OLPC San Francisco Bay Area

OLPC San Francisco Bay Area is a general interest group in the San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The group meets once a month (on a Saturday, mid-month) to promote interest, generate ideas and learn from each other in a face-to-face environment.

Next meeting

Saturday Start date::March 14, 2009 10am - 2pm

Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Agenda is open and growing. Please suggest on the mailing list.

Location(s)

Current location is at San Francisco State University Downtown campus in but please suggest other Bay area locations.

Room 553, SF State Downtown campus (835 Market St., Has location city::San Francisco, CA 94103 Has location country::USA). Note this location is not the main campus. This is the same building as the new Westfield mall that houses Bloomingdale's. Look for the SFSU banner on Market St. between 4th and 5th streets, right next to Walgreens. Take the elevator to the 5th floor.

A huge thank you to Francisco State University's College of Business Graduate Program for letting us use a room on Saturdays.

Directions

• by car
• by Muni
• by BART

Mailing List

http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf

Additional info

• Open Source at San Francisco State University

Meetings

January meeting (Jan 17, 2009)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will focus on XOCamp2. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/602

December meeting (Dec 13, 2008)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will feature taking apart (and putting together) an XO laptop! Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/592

November meeting (Nov 15, 2008)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/575

Presentation slides from "OLPC and India: My Observations" are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/593

October meeting (Oct 11, 2008)

Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/573

September meeting (Sept 20, 2008)

September meeting was announced on very short notice. http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/565 It ended up being a dud. Hopefully the October meeting will be better.

August meeting (Aug 16, 2008)

This meeting will be at SF State University's Downtown San Francisco campus. Details are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/541

Meeting report and pictures at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/552 and http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/553

July meeting (July 19, 2008)

This meeting will be at San Francisco State University campus. Details are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/529

June meeting (June 21, 2008)

This meeting will be at Google in Mountain View, CA. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/522. Note that Jay McCauley has invited us to the Computer History Museum (about 1 mile away) for a tour of the Charles Babbage Difference Engine No. 2 and photo ops with the Babbage engine and XOs. This will be at the tail end of our meeting.

Report at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/524

May meeting (May 11, 2008)

May meeting will be at SF State campus. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/515

April meeting (Apr 12 and 13, 2008)

This meeting will be at the LUG Radio live event. See details at http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/ We have a table and we need volunteers for helping out with hosting at the table. The event has a $10 ticket, but volunteers get in for free. Current volunteers are: Sameer Verma, Sarah Mei, Dan Perez, Joachim Pedersen, Doug Jones, and Andrew Johnson. Please let me know if you are interested. sverma@sfsu.edu [1]

Saturday April 12 (10 am to 6 pm)

Sameer Verma
Dan Perez
Joachim Pedersen
Doug Jones

Sunday April 13 (10 am to 4 pm)

Sameer Verma
Sarah Mei
Doug Jones

March meeting (Mar 15, 2008)

Details at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/479

Report at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/482

Second meeting (Feb 9, 2008)

Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/451

Report at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/459

First meeting (Jan 12, 2008)

Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/445

Report at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/446

Give 1 Get 1 materials

Creative Commons licensed posters from 2007 at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/426

Creative Commons licensed posters from 2008 at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/580

OLPC-SF XO Repair Center

See details about the repair center at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair