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My name is Willie Shubert and I am a college student in Northern California. I participated in the Give One Get One program by helping to organize a food sales table and donating the proceeds to OLPC... [[Willie Shubert|Read more]] |
My name is Willie Shubert and I am a college student in Northern California. I participated in the Give One Get One program by helping to organize a food sales table and donating the proceeds to OLPC... [[Willie Shubert|Read more]] |
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== So I got 3 |
== So I got 3 XOs == |
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I'm Stephen Jacobs, a Professor in the College of Computing at RIT. |
I'm [[Stephen Jacobs]], a Professor in the College of Computing at RIT. |
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We have departments of CS, IT, SE and Networking. The game design and |
We have departments of CS, IT, SE and Networking. The game design and |
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development degree program I teach in is within the IT department. |
development degree program I teach in is within the IT department. |
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I also run something called the Lab for Technological |
I also run something called the Lab for Technological |
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Literacy at RIT. |
Literacy at RIT... [[Stepen Jacobs|Read more]] |
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I bought 3 OLPC's through "Give One, Get One." One was for my personal |
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use. I've been using it as a travel laptop when I go to conferences instead of |
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my 17",700lb departmental laptop. Not only does the XO it do what I need it to do |
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in terms of web. e-mail and word processing while traveling, it' also |
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a great conversation starter when meeting new folks on the road. |
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I bought The other two with the intent of using my |
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lab to be an umbrella for OLPC projects. My gaming colleagues are interested |
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in putting something together, but the interest in the XO's doesn't stop there. |
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After I showed them around at the school, others followed my lead. |
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My department bought one for use as a "School Server" and two other faculty in |
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my department bought one each. Two of our peers in the networking department bought |
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one XO and one of them has put up a Sugar virtual machine on their VMware system. |
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Last week we had the first meeting of an ad hoc SIG to discuss the creation |
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(and/or support of the following possible efforts on our part... |
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1. Student club projects |
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2. Independent Study projects |
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3. A seminar course across the departments |
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4. An informal or formal web-resource for our use and/or open to the community. |
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(Ok, those are our goals but we spent our first meeting just playing) |
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While there's a slim chance (but one worth taking) that the group might |
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get something going during our spring quarter this year (starting in |
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March) its more likely that we'd begin planing now for something to |
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begin in the summer or fall. |
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Revision as of 13:25, 29 January 2008
...so we received our XO laptop...
Joe Griego
Okay, so we received our XO laptop shortly before Christmas. It came in a simple brown box, with just the power cord as an accessory. The battery was in a separate slot in the box, so to start it up, we popped the battery in, and turned it on... Read more
Amazing XO
My name is Willie Shubert and I am a college student in Northern California. I participated in the Give One Get One program by helping to organize a food sales table and donating the proceeds to OLPC... Read more
So I got 3 XOs
I'm Stephen Jacobs, a Professor in the College of Computing at RIT. We have departments of CS, IT, SE and Networking. The game design and development degree program I teach in is within the IT department. I also run something called the Lab for Technological Literacy at RIT... Read more