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==About==
==About==


{{Highlight|'''Note''': '''http://foss.rit.edu/''' has by and large superceded OLPC Rochester, NY.
The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC. This is a page for those interested in volunteering or contributing to the project.
This site is still available for adoption by OLPC related projects or groups.}}


The [[has_location_city::Rochester, NY|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.
A discussion thread, [http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewtopic.php?f=1304&t=153334 OLPC Rochester, NY] has been started on [http://en.forum.laptop.org/ forum.laptop.org].


We use a Google Groups [http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-rochester-ny group OLPC Rochester, NY] to manage member communications. You may subscribe there to receive group announcements.
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We also have a discussion [http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewtopic.php?f=1304&t=153334 thread OLPC Rochester, NY] at [http://en.forum.laptop.org/ forum.laptop.org].
=== OLPC Rochester, NY ''is'' ===


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* just beginning to organize.
* a wiki page open for use by all interested parties in the Rochester area.


=== OLPC Rochester, NY ''is <u>not</u>''===

*

=== Chapters ===

If you know of any Rochester area schools, organizations, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a [[Grassroots]] group or an [[University_program|university, college, or school chapter]], please ask them to add a link below.

=== Existing projects ===

Usability Testing with RIT course 4004-749 [[12 March]] - [[21 May]] [[2008]]
* topic or issue selection - [[12]]-[[20 March]] - Submit ideas in [[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY#Project_ideas|Project ideas below]].

== Events ==
We are planning an ad hoc workshop and demonstration at RIT on <font color=#0082c4><big>'''26 March 2008'''</big></font>. [[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY/Show%26Tell|Announcement]], [[:Image:Mtg_Notice_26Mar2008.pdf|Notice.pdf]], [[:Image:Mtg_Notice_26Mar2008.doc|Notice.doc]]

This will integrate a Western New York Human Factors and Ergonomics Society [http://www.usabilityassociates.com/hfes/index.html (WNY HFES)] local section meeting, a graduate class of Professor Keith Karn, ''Usability Testing'', and interested parties from Professor Stephen Jacobs XO group.

The WNY HFES will meet at 4:30-6:00 pm for this meeting in [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=105485839377564769668.000446a5e32de6d2dbddc&t=h&z=17 RIT Building 70 Room 2400]. We can meet begining in the afternoon for a walk-in workshop, and perhaps test some ideas to share during the later meeting and class. Professor Karn's class usually meets on Wednesdays evenings from 6 'till 9:50 pm. He is planning to have his class arrive early to merge with the HFES meeting on 26 March 2008.

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<font color=#ce006e><big>'''One Laptop per Child,'''</big></font><font color=#fa8e12> an education project</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color=#6cbe42>the '''$100 laptop''' that is changing the world</font><br>

<font color=#0082c4><big>'''Show & Tell, Look, Listen & Learn, Touch & Feel, Give & Take'''</big></font><br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An afternoon workshop with [[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY|OLPC Rochester, NY]] leading to an evening meeting of the WNY HFES<br>

Presented by: Frederick Grose, MPH, CIH and collaborators

'''Location:'''<br>
RIT Building 70 Room 2400 (B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences)<br>
Park in Lot J. See campus map at http://inside.rit.edu/maps/

===Abstract===
<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.laptop.org/ One Laptop per Child]</span>, the [[One Laptop per Child|OLPC project]], is a non-profit association created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab in 2005. The association oversees the Children’s Machine project and construction and deployment of the XO, the [[XO: The Children's Machine|$100 Laptop]], designed to “revolutionize how we educate the world's children,” including those with limited energy and other infrastructure resources. While they emphasize that OLPC is an education project, their strategy is to promote worldwide collaboration on the development of an open-source computing and communication platform. The platform would grow to accelerate learning in whole communities and among all associated with the project. Their ambitious goals and advanced, but low-cost, and energy-efficient hardware and software have captured the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of people. In November 2007 they started mass production of the XO laptop, and the pioneers of the next wave of worldwide computing seem to be in the making!

