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(merge from Laptop demonstrations and Presentations). see also Remote display

XOs are regularly demonstrated or on display at conferences and other events.

To see the XO in action, consider attending one of these events.

To help the world learn about the XO by bringing your XO, contact the person listed for a given event

If you have an event, meeting, convention or other gathering of XO enthusiasts and those who want to learn more, please list your event.

If you are going to be at a conference with your XO, and are willing to show it off and let others play with it for a while, please add the event details below. If you are giving a full-fledged demonstration of some number of XOs at an event, please note it below in bold. If you or someone you know is attending or hosting an event and wants to include an XO display [but doesn't have one], please leave details in the second list.

Relevant groups include Linux user groups (LUGs), wireless groups, schools, teachers' organizations, NGOs, governments, churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/whatever, business and civic clubs, Boy/Girl Scout troops... you tell us. Feel free to include larger events such as Linux World or Unicode, whether or not OLPC already has a scheduled presence there (if not, you can help organize one; if so, you're welcome to join).

Calendar

So many conferences, so little time... for events with no usernames after them, maybe somebody is 'around' and it could be a good opportunity to show or demo the XO.

Upcoming Events

March 2008

• Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL). March 5-7, XO's on display in the model classroom and a Guerilla session (unplanned user meeting) to discuss formulation of a Michigan user group. http://maculspace.ning.com/group/xousers

• One Laptop Per Child XO at SxSWi meetup Sunday March 9, 12:30 CST at Las Manitas, Austin, TX. RSVP and view map at upcoming.org please. Looking forward to it! --annegentle 13:56, 7 March 2008 (EST)

• Kern Independent PC Users Group, Bakersfield CA. Our main meeting will demonstrate the XO computer and it's mesh networking abilities. We meet at 7pm PST on March 13 at the Kern Superintendent of Schools Building on the corner of 17th and L st. Please contact president@KIPUG.org for further information.

• OISC (OLPC India Student Chapter) delivered a presentation & demonstrated XO at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee on 28th March at the technical festival, Cognizance. The powerpoint file can be downloaded from HERE -- Gaurav 13:22, 5 April 2008 (EDT)

April 2008

• April 26 & April 27 - Northwest LinuxFest - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news. ixo & mchua

May 2008

• May 1 & May 2 - GAZeL-A-Ganza! - Greater Arizona eLearning Gala and Golf event: fundraising goal to purchase 100 XO laptops for distribution in an Arizona school (for more about the GLF please see: Global Literacy Foundation)

Past Events (2008)

January 17, 2008: Meeting with the New York City Beacon Programs. Possible large scale youth fundraising initiative throughout NYC. This will bring awareness to the project as well as empower youth to make global change. Darryl Rattray 212-341-9579 drattray@dycd.nyc.gov

22 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Google Chicago, details on page

25 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Moraine Valley Community College, details on page

29-31 Jan OLPC France meeting at Solutions Linux 2008, details on page

2 Feb - | Northern Virginia Linux User Group, details on page

5 Feb - users and others are meeting 5-7 pm at Douglass Public Library, Champaign, IL, hosted by Univ of Illinois GSLIS/Community Informatics and College of Ed/SqueakCMI group

4-8 Feb - Texas Computer Educators Association Tommy Gober

7 Feb - Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - General membership meeting ixo

16 Feb - Greater Los Angeles Teachers Science Association (GLATSA), Los Angeles, California, please contact Caryl

19-20 Feb - Beijing LUG (BLUG) presents XO & OLPC at Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing, China

GDC, San Francisco, Feb 17-21

Saturday, 23 Feb 10:00 am Xo-austin Anne Gentle

2/20/2008: Greater Arizona E-Learning Annual Summit Brian Basgen

2/27/2008: Arizona Users Group meeting

2/28/2008 - 6:00-8:30 pm Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact [Chuck Schwartz] chuck@rovenet.com]

Past Events (2007)

• January 2007, Silicon Valley LUG, Edward Cherlin. SVLUG wants to get involved worldwide, linking to other LUGs and helping schools connect.
• Jan 28-31 : Asia Source II, Jaya Kumar—any news to report?
• Feb 23-25 : PyCon 2007, Addison Texas. Ivan Krstic (1+)—any news to report?
• Feb 24-25 : FOSDEM 2007, Brussels. Rob Savoye (1), Jim Gettys (1+)—any news to report?
• Mar 8 : ChiPy, Chicago Python User Group, Ian Bicking — lots of interest in doing a local one day coding sprint in the near future
• Mar 6-7 : Game Developers Conference 2007, San Francisco. SJ (1+)—any news to report?
• Mar 9 (and usually every Friday afterwards, too): Getting Open Source Logic Into Governments, Ottawa Ontario Canada, Andrew Clunis—any news to report?
• March 9-13 : South by Southwest, Interactive Austin, TX, Jonah Bossewitch Email?
• Mar 13 : Ottawa Python Authors' Group Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis—any news to report?
• Mar 15 : London Open Source Jam, London, UK. Paul Nasrat (1)—any news to report?
• Mar 18 : Chicago Hackmeeting. Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking—(nice chat, but no news)
• March 24-15 : Popular Culture in the Classroom: "Teach, Think, Play", Teachers College, New York, NY, Jonah Bossewitch
• Mar 31 : BarCamp Ottawa #3. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis—any news to report?
• Apr 2-5 : Aquops Conference 2007, Quebec City. Jean Piché, Nathanael Lécaudé (2)—any news to report?
• April 14, 2007, Linux Mafia/CABAL, Ed Cherlin Got updated XO software.
• April 19/20, 2007, Digital Freedom Expo, Cape Town, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
• Apr. 21st, 2007, SVLUG Installfest, Ed Cherlin
• April 24: The Fletcher School in Medford, Massachusetts is hosting an event on technologies for developments. Nick Sullivan will be speaking about the Grameen Phone project and we would be thrilled to host a knowledgeable representative of the OLPC project - and hopefully a laptop as well - to give an audience of students and practitioners of development a sense of the future of techs. 4 Development. Email: Andrew[DOT]Bennett[AT]Tufts[DOT]edu
• Apr 24: UniForum Chicago, Wheaton IL, Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking
• Apr 28: Flisol (Latinoamerican Festival of Free software instalation) Manizales and Bogota,Colombia Photos . Rafael Ortiz
• April 26th, Innotech Conference Portland, OR. NAME PLEASE
• April 28/29,LinuxFest 2007 Bellingham, WA. Jesse Keating (RedHat/Fedora)
• Apr 30-May 2 : Smalltalk Solutions 2007 at LinuxWorld / IT360, Toronto. Bert Freudenberg (1)
• May 8, 2007 - Cape Linux Users Group, Cape Town, South Africa, "Developing Activities For Sugar", Antoine van Gelder
• University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• May 15-16, 2007, TechKnowFile University of Toronto TechKnowFile conference on the "criticality of technology in education". Mike Fletcher
• May 19 : Open Software Day by Turuxi Turku Finland - antti.heinonen[at]mbnet[dot]fi +358504873453
• May 25-28 Baycon Science Fiction convention, San Mateo CA, USA. Ed Cherlin Alan Dean Foster loves the XO. Recruited several people to join us.
• May 28, 2007 Cape Town Geek Dinner, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
• Cátedra UNESCO de Educación a Distancia keeps track of series of events related to open, flexible, virtual or distance learning globally (with some emphasis on spanish) here March, April, May...).
• eLearning Workshops keeps a similar list (or a calendar view)
• June 19-20 : Pennsylvania One-to-One Conference Penn State, Pennsylvania - Scott Garrigan will be presenting two OLPC-related sessions and would like an XO (or a demo). email: garrigans[AT]acape[DOT]org - phone 484-894-6162
• June 2, 2007 OLPC Chicago Interest Group, Chicago IL, USA.
• June 5: Ottawa Canada Linux Users' Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis
• June 5-8 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Berkeley CA USA. Ed Cherlin They recommend that we team up with globe.org.uk to get weather stations into the schools for global mapping. NASA, NOAA, and CITRIS are interested in working with us. Ed Cherlin I gave Doug Engelbart his first demo of the XO.
• June 12: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group, Fort Collins, Colorado. Jordan Crouse (1+)
• June 30-July 3 WesterCon Science Fiction Convention, San Mateo CA. Ed Cherlin Recruited some more people to join us.
• June 30: OLPC y Evento Internacional, Lima, Perú. User:Alfonsodg
• 2nd and 4th Saturday, every month, 4-10 PM Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal.) Coalition of All Bay Area Linux, Menlo Park CA, hosted by Rick Moen. Ed Cherlin
• 3rd Saturday of every month, 11 am-4 pm Silicon Valley LUG Installfest, Google, Mountain View CA, USA. Ed Cherlin
• July 10th - OLPC presentation given at MIT Entrepreneurs Club by Arjun. A repeat presentation given by Manusheel and Arjun on 24th July, 2007. --to do add link--
• July 17, Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG), San Francisco. Ed Cherlin
• August 1-3, 2007, SqueakFest 2007, Chicago, IL. NAME PLEASE
• August 6-9, 2007, Linux World, San Francisco, Ed Cherlin. BOF7, Room 308, Tuesday, 6-7 pm. No Child Left Out: The One Laptop Per Child XO computer and its consequences
• August 11, 2007, Linux Picnic. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin.
• August 15-18, 2007, Black Data Processing Association Conference, Ed Cherlin
• Base of the Pyramid conference, September 10, 2007 : Andrew Ott was there.
• Sept 2007: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines Rowen, wenmi01 (at) spymac (dot period) com, +63 927 702 0503 = 5 xo for demo, launching and promotion.

