OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea/Community Summit 2010

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OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Community Summit 2010

=Kickoff meeting, July 17, 2010

Notes taken by Ben Devine:

Expected Contributions and Take Away

Evaluate problems

Report problems

E-books

Manage deployment interests: grassroots to ---> Large deployment

Moodle – Math modules

Programming workshop (python, sugar)

Advocacy

SoaS on Mac.

Documentation sessions

Kids using XO session

FOSS education

Sugar onto MNCSF.org computers

MNCSF.org as a resource

School server on low power

Problems in rural schools

Advocacy participation

Kids from Oakland, CA

Technology (software, hardware, networks)

MOUSE, CA

Deployment Stories

Deployments Success/failures

Implementations success

Best practices

Failures

Attending via Skype

Caryl Bigenho

Southern California projects

Mail list Olpc-socal@lists.laptop.org

Roadshow in a box

XO-1 (9)


Cherry Withers

Ekindling

100 laptops in the Phillipines

pilot 4th &5th grades

Squeakland Board Member

E-toys


Attending via Phone

Sonya Sokolov

Internet math tutoring project

10 XOs + SoaS in Ghana

5 XOs in California

Math, Flash based (Flash on SoaS)

Ph.D. in Teaching/Design from Stanford.


Attending in person

Sameer Verma - Professor at SF State University, and organizer, OLPC SF

Grant Bowman-XO toaster, organization help

Lyz Krumbach- Organization help, Ubuntu community council

Larry Cafiero- Fedora Ambassador (3 kids as XO testers)

Ben Devine- Student, SF State University. Organization help

Luis Chavez- MNCSF.org ,Everett middle school and youth workshop

Robert Howard- Porting XS to ARM. Has several ARM devices at home.

Carol Ruth Silver- Afghanistan Deployment, Planning

Hilary Naylor- Oakland Schools, Trainer, amnesty international.

June Kleider- Madagascar deployment.

Alex Kleider- Technology, Linux, Python, etc.