===Timeline===
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'''1-5 pm - Drop In (at any time - All are welcome), Check Things Out, Get to Know Each Other, Try Things Out'''

:* 1:00 - doors open: set up XOs & networking; invite others to do likewise, casual introductions..
:* ~1:45 - Identify interests or topic groups among attendees, suggest that they gather and self-organize. Possibly:
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::* XO Activities
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::* XO Human Interface Guidelines
::* OLPC project areas
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::* XO emulated on VMWare Server 2.0 beta on Windows Vista32
::* Sugar on Ubuntu 7.10
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=== OLPC Rochester, NY ''is'' ===
:* ~2:30 (or as seems timely) - Break (popcorn popper) Report discoveries, suggestions, raise questions. Address questions, summarize and document on boards, redirect, regroup, or shuffle among topics as desired.
:* ~3:15 (or as seems timely) - Repeat previous step as appropriate.
:* ~4:00 - finalize additional demonstrations & topics for 5:00 pm WNY HFES meeting; topic groups summarize items learned, open questions, plans, and report same on wiki and on board in classroom.
:* 4:30 - Refreshments (sandwiches for full-day attendees), greet arriving HFES attendees, personal networking.<br><br>


* open to all interested parties in the Rochester or western New York area.
'''5-6:00 pm - WNY HFES Meeting time'''
:* 5:00 - HFES meeting introductions, Facilitator’s comments on OLPC project, screen demos, explain theme, begin to answer new questions.
:* ~5:30 - Identify any OLPC topic groups present; have attendees get up to mill around and exercise theme actions.<br><br>
'''6-9:50 pm - Keith Karn's Usability Testing Class'''
:* 6:00 - Solicit all to visit OLPC wiki, contribute ideas to the project via the OLPC Rochester, NY page, and spread the word about the project to friends and colleagues.
:* 6:05 - Keith Karn's class agenda
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== [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=AGENDA&amp;src=8oiuv3dqsb1kf1a11n9ru0hpqc%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America/New_York Event calendar] ==
===About the Facilitator===
Frederick Grose volunteers for the OLPC project. He served for 27 years at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY as an industrial hygienist, asbestos hygiene manager, workplace epidemiology associate, health, safety, & chemical information systems architect & programmer, and ergonomics associate. Over his career at Kodak, he was the responsible industrial hygienist for significant tours of duty with Synthetic Chemicals, Roll Coating, & Photochemicals Divisions, and the Chemical Manufacturing, Construction, Maintenance, Facilities, Engineering, and Research & Development Organizations. He helped developed Kodak's asbestos control program, occupational exposure tracking systems, and exposure monitoring and analysis systems for historic and active cohorts of workers exposed to methylene chloride. He developed and delivered health education sessions for thousands of people working with asbestos and other hazardous physical, chemical, biological, or mechanical agents. Frederick is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, a Master of Public Health (University of California, Berkeley), and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry (University of California, Riverside). For most of his final 6 years at Kodak, he served as an ergonomics associate, helping industrial clients to develop, understand, and implement ergonomic solutions that improve jobs and workplaces.


'''OLPC XO user's group meetings''' at the [http://www.rit.edu/ '''''Rochester Institute of Technology''''']
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For HFES Meeting (5-6 pm) Only:
::::'''COST:''' Members & Students – no cost; Non-members - $ 5 payable at the door


The [http://ltl.rit.edu/ Lab for Technological Literacy] at RIT is supporting the OLPC XO Laptop project by raising awareness locally and conducting research and development initiatives.
::::'''RSVP:''' Contact Jennifer Dyck by 19 March, 716-673-3828, Jennifer.Dyck at fredonia.edu
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The Lab and RIT are hosting the user's group. All meetings will take place in [http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/?page_id=7 ''The Center for Student Innovation''], Building 87, Rm 1600, (See [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=105485839377564769668.00047433a1534ad461dce&ll=43.083958,-77.679745&spn=0.004388,0.008605&t=h&z=17 RIT Building 87 Google Map], or campus maps at http://inside.rit.edu/maps/.)<br>


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


Please join us on the following dates:
'''Register your interest''' with ideas here: (sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> )
* '''[[Start_date::25 March 2010]]''' from 7-9 pm - Discussion will include
** Walter Bender, Head of Sugar Labs, speaking at RIT on [https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/RIT/events/RIT2245760.html [[Start_date::30 April 2010]] ], ''The Future of Living is Learning''
** Student Co-Ops and Progress on XO-1.5 [http://foss.rit.edu/projects/ovc Video Chat]
** Ways we can help BOCES with Educational Technologies in Monroe County classrooms
*** First suggestion is an informal hands on workshop or meeting regarding the XO and Sugar on a Stick
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Notice: We are now meeting in the RIT [http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/?page_id=7 Center for Student Innovation]. If you haven't seen, this new facility, you should! It is well suited for ad-hoc collaboration.


The Innovations Center is south of B-70. (Walk down the sidewalk to the left [going south from the parking lots] of B-70 until you see a round,
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glass-walled, new building&mdash;that's the Innovation Center.
*


==People==


<big>'''Past events'''</big>
* [[User:FGrose|Frederick Grose]]
* [http://www.it.rit.edu/it/people/facDetail.maml?t_Link=213&t_RenderAs=edit Professor Keith Karn]
* Professor Stephen Jacobs' [[Stephen_Jacobs|OLPC page]], [http://www.it.rit.edu/~sxj/ RIT page]
* you


* '''28 January 2010''' - '''Project Reviews and Workshop'''
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/19November2009 | 19 November 2009 - '''Seminar Project Presentations''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/27October2009 | 27 October 2009 - '''Open Source Mixer''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/24September2009 | 24 September 2009 - '''Python Introduction with Jon Schull''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/29August2009 | 29 August 2009 - '''Picnic at Karlie's house with LUGOR''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/23July2009 | 23 July 2009 - '''Teotwawki Net Demo2 & Teacher Reporting Project''']]
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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''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/28May2009 | 28 May 2009 - '''Race Lockout, Rainout''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/25April2009 | 25 April 2009 - '''Mel Chua, Women in Computing at RIT''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/23April2009 | 23 April 2009 - '''More planning for educator involvement''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/26March2009 | 26 March 2009 - '''Welcome to RIT Honors Seminar students''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/26February2009|26 February 2009 - '''Sonstein on disaster-recovery networks''']]
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/22January2009|22 January 2009 - '''''Getting to know you and the OLPC XO''''']] 2009 kickoff
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*[[OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/26March2008_Workshop|26 March 2008 -''' Show & Tell Workshop at RIT''']]


== Project ideas ==
== Projects ==
'''2009'''
===Usability testing===
=== [[RIT honors seminar, developing for the OLPC XO]] ===
Consider the potential topic areas or issues that might be prime for some usability testing. (Here is a quick review of usability testing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing.)


Professor Keith Karn in the [http://it.rit.edu/it/ Information Technology Department] of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY will have 4-5 graduate students (from his class of 20) propose, and over the next 10 weeks, execute a usability testing consultation around the XO or OLPC project. The class met for the first time on Wednesday 12 March 2008, and will meet, as a whole, every Wednesday 6-9:50 pm EDT through 21 May 2008. This OLPC project team will be asked to review the [[The_OLPC_Wiki|wiki.laptop.org]] and then contact [[User:FGrose|Frederick Grose]], serving as client representative. Because of the academic schedule, we need to review and select a testing topic area by [[20 March]] and have a final testing plan by [[26 March]] [[2008]].


'''2008'''
What usability issue is currently most timely and significant to the project? Since OLPC is developing a new information and communication technologies platform, there are many possibilities for significant target users, subsystems, components, and activities.
===[[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY/Usability_testing_class_project|Usability testing]]===


:See the [[OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY/Usability_testing_class_project|Usability testing class project]] page for the project description, work documents, and reports.
We have a few G1G1 XOs in Rochester that we should be able to use for live testing with local children. Larger scale tests could be performed with emulated XOs or hosted Sugar in the RIT Usability Laboratories. The class will be expected to go through the human subject reviews as required.

Because so many cultural variables may be important modifiers of understanding user interactions with the OLPC project, perhaps there may be some more basic or common psycho-physical aspects of usability we could focus on that would be timely and significant for the project. Or, we might be able to recruit user participants from one of the recently settled immigrant communities in the Rochester area to delve into the internationalization and cultural domains.

Some reviewers of OLPC have been critical of the shortage of reported usability testing results, so far, however, if we appreciate the pace and resourcing of the development, perhaps this is a chance to address any gaps or curiosities that you may have.

Please think about the project design needs, possibilities, and constraints, and suggest topics or issues below:
*I do have a suggestion for the actual usability testing. This situation seems appropriate for having two children at a time do the tasks. The conversation between them when doing the tasks should yield richer information than a typical think aloud from one person. --[http://www.usabilityassociates.com Stan Caplan] 17:18 13 Mar 2008
*


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

Hi Team, <br>

I have a challenge that may fit your project.

