OLPC Rochester, NY

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OLPC Rochester, NY

Local grassroots group

About

The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC. This is a page for those interested in volunteering or contributing to the project.

OLPC Rochester, NY is

• just beginning to organize.
• a wiki page open for use by all interested parties in the Rochester area.

Chapters

If you know of any Rochester area schools, organizations, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a Grassroots group or an University chapter, please ask them to add a link below.

Events

We are planning an ad hoc workshop and demonstration at RIT in late March or April or May 2008.

This will integrate, so far as as proposed, a Western New York Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (WNY HFES) local section meeting and a graduate class of Professor Keith Karn, Usability Testing. -- FGrose 00:00, 21 February 2008 (EST)

The WNY HFES meets at 5-6:30 pm in RIT Building 70 Room 2400. If we can arrange a venue, we could meet begining in the afternoon for a walk-in workshop, and perhaps test some ideas for shareing during the later meeting and class. Professor Karn's class meets on Wednesdays evenings from 6 'till 9:50 pm. So perhaps we could merge into that as well for the chosen evening.

Show & Tell, Look, Listen & Learn, Touch & Feel, Give & Take as theme.

Possible timeline (date to be determined):

1. noon - doors unlocked: find outlets, network ports, setup my desktop, authenticate on network, write any essential codes, addresses, etc. on board.
   
   
2. 1-5 pm - Drop In, Check Things Out, Get to Know Each Other, Try Things Out
   • 1:00 - doors open: set up XOs, invite others to do likewise, casual introductions
   • ~2:00 - Identify possible interest or topic groups among attendees, suggest that they gather and self-organize.
   • ~3:00 (or as seems timely) - Break (popcorn popper) Report discoveries, suggestions, raise questions. Address questions, summarize and document on boards, redirect, regroup, or shuffle as desired.
   • ~4:00 (or as seems timely) - Repeat previous step as appropriate.
   • ~4:30 - finalize additional demonstrations & topics for 5:30 WNY HFES meeting; topic groups summarize learnings, questions, plans and report same on wiki and on board.
     
     
3. 5-6:30 pm - WNY HFES Meeting time
   • 5:00 - Refreshments (sandwiches for full-day attendees), greet HFES attendees
   • 5:30 - HFES Meeting Introductions, introductory comments (summarize OLPC project), explain theme, begin to answer new questions.
     
     
4. 6-9:50 pm - Keith Karn's Usability Testing Class
   • 6:00 - Identify any topic groups still present, get attendees up to mill around and exercise theme actions.
   • 6:25 - Solicit all to visit OLPC wiki, contribute ideas to the project and OLPC Rochester, NY page, and spread the word about project to friends and collegues.
   • Keith Karn class agenda
   • Stephen Jacobs class or group agenda

Register your interest by inserting your name and ideas here:

Professor Stephen Jacobs has a page.

Project ideas

If you're in the Rochester area and want to work on a project with someone local, post ideas here.