OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea/Community Summit 2010
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Community Summit 2010
Kickoff meeting, July 17, 2010
Notes taken by Ben Devine:
Expected Contributions and Take Away.
Evaluate problems
Report problems
E-books
Manage deployment interests: grassroots to ---> Large deployment
Moodle – Math modules
Programming workshop (python, sugar)
Advocacy
SoaS on Mac.
Documentation sessions
Kids using XO session
FOSS education
Sugar onto MNCSF.org computers
MNCSF.org as a resource
School server on low power
Problems in rural schools
Advocacy participation
Kids from Oakland, CA
Technology (software, hardware, networks)
MOUSE, CA
Deployment Stories
Deployments Success/failures
Implementations success
Best practices
Failures
Attending via Skype
Caryl Bigenho
Southern California projects
Mail list Olpc-socal@lists.laptop.org
Roadshow in a box
XO-1 (9)
Cherry Withers
Ekindling
100 laptops in the Phillipines
pilot 4th &5th grades
Squeakland Board Member
E-toys
Attending via Phone
Sonya Sokolov
Internet math tutoring project
10 XOs + SoaS in Ghana
5 XOs in California
Math, Flash based (Flash on SoaS)
Ph.D. in Teaching/Design from Stanford.
Attending in person
Sameer Verma - Professor at SF State University, and organizer, OLPC SF
Grant Bowman-XO toaster, organization help
Lyz Krumbach- Organization help, Ubuntu community council
Larry Cafiero- Fedora Ambassador (3 kids as XO testers)
Ben Devine- Student, SF State University. Organization help
Luis Chavez- MNCSF.org ,Everett middle school and youth workshop
Robert Howard- Porting XS to ARM. Has several ARM devices at home.
Carol Ruth Silver- Afghanistan Deployment, Planning
Hilary Naylor- Oakland Schools, Trainer, amnesty international.
June Kleider- Madagascar deployment.
Alex Kleider- Technology, Linux, Python, etc.