  September 11, 2007, 10:30 AM - Base of the Pyramid Conference 2007 (University of Michigan) - Koessler Room, Michigan League. User:Andrewo

• October 15-17, 2007, Unicode Conference, San Jose, Ed Cherlin. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 5-6 pm. Language Support on the Children's Computer
• late October: andicom 2007
• December 2007, WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, Ed Cherlin
• 24C3 : the 24th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Dec 27-30, 2007: OLPC austria and nederlands are sending delegations; Sj and Don Hopkins were there.
• Demonstrated SimCity at Game Developers Conference 2007, at the OLPC booth. Don Hopkins
• PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group) Mike Fletcher
• University of Toronto System's Group Mike Fletcher
• CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions) Mike Fletcher
• International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization, Sept. 13, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• COSCUP, November 3, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• LeTourneau Univeristy ACM, Sept 7, 2007 Tommy Gober
• SVLUG Installfest, Apr. 21st, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• SVLUG demo, May 2, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• Linux , Picnic, August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin
• Linux World, San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007. Ed Cherlin
• Unicode Conference, San Jose, October 15-17, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007, Ed Cherlin
• eBay talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public), Ed Cherlin
• Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meeting, Stanford, TBD, Ed Cherlin
• Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, TBD, Ed Cherlin
• Computer History Museum, Mountain View, TBD, Ed Cherlin
• Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association 2007 Spring Conference, March 2007 Michael Burns
• Portland Linux User Group, October 2006 Michael Burns
• Oregon State Linux User Group, October 2006 Michael Burns
• Culture Shock, March 2007 Michael Burns
• Innotech conference, April 2007

Slides, posters and materials

Posters and Handouts

Handouts:

• the XO
• OLPC Quotes
• Merged handout of XO specifications and Quotes

Posters:

• 24x36 in (60x90 cm) poster of the OLPC Arizona Users Group
• XO Software summary poster
• XO Hardware & Software Summary posters

Slides and PDFs

Here are a couple of introductory presentations that you may find useful. Note that you can give presentations effectively in Etoys, including an olpc-style toolbar; and that you can use remote display to present directly from your XO. In Etoys, you can import a standard powerpoint or open office slidestack into Etoys. You can also create a presentation from scratch in Etoys, including both static text and images (as with other presentation software), scripts and moving objects, and other (programmable) Etoys components.

Videos of presentations OLPC India Bert Freudenberg on OLPC Posted Presentations OLPC India.This presentation was delivered at IIT Roorkee, Chandigarh Science Congress & Panjab University by OLPC India Student Chapter OLPC France. CC-licensed OLPC_Austria's slides. Very neat graphics and layout. Includes all key points. Great presentation. CC-licensed OLPC_Austria - Aaron Kaplan's slides from the Vienna Linuxwochen OLPC Nepal OLPC Nepal uses this presentation to promote OLPC. It is geared towards a Ministry of Education. Please note that it comes with a talking script. OLPC Colombia Presentation in Spanish Developer Relations: Python User's Group Developer Relations Presentation to large Python user's group in Toronto, Canada. English, 46 slides, approximately 30 minutes speaking time. University of Toronto Systems Group slightly more refined version of the previous presentation including images from OLPC Nepal and OLPC Colombia presentations. English, 60 slides, approximately 40 minutes speaking time. Tirana University Computer Engineering presentation at the state University of Albania. More background/general introduction than the previous set. English, 49 slides, approximately 1.5 hours speaking time. University of Toronto TechKnowFile (closing plenary) presentation at an internal conference of IT professionals and educators at the University of Toronto. Focus is on making the case for academics to join the project in order to increase the relevance of their work. English, 63 slides, approximately 1 hour speaking time. Ignite Presentation at DemoCamp Toronto #14, 5 minutes, 20 slides, also used for a 10 minute presentation at another event. Basic project introduction and request for volunteers. Stanford University Mark Foster's excellent talk given at Standford University. Somewhat technical presentation. Ian Bicking's slides from the UniForum talk, April 24 2007. General OLPC introduction for a technical audience. 26 slides. I talked for an hour, but it entirely depends on how chatty you are. OLPC Mesh Javier Cardona's presentation at FISL 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Details about mesh networking and useful information for developing applications that use the mesh on the OLPC. Antoine's Slides Source From a presentation to the Cape Linux Users Group in South Africa on XO application development. Technical audience. Talked for two hours. Has a Hello World for Sugar. LeTourneau University - TommyGober's brief overview of OLPC for local ACM chapter - mainly talking points, laptop needed at end for demonstration purposes. Portable Culture Machines - Jonah Bossewitch's presentation of OLPC at Teachers College's Popular Culture in the Classroom Conference (3/07) Additional presentations at http://download.laptop.org/content/conf and Apr_3-4_Mini-conference

