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Please note the NEW Room, 2nd Floor Room 2400. This is directly about the Auditorium near the stairwell, and has tables and chairs for a better workshop setting.
Please note the NEW Room, 2nd Floor Room 2400. This is directly about the Auditorium near the stairwell, and has tables and chairs for a better workshop setting.

===Agenda:===

# Project Demo: '''TEOTWAWKI Net''' by ''William Schaub''.
#: TEOTWAWKI means The End Of The World As We Know It, and the idea is to preserve the type of collaboration we are used to with the Internet in adverse disaster type situations and in areas that simply have no real hope of being connected.
# Project Discussion: '''Disaster Recovery Networks, Sahana, RIT, XOs''' by ''Jeff Sonstein''.
#: This is a followup to the popular talk, [[OLPC_Rochester, NY/Event_history/26February2009]]. We may meet more of Jeff's research group and talk about his collaboration with others.
# Open discussion: Possibly a Kid's Corner, Math Games, Physics simulators



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<big>'''Past events'''</big>
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{{:OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/25June2009 | 25 June 2009 - '''Teotwawki Net & Disaster Software Discussion'''}}

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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/04June2009 | 04 June 2009 - '''Sugar Summer planning''']]
*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/04June2009 | 04 June 2009 - '''Sugar Summer planning''']]
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Revision as of 04:04, 26 June 2009

a local grassroots group

About

The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York has_location_country::USA area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC projects or activities. This is a page for those interested in volunteering or contributing to the project.

We use a Google Groups group OLPC Rochester, NY to manage member communications. You may subscribe there to receive group announcements.

We also have a discussion thread OLPC Rochester, NY at forum.laptop.org.

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OLPC Rochester, NY is

  • just beginning to organize.
  • open to all interested parties in the Rochester or western New York area.

Event calendar

OLPC XO user's group meetings at the Rochester Institute of Technology - (See the Flyer.pdf.)

The Lab for Technological Literacy at RIT is supporting the OLPC XO Laptop project by raising awareness locally and conducting research and development initiatives.

The Lab and RIT are hosting the user's group. All meetings will take place in B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Building 70, 2nd floor, Room 2400, (See RIT Building 70 Google Map, or campus maps at http://inside.rit.edu/maps/.)

7:00 pm - 8:50 pm, on the 4th Thursday of the month.

Please join us on the following dates:

Please note the NEW Room, 2nd Floor Room 2400. This is directly about the Auditorium near the stairwell, and has tables and chairs for a better workshop setting.

Past events

Notes:

  1. Project Demo: Teotwawki Net by William Schaub.
    TEOTWAWKI means The End Of The World As We Know It, and the idea is to preserve the type of collaboration we are used to with the Internet in adverse disaster type situations and in areas that simply have no real hope of being connected.
    Bill pulled together some old, reliable and new software to build a self-propagating Usenet from the LightTPD web server, InterNetNews (INN) news server, Suck news transfer service, Web-News news reader, Perl 5.10 scripts to handle UDP broadcasts, and a DokuWiki instance to provide a shared page editing space.
    We had about 5 XOs in the network with either local or remote connections to the Browse interface for the news and wikis.
    Nice demo.
    Bill's system may be a precursor to tools used in the field for collection of data needed to feed a more versatile and distributed Sahana.
  2. Project Discussion: Disaster Recovery Networks, Sahana, RIT, XOs by Jeff Sonstein.
    This is a followup to the popular talk, OLPC_Rochester, NY/Event_history/26February2009. We may meet more of Jeff's research group and talk about his collaboration with others.
    Jeff described his goals for designing a more versatile and robust overall architecture for Sahana with this grid:
Software Problem Domains Hardware
  • Situational awareness
  • Client registration & management
  • Worker/Agency registration & Coordinators
  • Logistics management
  • Robust
  • Multiple power sources
  • Quick setup
3. Open discussion: Possibly a Kid's Corner, Math Games, Physics simulators We didn't get to these topics as we were so engaged in understanding the architectural issues presented.









Projects

RIT honors seminar, developing for the OLPC XO

Usability testing

See the Usability testing class project page for the project description, work documents, and reports.

Other ideas

If you're in the Rochester area and want to work on a project with someone local, post ideas here.
  • your idea...
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