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.
• /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.

Entry points for all SL teams

Goal: There should be at least one mapped-out-and-tested new contributor experience for every SL team - something that takes people from "I want to get involved with Sugar by working on this team" to independently contributing and able to mentor newcomers to that team themselves. I want to personally experience, improve, and document them, and encourage others to go through them and give feedback. (All these things will be done in partnership with and with the approval of Team leaders.)

• Maintain the IRC Activity for Activity Team.
• Run at least one BugSquad sprint and mentor someone else in running a BugSquad sprint for BugSquad Team.
• Provide a weekly feedback report to Deployment Team for the Sugar deployments I'm involved with.
• Produce the next draft of a Sugar Deployment Guide with Deployment and Documentation teams, possibly at another FLOSSmanuals sprint.
• Work with Documentation Team to make guides for how to get started in each community team.
• Work with Design Team to design and execute an appropriate small project for this cycle (perhaps a "get swag!" listing page).
• Have at least 4 accepted patches to sugar-core or SoaS for this release cycle for DevelopmentTeam.
• Run an Activity development sprint with Jerome Gotangco and a deployment in the Philippines with a strong focus on educator feedback for the Education Team.
• Define and offer hosting service packages for Local Labs and Deployments with Infrastructure Team.
• Write a monthly group profile for Marketing Team.
• Make (or improve) a redirect bot for Wiki Team.

Not sorted yet

• 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 Addons Portal project. Need to set down testing and feedback cycles for that.
• Helping out with odd jobs for Marketing Team, 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 Marketing team.

History

I do stuff. This page needs a facelift.