XO roadshows/archive1

Recent events

July 2008

• Washington DC, July 3-4 : Ethiopia Week booth and presentations

  What we're being offered : a booth at the event, where the current OLPC project in Ethiopia will be pitched to attendees at the week's festivities.

  What is covered : reimbursement for any swag made and daily expenses; tickets to the international Ethiopian-expat soccer matches which are their national equivalent of a World Cup; it sounds pretty awesome, and they have reserved a major arena for three days for the teams attending from all over the world; a set of XOs for the booth and demonstrations.

  What is needed : setup the day before (receipt of stand-up posters and boxes of XOs and other materials), booth minding and presentations for two days, some patience for people taking photos in front of you with XOs :)

• Alexandria, Egypt, July 17-19 : Wikimania 2008 gatherings and presentations

  What we're being offered : a number of OLPCers including Mako and Sj will be there.

  What is needed : poster and shirt designs to make there and hand out.

March 2008

• Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL). March 5-7, XO's on display in the model classroom and a Guerilla session (unplanned user meeting) to discuss formulation of a Michigan user group. http://maculspace.ning.com/group/xousers

• One Laptop Per Child XO at SxSWi meetup Sunday March 9, 12:30 CST at Las Manitas, Austin, TX. RSVP and view map at upcoming.org please. Looking forward to it! --annegentle 13:56, 7 March 2008 (EST)

• Kern Independent PC Users Group, Bakersfield CA. Our main meeting will demonstrate the XO computer and it's mesh networking abilities. We meet at 7pm PST on March 13 at the Kern Superintendent of Schools Building on the corner of 17th and L st. Please contact president@KIPUG.org for further information.

• OISC (OLPC India Student Chapter) delivered a presentation & demonstrated XO at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee on 28th March at the technical festival, Cognizance. The powerpoint file can be downloaded from HERE -- Gaurav 13:22, 5 April 2008 (EDT)

April 2008

• April 26 & April 27 - Northwest LinuxFest - Presentation of local XO Laptop and latest news. ixo & mchua

May 2008

• May 1 & May 2 - GAZeL-A-Ganza! - Greater Arizona eLearning Gala and Golf event: fundraising goal to purchase 100 XO laptops for distribution in an Arizona school (for more about the GLF please see: Global Literacy Foundation)
• May 28-31 - LinuxTag Berlin, several talks on OLPC/LiveCD/Etoys, Sugar dev meeting, laptop-giveaway (organized by OLPC Deutschland)

June 2008 and beyond

• Open Community Camp - in the Netherlands, August 10-17

Past Events (2008)

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

22 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Google Chicago, details on page

25 Jan - OLPC Chicago meeting at Moraine Valley Community College, details on page

29-31 Jan OLPC France meeting at Solutions Linux 2008, details on page

2 Feb - | Northern Virginia Linux User Group, details on page

5 Feb - users and others are meeting 5-7 pm at Douglass Public Library, Champaign, IL, hosted by Univ of Illinois GSLIS/Community Informatics and College of Ed/SqueakCMI group

4-8 Feb - Texas Computer Educators Association Tommy Gober

7 Feb - Bellingham Linux User Group (BLUG) - General membership meeting ixo

16 Feb - Greater Los Angeles Teachers Science Association (GLATSA), Los Angeles, California, please contact Caryl

19-20 Feb - Beijing LUG (BLUG) presents XO & OLPC at Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing, China

GDC, San Francisco, Feb 17-21

Saturday, 23 Feb 10:00 am Xo-austin Anne Gentle

2/20/2008: Greater Arizona E-Learning Annual Summit Brian Basgen

2/27/2008: Arizona Users Group meeting

2/28/2008 - 6:00-8:30 pm Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet), Garden City, New York, please contact [Chuck Schwartz] chuck@rovenet.com]

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
• University of Tirana, Albania, May 10, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• May 15-16, 2007, TechKnowFile University of Toronto TechKnowFile 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
• Cátedra UNESCO de Educación a Distancia keeps track of series of events related to open, flexible, virtual or distance learning globally (with some emphasis on spanish) here March, April, May...).
• eLearning Workshops keeps a similar list (or a calendar view)
• 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
• June 2, 2007 OLPC Chicago Interest Group, Chicago IL, USA.
• June 5: Ottawa Canada Linux Users' Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Talk on OLPC, plus XO demonstration. Andrew Clunis
• June 5-8 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Berkeley CA USA. Ed Cherlin They recommend that we team up with globe.org.uk to get weather stations into the schools for global mapping. NASA, NOAA, and CITRIS are interested in working with us. Ed Cherlin I gave Doug Engelbart his first demo of the XO.
• June 12: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group, Fort Collins, Colorado. Jordan Crouse (1+)
• June 30-July 3 WesterCon Science Fiction Convention, San Mateo CA. Ed Cherlin Recruited some more people to join us.
• June 30: OLPC y Evento Internacional, Lima, Perú. User:Alfonsodg
• 2nd and 4th Saturday, every month, 4-10 PM Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal.) Coalition of All Bay Area Linux, Menlo Park CA, hosted by Rick Moen. Ed Cherlin
• 3rd Saturday of every month, 11 am-4 pm Silicon Valley LUG Installfest, Google, Mountain View CA, USA. Ed Cherlin
• July 10th - OLPC presentation given at MIT Entrepreneurs Club by Arjun. A repeat presentation given by Manusheel and Arjun on 24th July, 2007. --to do add link--
• July 17, Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG), San Francisco. Ed Cherlin
• August 1-3, 2007, SqueakFest 2007, Chicago, IL. NAME PLEASE
• August 6-9, 2007, Linux World, San Francisco, Ed Cherlin. BOF7, Room 308, Tuesday, 6-7 pm. No Child Left Out: The One Laptop Per Child XO computer and its consequences
• August 11, 2007, Linux Picnic. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin.
• August 15-18, 2007, Black Data Processing Association Conference, Ed Cherlin
• Base of the Pyramid conference, September 10, 2007 : Andrew Ott was there.
• Sept 2007: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines Rowen, wenmi01 (at) spymac (dot period) com, +63 927 702 0503 = 5 xo for demo, launching and promotion.

  September 11, 2007, 10:30 AM - Base of the Pyramid Conference 2007 (University of Michigan) - Koessler Room, Michigan League. User:Andrewo

• 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.
• Demonstrated SimCity at Game Developers Conference 2007, at the OLPC booth. Don Hopkins
• PyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group) Mike Fletcher
• University of Toronto System's Group Mike Fletcher
• CityPulse24 and CityPulse HomePage interviews (beginner level introductions) Mike Fletcher
• International Forum on e-Learning and Standardization, Sept. 13, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Toronto Demo Camp 14 (Ignite Presentation), Sept. 17, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Ontario Linux Fest, October 13, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Bell Canada Labs, October 17, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• Overlap Toronto, October 19, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• OCAD Juice Dialogues, October 25, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• IEEE Toronto presentation, October 26, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• COSCUP, November 3, 2007 Mike Fletcher
• LeTourneau Univeristy ACM, Sept 7, 2007 Tommy Gober
• SVLUG Installfest, Apr. 21st, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• Linux Mafia/CABAL (There is no Cabal), April 14, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• SVLUG demo, May 2, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• Linux , Picnic, August 2007. There will be Wi-Fi!, Ed Cherlin
• Linux World, San Francisco, August 6-9, 2007. Ed Cherlin
• Unicode Conference, San Jose, October 15-17, 2007, Ed Cherlin
• WIRE AFRICA Conference, Cotonou, Benin Republic, December 2007, Ed Cherlin
• eBay talk and demo, TBD (not open to the public), Ed Cherlin
• Reuters Digital Vision Fellows meeting, Stanford, TBD, Ed Cherlin
• Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, TBD, Ed Cherlin
• Computer History Museum, Mountain View, TBD, Ed Cherlin
• Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association 2007 Spring Conference, March 2007 Michael Burns
• Portland Linux User Group, October 2006 Michael Burns
• Oregon State Linux User Group, October 2006 Michael Burns
• Culture Shock, March 2007 Michael Burns
• Innotech conference, April 2007