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).


Slides, posters and materials

Let's build some slick materials:

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

  • OLPC_Austria - Aaron Kaplan's slides from the Vienna Linuxwochen
  • OLPC Nepal OLPC Nepal uses this presentation to promote OLPC. It is geared towards a Ministry of Education. Please note that it comes with a talking script.
  • OLPC Colombia Presentation in Spanish
  • Developer Relations:
    • Python User's Group Developer Relations Presentation to large Python user's group in Toronto, Canada. English, 46 slides, approximately 30 minutes speaking time.
    • University of Toronto Systems Group slightly more refined version of the previous presentation including images from OLPC Nepal and OLPC Colombia presentations. English, 60 slides, approximately 40 minutes speaking time.
    • Tirana University Computer Engineering presentation at the state University of Albania. More background/general introduction than the previous set. English, 49 slides, approximately 1.5 hours speaking time.
    • University of Toronto TechKnowFile (closing plenary) presentation at an internal conference of IT professionals and educators at the University of Toronto. Focus is on making the case for academics to join the project in order to increase the relevance of their work. English, 63 slides, approximately 1 hour speaking time.
    • Ignite Presentation at DemoCamp Toronto #14, 5 minutes, 20 slides, also used for a 10 minute presentation at another event. Basic project introduction and request for volunteers.
  • Stanford University Mark Foster's excellent talk given at Standford University. Somewhat technical presentation.
  • Ian Bicking's slides from the UniForum talk, April 24 2007. General OLPC introduction for a technical audience. 26 slides. I talked for an hour, but it entirely depends on how chatty you are.
  • OLPC Mesh Javier Cardona's presentation at FISL 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Details about mesh networking and useful information for developing applications that use the mesh on the OLPC.
  • Antoine's Slides Source From a presentation to the Cape Linux Users Group in South Africa on XO application development. Technical audience. Talked for two hours. Has a Hello World for Sugar.
  • LeTourneau University - TommyGober's brief overview of OLPC for local ACM chapter - mainly talking points, laptop needed at end for demonstration purposes.
  • Portable Culture Machines - Jonah Bossewitch's presentation of OLPC at Teachers College's Popular Culture in the Classroom Conference (3/07)
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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


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

January-February 2008

22 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Google Chicago, details on page
25 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Moraine Valley Community College, details on page
16 Feb - Greater Los Angeles Teachers Science Association (GLATSA), Los Angeles, California, please contact Caryl
Thursday, 28 Feb - 6:00-8:30 pm Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact Chuck Schwartz
GDC, San Francisco, Feb 17-21

March 2008 and beyond

...

Past Events (2007)

  • January 2007, Silicon Valley LUG, Edward Cherlin. SVLUG wants to get involved worldwide, linking to other LUGs and helping schools connect.
  • Jan 28-31 : Asia Source II, Jaya Kumar—any news to report?
  • Feb 23-25 : PyCon 2007, Addison Texas. Ivan Krstic (1+)—any news to report?
  • Feb 24-25 : FOSDEM 2007, Brussels. Rob Savoye (1), Jim Gettys (1+)—any news to report?
  • Mar 8 : ChiPy, Chicago Python User Group, Ian Bicking — lots of interest in doing a local one day coding sprint in the near future
  • Mar 6-7 : Game Developers Conference 2007, San Francisco. SJ (1+)—any news to report?
  • Mar 9 (and usually every Friday afterwards, too): Getting Open Source Logic Into Governments, Ottawa Ontario Canada, Andrew Clunis—any news to report?
  • March 9-13 : South by Southwest, Interactive Austin, TX, Jonah Bossewitch Email?
  • Mar 13 : Ottawa Python Authors' Group Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis—any news to report?
  • Mar 15 : London Open Source Jam, London, UK. Paul Nasrat (1)—any news to report?
  • Mar 18 : Chicago Hackmeeting. Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking—(nice chat, but no news)
  • March 24-15 : Popular Culture in the Classroom: "Teach, Think, Play", Teachers College, New York, NY, Jonah Bossewitch
  • Mar 31 : BarCamp Ottawa #3. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis—any news to report?
  • Apr 2-5 : Aquops Conference 2007, Quebec City. Jean Piché, Nathanael Lécaudé (2)—any news to report?
  • April 14, 2007, Linux Mafia/CABAL, Ed Cherlin Got updated XO software.
  • April 19/20, 2007, Digital Freedom Expo, Cape Town, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
  • Apr. 21st, 2007, SVLUG Installfest, Ed Cherlin
  • April 24: The Fletcher School in Medford, Massachusetts is hosting an event on technologies for developments. Nick Sullivan will be speaking about the Grameen Phone project and we would be thrilled to host a knowledgeable representative of the OLPC project - and hopefully a laptop as well - to give an audience of students and practitioners of development a sense of the future of techs. 4 Development. Email: Andrew[DOT]Bennett[AT]Tufts[DOT]edu
  • Apr 24: UniForum Chicago, Wheaton IL, Talk on OLPC and XO demonstration. Ian Bicking
  • Apr 28: Flisol (Latinoamerican Festival of Free software instalation) Manizales and Bogota,Colombia Photos . Rafael Ortiz
  • April 26th, Innotech Conference Portland, OR. NAME PLEASE
  • April 28/29,LinuxFest 2007 Bellingham, WA.

Jesse Keating (RedHat/Fedora)

  • Apr 30-May 2 : Smalltalk Solutions 2007 at LinuxWorld / IT360, Toronto. Bert Freudenberg (1)
  • May 8, 2007 - Cape Linux Users Group, Cape Town, South Africa, "Developing Activities For Sugar", Antoine van Gelder
  • May 15-16, 2007, TechKnowFile University of Toronto conference on the "criticality of technology in education". Mike Fletcher
  • May 19 : Open Software Day by Turuxi Turku Finland - antti.heinonen[at]mbnet[dot]fi +358504873453
  • May 25-28 Baycon Science Fiction convention, San Mateo CA, USA. Ed Cherlin Alan Dean Foster loves the XO. Recruited several people to join us.
  • May 28, 2007 Cape Town Geek Dinner, South Africa, Antoine van Gelder
  • June 19-20 : Pennsylvania One-to-One Conference Penn State, Pennsylvania - Scott Garrigan will be presenting two OLPC-related sessions and would like an XO (or a demo). email: garrigans[AT]acape[DOT]org - phone 484-894-6162
  • October 15-17, 2007, Unicode Conference, San Jose, Ed Cherlin. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 5-6 pm. Language Support on the Children's Computer
  • late October: andicom 2007
  • December 2007, WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, Ed Cherlin
  • 24C3 : the 24th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Dec 27-30, 2007: OLPC austria and nederlands are sending delegations; Sj and Don Hopkins were there.

Future requests

If you would like to have one XO in an event, please enter it, and 'sign' it to coordinate possibilities
Entry format:
 *Date: Event, location - contact info /including email and preferably a phone number/
  • 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

groups to contact

  • 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:

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

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.

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.

Future: Planning to have demos and presentations http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines

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
  • TechKnowFile, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2007
  • CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions)
  • International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization, Sept. 13, 2007
  • Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007
  • Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007
  • Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007
  • Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007

Future:

  • OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007
  • IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007
  • COSCUP, November 3, 2007

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).

Presentations:

Washington, USA

I should have two XO's by about the 20th of December. I am willing to do demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested.

Iain D.

Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest)

Presentations:

  • Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - Feburary 7th - General membership meeting
  • Northwest LinuxFest ( http://linuxFestNW.org ) - April ? - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news.


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.

Google has loaned Ed Cherlin an XO. I've tried out Sugar a bit. More to come.
Paul Reiber of Silicon Valley LUG is getting an XO.
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