[Olpc-socal] SCaLE 11X Recap about the 3 volunteers you referred to

Sun Mar 3 19:57:52 EST 2013

so since you said you want to here from all of us.

in all honesty if the 3 people that didn't work the booth had olpc
registrations as pre arranged with you we would each have worked the olpc
booth. i was there when you got there to setup, i went to denny's but
didnt see you until i returned to the hotel and then you didn't seem
interested in letting me know what was going on. i offered to help you
with what ever you needed but it seemed like you were confused.
furthermore, i have never saw a schedule of who was working when so i
figured you had it covered.

 all 3 of us had to register with other booths in order to get in. 2 of
the volunteers contacted you and you did nothing to help them get their
passes. not sure what that was about. then i helped them get in through
the arch booth.

maybe next time things will work smoother.

On Sun, March 3, 2013 3:48 pm, Caryl Bigenho wrote:

Hello olpc-SoCal folks,
There is lots of good stuff here, so be sure to look over the whole
message! Think of it as a virtual newsletter! The part that interests you
most may be hidden or buried in the middle, or even the end.

SCaLE 11X Recap
Last weekend we had a great time at SCaLE 11X at the Hilton LAX. We had
booth volunteers from India (Manu Gupta), North Carolina recently returned
from Rwanda and Lesotho (Tony Anderson), San Francisco-recently in, and
returning soon to, Haiti (George Hunt), San Francisco (Aaron Borden), and
beautiful, exotic Sylmar (Danny Hembree) along with my husband Ed Bigenho
and myself (from Simi). We had turned down offers from students from UCSB
to help us this year because we thought we had enough people to cover
everything. We didn't. Three more local volunteers we expected did not
join us. Next year we will try to get some of you lined up way in advance.
Don't wait to let me know you are interested... Manu already said he wants
to return to help next year!

If you missed SCaLE, here is a taste of what went on. These Facebook
Albums have notes about each photo, so be sure to check them out. You
should not need to have a FB account or be signed in there to view them.
If there are problems, be sure to let me know and I'll try to find another
place to post them. Here are:

*Photos From our booth:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4342832574999.2144911.1413015665&type=1
and...

*Other SCaLE 11X Photos:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151528375649282.548167.329976144281&type=1

Our Mailing List
We are welcoming 28 new list members who signed up at SCaLE. This makes
our mailing list one of the largest in the OLPC/Sugar Labs arena with 183
members! Now, if we can just find a way to meet somewhere, once in a
while, it would be really great!

OLPC-SoCal XO Lending Library
I'd like to remind you all that we do have a small XO lending library. If
you would like to check one of the machines out for a while to try our
latest software and, possibly, plan a Contributors Program project, please
let me know and I will pass your request on to our "librarians."

Contributors Program
Both of the programs listed below are currently active. But, if you are
really interested, I suggest you get started right away. There is no
guarantee they will be available in the future. Don't procrastinate!

For Developers: If you are a coder or hardware hacker you may have some
great ideas for new things to do with the XO. Or, or perhaps you want to
help test new software for the XO. If this is you, a very limited number
of XO-1.75s (with the ARM processor) are available through the
Contributors Program. Your application will probably have a better chance
of success if you first check out an XO-1 from our library (unless you
already have one) and get really familiar with the current software. So
far, every new update has versions for even the early G1G1 machines
available.

For Deployments: The OLPC Contributors Program still offers small numbers
of XO-1 computers to use in small deployments. If you have a place you
would like to set up a project with 10 or fewer XOs and have a great new
idea of ways to use them that can help everyone in the OLPC community,
please apply!  If your application is approved, you will be asked to pay
for shipping to anywhere in the US that you need them to go. We cannot
ship outside the country. If your project is planned for another country,
you will have to arrange any further needed transport.

Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi is a small computer, about the size of a
deck of cards, that sells for $35. If you happen to have an old usb
keyboard and a TV or monitor that will take HDMI or VGA signals all you
will need to add is the video cable and and SD card with some software to
run the RPi on it. This little wonder was designed at Cambridge University
in England in the hopes of improving computer education in the secondary
schools. People are doing all sorts of fun things with them. George Hunt
is using one to run a server for XOs and, with my urging and arm-twisting,
managed to get Sugar running on one at SCaLE (look at the photos for
proof). If you would like to know more about the RPi, here is a link to
their website: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

If you have any interesting thing about Open Source Software In Education
you would like to share with the list, please do! Just address your
message to: olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org

Hope to hear from all of you soon!

Caryl Bigenho, OLPC/Sugar Labs Volunteer and olpc-SoCal list Administrator

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