XO roadshows

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Laptop demonstrations. (Discuss)

see also Remote display

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.

from Katie's version

To see the XO in action, consider attending one of these events.

To help the world learn about the XO by bringing your XO, contact the person listed for a given event

If you have an event, meeting, convention or other gathering of XO enthusiasts and those who want to learn more, please list your event.

Current Events

January-February 2008

22 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Google Chicago, details on page

25 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Moraine Valley Community College, details on page

16 Feb - Greater Los Angeles Teachers Science Association (GLATSA), Los Angeles, California, please contact Caryl

Th, 28 Feb - 6:00-8:30 pm Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact Chuck Schwartz

GDC, San Francisco, Feb 17-21

Past Events

(merge from [[Laptop demonstrations])

To be contacted

Suggest groups, events, and organizations to contact below.

• Pretty much everybody who has ever been listed on BALE (Bay Area Linux events, sadly not currently up-to-date).
• Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meetings, Stanford
• Glide Memorial Church
• SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)

Presenters

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?

Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Cupertino CA Earth Treasury, writing a [[book about the laptop program, and how to take an active role in ending poverty once the children are online.

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.

Past:

• Silicon Valley LUG talk, January 2007. Ed Cherlin

Future:

• SVLUG Installfest, Apr. 21st, 2007
• Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007
• SVLUG demo, May 2, 2007
• Linux Picnic, August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!
• Linux World, San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007.

• Unicode Conference, San Jose, October 15-17, 2007
• WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007
• eBay talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public)
• Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meeting, Stanford, TBD
• Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, TBD
• Computer History Museum, Mountain View, TBD

Michael Burns

Corvallis OR Working for the Open Source Lab as an evangelist and administrator. OSL has contributed to Sugar, Abirword, and Helix, among other activites for the laptop.

Past:

• Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association 2007 Spring Conference, March 2007
• Portland Linux User Group, October 2006
• Oregon State Linux User Group, October 2006
• Culture Shock, March 2007

Future:

• Innotech conference, April 2007

Don Hopkins

Berkeley, CA Working on pie menus, SimCity, game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.

Past:

• Demonstrated SimCity at Game Developers Conference 2007, at the OLPC booth.

Rowen Remis Iral

Bulacan, Philippines

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.

Future: Planning to have demos and presentations http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines

Mike Fletcher

Toronto, ON, Canada

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.

Past:

• PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group)
• University of Toronto System's Group
• University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007
• TechKnowFile, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2007
• CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions)
• International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization, Sept. 13, 2007
• Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007
• Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007
• Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007
• Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007

Future:

• OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007
• IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007
• COSCUP, November 3, 2007

Paul Reiber

Silicon Valley LUG President Smalltalk developer

Tommy Gober

Longview, TX, USA

Secondary Education/Computer Science student at LeTourneau University. Currently developing amateur radio txt-mode software for the XO (see PSK31).

Presentations:

• LeTourneau Univeristy ACM, Sept 7, 2007
• Texas Computer Educators Association, Feb 4-8, 2008
• ...others TBA

Washington, USA

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.

Iain D.

Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest)

Presentations:

• Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - Feburary 7th - General membership meeting
• Northwest LinuxFest ( http://linuxFestNW.org ) - April ? - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news.

Laptop pools

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.

Google has loaned Ed Cherlin an XO. I've tried out Sugar a bit. More to come.

Paul Reiber of Silicon Valley LUG is getting an XO.