XO roadshows

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(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

  • Washington DC, July 3-4 : Ethiopia Week booth and presentations
    What we're being offered : a booth at the event, where the current OLPC project in Ethiopia will be pitched to attendees at the week's festivities.
    What is covered : reimbursement for any swag made and daily expenses; tickets to the international Ethiopian-expat soccer matches which are their national equivalent of a World Cup; it sounds pretty awesome, and they have reserved a major arena for three days for the teams attending from all over the world; a set of XOs for the booth and demonstrations.
    What is needed : setup the day before (receipt of stand-up posters and boxes of XOs and other materials), booth minding and presentations for two days, some patience for people taking photos in front of you with XOs :)
  • Alexandria, Egypt, July 17-19 : Wikimania 2008 gatherings and presentations
    What we're being offered : a number of OLPCers including Mako and Sj will be there.
    What is needed : poster and shirt designs to make there and hand out.


Recent events

March 2008

  • Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL). March 5-7, XO's on display in the model classroom and a Guerilla session (unplanned user meeting) to discuss formulation of a Michigan user group. http://maculspace.ning.com/group/xousers
  • One Laptop Per Child XO at SxSWi meetup Sunday March 9, 12:30 CST at Las Manitas, Austin, TX. RSVP and view map at upcoming.org please. Looking forward to it! --annegentle 13:56, 7 March 2008 (EST)
  • Kern Independent PC Users Group, Bakersfield CA. Our main meeting will demonstrate the XO computer and it's mesh networking abilities. We meet at 7pm PST on March 13 at the Kern Superintendent of Schools Building on the corner of 17th and L st. Please contact president@KIPUG.org for further information.
  • OISC (OLPC India Student Chapter) delivered a presentation & demonstrated XO at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee on 28th March at the technical festival, Cognizance. The powerpoint file can be downloaded from HERE -- Gaurav 13:22, 5 April 2008 (EDT)

April 2008

May 2008

  • May 1 & May 2 - GAZeL-A-Ganza! - Greater Arizona eLearning Gala and Golf event: fundraising goal to purchase 100 XO laptops for distribution in an Arizona school (for more about the GLF please see: Global Literacy Foundation)
  • May 28-31 - LinuxTag Berlin, several talks on OLPC/LiveCD/Etoys, Sugar dev meeting, laptop-giveaway (organized by OLPC Deutschland)

June 2008 and beyond

Past Events (2008)

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
22 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Google Chicago, details on page
25 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Moraine Valley Community College, details on page
29-31 Jan OLPC France meeting at Solutions Linux 2008, details on page
2 Feb - | Northern Virginia Linux User Group, details on page
5 Feb - users and others are meeting 5-7 pm at Douglass Public Library, Champaign, IL, hosted by Univ of Illinois GSLIS/Community Informatics and College of Ed/SqueakCMI group
4-8 Feb - Texas Computer Educators Association Tommy Gober
7 Feb - Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - General membership meeting ixo
16 Feb - Greater Los Angeles Teachers Science Association (GLATSA), Los Angeles, California, please contact Caryl
19-20 Feb - Beijing LUG (BLUG) presents XO & OLPC at Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing, China
GDC, San Francisco, Feb 17-21
Saturday, 23 Feb 10:00 am Xo-austin Anne Gentle
2/20/2008: Greater Arizona E-Learning Annual Summit Brian Basgen
2/27/2008: Arizona Users Group meeting
2/28/2008 - 6:00-8:30 pm Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact [Chuck Schwartz] chuck@rovenet.com]

Past Events (2007)


Slides, posters and materials

Posters and Handouts

Handouts:

Posters:

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.

Videos of presentations


Posted Presentations

Presentations needed

Technical

  • We need a solid presentation for software and hardware developers.
  • For software Developers -- How to build an activity.
  • For Software Developers -- Hardware and Firmware Related Stuff.
  • 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

By language

  • Education presentations needed in French

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?

Gaurav Chachra
Chandigarh, India
Engineering student in India. I've delivered presentations at Panjab University (5th February 2008) and demonstrated the laptop at Chandigarh Science Congress (14th March 2008) and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (28th March 2008). Our team can make demonstrations at other places in India too. You can email me or leave a message on my talk page. I am also working on various content development projects under OLPC India Student Chapter.
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.
Don Hopkins
Berkeley, CA
Working on pie menus, SimCity, game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.
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.


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.


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.
Mel Chua; Boston, MA
Electrical engineer and education researcher, active OLPC wiki and support-gang, former (and future) OLPC intern. Specialty Grassroots groups; involved in the formation of some of OLPC's most active volunteer chapters, willing to present to and work with grassroots groups forming or those who wish to form, particularly on making groups with a variety of technical/educational backgrounds work well together, and on University chapters.
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).
Iain D.; Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest, north of Seattle)
Have two day-0, XOs. Active OLPC Wiki and support-gang. Presentations in front of local LUG, preparing for presentation at regional Linux Fest conference. Available for demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested. Also qualifying as local repair center.
Florian Fainelli; Paris, France
Have one B4-XOs. Available for demos in Europe.

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.

Ed Cherlin : Google has loaned me an XO. I've tried out Sugar, more to come.
Paul Reiber of Silicon Valley LUG is getting an XO.
Jesper T. of Copenhagen has an XO temporarily.
OLPC Austria has ~2 XOs to loan out.
OLPC Switzerland and OLPC France each have a member with an XO that can be borrowed.
the Olin chapter have a B4 and a B2 that can be hacked on.
OLPC Cambridge have a number of XOs that can be tested on in the office; leave us a message to come test something out in person.
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