XO roadshows

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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 bring your XO or help out, contact the person listed for a given event

If you have an event or conference where XOs will be welcome or on display, list it below.

How to get involved

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.

2008

August

July 30 - August 1

Thailand learning workshop

August 3

OLPC India Day

August 5-7

LinuxWorld Expo

August 8-10

Game Jam, ILXO

organized by mchua and nlee

August 23-28

Sugar documentation sprint, Austin, TX

August 29-31

Physics Jam, OLPC HQ

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, Mel Chua, SJ, Jordans 1-2,

September

September 3-5

X Developer's summit

September 5-7

FUD ConBrno 2008, Brno, Czech Republic

interest: marco, tomeu, simon

September 17-19

Linux Plumber's Conference, Portland OR. For Linux system programmers.

Several OLPC people plan to attend.Deepak Jim Gettys

September 17

Software Freedom Day? and International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Morgan Collett invited by the State IT Agency's FOSS Program Office to run an OLPC stand.

September 20

Software Freedom Day

local events around the world

October

October 18-19

Open Sustainability Camp[3]

Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.

mid-October

Game Jam Peru New technology conference, Lima, Peru : hosted by OLPC's partner university in Peru, with an OLPC Jam at the event. Details to come.

November

November 19 & 20

Massachusetts Computer Using Educators 2008

Annual Conference: Promoting 21st Century Learning

Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, Sturbridge, MA.

Workshop title: Active Learning with the XO.

Workshop presenters: Mass XO Users Group. An XO Jam Kit is needed/requested for demonstrations.

December

December 5-7

FUDCon Boston F11

December 6-8

FUDCon Boston

interest sj, mstone, marco, morgs (tomeu? simon? sayamindu?)

attending gdk

December 26-29

25C3, Berlin, Germany.

Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.

2009

Q3

GUADEC

GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile

interest: marco, morgs, DanielDrake

Slides, posters and materials

Posters and Handouts

Recent handouts:

• Interior of foldable 3-page brochure | Exterior of foldable brochure -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008; exterior beauty shot is a bit fuzzy.
• Contact info flyer -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008
• Mission statement flyer -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008
• Activites flyer -- originally created for MIT Museum, July 2008

Older handouts:

• Merged handout of XO specifications and Quotes
• the XO (says the XO was designed by "Freedom" ... needs editing)
• OLPC Quotes (has misspellings! needs editing)

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

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.