XO roadshows

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Page for discussion of presentations and XO demos to outside groups, including Linux user groups (LUGs), other software groups, wireless groups, schools, teachers' organizations, NGOs, governments, churches/mosques/temples/synagogues/whatever, business and civic clubs, Boy/Girl Scout troops...You tell us. Also conference presentations such as Linux World or Unicode.

To be called

Add your suggestions, please.

  • Pretty much everybody who has ever been listed on BALE (Bay Area Linux events, sadly not currently up-to-date).
  • Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meetings, Stanford
  • Glide Memorial Church
  • SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)


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

Future:

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

[[User::Dhopkins|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.

Laptops

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 is willing to loan two machines at a time (so we can show off the wireless) for occasional demos in the San Francisco Bay area. Ed Cherlin is making the arrangements with Chris DiBona.

Calendar

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2008