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Events, conferences and roadshows happen all of the time that somehow possibly involve OLPC. The following is a list of upcoming events that are, in some way, related to OLPC and its goals. The community is encouraged to go to these events with their XOs and take part in any way they like.
If you are planning substantial presence at any of these events, want to share more information and/or say who in the OLPC community is attending, feel free to create a page, categorize it (as one of Events, Jam, Presentations, etc.) and link it from here.
Calendar
So many conferences, so little time.
Historical event information is stored at Archive1
2008
August
- August 7 - August 9
- IC3 co-hosted by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University,Noida & University of Florida,Gainesville .Represented for OLPC by Rajan Vaish.
- July 30 - August 1
- Thailand learning workshop
- August 3
- OLPC India Day
- August 5-7
- LinuxWorld Expo
- August 23-28
- Sugar documentation sprint, Austin, TX
- August 29-31
- Physics Jam, OLPC HQ
- A Jam to make use of the new Physics engine on the XO, a version of box2d. Examples to date include the Physics activity and Alex L's new x2o game framework.
- Attending: GameLab folks, Museum of Science text curators, Mel Chua, SJ, Jordans 1-2,
September
- September 3-5
- X Developer's summit
- September 5-7
- FUD ConBrno 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
- interest: marco, tomeu, simon
- September 12-14
- PyCon 2008 Chicago http://us.pycon.org/
- September 17-19
- Linux Plumber's Conference, Portland OR. For Linux system programmers.
- Several OLPC people plan to attend.Deepak Jim Gettys
- September 17
- Software Freedom Day? and International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Morgan Collett invited by the State IT Agency's FOSS Program Office to run an OLPC stand.
- September 20
- Software Freedom Day
- local events around the world
October
- October 1-3
- MontaVista Vision Embedded Linux Developer's Conference 2008, San Francisco
- Deepak Saxena presenting keynote on OLPC's use of Linux and challenges we face there
- October 2-3
- MoodleMoot AU All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland
- Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
- October 8-10 MoodleMoot NZ Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier - Hawkes Bay
- Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
- October 11-13
- http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008
- The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors
- Attendees: Seth
- mid-October
- Game Jam Peru New technology conference, Lima, Peru : hosted by OLPC's partner university in Peru, with an OLPC Jam at the event. Details to come.
- October 18-19
- Open Sustainability Camp[3]
- Exploring free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.
- October 21-22
- MoodleMoot - Rome, Italy
- Attending: Perhaps - Martin Langhoff
- October 23-25
- MoodleMoot Spain - Barcelona, Spain
- Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
November
- November 19 & 20
- Massachusetts Computer Using Educators 2008
- Annual Conference: Promoting 21st Century Learning
- Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, Sturbridge, MA.
- Workshop title: Active Learning with the XO.
- Workshop presenters: Mass XO Users Group. An XO Jam Kit is needed/requested for demonstrations.
December
- December 5-7
- FUDCon Boston F11
- December 6-8
- FUDCon Boston
- interest sj, mstone, marco, morgs (tomeu? simon? sayamindu?)
- attending gdk
- December 26-29
- 25C3, Berlin, Germany.
- Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.
2009
January
- January ??
- Linux.Conf.AU, Tasmania
- Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submitted "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal
Q3
- GUADEC
- GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile
- interest: marco, morgs, DanielDrake
Slides, posters and 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
- Rajan Vaish at IC3 for his award winning OLPC's Atlas America project
- OLPC India.This presentation was delivered at IIT Roorkee, Chandigarh Science Congress & Panjab University by OLPC India Student Chapter
- OLPC France. CC-licensed
- OLPC_Austria's slides. Very neat graphics and layout. Includes all key points. Great presentation. CC-licensed
- 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)
- Additional presentations at http://download.laptop.org/content/conf and Apr_3-4_Mini-conference
Presenters
- See Presenters