Mchua

My name is Mel Chua, and this page describes the OLPC-related projects I'm working on. Feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or ideas you might have, or check and see if I'll be traveling near you sometime soon.

English is my native language. I have a basic understanding of ASL. 这个用户是能够有助于满足于基本 水平的 中国人。 この利用者は少しだけ日本語を話すことができます。 Estoy aprendiendo español. Sto imparando l’italiano. Ako ay pag-aaral ng Tagalog.

Quick reference

You might be looking for...

• My talk page - for leaving me a message.
• My Planet Sugar Labs blogposts.
• My projects - to see what I'm working on, have worked on, or should/would-like-to work on.
• /proposals - Thoughts in progress that are not yet fully formed or ready to go to main wiki. Probably inaccurate, half-baked, or some combination of the two. You have been warned.
• /Firefox shortcuts that may be useful for wiki users.

Interests

My volunteering interests include...

Current goals and projects

I tend to set my goals in 6-month cycles mirroring the Sugar release schedule, so these are my goals for the the 0.86 release cycle (March 1, 2009 - September 1, 2009). This list is super-flexible; stuff changes all the time, random cool ideas come up, and so this has deliberately been planned with lots of wiggle room. As things change, I (usually remember to) edit this page to reflect that.

• Maintainer of the IRC Activity.
• Working on an Activity development sprint with Jerome Gotangco and a deployment in the Philippines.
• Testing the 0.84 release, focusing on the development and execution of smoke test procedures by working with the Olin College team's sprint cycles driven by Elsa Culler and Colin Zwiebel. After smoke testing is solid, I plan on working to improve the quality of bugs filed in Trac.
• Doing QA for the AddonsPortal project. Need to set down testing and feedback cycles for that.
• Helping out with odd jobs for MarketingTeam, mostly involving community development (right now: clarifying the distinction between university chapters, ambassadors, Local Labs, geographic interest groups, and deployment teams, alongside the DeploymentTeam).
• Google Summer of Code 2009 coordination, along with other spring/summer '09 internship/mentorship initiatives.
• Interviewing Sugar Labs contributors for profiles for the 0.84 press release on March 15

History

I do stuff. This page needs a facelift.