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== Overview ==
{{Merge | Laptop demonstrations}}
:'' see also [[Remote display]]''


If you have an event, meeting, convention or other gathering of XO Cheerleaders and those who wanted to learn more, please list your event.
Page for discussion of presentations and XO demos to outside groups, including Linux user groups (LUGs), other software groups, wireless groups, schools, teachers' organizations, NGOs, governments, churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/whatever, business and civic clubs, Boy/Girl Scout troops...You tell us. Also conference presentations such as Linux World or Unicode.


If you want to help the world know about the XO, please contact the person listed for a given event
==To be called==
Add your suggestions, please.


== Current Events ==
*Pretty much everybody who has ever been listed on [http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ BALE] (Bay Area Linux events, sadly not currently up-to-date).
*Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meetings, Stanford
*Glide Memorial Church
*SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)


=== February 2008 ===


Thur, 28 Feb - [http://www.listnet.org/eventDetails.cfm?eventid=1151 Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet)], Garden City, New York, please contact [[User:Chuck|Chuck Schwartz]]
==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?


=== March 2008 ===
===Edward [[User:Mokurai|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.


'''No Events Listed'''
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.


=== April 2008 ===
Past:
*Silicon Valley LUG talk, January 2007. [[Ed Cherlin]]


'''No Events Listed'''
Future:
*SVLUG [http://www.svlug.org/installfest/index.php Installfest], Apr. 21st, 2007
*Linux Mafia/[http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ CABAL] (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007
*[http://www.svlug.org/ SVLUG] demo, May 2, 2007
*[http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix16/ Linux Picnic], August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!
*[http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ Linux World], San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007.


== Past Events ==
*[http://www.unicodeconference.org/ Unicode Conference], San Jose, October 15-17, 2007
*[http://wireafrica.org/?page_id=9 WIRE AFRICA Conference], Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007
*[http://www.eBay.com eBay] talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public)
*[http://rdvp.org/ Reuters Digital Vision Fellows] meeting, Stanford, TBD
*[http://www.presidiomba.org/ Presidio School of Management], San Francisco, TBD
*[http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer History Museum], Mountain View, TBD

===[[User:Mburns|Michael Burns]]===
Corvallis OR
Working for the [http://osuosl.org Open Source Lab] as an evangelist and administrator. OSL has contributed to Sugar, Abirword, and Helix, among other activites for the laptop.

Past:
*Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association 2007 Spring Conference, March 2007
*Portland Linux User Group, October 2006
*Oregon State Linux User Group, October 2006
*Culture Shock, March 2007

Future:
*Innotech conference, April 2007

===[[User:Dhopkins|Don Hopkins]]===
Berkeley, CA
Working on [http://www.DonHopkins.com/drupal/node/128 pie menus], [http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/129 SimCity], game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.

Past:
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb/414422075/ Demonstrated] SimCity at Game Developers Conference 2007, at the OLPC booth.

===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.

Future:
Planning to have demos and presentations
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines

===[[User:mcfletch|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.

Past:
* PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group)
* University of Toronto System's Group
* University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007
* TechKnowFile, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2007
* CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions)
* [http://openforum.elsacc.ca/ International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization], Sept. 13, 2007
* Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007
* Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007
* Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007
* Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007

Future:
* OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007
* IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007
* COSCUP, November 3, 2007

===[[User:PaulReiber | Paul Reiber]]===
[[Silicon Valley LUG]] President
Smalltalk developer

===[[User:TommyGober | Tommy Gober]]===
Longview, TX, USA

Secondary Education/Computer Science student at [http://www.letu.edu LeTourneau University]. Currently developing amateur radio txt-mode software for the XO (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31 PSK31]).

Presentations:
* LeTourneau Univeristy [http://www.acm.org ACM], Sept 7, 2007
* [http://tcea.org Texas Computer Educators Association], Feb 4-8, 2008
* ...others TBA

Washington, USA

I should have two XO's by about the 20th of December. I am willing to do demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested.

===[[User:IainDavidson | Iain D.]]===
Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest)

Presentations:
* Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - Feburary 7th - General membership meeting
* Northwest LinuxFest ( http://linuxFestNW.org ) - April ? - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news.

==Laptops==
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.

Google has loaned Ed Cherlin an XO. I've tried out Sugar a bit. More to come.
Paul Reiber of [[Silicon Valley LUG]] is getting an XO.


[[Category:General Public]]

Revision as of 23:47, 20 January 2008

Overview

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

If you want to help the world know about the XO, please contact the person listed for a given event

Current Events

February 2008

Thur, 28 Feb - Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact Chuck Schwartz

March 2008

No Events Listed

April 2008

No Events Listed

Past Events

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