MassXO
About
The Boston Interest Group is a way for people in the Boston area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC. We aren't necessarily interested just in trying to bring OLPC into classrooms in Boston (although we generally think it's a wonderful idea) we're also interested in volunteering/contributing to the project.
OLPC Boston IS
- a nucleation point for exchange between local groups, towards the OLPC Boston office and back, and with other groups worldwide
- helping in organizing XOs for the local groups
- supporting and cherishing the autonomy of local groups
- focusing on rough consensus, grassroots involvement, and working projects
OLPC Boston IS NOT
- going to do a local pilot in your school (although we'll encourage and support you if you want to do one yourself)
- going to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do (although we're always up for idea-bouncing and brainstorms)
Contact and chapters
Mailing list
If there's enough demand, we'll set up a mailing list. If you'd like to have an Boston-OLPC mailing list, post a link to your contact info (wiki userpages work) below - the minimum number for starting a list is 10 recent requests.
- User:AuntiMame
- User:Jnk27
- User:Js
- User:davewa
- User:seven
- User:sjf
- User:Iluvpandas4
- User:pinke555
- User:denro55
- User:Mima
- User:Culseg
- User:dbs
- User:TJB
Jabber server
Some nice person has created a jabber (chat) server for New England. To change your XO's stting to allow access to this server
sugar-control-panel -s jabber nejabber.homelinux.org
then restart(Ctrl-Alt-Erase) Sugar.
Chapters
If you know of any Boston area schools, organizations, individuals, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a Grassroots group or an University chapter, please ask them to add a link below.
Existing projects
If you're in the Boston area and have a project you'd like to share, please link to it below.
Events
Future Activities
* Monthly Meetup! 25 March 2008, 6-8PM -- Cosi restaurant, 290 Main St (Kendall Sq), Cambridge, MA. In the back room.
* Play Date 2 April 2008, 7PM (ish) -- Cosi restaurant, 290 Main St (Kendall Sq), Cambridge, MA. In the back room. Mike Lee from the Washington DC Users Group and creator of the [XO Lego viewfinder] is going to be in town. Bring for XO and show how you're using your system!
Can you help? Want to come? Want to help plan? Let User:AuntiMame know.
Proposed Meetup Discussion Topics
- Writing a basic Sugar activity.
- First World Tweaks (installing Opera, Flash, Gmail, etc.)
- The Terminal is Your Friend (using the Terminal activity and what all that stuff means)
- Disassembly, and more importantly, reassembly of the XO hardware.
- Using your XO remotely (VNC, USB2VGA devices).
- Emulation of the XO on PC/MAC.
Past Activities
- 29 January 2008 Meetup http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1861.0
- 26 February 2008 Meetup http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2173.0
- 3 March 2008 - 6th Annual Acton Star Party
- 8 March 2008 - Saturday Fun Meetup - http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2142
Project ideas
If you're in Boston and want to work on a project with someone local, post ideas here.