OLPC Rochester, NY
About
The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC projects or activities. This is a page for those interested in volunteering or contributing to the project.
A discussion thread, OLPC Rochester, NY has been started on forum.laptop.org.
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OLPC Rochester, NY is
- just beginning to organize.
- a wiki page open for use by all interested parties in the Rochester area.
OLPC Rochester, NY is not
Chapters
If you know of any Rochester area schools, organizations, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a Grassroots group or an university, college, or school chapter, please ask them to add a link below.
Events
OLPC XO user's group meetings at the Rochester Institute of Technology - (See the Flyer.pdf.)
The Lab for Technological Literacy at RIT is supporting the OLPC XO Laptop project by raising awareness locally and conducting research and development initiatives.
The Lab and RIT are hosting the user's group. All meetings will take place in B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Building 70, Golisano Auditorium, Rm 1400, (See RIT Building 70 Google Map, or campus maps at http://inside.rit.edu/maps/.)
7:00 pm - 8:50 pm, on the 4th Thursday of the month.
Please join us on the following dates:
- 26 February 2009
- The Agenda for our next meeting includes
- Professor Jeff Sonstien on the potential use of the XO in disaster-recovery efforts
- Fred Grose on getting started with Etoys and Squeak
- Bill Hickock on getting started with Pippy and Python
- Karlie has also offered to bring some CDs for PC and Mac Sugar emulation for those interested.
- Drop Stephen Jacobs a line to let him know if you’d like one and which flavor.
- 26 March 2009
- 23 April 2009
- 28 May 2009
Past events
- New and Improved OLPC Rochester
Projects
Usability testing
- See the Usability testing class project page for the project description, work documents, and reports.
Other ideas
- If you're in the Rochester area and want to work on a project with someone local, post ideas here.
- your idea...