OLPC San Francisco Bay Area
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area is a general interest group in the San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The group meets once a month (on a Saturday, mid-month) to promote interest, generate ideas and learn from each other in a face-to-face environment.
Projects
- Starr King Elementary, SF (ongoing)
- Madagascar/Maroantsetra, Madagascar (ongoing)
- OLPC-SF Repair Center (ongoing)
- Kid Camp (potential)
- Newbies Ramp Up (ongoing)
- OLPC-SF Lending Library (potential)
- San Francisco State University lending library (ongoing)
- Keur Sadaro, Senegal (ongoing)
- OLPC-SF Porting XS to ARM (ongoing)
- Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan working with OLPC-Afghanistan
- Toaster - Sugar Activity to create USB sticks and discs
Events
- OLPC SF Community Summit 2011 (Oct 21 to 23). Details to follow.
- OLPC SF/Sugar/Realness Community Summit 2010 site (Oct 21/22 to 24th) drawing experienced deployment people from around the world this year!! (wiki planning details, organizers mailing list)
- OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Community Summit 2009
- Stanford University visit - Chuck Kane and Paul Commons, Friday November 6, 2009 (12:00pm to 1:00pm) PDF Poster
- UC Berkeley visit - Chuck Kane and Paul Commons, Thursday November 5, 2009 (3pm to 4:30pm) PDF Poster
Next regular meeting
Saturday August 13, 2011 10am- 2pm The meeting will be at SFSU Downtown Center, room #553, 835 Market St. SF, CA.
Mailing List
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
Meetings
May meeting (May 14, 2011)
May 2011 meeting will be held at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement
April meeting (April 16, 2011)
April 2011 meeting will be held at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement
March meeting (Mar 12, 2011)
March 2011 meeting will be held at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement
February meeting (Feb 19, 2011)
Feb 2011 meeting was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement
January meeting (Jan 15, 2011)
Jan 2011 meeting, the group's 3rd anniversary, was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement
December meeting (Dec 11, 2010)
Dec 2010 meeting was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at email announcement
November meeting (Nov 13, 2010)
Nov 2010 meeting was at SFSU Downtown Center. See details at announcement
October Summit
Community Summit occurred Oct 22 - 24 see OLPC SF Community Summit 2010! (email announcement)
September meeting (Sept 18, 2010)
September 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-September/000780.html
August meeting (Aug 28, 2010)
August 2010 meeting was at Noisebridge. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-August/000764.html
July meeting (July 17, 2010)
July 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-July/000705.html
June meeting (June 19, 2010)
June 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-June/000691.html
May meeting (May 15, 2010)
May 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-May/000677.html
April meeting (Apr 17, 2010)
April 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2010-April/000656.html
March meeting (Mar 13, 2010)
March 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/667
February meeting (Feb 13, 2010)
February 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/673
January meeting (Jan 16, 2010)
January 2010 meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/671
December meeting
No meetings in December.
November meeting (Nov 21, 2009)
See OLPCSF Community Summit 2009
October meeting (Oct 17, 2009)
October's meeting was at SFSU's Downtown Center. See details at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2009-October/000543.html
September meeting (Aug 22, 2009)
September's meeting featured presentations from two deployments. Senegal (Bruce Baikie) and Afghanistan/MTSA (Carol Ruth Silver).
August meeting (Aug 22, 2009)
August's meeting will be at SFSU's Downtown Center. This meeting features presentations from two deployments. South Africa and San Francisco! See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/656
July meeting (July 18, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. This meeting will focus on the latest school server, and a handful of ongoing OLPC micro deployments. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/653
June meeting (June 13, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/643
May meeting (May 16, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/637
April meeting (Apr 11, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/628
March meeting (Mar 14, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown campus. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/619
February meeting (Feb 14, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will focus on a local school and its deployment. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/605 Meeting notes posted at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/617
January meeting (Jan 17, 2009)
Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will focus on XOCamp2. Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/602
December meeting (Dec 13, 2008)
Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. This meeting will feature taking apart (and putting together) an XO laptop! Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/592
November meeting (Nov 15, 2008)
Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/575
Presentation slides from "OLPC and India: My Observations" are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/593
October meeting (Oct 11, 2008)
Meeting at SF State Downtown Center. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/573
September meeting (Sept 20, 2008)
September meeting was announced on very short notice. http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/565 It ended up being a dud. Hopefully the October meeting will be better.
August meeting (Aug 16, 2008)
This meeting will be at SF State University's Downtown San Francisco campus. Details are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/541
Meeting report and pictures at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/552 and http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/553
July meeting (July 19, 2008)
This meeting will be at San Francisco State University campus. Details are at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/529
June meeting (June 21, 2008)
This meeting will be at Google in Mountain View, CA. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/522. Note that Jay McCauley has invited us to the Computer History Museum (about 1 mile away) for a tour of the Charles Babbage Difference Engine No. 2 and photo ops with the Babbage engine and XOs. This will be at the tail end of our meeting.
Report at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/524
May meeting (May 11, 2008)
May meeting will be at SF State campus. See details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/515
April meeting (Apr 12 and 13, 2008)
This meeting will be at the LUG Radio live event. See details at http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/ We have a table and we need volunteers for helping out with hosting at the table. The event has a $10 ticket, but volunteers get in for free. Current volunteers are: Sameer Verma, Sarah Mei, Dan Perez, Joachim Pedersen, Doug Jones, and Andrew Johnson. Please let me know if you are interested. sverma@sfsu.edu [1]
Saturday April 12 (10 am to 6 pm)
Sameer Verma
Dan Perez
Joachim Pedersen
Doug Jones
Sunday April 13 (10 am to 4 pm)
Sameer Verma
Sarah Mei
Doug Jones
March meeting (Mar 15, 2008)
Details at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/479
Report at: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/482
Second meeting (Feb 9, 2008)
Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/451
Report at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/459
First meeting (Jan 12, 2008)
Details at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/445
Report at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/446
Give 1 Get 1 materials
Creative Commons licensed posters from 2007 at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/426
Creative Commons licensed posters from 2008 at http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/580
OLPC-SF XO Repair Center
See details about the repair center at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair