southern cross

Come along to the Southern Cross on Saturday 9 January 2010 for the first session of the year, or on 16 January 2010 for the second session.

We will be preparing for LCA2010 which is 18-23 January, Wellington town hall where we are going to have a workshop on the Tuesday in the education miniconference as well as two areas during the Open Day (one for people to experience using the XOs and the other area for Sugar on other hardware and using Sugar on a Stick).

If you are in Wellington on Saturday 23 January 2010 please come to the Open Day. Bring a USB key and we will put Sugar on it for you to take home.

LCA2010 will be an exciting start to the new year.

The NZ OLPC "Friends in Testing" meets every saturday in Wellington. This saturday will be the first meeting after a very successful Software Freedom Day here.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/wellington

This saturday is also the first ever meeting of the Auckland group.

What's involved is: brunch, coffee, conversation, intro to the green XO laptops, how the OS works, how to install an activity, and then you test your chosen activity, try to find some bugs. If we find bugs we send a test report back to the project.

If we don't find any bugs we also send a report saying how awesome the project is. Those that know python may wish to track down and destroy the bug, but for the most part we don't.

We've been ask to test the list of activities that are being deployed to kids in Peru soon

We're meeting at 10:30am, and tying the two locations together via irc (we're a bit bandwidth constrained in cafes.

Wellington is at the southern Cross http://thecross.co.nz
Auckland group is at Ironique, 448 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden.

Please join us - there will be many newcomers at both events.

p.s. People hacking on other projects are also welcome - we like "cross pollination". I know there are some koha, statusnet and drupal hackers coming.
p.p.s. If you have your own laptop, whatever flavour, bring that along too. The "sugar" software project that powers the OLPC laptops should run on most anything, and if it doesn't work on yours, we'd like to know that too.

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Testing requests coming out our ears! Isn't it fantastic to see
momentum in OLPC.
I hope lots of people can make it to the Southern Cross this weekend -
usual time 10.30am, 35 Abel Smith Street.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Holt
Date: 2009/5/13
Subject: [support-gang] "Final pre-release Candidate Release 8.2.1
incl Activities"
To: Support Gangsters , Testing
, Devel's in the Details

Please test this Give1Get1-suitable image, including Activities now.