I want to setup an interface where teachers and students in XO countries (focus on Uruguay right now) can interact with developers to define requirements and priorities for development. We also want an interface that will allow teachers to share best practices and ideas with each other.

So its two different but related "sites".

1 - The goals of the user - developer exchange are as follows:
- Have teachers and students say what they want to do, what they are teaching, how they use the XO and related infrastructure, suggest ideas and explain challenges that they have.
- Allow developers to ask questions, send links to try out new software or interfaces and in general gather feedback from real users on design ideas and software.
- Create a dialog which allows cross training in education and software and helps uncover the right themes for development and education with the XO.
- Have space for teachers to ask questions and get support or file bugs. An online "help desk" but also a general learning space for resolving short term issues.

I started hashing out some examples of input on a site at:
http://meta.fuentelibre.org/trac/wiki/DesarrolloInternacional
see the links under the report activity section.

2 - The goals for the teacher to teacher exchange are as follows:
- Have teachers give examples of what has worked and what has not for them in teaching with the XO.
- Allow teachers to re-use each others work
- Allow teachers to ask each other questions and get support on details and at a high level
- Allow teachers to build the site choose the threads and identify the themes which are important to them.
- Enable consensus building on priorities for development which can then be shared and pushed for on site 1 above.

That's the main idea. My intention is to support my very user centric development methodology which I have briefly explained on my wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Gregorio

The challenge is that I can't seem to get to any teachers or get them comment. I have some leads in Uruguay but its still at the systems integrator level. If/when my contact identifies some lead teachers to start to interact with us, I need to send them to a site in Spanish that encourages this exchange as outlined above.

I don't know why teachers and others have been reluctant to share their experiences. It may be that they don't realize the importance of their input and don't want to appear uninformed.

In any case, I need to pick an interface and ideas so far include:
- Blog
- Wiki
- e-mail list
- forum
- other?

The teachers are not technologists and don't want to be so it has to be very intuitive and easy to use. They were trained on how to use Blogs but so far they have not posted to Blogs on their own. They did get a lot of blog input from kids and ther but all posts were sent to one person who used their account to do the posting.

See Uruguay blogs at: http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196

Let me know if you can help do some testing to pick from the options above or find another choice which will provide an interface that encourages this exchange.

Let me know if you have any questions or if this does not seem like a well defined test subject. Its an interface to help gather input on how to develop interfaces so we better nclude a variable to pop us out of this recursive stack or we'll never see the light of day :-)

I'll reply on the dev list and you can e-mail back directly from there if you need more info.

Thanks,

Greg S

[[User:Gregorio|Gregorio]] 09:49, 14 March 2008 (EDT)




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a regional, grassroots, interest group

About

Note: http://foss.rit.edu/ has by and large superceded OLPC Rochester, NY. This site is still available for adoption by OLPC related projects or groups.


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.

To receive updates to this page, log in / create an OLPC wiki user account (at the top rightmost link of any wiki page), then use the 'my preferences' link on your account to enter a private email address and select the option to receive email whenever a page you're watching is changed. Finally, click the watch tab at the top of this page to include it in your watchlist.

OLPC Rochester, NY is

  • 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

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 The Center for Student Innovation, Building 87, Rm 1600, (See RIT Building 87 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:

  • Start_date::25 March 2010 from 7-9 pm - Discussion will include
    • Walter Bender, Head of Sugar Labs, speaking at RIT on Start_date::30 April 2010 , The Future of Living is Learning
    • Student Co-Ops and Progress on XO-1.5 Video Chat
    • Ways we can help BOCES with Educational Technologies in Monroe County classrooms
      • First suggestion is an informal hands on workshop or meeting regarding the XO and Sugar on a Stick


Notice: We are now meeting in the RIT Center for Student Innovation. If you haven't seen, this new facility, you should! It is well suited for ad-hoc collaboration.

The Innovations Center is south of B-70. (Walk down the sidewalk to the left [going south from the parking lots] of B-70 until you see a round, glass-walled, new building—that's the Innovation Center.


Past events

  • 28 January 2010 - Project Reviews and Workshop















Projects

2009

RIT honors seminar, developing for the OLPC XO

2008

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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