Presentations needed Technical We need a solid presentation for software and hardware developers. For software Developers -- How to build an activity. For Software Developers -- Hardware and Firmware Related Stuff. Power Mechanisms for OLPC Education-Specific Introduction to Constructivism Role of the teacher in OLPC Teaching art and the XO How to create content for OLPC and how not to By language Education presentations needed in French

Presenters

Sign here if you have given a presentation or want to, or if you can give a demo. Let us know where you have been, and where else you are invited to. Would they like us to come back sometime?

Gaurav Chachra

Chandigarh, India

Engineering student in India. I've delivered presentations at Panjab University (5th February 2008) and demonstrated the laptop at Chandigarh Science Congress (14th March 2008) and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (28th March 2008). Our team can make demonstrations at other places in India too. You can email me or leave a message on my talk page. I am also working on various content development projects under OLPC India Student Chapter.

Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Cupertino CA

Earth Treasury, writing a [[book about the laptop program, and how to take an active role in ending poverty once the children are online.

Google has loaned me an XO, and I will soon be ready to demonstrate it to anybody who is interested. I took it to the Silicon Valley LUG April meeting the day I got it. We got TiddlyWiki running on it.

Don Hopkins

Berkeley, CA

Working on pie menus, SimCity, game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.

Rowen Remis Iral

Bulacan, Philippines

Working to make developers involved. Willing to join OLPC for promotion, and selling XO and getting bulk orders of XO machine. Also developing XO machine and its component. Trying to squeeze and improve with the limits of B2-1 system.

Michael Burns

Corvallis OR

Working for the Open Source Lab as an evangelist and administrator. OSL has contributed to Sugar, Abirword, and Helix, among other activites for the laptop.

Mike Fletcher; Toronto, ON, Canada

Developer Relations for the OLPC project. Working on making it easier for developers to get involved and on getting developers to commit to the project. Willing to present to any group of developers who are interested in becoming involved in the project.

Mel Chua; Boston, MA

Electrical engineer and education researcher, active OLPC wiki and support-gang, former (and future) OLPC intern. Specialty Grassroots groups; involved in the formation of some of OLPC's most active volunteer chapters, willing to present to and work with grassroots groups forming or those who wish to form, particularly on making groups with a variety of technical/educational backgrounds work well together, and on University chapters.

Paul Reiber

Silicon Valley LUG President, Smalltalk developer

Tommy Gober

Longview, TX, USA

Secondary Education/Computer Science student at LeTourneau University. Currently developing amateur radio txt-mode software for the XO (see PSK31).

Iain D.; Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest, north of Seattle)

Have two day-0, XOs. Active OLPC Wiki and support-gang. Presentations in front of local LUG, preparing for presentation at regional Linux Fest conference. Available for demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested. Also qualifying as local repair center.

Florian Fainelli; Paris, France

Have one B4-XOs. Available for demos in Europe.

Laptop pools

Sign here if you have a laptop and are willing to loan it out or bring it to demos. Tell us which version of the hardware and software you have.

Ed Cherlin : Google has loaned me an XO. I've tried out Sugar, more to come.

Paul Reiber of Silicon Valley LUG is getting an XO.

Jesper T. of Copenhagen has an XO temporarily.

OLPC Austria has ~2 XOs to loan out.

OLPC Switzerland and OLPC France each have a member with an XO that can be borrowed.

the Olin chapter have a B4 and a B2 that can be hacked on.

OLPC Cambridge have a number of XOs that can be tested on in the office; leave us a message to come test something out in person.