Events

This is a list of OLPC-organized events. For a broader list of events where OLPC has a presence, or where there are presentations given on the subject, see the XO Roadshows page.

Community events

Physics Jam, OLPC HQ?, August 29-31, 2008

organized by Brian Jordan.

This is a Jam to make use of the new physics engine on the XO, a version of box2d. Examples to date include the Physics activity and Alex L's new x2o game framework.

Attending: GameLab folks, Museum of Science text curators (Engineering is Elementary)

Mel Chua, SJ, Jordans 1-2

Cosponsored events

Game Jam Peru, October 2008

A 3 day event leading up to / overlapping with an existing open source and tech conference in Cusco, Peru coordinated in part by Hernan Pachas.

Documentation sprint, August 2008

A week-long documentation meeting to hash out 8.2.0 getting-started and user documents. Organized by Anne Gentle, and Adam Hyde/FLOSSManuals.

Attending: Adam Holt (potentially: GDK)

Remotely : Faisal Anwar

Global OLPC gathering / FUDCon

December 6-8, Boston MA

This is under discussion with GDK @ Fedora

Proposed events

OLPC Latin America / Africa event, Fall 2008

Lidet Tilahun is helping organize a student event including the Lat-Am and African student groups @ the Harvard Gov school and @ MIT.

I was thinking we could make this a full ~1.5-day workshop that focused alternately on Latin America and on Africa : organized by student groups from both regions, inviting major speakers to address the need for educational change in the most remote areas, and its potential impact on basic sustainable agriculture, health, economics and city development.

Attendees -- development-group organizers to speak to the need of broad cross-country community support to make these efforts sustainable across political/educational turmoil; students to launch new projects and local university OLPC chapters; educators to share their experiences in the field and brainstorm how to make things work at many levels; on the ground, with parent/teacher gropus, with local districts, with ministries, and globally.

potential outcomes a plan for regional events in south america, central america, and parts of africa; a list of groups to engage and invite to join future events to learn about and contribute ideas to the project; including groups already engaged in educational reform projects a list of luminaries to contact to form regional advisory groups; identifying [student] contacts for major universities and libraries; identifying regions most in need of this sort of change, and groups/organizations we (as a conference group) know with field experience in each one

1 August 2008 (UTC)