[OLPC-SF] RE Sameer: portable power sources

Sun Aug 9 00:00:46 EDT 2009

> There may be outdoor "landscaper's outlets" at the park .

There are plenty of outlets.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:38, Jakub Coltun<jakubcoltun at gmail.com> wrote:
> For power supply at the picnic we can bring UPS battery backup power
> supplies.... if anyone else has some .... should give us a few hours each.
> There may be outdoor "landscaper's outlets" at the park .
>
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>> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:07:51 -0700
>> From: Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
>> To: Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>, Jack Deslippe
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>> If Ed doesn't respond in time, Jack Deslippe and I are planning on
>> going down to the picnic as well and can have at least one XO-1 on the
>> table to facilitate discussion.  I will also be going over to the
>> Fremont SV-LUG Installfest to talk with Rick Moen about his install
>> server he's working on.  Rick and I discussed this idea on the
>> conspire mailing list a bit.
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>> Sameer, will you be posting these two items to opensource.sfsu.edu pretty
>> soon?
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>> Grant
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>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> > I've heard back from a few people about meeting down in Sunnyvale at the
>> > 18th Picnix event (http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix18/)
>> > on
>> > the 15th. I have also heard back from the group that is doing a
>> > deployment
>> > in South Africa. They will have updates for us and would like to come to
>> > a
>> > meeting and do a presentation. There is some activity afoot with the
>> > Starr
>> > King group. Maybe we'll get an update from them soon?
>> >
>> > Here's what I propose: We meet on the 15th in Sunnyvale for OLPC-SF &
>> > Picnix, and see if we can do a regular meeting on the 22nd in downtown
>> > SF.
>> >
>> > Ed (Cherlin), can you coordinate some of the things for the 15th @
>> > Picnix?
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > Sameer
>> > --
>> > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> > Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> > San Francisco State University
>> > San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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>> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:20:17 -0700
>> From: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
>> To: Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>
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>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> > I've heard back from a few people about meeting down in Sunnyvale at the
>> > 18th Picnix event (http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix18/)
>> > on
>> > the 15th. I have also heard back from the group that is doing a
>> > deployment
>> > in South Africa. They will have updates for us and would like to come to
>> > a
>> > meeting and do a presentation. There is some activity afoot with the
>> > Starr
>> > King group. Maybe we'll get an update from them soon?
>>
>> We have a tentative arrangement with Kipp SF Academy, also for this fall.
>>
>> > Here's what I propose: We meet on the 15th in Sunnyvale for OLPC-SF &
>> > Picnix, and see if we can do a regular meeting on the 22nd in downtown
>> > SF.
>> >
>> > Ed (Cherlin), can you coordinate some of the things for the 15th @
>> > Picnix?
>>
>> Certainly. Please note that the event is from 11 am to 5 pm. This
>> information is provided on the #linuxpicnic IRC channel, but not on
>> the Web page.
>>
>> http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix18/WebHome
>>
>> Volunteers are needed for setup beforehand, during the event, and for
>> cleanup.
>>
>> Everybody, please let me know if you can bring XOs, Sugar on a Stick,
>> or Sugar on any other kind of Linux. I will have all three, with some
>> lesson demos.
>>
>> Does anybody have a child who can demonstrate Sugar to attendees?
>>
>> Does anybody have spare XO battery packs? Does anyone have a c that we can
>> use, either 12 V DC or standard AC? We would
>> need extension cords to go with it. I can bring some, including power
>> squids, and a DC-AC converter made for an auto lighter socket. I'll
>> find out whether we can park a car nearby for recharging.
>>
>> What literature should we bring?
>>
>>  What else?
>>
>> > cheers,
>> > Sameer
>> > --
>> > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> > Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> > San Francisco State University
>> > San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>> > http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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