• Team 1: Ben & Jay
  Area: OLPC Server & Networking
  We will install a machine and software to act as a server for a cluster of OLPCs (XOs). We will also work on the networking setup to allow the XOs to access each other and the server. We will continually download new software (system and applications) for the XOs so that the XO cluster can run the latest software

• Team 2: Ace & Tyler
  Area: Power
  A major concern in today's laptop market is power, so much so that extended-life or secondary batteries are big sellers. Coupled with the fact that the OLPC will be used in areas where electricity may be scarce or unreliable, we feel that it would be worthwhile to look into possible alternative power sources. The OLPC in our trials can last up to 3.5 hours on one battery charge (under minimal activity). We would like to assemble a charger that meets several goals: (1) it is inexpensive, (2) it is portable, (3) it is easy to operate, (4) it is reasonably effective at charging the laptop, and (5) it doesn't destroy the laptop. Fortunately, the OLPC was designed to be resilient: the battery can be charged by any voltage from 5 to 25 V, and can withstand voltages between -32 and +40 V. We want to look into several different means of energy production, from mechanical (cranks), to solar, to chemical (batteries).

• Team 3: Morgan & Josh
  Area: Application Development
  The current documentation on the OLPC development environment has proven to be ... poor. We will improve the documentation and general knowledge of how to get software ported from Linux. We might steal Jay depending on circumstances later.
  So, the general course of action is going to be: get Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/) running on the OLPC. This will be an interesting and useful package to run, and it involves getting a number of new technologies functioning on the OLPC.
  The progress so far: I have the current version of the software running in vmware on my personal laptop (I only have the trial version of vmware fusion for OS X, no other virtualization environment would start the operating system successfully).

• Team 4: Alex & Mike
  Area: User Documentation
  Will investigate how students will learn to use the OLPC once it is handed out. If no good documentation exists, we will attempt to make some, mostly in the form of online videos.

• Team 5: Adrian & Andrew
  Area: User Documentation
  We will first set up a workable Subversion installation for the XOs and a server installation for the XS classroom server. We will then work on making these tools easily installable. If time permits, we will explore the creation of a svn GUI for the XO, possibly with specific features geared toward classroom management.

• Team 6: Andrew & Mike
  Area: XO Architecture
  We will do an evaluation of the XO physical architecture including comparisons to other inexpensive (cheap) laptops. In making these evaluations we will consider the type of environment where the XO is meant to live.

Mike Erlinger