OLPC San Francisco Bay Area

OLPC San Francisco Bay Area is a general interest group in the San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The group meets once a month (on a Saturday, mid-month) to promote interest, generate ideas and learn from each other in a face-to-face environment.

Projects

• Starr King Elementary, SF (ongoing)
• Madagascar/Maroantsetra, Madagascar (ongoing)
• OLPC-SF Repair Center (ongoing)
• Kid Camp (potential)
• Newbies Ramp Up (ongoing)
• OLPC-SF Lending Library (potential)
• San Francisco State University lending library (ongoing)
• Keur Sadaro, Senegal (ongoing)
• OLPC-SF Porting XS to ARM - Hardware received middle of July. Waiting for Fedora 11 ARM port and drivers to be ready for device before starting on XS work.
• Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan working with OLPC-Afghanistan

Events

• UC Berkeley visit - Chuck Kane and Paul Commons, Thursday November 5, 2009 (3pm to 4:30pm) PDF Poster
• Stanford University visit - Chuck Kane and Paul Commons, Friday November 6, 2009 (12:00pm to 1:00pm) PDF Poster

Next regular meeting

TBD

Location(s)

Current default location is at San Francisco State University Downtown campus unless otherwise stated, but please suggest other Bay area locations.

Room 553, SF State Downtown campus (835 Market St., Has location city::San Francisco, CA 94103 Has location country::USA). Note this location is not the main campus. This is the same building as the new Westfield mall that houses Bloomingdale's. Look for the SFSU banner on Market St. between 4th and 5th streets, right next to Walgreens. Take the elevator to the 5th floor.

A huge thank you to San Francisco State University's College of Business Graduate Program for letting us use a room on Saturdays.

Directions

• by car
• by Muni
• by BART

Mailing List

http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf

Additional info

• Open Source at San Francisco State University

Meetings

===October meeting (Oct 17, 2009) October's meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2009-October/000543.html

September meeting (Aug 22, 2009)

September's meeting featured presentations from two deployments. Senegal (Bruce Baikie) and Afghanistan/MTSA (Carol Ruth Silver).

August meeting (Aug 22, 2009)

August's meeting will be at SFSU's Downtown Center. This meeting features presentations from two deployments. South Africa and San Francisco! See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/656

July meeting (July 18, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. This meeting will focus on the latest school server, and a handful of ongoing OLPC micro deployments. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/653

June meeting (June 13, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/643

May meeting (May 16, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/637

April meeting (Apr 11, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/628

March meeting (Mar 14, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/619

February meeting (Feb 14, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will focus on a local school and its deployment. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/605 Meeting notes posted at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/617

January meeting (Jan 17, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will focus on XOCamp2. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/602

December meeting (Dec 13, 2008)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will feature taking apart (and putting together) an XO laptop! Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/592

November meeting (Nov 15, 2008)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/575

Presentation slides from "OLPC and India: My Observations" are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/593

October meeting (Oct 11, 2008)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/573

September meeting (Sept 20, 2008)

September meeting was announced on very short notice. http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/565 It ended up being a dud. Hopefully the October meeting will be better.

August meeting (Aug 16, 2008)

This meeting will be at SF State University's Downtown San Francisco campus. Details are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/541

Meeting report and pictures at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/552 and http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/553

July meeting (July 19, 2008)

This meeting will be at San Francisco State University campus. Details are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/529

June meeting (June 21, 2008)

This meeting will be at Google in Mountain View, CA. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/522. Note that Jay McCauley has invited us to the Computer History Museum (about 1 mile away) for a tour of the Charles Babbage Difference Engine No. 2 and photo ops with the Babbage engine and XOs. This will be at the tail end of our meeting.

Report at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/524

May meeting (May 11, 2008)

May meeting will be at SF State campus. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/515

April meeting (Apr 12 and 13, 2008)

This meeting will be at the LUG Radio live event. See details at http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/ We have a table and we need volunteers for helping out with hosting at the table. The event has a $10 ticket, but volunteers get in for free. Current volunteers are: Sameer Verma, Sarah Mei, Dan Perez, Joachim Pedersen, Doug Jones, and Andrew Johnson. Please let me know if you are interested. sverma@sfsu.edu [1]

Saturday April 12 (10 am to 6 pm)

Sameer Verma
Dan Perez
Joachim Pedersen
Doug Jones

Sunday April 13 (10 am to 4 pm)

Sameer Verma
Sarah Mei
Doug Jones

March meeting (Mar 15, 2008)

Details at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/479

Report at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/482

Second meeting (Feb 9, 2008)

Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/451

Report at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/459

First meeting (Jan 12, 2008)

Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/445

Report at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/446

Give 1 Get 1 materials

Creative Commons licensed posters from 2007 at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/426

Creative Commons licensed posters from 2008 at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/580

OLPC-SF XO Repair Center

See details about the repair center at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair