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:

• 04 June 2009 7:00 - 8:50 pm

Past events

• 28 May 2009 - Race Lockout, Rainout

Race lockout or Rainout - The RIT Campus parking was closed to all but VIP pass holders to provide safety for the over 9000 runners in the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge annual race, so most were unable to attend.

Four members (Bill Schaub and Chuck Bryerton from Hornell and Dan Liss and Fred Grose) managed to get past the guards or walked in to Building 70. We had a good discussion covering the agenda items and news about the OLPC XO-1.5 and Sugar Labs plans.

Agenda:

1. Reconnect with each other
2. Learn about the 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 conference in Rochester 22-24 November 2009, http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04039.html

Bill Schaub described the work he has been undertaking to provide a lightweight Network News Transport Protocol service to allow XOs or other Wi-Fi-enabled computers to discover each other and share accumulated information as might be needed when "the world as we know it" is disrupted. He will be writing to Professor Jeff Sonstein about contributing to the Sahana rework project we learned about on 26 Feb 2009.

Dan Liss described the RocGeeks group that he's a member of, and we considered joining them and the LUGOR in one of their future meetings.

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

• 23 April 2009 - More planning for educator involvement

• 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

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...