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OLPCSF Community Summit 2009
Submitted by sverma on Monday, November 9, 2009 - 16:29 Events | Miscellaneous | OLPC | SFSU | XO

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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Technology-based social ventures: Lessons from the field
Submitted by sverma on Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 11:00 Events | OLPC | SFSU | XO

Slides from my presentation at the "Social and Technology Entrepreneurship at SF State" Initiative. This presentation was about OLPC in general, and SF State's involvement in various activities.

OLPC presentations in the SF Bay Area
Submitted by sverma on Monday, November 2, 2009 - 13:17 Events | Miscellaneous | OLPC | XO

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

 


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Technology Based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field
Submitted by sverma on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 08:43 Events | News | OLPC | SFSU | XO


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


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One Laptop per Child and SF State
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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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South Africa and San Francisco deployments: OLPC-SF meets on 22 August, 2009
Submitted by sverma on Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 14:47 OLPC | SFSU | XO

 

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
    • 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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My name is Bond. James Bond: OLPC-SF meets on July 18, 2009
Submitted by sverma on Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 07:42 Distribution | Fedora | Humor | Linux | Moodle | Moodle | OLPC | SFSU | XO

 

As a kid, I loved James Bond movies (I still like the old ones), especially the gadgetry. A shoe compartment, a multi-purpose watch, a micro camera. Needless to say, a lot of money has gone into ThinkGeek purchases Laughing Imagine my pleasure when I recently had to introduce the OLPC project to someone (potential funding source for a deployment). I pulled out a 8GB microSD card from a secret zipper in my shirt, placed it squarely on the table, and said "We won't be needing the Internet for now. This little piece of technology holds well over 100 albums and hundreds of books that are freely distributable. It also has a web server, a database server, a collaboration server, backup software, and a bunch more. We won't be needing the Internet to get this deployment off the ground".


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Open. Connect. Communicate
Submitted by sverma on Saturday, June 27, 2009 - 08:28 Fedora | Linux | Moodle | News | OLPC | SFSU | XO

Recently, I presented at a workshop on telecommunications, open source and mobility at the First Caribbean Regional International Telecommunications Society Conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Key points in this workshop were:

  • The network's value proposition can be fully realized only if it remains open and unencumbered. 
  • Setting up independent, yet interconnected PBXs using Asterisk: small ones with AstLinux, large ones with Trixbox.
  • Asterisk and the OLPC project. Setting up local phone networks in villages, schools, communities.

Slides are up at  http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/open-connect-network


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LegalTorrents - torrent away legally!
Submitted by sverma on Friday, June 12, 2009 - 16:19 News | OLPC | XO

I just set up an account for creating torrents for legal use at LegalTorrents. I created a DVD recently with OLPC photos for a long-running (almost 1 hour) slideshow. At 1.6 GB, http downloads would be a pain. Torrenting is the way to go, but most torrent sites are loaded with pornographic ads - not something I appreciate. So, I went looking for creative commons style torrenting. Found legalTorrents. After a few e-mail exchanges, my account was set up. My OLPC Photo DVD is now torrenting away from their site. Its much faster than my wimpy home DSL upload. http://beta.legaltorrents.com/torrents/569-olpc-photo-dvd

Download, burn, and loop away!!!


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OLPC-SF June meeting
Submitted by sverma on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 08:59 OLPC | SFSU | XO

 

 

What: OLPC-SF June 2009 meeting

OLPC-SF will meet on June 13, 2009. Items on the agenda:

  • Meet and greet - 10:00 am to 10:30 am
  • Project Updates - 10:30am:

    • Newbies: How to get involved

    • Repair Center updates
    • Lending Libraries

    • OLPC Photo DVD
  • Deployments - 11:30am


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