ILXO/workshops

This is still very much a work in progress. Draft description here?

What are we going to need to get this underway?

• assume guests have their own laptops; will indicate if bringing on to a workshop is super useful.

Intro to the XO / program / overview

• Have an XO but haven't had a chance to find out what it can do? We will provide an overview of the activities bundled with the XO, as well as the basics of finding and downloading new content. Additionally, we can go over Terminal usage (?) - Get the most out of your XO!

Basic repairs

• Sufficient number of screwdrivers
• to what extent are we having people do this to working XOs? Their own?

• We may not like to admit it, but laptops - yes, even XOs - can sometimes break. We'll go over both top and bottom disassembly, such that by the end of the session, you'll be confident in your abilities to replace an XO's screen or keyboard.

Intro to wiki (communication methods - also IRC, forums, lists...)

• How to start a grassroots group
• How to run a Jam

Resource dump - useful planning links go here?

• Music composition (Tank)
• Green engineering and how laptops are made (Mia, with Chris and Mel)
• Fractals and number theory (Mel)
• Photography & filmmaking (Chris)
• Inventors' Workshop (user-centered design, sketch prototyping, journalism) (Chris)
• Self defense for kids (Nikki)
• Origami (Tank)
• Knit your own XO carry-strap (Tank)
• Everything is a bathtub: Electronics with Etoys (Nikki, with Mel)
• Turtle math: a romp through algebra and geometry with TurtleArt (Mel)