OLPC Rochester, NY

a 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 projects or activities. This is a page for those interested in volunteering or contributing to the project.

We use a Google Groups group OLPC Rochester, NY to manage member communications. You may subscribe there to receive group announcements.

We also have a discussion thread OLPC Rochester, NY at forum.laptop.org.

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OLPC Rochester, NY is

• just beginning to organize.
• open to all interested parties in the Rochester or western New York area.

Event calendar

OLPC XO user's group meetings at the Rochester Institute of Technology - (See the Flyer.pdf.)

The Lab for Technological Literacy at RIT is supporting the OLPC XO Laptop project by raising awareness locally and conducting research and development initiatives.

The Lab and RIT are hosting the user's group. All meetings will take place in B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Building 70, Golisano Auditorium, Rm 1400, (See RIT Building 70 Google Map, or campus maps at http://inside.rit.edu/maps/.)

7:00 pm - 8:50 pm, on the 4th Thursday of the month.

Please join us on the following dates:

• 26 March 2009
• 23 April 2009
• 28 May 2009

Past events

• 26 February 2009

  The Agenda was

  • Professor Jeff Sonstein on the potential use of the XO in disaster-recovery efforts
  • Fred Grose on getting started with Etoys and Squeak
  • Bill Hickock on getting started with Pippy and Python
  • Karlie has also offered to bring some CDs for PC and Mac Sugar emulation for those interested.

  Drop Stephen Jacobs a line to let him know if you’d like one and which flavor.

• 22 January 2009 - Getting to know you and the OLPC XO 2009 kickoff

• New and Improved OLPC Rochester
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• 26 March 2008 - Show & Tell Workshop at RIT

Projects

Usability testing

See the Usability testing class project page for the project description, work documents, and reports.

Other ideas

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

• your idea...