XO roadshows
- see also Remote display
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:
- SVLUG Installfest, Apr. 21st, 2007
- Linux Mafia/CABAL, April 14, 2007
- SVLUG demo, May 2, 2007
- Linux Picnic, August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!
- Linux World, San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007
- Black Data Processing Association Conference, August 15-18, 2007
- Unicode Conference, San Jose, October 15-17, 2007
- WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007
- eBay talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public)
- Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meeting, Stanford, TBD
- Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, TBD
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View, TBD
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.
[[User::mcfletch|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.
Past:
- PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group)
- University of Toronto System's Group
- University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007
Future:
- TechKnowFile, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2007
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 has loaned Ed Cherlin an XO. I've tried out Sugar a bit. More to come.
Calendar
April
- 26th - Portland, OR: Innotech Conference
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2008