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''see also [[Presentations]]''


* For a list of events, see [[Events]] and [[Jams]]
:''(merge from [[Laptop demonstrations]] and [[Presentations]]). see also [[Remote display]]''
* For a list of community groups, see [[Regional groups]] and [[Grassroots]].
* For slides, videos and materials for events, see [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]]
* For displaying from your XO to a projector, see [[Remote display]]
* For a list of presenters, see [[Presenters]]


== Past events ==
XOs are regularly demonstrated or on display at conferences and other events.


Events, conferences and roadshows that somehow may involve OLPC can happen at any time. The following is a list of upcoming and past 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.
: To bring your XO or help out, contact the person listed for a given event
: If you have an event or conference where XOs will be welcome or on display, list it below.


If you are planning substantial presence 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, categorize it (as one of [[:Category:Events|Events]], [[:Category:Jam|Jam]], [[:Category:Presentations|Presentations]], etc.) and link it from here.
== How to get involved ==
If you are going to be at a conference with your XO, and are willing to show it off and let others play with it for a while, please add the event details below. If you are giving a full-fledged demonstration of some number of XOs at an event, please note it below in bold. If you or someone you know is attending or hosting an event and wants to include an XO display [but doesn't have one], please leave details in the second list.


:<small>Roadshow archive: [[XO roadshows/archive1|to 2008]].</small>
Relevant groups include Linux user groups (LUGs), wireless groups, schools, teachers' organizations, NGOs, governments, churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/whatever, business and civic clubs, Boy/Girl Scout troops... you tell us. Feel free to include larger events such as Linux World or Unicode, whether or not OLPC already has a scheduled presence there (if not, you can help organize one; if so, you're welcome to join).
=== 2010 ===


====April====
;Tuesday, April 20
"One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation." by [[user:sverma|Sameer Verma]] at Bay Area Linux Users Group. April meeting. http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming


== Calendar ==
====February====
;Saturday February 6
:''So many conferences, so little time... for events with no usernames after them, maybe somebody is 'around' and it could be a good opportunity to show or demo the XO.''
[[OLPC Morocco]] presentation of the OLPC project at the Linux party event of
the [http://www.emi.ac.ma/linuxparty Mohammadia School of Engineering], Rabat, Morocco.


=== 2008 ===
====January====
==== August ====
;July 30 - August 1 : [[AsiaWorkshop|Thailand learning workshop]]


=== 2009 ===
;August 3 : [[OLPC India Day]]
==== Q3 ====
;August 5-7 : LinuxWorld Expo
;[http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] :GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile
: interest: marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]], [[User:Sayamindu|Sayamindu]], [[User:DanielDrake|DanielDrake]]


====December====
;August 8-10:[[Game Jam]], [[ILXO]]
:''organized by mchua and nlee''


====November====
;August 23-28 : [[Sugar documentation sprint]], Austin, TX
;Saturday November 14
[http://www.cuelosangeles.org/techfair.php/ CUELA and LAUSD Tech Fest] from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Mulholland Middle School in the San Fernando Valley. Support-Gang members Caryl and Jamaal will talk about the Contributors Program and have hands on demonstrations of the XO. 12 XOs from the CUELA XO lending library will be available for teachers to check out.


====October====
;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, [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]], [[User:Sj|SJ]], Jordans 1-2,


==== September ====
====September====
;September 3-5 : X Developer's summit


;September 26...Speakers Wanted!
;September 5-7: FUD Con[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 Brno 2008], Brno, Czech Republic
[http://www.ohiolinux.org/ OHIO LinuxFEST] in Columbus, OH. is looking for speakers. Contact: phil@ohiolinux.org
:interest: marco, tomeu, simon


;September 19
;September 12-14: PyCon 2008 Chicago http://us.pycon.org/
[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/open_morocco?highlight=(teams/) software freedom day] in Morocco.The presentation will be by Ahmed Mansour, the [[OLPC_Morocco]] team coordinator.


