ILXO/workshops

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This is still very much a work in progress.

What are we going to need to get this underway?

  • assume guests have their own laptops; will indicate if bringing on to a workshop is super useful.
  • Intro to the XO / program / overview
  • Basic repairs
    • Sufficient number of screwdrivers
    • to what extent are we having people do this to working XOs? Their own?
  • Intro to wiki (communication methods - also IRC, forums, lists...)
  • How to start a grassroots group
  • How to run a Jam

Resource dump - useful planning links go here?

  • Music composition (Tank)
  • Green engineering and how laptops are made (Mia, with Chris and Mel)
  • Fractals and number theory (Mel)
  • Photography & filmmaking (Chris)
  • Inventors' Workshop (user-centered design, sketch prototyping, journalism) (Chris)
  • Self defense for kids (Nikki)
  • Origami (Tank)
  • Knit your own XO carry-strap (Tank)
  • Everything is a bathtub: Electronics with Etoys (Nikki, with Mel)
  • Turtle math: a romp through algebra and geometry with TurtleArt (Mel)