OLPC Rochester, NY/Show&Tell

26 March 2008

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      the $100 laptop that is changing the world

Show & Tell, Look, Listen & Learn, Touch & Feel, Give & Take

     An afternoon workshop with OLPC Rochester, NY leading to an evening meeting of the WNY HFES

Presented by: Frederick Grose, MPH, CIH and collaborators

Location: RIT Building 70 Room 2400 (B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences) 5:00pm – 6:30pm. Networking before the meeting, 5:00pm – 5:30pm. Park in Lot J. See campus map at http://inside.rit.edu/maps/

Possible event timeline:

1. 1-5 pm - Drop In (at any time), Check Things Out, Get to Know Each Other, Try Things Out
   • 1:00 - doors open: set up XOs, invite others to do likewise, casual introductions.
   • ~2:00 - Identify possible interest or topic groups among attendees, suggest that they gather and self-organize.
     • Sugar on Ubuntu 7.10
     • XO emulated on VMWare Server 2.0 beta on Windows Vista32
     • XO Mesh network
     • XO Activities
     • OLPC project areas
       
       
   • ~3:00 (or as seems timely) - Break (popcorn popper) Report discoveries, suggestions, raise questions. Address questions, summarize and document on boards, redirect, regroup, or shuffle as desired.
   • ~4:00 (or as seems timely) - Repeat previous step as appropriate.
   • ~4:30 - finalize additional demonstrations & topics for 5:30 WNY HFES meeting; topic groups summarize learnings, questions, plans and report same on wiki and on board.
     
     
2. 5-6:30 pm - WNY HFES Meeting time
   • 5:00 - Refreshments (sandwiches for full-day attendees), greet HFES attendees.
   • 5:30 - HFES Meeting Introductions, introductory comments (summarize OLPC project), explain theme, begin to answer new questions.
     
     
3. 6-9:50 pm - Keith Karn's Usability Testing Class
   • 6:00 - Identify any topic groups still present, get attendees up to mill around and exercise theme actions.
   • 6:25 - Solicit all to visit OLPC wiki, contribute ideas to the project and OLPC Rochester, NY page, and spread the word about project to friends and collegues.
   • Keith Karn's class agenda
   • Stephen Jacobs' class or group agenda

About the Speaker
Frederick Grose is a volunteer to the OLPC project. He served in a variety of health and safety roles at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY for 27 years as an industrial hygienist, asbestos hygiene manager, workplace epidemiology assistant, health, safety, & chemical information systems architect and programmer, and ergonomics associate. Over his career at Kodak he was responsible for hygiene for significant terms in the Synthetic Chemicals Division, Chemical Manufacturing Organization, Construction, Maintenance, & Facilities Organizations, Roll Coating Division, Photochemicals Division, Manufacturing Research & Engineering Organization, and Research and Development Divisions. He help developed Kodak's asbestos control program, occupational exposure tracking system, exposure monitoring and analysis systems for historical and active cohorts of workers exposed to methylene chloride, developed and delivered health education sessions for thousands of people working with asbestos and other hazardous physical, chemical, biologic, or mechanical agents. Frederick is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, earned a Master of Public Health degree at the University of California, Berkeley and Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the University of California, Riverside. He had been working most of his final 6 years at Kodak as an ergonomics associate, helping industrial clients to understand and implement ergonomic solutions that improve jobs and workplaces.

COST: Members & Students – no cost; Non-members - $5 payable at the door

RSVP: Contact Jennifer Dyck by February 19, 716-673-3828, Jennifer.Dyck at fredonia.edu