====August====
;September 17-19 : [http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ Linux Plumber's Conference], Portland OR. For Linux system programmers.
:Several OLPC people plan to attend.[[User:Deepak|Deepak]] [[User:Jg|Jim Gettys]]


====July====
;September 17: [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day]? and [http://www.insitex.co.za/ International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition], Johannesburg, South Africa.
:[[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]] invited by the State IT Agency's FOSS Program Office to run an OLPC stand.


[[Start date::July 22, 2009 9am]] - 5pm and [[Start date::July 23, 2009 9am]] - 5pm
;September 20: [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day]
:local events around the world


[[OLPC-SF]] has a booth in the dot ORG pavilion with SF Bay Area "Linux User Groups" at OSCON 2009. Some photos are posted at http://www.lugod.org/photos/2009.07.22/ Materials used at the booth are at [[Image:Oscon2009-factsheet.odt]], [[Image:Oscon2009-factsheet.pdf]] and [[Image:Oscon2009.zip|All source files]]
==== October ====
;October 1-3 : MontaVista Vision Embedded Linux Developer's Conference 2008, San Francisco
:[[User:Deepak|Deepak Saxena]] presenting keynote on OLPC's use of Linux and challenges we face there


====June====
;October 11-13: http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008
;June 25: Presentation by Caryl Bigenho for Bozeman LUG [http://www.montanalinux.org/image/tid/416] at Montana State University. Checked out 7 loaner laptops for a month to members.
:The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors
:Attendees: [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]]


====May====
;October 18-19: [[Open Sustainability Camp]][http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org/]
;May 16: OLPC-France - Presentation of the OLPC project at [http://pedagogie.ac-toulouse.fr/linuxedu/site/articles/articles-0-5+tice-libres-2009-les-13-et-16-mai.php TICE Libre], Toulouse, France.
:''Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.''


====April====
;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.
;April 25: [http://infotech.lausd.net/2009//LAUSD InfoTech] at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Caryl Bigenho was invited to participate with a 5 XO "Sandbox" and SoaS in the CUELA booth at this large event sponsored by the Los Angeles Unified School District. The XO computer and Sugar software were a hit. There was a lot of interest in SoaS and an open source affiliate for CUE. CUE is Computer Using Educators, a very large statewide organization in California.


==== November ====
====March====
;March 5-7: [http://www.cue.org/conference/ CUE Conference] in Palm Springs, CA. Caryl Bigenho has been accepted as a presenter for one of the "Bonus" sessions on March 5. CUE (Computer Using Educators) of California, founded in 1978, is one of the oldest and largest educational technology organizations in the United States.
;November 19 & 20: [http://www.masscue.org/ 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: [[OLPC_Boston|Mass XO Users Group]]. An XO Jam Kit is needed/requested for demonstrations.


Conference participation a success. Lots of interest in OLPC, the XO, and Sugar. A pdf version of the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:CUE_XO_03-05-09.pdf presentation slides] is posted. A ppt version will be available soon.


==== December ====
====February====
;December 5-7: [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 FUDCon Boston F11]


;February 25-27: [http://www.nais.org/ac/ac.cfm?ItemNumber=150610&sn.ItemNumber=150620/2009 NAIS Annual Conference] in Chicago, IL. Four XOs will be part of the "Classroom of the Future" hands-on exhibit presented by contributor Chris Bigenho from Dallas, TX.
;December 6-8: FUDCon Boston
:interest sj, mstone, marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]] (tomeu? simon? sayamindu?)
:attending gdk


;February 20-22: [http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/ 7th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)] at the Westin LAX in Los Angeles, CA. "Booth Keepers" Caryl Bigenho, Jonathan Pfeiffer, Ed Bigenho. Other XOs were at the Rockbox Booth with Austin Arpel and the Earth Treasury Booth with Ed Cherlin, and at the assorted other Linux booths.
;December 26-29 : 25C3, Berlin, Germany.
;Report:
:Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.
Great response. Had 5 XOs running Sugar and 2 loaner XOs running Debian Ubuntu from live usb keys. Handed out 200+ information flyers about volunteering and the contributors program. Collected 19 names of people interested in a SoCal (LAXO?) grassroots group.


=== 2009 ===
==== January ====
==== January ====
;January ??: [http://linux.conf.au/ Linux.Conf.AU], Tasmania
;January ??: [http://linux.conf.au/ Linux.Conf.AU], Tasmania
:Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submitted "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal
:Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submitted "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal


==== Q3 ====
=== 2008 ===
==== December ====
;[http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] :GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile
: interest: marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]], [[User:DanielDrake|DanielDrake]]


;December 26-29 : 25C3, Berlin, Germany.
== Slides, posters and materials ==
:Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.


;December 6-8: FUDCon Boston
=== Posters and Handouts ===
:interest sj, mstone, marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]] (tomeu? simon?), [[User:Sayamindu|Sayamindu]]
:attending gdk


;December 5-7: [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 FUDCon Boston F11]
Recent handouts:
* [[media:Olpc_brochure_inside.pdf|Interior of foldable 3-page brochure]] | [[media:Olpc_brochure_outside.pdf|Exterior of foldable brochure]] -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008; exterior beauty shot is a bit fuzzy.
* [[media:Flyer_olpc_contact.pdf|Contact info flyer]] -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008
* [[media:Flyer_olpc_mission.pdf|Mission statement flyer]] -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008
* [[media:Flyer_xo_activities.pdf|Activites flyer]] -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008


==== November ====
Older handouts:
* [[media:Merged-handout.pdf‎|Merged handout of XO specifications and Quotes]]
* <s>[[media:poster-01-theXO.pdf|the XO]]</s> (says the XO was designed by "Freedom" ... needs editing)
* <s>[[media:poster-02.-olpcQuotes.pdf|OLPC Quotes]]</s> (has misspellings! needs editing)


;November 19 & 20: [http://www.masscue.org/ Massachusetts Computer Using Educators] 2008
Posters:
:''Annual Conference: Promoting 21st Century Learning''
* [[media:OLPC-AZ.jpg|24x36 in (60x90 cm) poster of the OLPC Arizona Users Group]]
:Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, Sturbridge, MA.
* [[:image:XO_Software.ppt|XO Software summary poster]]
: Workshop title: Active Learning with the XO.
* [[:Image:XO_Poster.ppt|XO Hardware & Software Summary posters]]
:Workshop presenters: [[OLPC_Boston|Mass XO Users Group]]. An XO Jam Kit is needed/requested for demonstrations.


;November 18-20
=== Slides and PDFs ===
: [http://www.teachamantofish.org.uk/ 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Education]
: ''Education That Pays For Itself 2008''
: Karatara (Knysna), South Africa
: Attendees: [[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]], Marco Rosa
==== October ====


;October 23-25: [http://moodlemoot.net/ MoodleMoot Spain - Barcelona, Spain]
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.
:Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)


;October 21-22: [http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33 MoodleMoot - Rome, Italy]
{| width="100%"
:Attending: Perhaps - Martin Langhoff
|-
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'''Videos of presentations'''
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2215998624569920036 OLPC India]
* [http://www.tele-task.de/page50_lecture2675.html Bert Freudenberg on OLPC]


;October 18-19: [[Open Sustainability Camp]][http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org/]
:''Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.''


;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.
'''Posted Presentations'''


;October 11-13: http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008
*[http://06dm1g.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmggMRCWlvBr8MDaGUu6lcDHJhJDSTIpXCGTHJP03A1aFn51fjOSGDgIfUVLLrhvpgauFbUcJjvsG61LltEGOPPS0BOi--wm5/Laptop.org%20-%20OLPC%20India.ppt?download OLPC India].This presentation was delivered at IIT Roorkee, Chandigarh Science Congress & Panjab University by [[OLPC India Student Chapter]]
:The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors
*[http://f.fainelli.free.fr/http://f.fainelli.free.fr/olpc/OLPC_France_Presentation_SL2008.pdf OLPC France. CC-licensed]
:Attendees: [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]]
*[http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/upload/presentations/ OLPC_Austria's slides. Very neat graphics and layout. Includes all key points. Great presentation. CC-licensed]
*[http://olpc.lo-res.org/presentation_www.linuxwochen.at.pdf OLPC_Austria - Aaron Kaplan's slides from the Vienna Linuxwochen]
*[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:OLPC-Nepal-Presenation-w-script.ppt 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.
*[http://el-directorio.org/OLPC/Presentacion?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=presentacion2.odp OLPC Colombia Presentation] in Spanish
* Developer Relations:
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/pictures/pygta-2007-03-20/sugar-introduction.odp Python User's Group] Developer Relations Presentation to large Python user's group in Toronto, Canada. English, 46 slides, approximately 30 minutes speaking time.
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/sugar-introduction-uoft-2007-04-12.odp 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.
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/sugar-introduction-tirana-albania.odp 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.
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/sugar-techknowfile-criticality.odp 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.
**[http://www.vrplumber.com/olpc/presentations/olpc-ignite-toronto.odp 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.
*[http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/061004-slides-olpc.pdf Stanford University] Mark Foster's excellent talk given at Standford University. Somewhat technical presentation.
*[http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/olpc-presentation/presentation.html 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.
*[http://www.cozybit.com/whitepapers/olpc-mesh.pdf 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.
* [http://www.laptop.org.za/slides/olpc-dev-talk/presentation.html Antoine's Slides] [http://www.laptop.org.za/slides/olpc-dev-talk.tar.gz 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.
* [http://www.n5dux.com/OLPC/OLPC.ppt LeTourneau University] - [[User:TommyGober|TommyGober]]'s brief overview of OLPC for local ACM chapter - mainly talking points, laptop needed at end for demonstration purposes.
* [http://jonahboss.fastmail.fm/presentations/teach_think_play2007/html/ttp2007_olpc_bossewitch.html Portable Culture Machines] - Jonah Bossewitch's presentation of OLPC at Teachers College's [http://continuingeducation.tc.columbia.edu/default.aspx?pageid=652 Popular Culture in the Classroom Conference] (3/07)
* Additional presentations at http://download.laptop.org/content/conf and [[Apr_3-4_Mini-conference]]


;October 8-10 [http://www.elearning.org.nz/ MoodleMoot NZ Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier - Hawkes Bay]
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:Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)


;October 2-3: [http://moodlemootau.org/ MoodleMoot AU All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland]
=== Presentations needed ===
:Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
'''Technical'''
* We need a solid presentation for software and hardware developers.
* For software Developers -- How to build an activity.
* For Software Developers -- Hardware and Firmware Related Stuff.
* Power Mechanisms for OLPC


;October 1-3 : MontaVista Vision Embedded Linux Developer's Conference 2008, San Francisco
'''Education-Specific'''
:[[User:Deepak|Deepak Saxena]] presenting keynote on OLPC's use of Linux and challenges we face there
* Introduction to Constructivism
* Role of the teacher in OLPC
* Teaching art and the XO
* How to create content for OLPC and how not to


==== September ====
'''By language'''
* Education presentations needed in French


;September 20: [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day]
|}
:local events around the world


;September 17-19 : [http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ Linux Plumber's Conference], Portland OR. For Linux system programmers.
== Presenters ==
:Several OLPC people plan to attend.[[User:Deepak|Deepak]] [[User:Jg|Jim Gettys]]
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?


;September 17: [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day]? and [http://www.insitex.co.za/ International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition], Johannesburg, South Africa.
;[[User:Gaurav|Gaurav Chachra]]: Chandigarh, India
:[[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]] invited by the State IT Agency's FOSS Program Office to run an OLPC stand.


;September 16: A meeting/workshop to introduce OLPC to a wider audience at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and its neighborhood. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Jamaica#OLPC_Workshop_at_UWI_Mona_Campus_.28Sept_16.2C_2008.29
: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 [[Special:Emailuser/Gaurav|email me]] or leave a message on my [[User Talk:Gaurav|talk page]]. I am also working on various content development projects under [[OLPC India Student Chapter]].


;September 12-14: PyCon 2008 UK http://www.pyconuk.org/booking.html
;Edward [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] Cherlin: Cupertino CA


;September 5-7: FUD Con[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 Brno 2008], Brno, Czech Republic
: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.
:interest: marco, tomeu, simon


;September 3-5 : X Developer's summit
;[[User:Dhopkins|Don Hopkins]]: Berkeley, CA
: Working on [http://www.DonHopkins.com/drupal/node/128 pie menus], [http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/129 SimCity], game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.


==== August ====
;Rowen Remis Iral: Bulacan, [[OLPC Philippines|Philippines]]


;August 29-31:[[Physics Jam]], OLPC HQ
: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.
:A [[Jams|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, [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]], [[User:Sj|SJ]], Jordans 1-2,


;August 23-28 : [[Sugar documentation sprint]], Austin, TX


;August 8-10:[[Game Jam]], [[ILXO]]
;[[User:Mburns|Michael Burns]]: Corvallis OR
:''organized by mchua and nlee''
:Working for the [http://osuosl.org Open Source Lab] as an evangelist and administrator. OSL has contributed to Sugar, Abirword, and Helix, among other activites for the laptop.


;August 7 - August 9 : [[Presentations/rajan_vaish_at_ic3 | IC3]] co-hosted by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University,Noida & University of Florida,Gainesville .Represented for OLPC by [[user:Vaish.rajan | Rajan Vaish]].


;August 5-7 : LinuxWorld Expo
;[[User:mcfletch|Mike Fletcher]]; Toronto, ON, Canada


;August 3 : [[OLPC India Day]]
: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.

;[[User:Mchua|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]].

;[[User:PaulReiber | Paul Reiber]]: [[Silicon Valley LUG]] President, Smalltalk developer

;[[User:TommyGober | Tommy Gober]]: Longview, TX, USA

: Secondary Education/Computer Science student at [http://www.letu.edu LeTourneau University]. Currently developing amateur radio txt-mode software for the XO (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31 PSK31]).

;[[User:ixo | 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.

;[[User:FlorianFainelli | Florian Fainelli]]; Paris, France
:Have one B4-XOs. Available for demos in Europe.


;July 30 - August 1 : [[Asia workshop|Thailand learning workshop]]




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Past events

Events, conferences and roadshows that somehow may involve OLPC can happen at any time. The following is a list of upcoming and past 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 presence 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, categorize it (as one of Events, Jam, Presentations, etc.) and link it from here.

Roadshow archive: to 2008.

2010

April

Tuesday, April 20

"One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation." by Sameer Verma at Bay Area Linux Users Group. April meeting. http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming

February

Saturday February 6

OLPC Morocco presentation of the OLPC project at the Linux party event of the Mohammadia School of Engineering, Rabat, Morocco.

January

2009

Q3

GUADEC
GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile
interest: marco, morgs, Sayamindu, DanielDrake

December

November

Saturday November 14

CUELA and LAUSD Tech Fest from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Mulholland Middle School in the San Fernando Valley. Support-Gang members Caryl and Jamaal will talk about the Contributors Program and have hands on demonstrations of the XO. 12 XOs from the CUELA XO lending library will be available for teachers to check out.

October

September

September 26...Speakers Wanted!

OHIO LinuxFEST in Columbus, OH. is looking for speakers. Contact: phil@ohiolinux.org

September 19

software freedom day in Morocco.The presentation will be by Ahmed Mansour, the OLPC_Morocco team coordinator.

August

July

Start date::July 22, 2009 9am - 5pm and Start date::July 23, 2009 9am - 5pm

OLPC-SF has a booth in the dot ORG pavilion with SF Bay Area "Linux User Groups" at OSCON 2009. Some photos are posted at http://www.lugod.org/photos/2009.07.22/ Materials used at the booth are at File:Oscon2009-factsheet.odt, File:Oscon2009-factsheet.pdf and File:Oscon2009.zip

June

June 25
Presentation by Caryl Bigenho for Bozeman LUG [3] at Montana State University. Checked out 7 loaner laptops for a month to members.

May

May 16
OLPC-France - Presentation of the OLPC project at TICE Libre, Toulouse, France.

April

April 25
InfoTech at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Caryl Bigenho was invited to participate with a 5 XO "Sandbox" and SoaS in the CUELA booth at this large event sponsored by the Los Angeles Unified School District. The XO computer and Sugar software were a hit. There was a lot of interest in SoaS and an open source affiliate for CUE. CUE is Computer Using Educators, a very large statewide organization in California.

March

March 5-7
CUE Conference in Palm Springs, CA. Caryl Bigenho has been accepted as a presenter for one of the "Bonus" sessions on March 5. CUE (Computer Using Educators) of California, founded in 1978, is one of the oldest and largest educational technology organizations in the United States.

Conference participation a success. Lots of interest in OLPC, the XO, and Sugar. A pdf version of the presentation slides is posted. A ppt version will be available soon.

February

February 25-27
NAIS Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. Four XOs will be part of the "Classroom of the Future" hands-on exhibit presented by contributor Chris Bigenho from Dallas, TX.
February 20-22
7th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) at the Westin LAX in Los Angeles, CA. "Booth Keepers" Caryl Bigenho, Jonathan Pfeiffer, Ed Bigenho. Other XOs were at the Rockbox Booth with Austin Arpel and the Earth Treasury Booth with Ed Cherlin, and at the assorted other Linux booths.
Report

Great response. Had 5 XOs running Sugar and 2 loaner XOs running Debian Ubuntu from live usb keys. Handed out 200+ information flyers about volunteering and the contributors program. Collected 19 names of people interested in a SoCal (LAXO?) grassroots group.

January

January ??
Linux.Conf.AU, Tasmania
Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submitted "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal

2008

December

December 26-29
25C3, Berlin, Germany.
Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.
December 6-8
FUDCon Boston
interest sj, mstone, marco, morgs (tomeu? simon?), Sayamindu
attending gdk
December 5-7
FUDCon Boston F11

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.
November 18-20
2nd International Conference on Sustainable Education
Education That Pays For Itself 2008
Karatara (Knysna), South Africa
Attendees: Morgan Collett, Marco Rosa

October

October 23-25
MoodleMoot Spain - Barcelona, Spain
Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
October 21-22
MoodleMoot - Rome, Italy
Attending: Perhaps - Martin Langhoff
October 18-19
Open Sustainability Camp[4]
Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.
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 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
October 8-10 MoodleMoot NZ Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier - Hawkes Bay
Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
October 2-3
MoodleMoot AU All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland
Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
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

September

September 20
Software Freedom Day
local events around the world
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 16
A meeting/workshop to introduce OLPC to a wider audience at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and its neighborhood. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Jamaica#OLPC_Workshop_at_UWI_Mona_Campus_.28Sept_16.2C_2008.29
September 12-14
PyCon 2008 UK http://www.pyconuk.org/booking.html
September 5-7
FUD ConBrno 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
interest: marco, tomeu, simon
September 3-5
X Developer's summit

August

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,
August 23-28
Sugar documentation sprint, Austin, TX
August 8-10
Game Jam, ILXO
organized by mchua and nlee
August 7 - August 9
IC3 co-hosted by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University,Noida & University of Florida,Gainesville .Represented for OLPC by Rajan Vaish.
August 5-7
LinuxWorld Expo
August 3
OLPC India Day
July 30 - August 1
Thailand learning workshop