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</imagemap>- (merge from Laptop demonstrations and Presentations). see also Remote display
XOs are regularly demonstrated or on display at conferences and other events.
- To see the XO in action, consider attending one of these events.
- To help the world learn about the XO by bringing your XO, contact the person listed for a given event
- If you have an event, meeting, convention or other gathering of XO enthusiasts and those who want to learn more, please list your event.
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.
Upcoming Events
January-February 2008
- 22 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Google Chicago, details on page
- 25 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Moraine Valley Community College, details on page
- 16 Feb - Greater Los Angeles Teachers Science Association (GLATSA), Los Angeles, California, please contact Caryl
- Thursday, 28 Feb - 6:00-8:30 pm Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact Chuck Schwartz
- GDC, San Francisco, Feb 17-21
March 2008 and beyond
- ...
Past Events (2007)
- January 2007, Silicon Valley LUG, Edward Cherlin. SVLUG wants to get involved worldwide, linking to other LUGs and helping schools connect.
- 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?
- March 9-13 : South by Southwest, Interactive Austin, TX, Jonah Bossewitch Email?
- 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)
- March 24-15 : Popular Culture in the Classroom: "Teach, Think, Play", Teachers College, New York, NY, Jonah Bossewitch
- 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 Got updated XO software.
- April 19/20, 2007, Digital Freedom Expo, Cape Town, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
- Apr. 21st, 2007, SVLUG Installfest, Ed Cherlin
- 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
- Apr 24: UniForum Chicago, Wheaton IL, Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking
- Apr 28: Flisol (Latinoamerican Festival of Free software instalation) Manizales and Bogota,Colombia Photos . Rafael Ortiz
- April 26th, Innotech Conference Portland, OR. NAME PLEASE
- April 28/29,LinuxFest 2007 Bellingham, WA.
Jesse Keating (RedHat/Fedora)
- Apr 30-May 2 : Smalltalk Solutions 2007 at LinuxWorld / IT360, Toronto. Bert Freudenberg (1)
- May 8, 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
- May 19 : Open Software Day by Turuxi Turku Finland - antti.heinonen[at]mbnet[dot]fi +358504873453
- May 25-28 Baycon Science Fiction convention, San Mateo CA, USA. Ed Cherlin Alan Dean Foster loves the XO. Recruited several people to join us.
- May 28, 2007 Cape Town Geek Dinner, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
- 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)
- June 19-20 : Pennsylvania One-to-One Conference Penn State, Pennsylvania - Scott Garrigan will be presenting two OLPC-related sessions and would like an XO (or a demo). email: garrigans[AT]acape[DOT]org - phone 484-894-6162
- June 2, 2007 OLPC Chicago Interest Group, Chicago IL, USA.
- June 5: Ottawa Canada Linux Users' Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis
- June 5-8 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Berkeley CA USA. Ed Cherlin They recommend that we team up with globe.org.uk to get weather stations into the schools for global mapping. NASA, NOAA, and CITRIS are interested in working with us. Ed Cherlin I gave Doug Engelbart his first demo of the XO.
- June 12: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group, Fort Collins, Colorado. Jordan Crouse (1+)
- June 30-July 3 WesterCon Science Fiction Convention, San Mateo CA. Ed Cherlin Recruited some more people to join us.
- June 30: OLPC y Evento Internacional, Lima, Perú. User:Alfonsodg
- 2nd and 4th Saturday, every month, 4-10 PM Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal.) Coalition of All Bay Area Linux, Menlo Park CA, hosted by Rick Moen. Ed Cherlin
- 3rd Saturday of every month, 11 am-4 pm Silicon Valley LUG Installfest, Google, Mountain View CA, USA. Ed Cherlin
- July 10th - OLPC presentation given at MIT Entrepreneurs Club by Arjun. A repeat presentation given by Manusheel and Arjun on 24th July, 2007. --to do add link--
- July 17, Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG), San Francisco. Ed Cherlin
- August 1-3, 2007, SqueakFest 2007, Chicago, IL. NAME PLEASE
- August 6-9, 2007, Linux World, San Francisco, Ed Cherlin. BOF7, Room 308, Tuesday, 6-7 pm. No Child Left Out: The One Laptop Per Child XO computer and its consequences
- August 11, 2007, Linux Picnic. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin.
- August 15-18, 2007, Black Data Processing Association Conference, Ed Cherlin
- Base of the Pyramid conference, September 10, 2007 : Andrew Ott was there.
- September 11, 2007, 10:30 AM - Base of the Pyramid Conference 2007 (University of Michigan) - Koessler Room, Michigan League. User:Andrewo
- October 15-17, 2007, Unicode Conference, San Jose, Ed Cherlin. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 5-6 pm. Language Support on the Children's Computer
- late October: andicom 2007
- December 2007, WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, Ed Cherlin
- 24C3 : the 24th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Dec 27-30, 2007: OLPC austria and nederlands are sending delegations; Sj and Don Hopkins were there.
- Sept 2007: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines Rowen, wenmi01 (at) spymac (dot period) com, +63 927 702 0503 = 5 xo for demo, launching and promotion.
- January 17, 2008: Meeting with the New York City Beacon Programs. Possible large scale youth fundraising initiative throughout NYC. This will bring awareness to the project as well as empower youth to make global change. Darryl Rattray 212-341-9579 drattray@dycd.nyc.gov
Slides, posters and materials
Let's build some slick materials:
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.
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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?
- Edward 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.
- 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.
Past:
- Silicon Valley LUG talk, January 2007. Ed Cherlin
Future:
- SVLUG Installfest, Apr. 21st, 2007, Ed Cherlin
- Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007, Ed Cherlin
- SVLUG demo, May 2, 2007, Ed Cherlin
- Linux , Picnic, August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin
- Linux World, San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007. Ed Cherlin
- Unicode Conference, San Jose, October 15-17, 2007, Ed Cherlin
- WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007, Ed Cherlin
- eBay talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public), Ed Cherlin
- Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meeting, Stanford, TBD, Ed Cherlin
- Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, TBD, Ed Cherlin
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View, TBD, Ed Cherlin
- 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.
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
- Don Hopkins
- Berkeley, CA
- Working on pie menus, SimCity, game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.
Past:
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- 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).
Presentations:
- LeTourneau Univeristy ACM, Sept 7, 2007
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.