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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 bring your XO or help out, contact the person listed for a given event
If you have an event or conference where XOs will be welcome or on display, list it below.

How to get involved

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).


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.

2008

August

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

September

September 3-5
X Developer's summit
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 18-19
Open Sustainability Conference[3]


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.


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 26-29
25C3, Berlin, Germany.
Where OLPC Germany and France first got off the ground last year. 2nd annual OLPC meeting there.

2009

  • GUADEC - GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - includes GNOME Mobile

Slides, posters and materials

Posters and Handouts

Recent handouts:

Older handouts:

Posters:

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

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

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?

Gaurav Chachra
Chandigarh, India
Engineering student in India. I've delivered presentations at Panjab University (5th February 2008) and demonstrated the laptop at Chandigarh Science Congress (14th March 2008) and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (28th March 2008). Our team can make demonstrations at other places in India too. You can email me or leave a message on my talk page. I am also working on various content development projects under OLPC India Student Chapter.
Edward Mokurai Cherlin
Cupertino CA
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.
Don Hopkins
Berkeley, CA
Working on pie menus, SimCity, game programming components, Internet Archive eBook reader activity, pypoppler PDF rendering module, Python programming.
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.


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.


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.
Mel Chua; Boston, MA
Electrical engineer and education researcher, active OLPC wiki and support-gang, former (and future) OLPC intern. Specialty Grassroots groups; involved in the formation of some of OLPC's most active volunteer chapters, willing to present to and work with grassroots groups forming or those who wish to form, particularly on making groups with a variety of technical/educational backgrounds work well together, and on University chapters.
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).
Iain D.; Bellingham, WA USA (Pacific Northwest, north of Seattle)
Have two day-0, XOs. Active OLPC Wiki and support-gang. Presentations in front of local LUG, preparing for presentation at regional Linux Fest conference. Available for demos and presentations just about anywhere in the state. Leave me a message on my Talk page if you're interested. Also qualifying as local repair center.
Florian Fainelli; Paris, France
Have one B4-XOs. Available for demos in Europe.

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.

Ed Cherlin : Google has loaned me an XO. I've tried out Sugar, more to come.
Paul Reiber of Silicon Valley LUG is getting an XO.
Jesper T. of Copenhagen has an XO temporarily.
OLPC Austria has ~2 XOs to loan out.
OLPC Switzerland and OLPC France each have a member with an XO that can be borrowed.
the Olin chapter have a B4 and a B2 that can be hacked on.
OLPC Cambridge have a number of XOs that can be tested on in the office; leave us a message to come test something out in person.
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