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Who am I?

My name is Scott Swanson, and I am the Strategic Technology Coordinator at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) in Aurora, IL, US.

Background

I have been an OLPC advocate since I first saw the OLPC protoypes and met OLPC staff in person at NECC 2006. I started shortly thereafter contributing to the work on getting the OLPC dev image working on Parallels for MacOS X so I could start working with it myself (and let others do the same). In Fall 2007, after Mel '03 came back to speak on OLPC at IMSA, I became the go-to person onsite for OLPC involvment.

Projects

  • Emulation on MacOS X using Parallels Desktop
  • IMSA OLPC Affiliate
I am the club sponsor for the [OLPC chapter], started in September 2007. We are currently looking for other Northern Illinois or even Great Lakes region OLPC chapters with which to potentially participate in a meta-jam.
  • SIR Advisor
I am the in-house advisor for Student Inquiry and Research pursuant to the OLPC project. My current advisees are:
  • Meg '09: Development of a computer-based collaborative storytelling game for learning foreign languages

Contacting me

If you'd like to contact me: