[Olpc-socal] SCaLE 11X Recap and Lots of Other Good Stuff!

[Hugo Arriola]

Caryl:

I'm in for next year! I'll be happy to volunteer.




On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Caryl Bigenho <caryl at laptop.org> 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:
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> **Photos From our booth: *
> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4342832574999.2144911.1413015665&type=1
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> and...
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> **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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*Hugo Arriola
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