lists (except devel where Michael gets the honor of making the announcement). Will also update wiki home page and send announcement to OLPC News 3 - Start weekly 8.2.1 and 9.1 meetings. Update 8.2.1 and 9.1 pages. Start triaging Trac to create queries which will show target 8.2.1 bugs. Reach out to target customers for 8.2.1 and track deployment time frames. GS - Partially done. Internal 8.2.1 meeting held. Further meetings on hold until we identify the lead customer needing a critical bug fix. First internal 9.1 meeting postponed to next week. The goal is to make both of these meetings public meetings on IRC after an initial internal kick off. ************** Goals for next week in priority order: 1 - Send out 8.2 announcement e-mail to public lists and technical leads at deployments. 2 - Update and restructure 9.1 page. Continue to engage learning team, Ed, engineering and others to come up with use cases and high level strategic plans which can motivate development over the course of multiple releases. 3 - Join more sugar and other design meetings. I want to add more motivation and customer side info to features planned. Also want to communicate better what work is essentially underway and being worked on now. Lastly, want to write more detailed requirements and see if I can get an engineer to write at least one full design document (best chance is design for activation/security management in response to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Activation_lease_security_feature) 4 - Update deployments page with the latest status details. 5 - Engage more users to understand their needs. Focus especially on Sur list and country technical leads (top targets: Peru, Uruguay, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Haiti). Thanks, Greg S _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel