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* For a list of events, see [[Events]] and [[Jams]] |
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Page for discussion of presentations and XO demos to outside groups, including Linux user groups (LUGs), other software groups, wireless groups, schools, teachers' organizations, NGOs, governments, churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/whatever, business and civic clubs, Boy/Girl Scout troops...You tell us. Also conference presentations such as Linux World or Unicode. |
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* For a list of community groups, see [[Regional groups]] and [[Grassroots]]. |
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* For slides, videos and materials for events, see [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]] |
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* For displaying from your XO to a projector, see [[Remote display]] |
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* For a list of presenters, see [[Presenters]] |
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== Past events == |
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Add your suggestions, please. |
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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. |
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*Pretty much everybody who has ever been listed on [http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ BALE] (Bay Area Linux events, sadly not currently up-to-date). |
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*Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meetings, Stanford |
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*Glide Memorial Church |
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*SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) |
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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. |
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:<small>Roadshow archive: [[XO roadshows/archive1|to 2008]].</small> |
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==Presenters== |
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=== 2010 === |
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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? |
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====April==== |
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===Edward [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] Cherlin=== |
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;Tuesday, April 20 |
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Cupertino CA |
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"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 |
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[[Earth Treasury]], writing a [[book about the laptop program, and how to take an active role in ending poverty once the children are online. |
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====February==== |
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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. |
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;Saturday February 6 |
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[[OLPC Morocco]] presentation of the OLPC project at the Linux party event of |
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the [http://www.emi.ac.ma/linuxparty Mohammadia School of Engineering], Rabat, Morocco. |
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====January==== |
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Past: |
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*Silicon Valley LUG talk, January 2007. [[Ed Cherlin]] |
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=== 2009 === |
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Future: |
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==== Q3 ==== |
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*SVLUG [http://www.svlug.org/installfest/index.php Installfest], Apr. 21st, 2007 |
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;[http://guadec.org/ GUADEC] :GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile |
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*Linux Mafia/[http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ CABAL] (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007 |
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: interest: marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]], [[User:Sayamindu|Sayamindu]], [[User:DanielDrake|DanielDrake]] |
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*[http://www.svlug.org/ SVLUG] demo, May 2, 2007 |
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*[http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix16/ Linux Picnic], August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi! |
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*[http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ Linux World], San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007. |
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====December==== |
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*[http://www.unicodeconference.org/ Unicode Conference], San Jose, October 15-17, 2007 |
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*[http://wireafrica.org/?page_id=9 WIRE AFRICA Conference], Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007 |
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*[http://www.eBay.com eBay] talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public) |
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*[http://rdvp.org/ Reuters Digital Vision Fellows] meeting, Stanford, TBD |
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*[http://www.presidiomba.org/ Presidio School of Management], San Francisco, TBD |
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*[http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer History Museum], Mountain View, TBD |
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====November==== |
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===[[User:Mburns|Michael Burns]]=== |
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;Saturday November 14 |
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Corvallis OR |
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[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. |
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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. |
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====October==== |
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Past: |
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*Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association 2007 Spring Conference, March 2007 |
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*Portland Linux User Group, October 2006 |
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*Oregon State Linux User Group, October 2006 |
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*Culture Shock, March 2007 |
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====September==== |
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Future: |
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*Innotech conference, April 2007 |
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;September 26...Speakers Wanted! |
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===[[User:Dhopkins|Don Hopkins]]=== |
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[http://www.ohiolinux.org/ OHIO LinuxFEST] in Columbus, OH. is looking for speakers. Contact: phil@ohiolinux.org |
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Berkeley, CA |
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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. |
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;September 19 |
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Past: |
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[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. |
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*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb/414422075/ Demonstrated] SimCity at Game Developers Conference 2007, at the OLPC booth. |
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====August==== |
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Bulacan, Philippines |
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====July==== |
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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. |
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[[Start date::July 22, 2009 9am]] - 5pm and [[Start date::July 23, 2009 9am]] - 5pm |
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Future: |
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Planning to have demos and presentations |
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines |
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[[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]] |
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===[[User:mcfletch|Mike Fletcher]]=== |
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====June==== |
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Toronto, ON, Canada |
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;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. |
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====May==== |
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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. |
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;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. |
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====April==== |
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Past: |
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;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. |
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* PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group) |
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* University of Toronto System's Group |
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* University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007 |
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* TechKnowFile, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2007 |
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* CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions) |
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* [http://openforum.elsacc.ca/ International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization], Sept. 13, 2007 |
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* Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007 |
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* Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007 |
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* Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007 |
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* Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007 |
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====March==== |
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Future: |
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;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. |
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* OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007 |
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* IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007 |
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* COSCUP, November 3, 2007 |
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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. |
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===[[User:PaulReiber | Paul Reiber]]=== |
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[[Silicon Valley LUG]] President |
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Smalltalk developer |
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====February==== |
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===[[User:TommyGober | Tommy Gober]]=== |
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Longview, TX, USA |
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;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. |
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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]). |
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;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. |
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Presentations: |
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;Report: |
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* LeTourneau Univeristy [http://www.acm.org ACM], Sept 7, 2007 |
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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. |
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* [http://tcea.org Texas Computer Educators Association], Feb 4-8, 2008 |
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* ...others TBA |
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==== January ==== |
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Washington, USA |
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;January ??: [http://linux.conf.au/ Linux.Conf.AU], Tasmania |
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:Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submitted "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal |
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=== 2008 === |
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I should have two XO's by about the 20th of December. I am willing to do demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested. |
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==== December ==== |
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;December 26-29 : 25C3, Berlin, Germany. |
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===[[User:IainDavidson | Iain D.]]=== |
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:Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there. |
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Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest) |
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;December 6-8: FUDCon Boston |
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Presentations: |
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:interest sj, mstone, marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]] (tomeu? simon?), [[User:Sayamindu|Sayamindu]] |
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* Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - Feburary 7th - General membership meeting |
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:attending gdk |
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* Northwest LinuxFest ( http://linuxFestNW.org ) - April ? - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news. |
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;December 5-7: [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 FUDCon Boston F11] |
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==Laptops== |
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Sign here if you have a laptop and are willing to loan it out or bring it to demos. Tell us which version of the hardware and software you have. |
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==== November ==== |
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Google has loaned Ed Cherlin an XO. I've tried out Sugar a bit. More to come. |
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Paul Reiber of [[Silicon Valley LUG]] is getting an XO. |
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;November 19 & 20: [http://www.masscue.org/ Massachusetts Computer Using Educators] 2008 |
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:''Annual Conference: Promoting 21st Century Learning'' |
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:Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, Sturbridge, MA. |
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: Workshop title: Active Learning with the XO. |
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:Workshop presenters: [[OLPC_Boston|Mass XO Users Group]]. An XO Jam Kit is needed/requested for demonstrations. |
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;November 18-20 |
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: [http://www.teachamantofish.org.uk/ 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Education] |
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: ''Education That Pays For Itself 2008'' |
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: Karatara (Knysna), South Africa |
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: Attendees: [[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]], Marco Rosa |
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==== October ==== |
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;October 23-25: [http://moodlemoot.net/ MoodleMoot Spain - Barcelona, Spain] |
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:Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks) |
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;October 21-22: [http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33 MoodleMoot - Rome, Italy] |
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:Attending: Perhaps - Martin Langhoff |
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;October 18-19: [[Open Sustainability Camp]][http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org/] |
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:''Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.'' |
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;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. |
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;October 11-13: http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008 |
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:The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors |
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:Attendees: [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] |
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;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) |
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;October 2-3: [http://moodlemootau.org/ MoodleMoot AU All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland] |
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:Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks) |
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;October 1-3 : MontaVista Vision Embedded Linux Developer's Conference 2008, San Francisco |
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:[[User:Deepak|Deepak Saxena]] presenting keynote on OLPC's use of Linux and challenges we face there |
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==== September ==== |
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;September 20: [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day] |
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:local events around the world |
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;September 17-19 : [http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ Linux Plumber's Conference], Portland OR. For Linux system programmers. |
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:Several OLPC people plan to attend.[[User:Deepak|Deepak]] [[User:Jg|Jim Gettys]] |
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;September 17: [http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Software Freedom Day]? and [http://www.insitex.co.za/ International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition], Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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:[[User:Morgs|Morgan Collett]] invited by the State IT Agency's FOSS Program Office to run an OLPC stand. |
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;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 |
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;September 12-14: PyCon 2008 UK http://www.pyconuk.org/booking.html |
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;September 5-7: FUD Con[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 Brno 2008], Brno, Czech Republic |
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:interest: marco, tomeu, simon |
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;September 3-5 : X Developer's summit |
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==== August ==== |
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;August 29-31:[[Physics Jam]], OLPC HQ |
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: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. |
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: Attending: GameLab folks, Museum of Science text curators, [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]], [[User:Sj|SJ]], Jordans 1-2, |
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;August 23-28 : [[Sugar documentation sprint]], Austin, TX |
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;August 8-10:[[Game Jam]], [[ILXO]] |
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:''organized by mchua and nlee'' |
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;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]]. |
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;August 5-7 : LinuxWorld Expo |
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;August 3 : [[OLPC India Day]] |
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;July 30 - August 1 : [[Asia workshop|Thailand learning workshop]] |
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- For a list of events, see Events and Jams
- 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
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 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