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*: Introduction to Python - first of a tutorial series |
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The RIT Honors Seminar students will be presenting their project work from the last 10 weeks for review and discussion. You will see 3 math learning games, a classroom quiz tool, and a school support server project for file and e-book sharing. |
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Notice: We are now meeting in the RIT [http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/?page_id=7 Center for Student Innovation]. If you haven't seen, this new facility, you should! It is well suited for ad-hoc collaboration. |
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The Innovations Center is south of B-70. (Walk down the sidewalk to the left [going south from the parking lots] of B-70 until you see a round, |
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Revision as of 22:19, 12 November 2009
About
The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York has_location_country::USA 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
- 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 The Center for Student Innovation, Building 87, Rm 1600, (See RIT Building 87 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:
- 19 November 2009 7:00 - 8:50 pm
- Project Presentations and Workshop
The RIT Honors Seminar students will be presenting their project work from the last 10 weeks for review and discussion. You will see 3 math learning games, a classroom quiz tool, and a school support server project for file and e-book sharing.
After the students have presented their projects, we will switch to workshop mode to allow detailed technical review and question answering on any of the projects.
Notice: We are now meeting in the RIT Center for Student Innovation. If you haven't seen, this new facility, you should! It is well suited for ad-hoc collaboration.
The Innovations Center is south of B-70. (Walk down the sidewalk to the left [going south from the parking lots] of B-70 until you see a round, glass-walled, new building--that's the Innovation Center.
Past events
This open and informal meeting of the minds for Rochester's Open Source Community, was hosted by RIT's Center for Student Innovation, the OLPC Rochester User's Group, and Lab for Technological Literacy.
With the goal to get to know each other better and to build links across the groups that make our town such a hotbed of FOSS activity. We learned about a possible FOSScon here this coming summer and what the XO user's group is up to.
Dave Yearke, Director, Science and Engineering Node Services (SENS) group at the University at Buffalo came to tell us how they support the UB Engineering School and the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and we use Linux heavily for instruction and research.
Guests from The Fedora Project and Red Hat, Inc., included Greg DeKoenigsberg, Luke Macken, ?? (RIT and CS House Alum) and Mel Chua.
William Schaub gave an update and demo on his Teotwawki Net project.
Projects
2009
RIT honors seminar, developing for the OLPC XO
2008
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...