OLPC Rochester, NY
About
The Rochester, NY interest group is a way for people in the Rochester, New York 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.
A discussion thread, OLPC Rochester, NY has been started on forum.laptop.org.
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OLPC Rochester, NY is
- just beginning to organize.
- a wiki page open for use by all interested parties in the Rochester area.
OLPC Rochester, NY is not
Chapters
If you know of any Rochester area schools, organizations, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a Grassroots group or an university, college, or school chapter, please ask them to add a link below.
Existing projects
Usability Testing with RIT course #4004-749 12 March - 21 May 2008
- topic or issue selection - 12–26 March - Submit ideas in Project ideas below.
- study proposal and design - 28 March–16 April - Study plan drafts.
- In-school study - 07 May–08 May - See Ted Sakshaug's blog entry.
Events
OLPC XO user's group meeting 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.
RIT will be forming a OLPC XO Laptop user's group in January of 2009.
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:
- 22 January 2009
- 26 February 2009
- 26 March 2009
- 23 April 2009
- 28 May 2009
Past events
Project ideas
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...
