OLPC Rochester, NY

a local grassroots group

About

The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York has_location_country::USA 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.

We use a Google Groups group OLPC Rochester, NY to manage member communications. You may subscribe there to receive group announcements.

We also have a discussion thread OLPC Rochester, NY at forum.laptop.org.

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OLPC Rochester, NY is

• just beginning to organize.
• open to all interested parties in the Rochester or western New York area.

Event calendar

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:

• 28 May 2009 7:00 - 8:50 pm

Agenda:

1. Reconnect with each other
2. Learn about the Sugar Summer Program, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program
3. Prepare for more educator recruiting
   1. prepare contact list
   2. save dates for future events
   3. post and update opportunities available over the summer.
4. Learn about the NYSCATE, http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04039.html

• Future dates to be determined at May meeting.

Past events

• 25 April 2009 - Mel Chua, Women in Computing at RIT

• 23 April 2009 - More planning for educator involvement

Notes:

• RIT Honors Seminar students went to work learning how to use Git.
• Professor Jacobs solicited Eric, Karla, & Garfield to work on ideas to get connected with Rochester City school educators
• Some students are planning summer work-study projects
• Mel Chua will be visiting the Honors Seminar at 10 am on 24 April 2009 and the Women in Computing, brown-bag lunch at noon on Saturday 25 April 2009 in Building 70 Room 2400. (http://women.rit.edu/?q=node/events_old)
• Professor Jacobs invited Eric, Karla, & Fred to join him in a radio interview with Bob Smith on WXXI on Monday afternoon, 27 April 2009.

• 26 March 2009 - Welcome to RIT Honors Seminar students

• 26 February 2009 - Sonstein on disaster-recovery networks

• 22 January 2009 - Getting to know you and the OLPC XO 2009 kickoff

• 26 March 2008 - Show & Tell Workshop at RIT

Fall 2009 Seminar

• Professor Stephen Jacobs' course in collaborative innovation, Honors Seminar Developing for the One Laptop Per Child XO, a community, open source course including OLPC, XO, Sugar, & OLPC Has_location_city::Rochester, NY Has_location_country::USA. Starting: Tuesday Start_date::08 September 2009, 12:00 pm, running weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:00 - 14:00 EDT through End_date::19 November 2009. The weekly seminar meets in RIT Building 70, Room 2000.
• Seminar materials are at our Teaching Open Source wiki site.
• Seminar projects are at our Sugar Labs Math4 Project site.

Spring 2009 Seminar

• • Note to students, the List of games relevant to our goal.

• Seminar link-sharing hub: http://delicious.com/maths4olpc/

18 May 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot (Final session)

15 May 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot

08 May 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot

Online lecture by Tom Edwards, Founder & Chair at International Game Developers Association, on "Creating Games for Global Players: Understanding the Geocultural Dimension of Game Content", File:RIT Lecture TomEdw-08May09.ppt

01 May 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot

24 April 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot

17 April 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot

10 April 2009 automatic summary, meeting log from the meeting robot

03 April 2009, seminar session notes

27 March 2009, seminar session notes

20 March 2009, seminar session notes

13 March 2009, seminar session notes

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...