<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter) were asked to come up with a list of roadblocks we have run into in trying to volunteer effectively. Mel Chua asked me to forward it to these lists, so here is the list in text format:<br>
</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we have to come up
with jobs ourselves, and we're not too good at it</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we don't know what we
can do that is useful</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">when we are told what
to do, we have to check with other people to make sure it's ok</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we don't have easy
access to cool things that are going on in OLPC that would get people excited</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> -for example - it
would make people excited just to hear accounts of deployments</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">most meetings happen
when we are in class and we don't know what happened or give input</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span> </span>- especially with commute (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">it takes us 1;30 hrs
to get here)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">it's difficult to
find out what OLPC does beyond the broad mission-statement sort of thing</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">it took me 6 months
to figure out how to use irc, i still don't know where trac is</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">olpc-dev list emails
are kind of over my head</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">where are things? (on wiki, etc)<br></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">note - if you teach
us how stuff works we can tell more people/translate the information</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I would like to
develop activities, but up until now I didn't even know it was up for grabs</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks for listening!</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Yours Truly,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Elsa Culler<br></span></p>