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(merge from Laptop demonstrations and Presentations). see also Remote display

Events, conferences and roadshows happen all of the time that somehow possibly involve OLPC. The following is a list of upcoming events that are, in some way, related to OLPC and its goals. The community is encouraged to go to these events with their XOs and take part in any way they like.

If you are planning substantial at any of these events, want to share more information and/or say who in the OLPC community is attending, feel free to create a page and link it from here.

Calendar

So many conferences, so little time.

Historical event information is stored at Archive1

2008

August

July 30 - August 1

Thailand learning workshop

August 3

OLPC India Day

August 5-7

LinuxWorld Expo

August 8-10

Game Jam, ILXO

organized by mchua and nlee

August 23-28

Sugar documentation sprint, Austin, TX

August 29-31

Physics Jam, OLPC HQ

A Jam to make use of the new Physics engine on the XO, a version of box2d. Examples to date include the Physics activity and Alex L's new x2o game framework.

Attending: GameLab folks, Museum of Science text curators, Mel Chua, SJ, Jordans 1-2,

September

September 3-5

X Developer's summit

September 5-7

FUD ConBrno 2008, Brno, Czech Republic

interest: marco, tomeu, simon

September 12-14

PyCon 2008 Chicago http://us.pycon.org/

September 17-19

Linux Plumber's Conference, Portland OR. For Linux system programmers.

Several OLPC people plan to attend.Deepak Jim Gettys

September 17

Software Freedom Day? and International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Morgan Collett invited by the State IT Agency's FOSS Program Office to run an OLPC stand.

September 20

Software Freedom Day

local events around the world

October

October 1-3

MontaVista Vision Embedded Linux Developer's Conference 2008, San Francisco

Deepak Saxena presenting keynote on OLPC's use of Linux and challenges we face there

October 2-3

MoodleMoot AU All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland

Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)

October 8-10 MoodleMoot NZ Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier - Hawkes Bay

Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)

October 11-13

http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008

The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors

Attendees: Seth

mid-October

Game Jam Peru New technology conference, Lima, Peru : hosted by OLPC's partner university in Peru, with an OLPC Jam at the event. Details to come.

October 18-19

Open Sustainability Camp[3]

Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.

October 21-22

MoodleMoot - Rome, Italy

Attending: Perhaps - Martin Langhoff

October 23-25

MoodleMoot Spain - Barcelona, Spain

Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)

November

November 19 & 20

Massachusetts Computer Using Educators 2008

Annual Conference: Promoting 21st Century Learning

Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, Sturbridge, MA.

Workshop title: Active Learning with the XO.

Workshop presenters: Mass XO Users Group. An XO Jam Kit is needed/requested for demonstrations.

December

December 5-7

FUDCon Boston F11

December 6-8

FUDCon Boston

interest sj, mstone, marco, morgs (tomeu? simon? sayamindu?)

attending gdk

December 26-29

25C3, Berlin, Germany.

Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.

2009

January

January ??

Linux.Conf.AU, Tasmania

Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submitted "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal

Q3

GUADEC

GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile

interest: marco, morgs, DanielDrake

Slides, posters and materials

Slides and PDFs

Here are a couple of introductory presentations that you may find useful. Note that you can give presentations effectively in Etoys, including an olpc-style toolbar; and that you can use remote display to present directly from your XO. In Etoys, you can import a standard powerpoint or open office slidestack into Etoys. You can also create a presentation from scratch in Etoys, including both static text and images (as with other presentation software), scripts and moving objects, and other (programmable) Etoys components.

Videos of presentations

• OLPC India
• Bert Freudenberg on OLPC

Posted Presentations

• OLPC India.This presentation was delivered at IIT Roorkee, Chandigarh Science Congress & Panjab University by OLPC India Student Chapter
• OLPC France. CC-licensed
• OLPC_Austria's slides. Very neat graphics and layout. Includes all key points. Great presentation. CC-licensed
• OLPC_Austria - Aaron Kaplan's slides from the Vienna Linuxwochen
• OLPC Nepal OLPC Nepal uses this presentation to promote OLPC. It is geared towards a Ministry of Education. Please note that it comes with a talking script.
• OLPC Colombia Presentation in Spanish
• Developer Relations:
  • Python User's Group Developer Relations Presentation to large Python user's group in Toronto, Canada. English, 46 slides, approximately 30 minutes speaking time.
  • University of Toronto Systems Group slightly more refined version of the previous presentation including images from OLPC Nepal and OLPC Colombia presentations. English, 60 slides, approximately 40 minutes speaking time.
  • Tirana University Computer Engineering presentation at the state University of Albania. More background/general introduction than the previous set. English, 49 slides, approximately 1.5 hours speaking time.
  • University of Toronto TechKnowFile (closing plenary) presentation at an internal conference of IT professionals and educators at the University of Toronto. Focus is on making the case for academics to join the project in order to increase the relevance of their work. English, 63 slides, approximately 1 hour speaking time.
  • Ignite Presentation at DemoCamp Toronto #14, 5 minutes, 20 slides, also used for a 10 minute presentation at another event. Basic project introduction and request for volunteers.
• Stanford University Mark Foster's excellent talk given at Standford University. Somewhat technical presentation.
• Ian Bicking's slides from the UniForum talk, April 24 2007. General OLPC introduction for a technical audience. 26 slides. I talked for an hour, but it entirely depends on how chatty you are.
• OLPC Mesh Javier Cardona's presentation at FISL 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Details about mesh networking and useful information for developing applications that use the mesh on the OLPC.
• Antoine's Slides Source From a presentation to the Cape Linux Users Group in South Africa on XO application development. Technical audience. Talked for two hours. Has a Hello World for Sugar.
• LeTourneau University - TommyGober's brief overview of OLPC for local ACM chapter - mainly talking points, laptop needed at end for demonstration purposes.
• Portable Culture Machines - Jonah Bossewitch's presentation of OLPC at Teachers College's Popular Culture in the Classroom Conference (3/07)
• Additional presentations at http://download.laptop.org/content/conf and Apr_3-4_Mini-conference

Presenters

Sign here if you have given a presentation or want to, or if you can give a demo. Let us know where you have been, and where else you are invited to. Would they like us to come back sometime?

Gaurav Chachra

Chandigarh, India

Engineering student in India. I've delivered presentations at Panjab University (5th February 2008) and demonstrated the laptop at Chandigarh Science Congress (14th March 2008) and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (28th March 2008). Our team can make demonstrations at other places in India too. You can email me or leave a message on my talk page. I am also working on various content development projects under OLPC India Student Chapter.

Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Cupertino CA

Google has loaned me an XO, and I will soon be ready to demonstrate it to anybody who is interested. I took it to the Silicon Valley LUG April meeting the day I got it. We got TiddlyWiki running on it.

Don Hopkins

Berkeley, CA

Working on pie menus, SimCity, game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.

Rowen Remis Iral

Bulacan, Philippines

Working to make developers involved. Willing to join OLPC for promotion, and selling XO and getting bulk orders of XO machine. Also developing XO machine and its component. Trying to squeeze and improve with the limits of B2-1 system.

Michael Burns

Corvallis OR

Working for the Open Source Lab as an evangelist and administrator. OSL has contributed to Sugar, Abirword, and Helix, among other activites for the laptop.

Mike Fletcher; Toronto, ON, Canada

Developer Relations for the OLPC project. Working on making it easier for developers to get involved and on getting developers to commit to the project. Willing to present to any group of developers who are interested in becoming involved in the project.

Mel Chua; Boston, MA

Electrical engineer and education researcher, active OLPC wiki and support-gang, former (and future) OLPC intern. Specialty Grassroots groups; involved in the formation of some of OLPC's most active volunteer chapters, willing to present to and work with grassroots groups forming or those who wish to form, particularly on making groups with a variety of technical/educational backgrounds work well together, and on University chapters.

Paul Reiber

Silicon Valley LUG President, Smalltalk developer

Tommy Gober

Longview, TX, USA

Secondary Education/Computer Science student at LeTourneau University. Currently developing amateur radio txt-mode software for the XO (see PSK31).

Iain D.; Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest, north of Seattle)

Have two day-0, XOs. Active OLPC Wiki and support-gang. Presentations in front of local LUG, preparing for presentation at regional Linux Fest conference. Available for demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested. Also qualifying as local repair center.

Florian Fainelli; Paris, France

Have one B4-XOs. Available for demos in Europe.