Laptop demonstrations

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

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.

Posters

Let's build some slick marketing bling:

• the XO
• OLPC Quotes

Presentation Slides

You may need to provide some audiences with an introductory presentation to explain the concepts behind this project. Here are a couple of presentations that you may find useful. We need a solid presentation for software and hardware developers.

Posted Presentations

• 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
• 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 Columbia presentations. English, 60 slides, approximately 40 minutes speaking time.
• 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.

Needed Presentations

• Technical
  • For software Developers -- How to build an activity
  • 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

XO demonstrations

• Current (ie: < 2-3 weeks)
  • Apr 28: Flisol (Latinoamerican Festival of Free software instalation) Manizales, Colombia. Rafael Ortiz
  • Apr 30-May 2 : Smalltalk Solutions 2007 at LinuxWorld / IT360, Toronto. Bert Freudenberg (1)
  • May 2, 2007, SVLUG demo, Ed Cherlin
  • April 5, 2007 - Cape Linux Users Group, Cape Town, South Africa, "Developing Activities For Sugar", Antoine van Gelder
  • May 15-16, 2007, TechKnowFile University of Toronto conference on the "criticality of technology in education". Mike Fletcher

• Future (ie: > 3 weeks)
  • June 5: Ottawa Canada Linux Users' Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis
  • June 12: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group, Fort Collins, Colorado. Jordan Crouse (1+)
  • August 1-3, 2007, SqueakFest 2007, Chicago, IL.
  • August 2007, Linux Picnic. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin
  • August 6-9, 2007, Linux World, San Francisco, Ed Cherlin
  • August 15-18, 2007, Black Data Processing Association Conference, Ed Cherlin
  • October 15-17, 2007, Unicode Conference, San Jose, Ed Cherlin
  • December 2007, WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, Ed Cherlin
  • TBD, eBay talk and demo (not open to the public), Ed Cherlin
  • TBD, Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meeting, Stanford, Ed Cherlin
  • TBD, Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, Ed Cherlin
  • TBD, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Ed Cherlin

• Past
  • January 2007, Silicon Valley LUG, Edward Cherlin—any news to report?
  • 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?
  • 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)
  • 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
  • April 19/20, 2007, Digital Freedom Expo, Cape Town, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
  • Apr. 21st, 2007, SVLUG Installfest, Ed Cherlin
  • Apr 24: UniForum Chicago, Wheaton IL, Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking

XO requests for demonstration

If you would like to have one XO in an event, please enter it, and 'sign' it to coordinate possibilities

• dates : event, location - contact info INCLUDING E-MAIL ADDRESS and preferably a phone number

• March 9-13 : South by Southwest, Interactive Austin, TX, Jonah Bossewitch Email?
• March 24-15 : Popular Culture in the Classroom: "Teach, Think, Play", Teachers College, New York, NY, Jonah Bossewitch
• 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

Suggestions for demonstrations

So many conferences, so little time... maybe somebody is 'around' and it could be a good opportunity to show or demo the XO.

• 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)