One Laptop per Child - San Francisco Bay Area (OLPC-SF) monthly meeting. #553, 835 Market St., San Francisco, CA. Exchange stories from deployments - Madagascar, India, Jamaica, South Africa, Senegal, Afghanistan and San Francisco. Want to run the activities on your own computer? Learn about Sugar on a Stick. Bring a USB stick and make one for yourself. See you there!!!

One Laptop per Child - San Francisco Bay Area (OLPC-SF) monthly meeting. #553, 835 Market St., San Francisco, CA. Come see the XO 1.5, school servers, solar panels and more. Exchange stories from deployments - Madagascar, India, Jamaica, South Africa, Senegal, Afghanistan and San Francisco.

Want to run the activities on your own computer? Learn about Sugar on a Stick. Bring a USB stick and make one for yourself. See you there!!!

  We will meet at SFSU Downtown Center from 10 am to 2pm on Jan 16. The agenda is wide open (other than the 2nd birthday, of course!). Anyone want to add to the agenda, please feel free to write to me (sverma@sfsu.edu) or post on the mailing list.

We'll also do the usual event updates.

From their site:

"OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Summit 2009 is a OLPC-SF community event designed to primarily foster collaboration amongst deployment teams in the SF Bay Area. We also hope that the event will help in improving the visibility of OLPC and Sugar to a wider group around this area.

The event will be a "Birds of a Feather" type event but largely run as an unconference. Claim your session!

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OLPC President and COO, Charles Kane (http://laptop.org/en/utility/people/charles-kane.html) and Paul Commons (OLPCorps) will be in the SF Bay Area this week. There are two events: one on UC Berkeley campus on Thursday, and one on Stanford University campus on Friday. Both events are open. Details are posted online at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_San_Francisco_Bay_Area#Events

Note: This is an event open to all.

Come learn about how technology driven social entrepreneurship is changing the world – from the experts at SF State

The STEPS Initiative presents

One Laptop per Child

OLPC is an epic project of fantastic proportions. Their mission statement says it all:

"Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future."

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What: OLPC-SF August 2009 meeting

OLPC-SF will meet on August 22, 2009. Items on the agenda:

• Meet and greet - 10:00 am to 10:30 am
• South Africa deployment update - 10:30am to 11:30am
• eSibonisweni primary school / Saint Mark’s school
• Location: Kwangwanase, Manguzi KZN
• South African contact: Thulani Madondo, Kliptown Youth Programme
• Project organizers: Jennifer Getz, Norm Lyons, Stacey Kertsman; San Francisco, CA

• Starr King Elementary - 11:30am to 12:00noon.

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Just came across http://www.opensourcetesting.org/ which list a whole bunch of FOSS tools used for testing. Here's the list. My favorites are JMeter and Selenium, and both came up in context of some OLPC systems at a meeting today. Selenium looks promising. We use JMeter for testing Moodle on campus. Here's the full list:

• Abbot Java GUI Test Framework
• Anteater
• Apodora
• Arbiter
• Autonet
• AutoTestFlash
• Avignon
• Blerby Test Runner
• Canoo WebTest
• Concordion
• Crosscheck
• csvdiff
• CubicTest
• Cucumber
• DBFeeder
• DbFit
• DejaGnu
• Dogtail
• Doit: Simple Web Application Testing
• Eclipse TPTP
• EMOS Framework
• Enterprise Web Test
• Expect
• Frankenstein
• GITAK
• GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project
• Harness
• httest
• IdMUnit
• Imprimatur
• ItIN - Infopath testing in .Net
• ITP
• ItsNat, Natural AJAX
• ivalidator
• Jacobie
• Jameleon
• jDiffChaser
• Jemmy
• JFunc: JUnit Functional Testing Extension
• JSystem
• jWebUnit
• Latka
• Linux Test Project
• LogiTest
• LReport
• MActor
• Marathon
• MaxQ
• miTester for SIP
• Mockito
• MozUnit
• OLVER - Open Linux VERification
• Om
• Om
• org.tigris.mbt
• PAMIE
• Pounder
• pywinauto
• QAT (Quality Assurance Tests)
• QMTest
• Rasta
• Robot Framework
• Sahi
• Samie
• Sauce Labs: cloud-based Selenium service
• Scalable Test Platform
• Selenium
• SharpRobo
• soapui
• Software Automation Framework Support
• Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF)
• Solex
• SWAT (Simple Web Automation Toolkit)
• SWTBot
• Systin
• tclwebtest
• TestGen4Web
• TestPlan
• TextTest
• Tomato
• Toster - The Object-oriented Sofware Testing Environment
• Watij
• WatiN
• Watir
• Web Form Flooder
• WebDriver
• WebInject
• WebTst
• WET
• Win32::IEAutomation
• XML Test Suite