OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF Community Summit 2011
Planning
Planning is under way. Your input is welcome!
Schedule
- October 21
- Registration and Reception (5pm to 8pm)
- October 22
- Sessions (9am to 5pm)
Dinner Downtown SF (5pm to 8pm, about $20) - October 23
- Sessions (9am to 5pm)
BBQ party 1hr NW in Bolinas (>6pm)
SFSU Downtown Campus (MAP)
835 Market St, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Note: This location is not the main campus. This is the same building as the new Westfield mall that houses Bloomingdale's. Look for the SFSU banner on Market St. between 4th and 5th streets, right next to Walgreens. Take the elevator to the 5th floor.
The nearest public parking garage is the Fifth and Mission garage [1]
Tips on driving and parking in San Francisco can be found at [2]
Street parking regulations in San Francisco tend to be strictly enforced
Organizing Teams
- Schedule: Sameer Verma, Nina Stawski, Aaron Borden, Robert Howard, Hilary Naylor
- Saturday evening: June Kleider, Carol Ruth Silver, Cherry Withers
- Website/Marketing: Grant Bowman, Elizabeth Krumbach, Aaron Borden, Robert Howard, Julie Blaustein
- Logistics/Space/GuestLodging: Sameer Verma, Carol Ruth Silver, Cherry Withers
- Stuff/Loot: Travis Axtell, Mike Lee, Adam Holt, Elizabeth Barndollar, Nina Stawski
Suggested Topics
Note: Tag each suggestion with Education, Technology, Outreach followed by your name(s)
- The Role of Community Wireless Networks in the Production of Capital ( Education, Technology) Abdelnasser Abdelaal
- Robots and Sensors (Education, Technology) --Sameer Verma
- Speech and Reading (Education, Technology) --James Salsman
- Jam session using Tam Tam Jam (Education) --Caryl Bigenho
- Making slide shows using Scratch (Education) --Caryl Bigenho
- Small deployment roundtable-aka Small Deployment Un-Conference (Outreach) --Caryl Bigenho
- Making a small Sugar Activity: A mini-JAM! (Technology, Education) --Caryl Bigenho
- Communicating with XOs using Short Wave radio (Technology) --Joachim Pedersen
- Energy and Power - (Technology) --Bruce Baikie
- USB Stick, a carrier pigeon and school server updates (Technology) --Robert Howard
- University Student OLPC Efforts (Education) --Bruce Baikie
- Poster displays in the hallway (Technology, Education, Outreach) --Bruce Baikie
- It Takes a Team: Solar PV Installation in Lascahobas, Haiti to Power 400+ OLPC XO Laptops (Technology) --IIT IPRO 335 Team - Laura Hosman, Simon Brauer, Dhara Shah, and Bruce Baikie
- Integrating OLPC into an existing class room curriculum (education) --Cherry Withers
- Project-based learning (Education) --Cherry Withers, Sara Armstong
- Summer Pygames (Education, Technology) --Travis Axtell
- Upstream and Downstream (Technology) --Bernie Innocenti
- Updates on hardware 1.75 and 3? --Special guests
- Setting up a school repair and maintenance program (technology) --Bruce Baikie, Joachim Pedersen
- How to start a project (Education, Technology, Outreach) --?
- Kids! (Education, Technology, Outreach) --Larry Cafiero & Co., Cherry Withers
- Revisiting the School Server (Education, Technology) --Bruce Baikie, Robert Howard, Ben Tran, Tony Anderson
- Issues with translating for Sugar (Technology) --Tilila El Moujahid
- The three "C"s to OLPC Projects - Content, Connection, and Current (technology) --Bruce Baikie
- Screens (technology) - Mary Lou Jepsen and John Ryan
- Recent and upcoming developments in OLPC/Sugar (Technology) (Daniel Drake)
Participation
Registration is open! ($40 regular / $25 students)
Who's attending
- Sameer Verma
- Dawn-Elissa Fischer
- Yoshiki Ohshima
- Alex Kleider
- Caran Colvin
- Cherry Withers
- Srikanth Danapal
- Danese Cooper
- Tilila El Moujahid
- Nina Stawski
- Ryan Singer
- Jay Ly
- Ben Tran
- Adam Holt
- Tony Anderson
- George Hunt
- Caryl Bigenho
- Edward Bigenho
- Craig Perue
- Mary Lou Jepsen
- Tanya Kleider
- Nancy Hayes
- Meg Simpson
- Larry Cafiero
- Bruce Baikie
- Henry Villar
- Alolita Sharma
- Lutfus Sayeed
- June Kleider
- Salim Amin
- Zaheda Bhorat
- Musa Aziz
- Uni Erfurt
- Abdul Saleem Achakzai
- Kevin Gordon
- Mark Battley
- Daniel Drake
- Bernie Innocenti
- Laura Hosman
- Simon Brauer
- Dhara Shah
- Travis Axtell
- Beth Santos
- Nancie Severs
- Laura de Reynal
Maybe Attending
- Aaron Borden
- Carol Ruth Silver
- Utkarsh Verma
- Luis Murillo
- William Stelzer
- Joachim Pedersen
- Aaron Anderson
- Matt Vieyra
- David Van Assche
- Jeff Bragg
- Alexander Mock
- Aaron Anderson
- Jerome Gotangco
- SJ Klein
- Brewster Kahle
- Adam Gordon
- Fabrice Urrizalqui
- Nick Doiron (via Skype from Haiti)
- Abdelnasser Abdelaal
- James Salsman
- Brent Williams
- Christoph Derndorfer
- Jonathan Ragot
- Laura de Reynal
- Gary Martin
- Ben Sheldon
- Benjami Mako Hill
- Jennifer Martino
- OLPC Poland Community Ambassador (Dominik or Jakub?)
- Marina Zdobnova
- Katelyn Doran
- Shaun Pickford
- Rabi Karmacharya
