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 on the second Saturday of every month to promote interest, generate ideas and learn from each other in a face-to-face environment.

New Web Site http://olpcsf.org/

Next regular meeting

Saturday, 11th of January 2014 (10 AM to 1 PM). Join us for our sixth birthday!

Location: SFSU Downtown Campus 5th floor, 835 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94103

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 (ongoing)
• Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan working with OLPC-Afghanistan
• Toaster - Sugar Activity to create USB sticks and discs

Past Events

• OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012 (October 19-21, 2012)
• OLPC SF Community Summit 2011 (Oct 21 5pm, to Oct 23 5pm, followed by Sunday night party!) (wiki planning details, organizers mailing list)
• OLPC SF Community Summit 2010 (Oct 21/22 to 24th) drawing experienced deployment people from around the world!! (wiki planning details, organizers mailing list)
• OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Community Summit 2009
• Stanford University visit - Chuck Kane and Paul Commons, Friday November 6, 2009 (12:00pm to 1:00pm) PDF Poster
• UC Berkeley visit - Chuck Kane and Paul Commons, Thursday November 5, 2009 (3pm to 4:30pm) PDF Poster

Mailing List

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

Previous Meetings

May meeting (May 14, 2011)

May 2011 meeting will be held at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement

April meeting (April 16, 2011)

April 2011 meeting will be held at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement

March meeting (Mar 12, 2011)

March 2011 meeting will be held at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement

February meeting (Feb 19, 2011)

Feb 2011 meeting was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement

January meeting (Jan 15, 2011)

Jan 2011 meeting, the group's 3rd anniversary, was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement

December meeting (Dec 11, 2010)

Dec 2010 meeting was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement

November meeting (Nov 13, 2010)

Nov 2010 meeting was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at announcement

October Summit

Community Summit occurred Oct 22 - 24 see OLPC SF Community Summit 2010! (email announcement)

September meeting (Sept 18, 2010)

September 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-September/000780.html

August meeting (Aug 28, 2010)

August 2010 meeting was at Noisebridge. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-August/000764.html

July meeting (July 17, 2010)

July 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-July/000705.html

June meeting (June 19, 2010)

June 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-June/000691.html

May meeting (May 15, 2010)

May 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-May/000677.html

April meeting (Apr 17, 2010)

April 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-April/000656.html

March meeting (Mar 13, 2010)

March 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/667

February meeting (Feb 13, 2010)

February 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/673

January meeting (Jan 16, 2010)

January 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/671

December meeting

No meetings in December.

November meeting (Nov 21, 2009)

See OLPCSF Community Summit 2009

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