[University-chapters] Introductions!

[Alex Keybl]

Hey all I'm Alex Keybl, co-founder and chair of OLPC at Duke.  I'm a Senior
majoring in ECE and CS at Duke University.  Sorry for the quick response,
but I just got back from a 2 week vacation and I've got a million emails to
respond to.  Basically, OLPC at Duke has 3 major parts that we work on:

   - *Software Development* through independent studies that we've put
   together (with "open office hours" so that anybody can learn to create
   activities for the XO)
   - *Running a Pilot Program* of XOs at a local elementary school, with
   qualitative surveys to gauge the success
   - *Planning OLPC Related Events* including fundraisers and conferences,
   such as GrassCon <http://www.olpcgrasscon.com/>

I'll be watching this list closely, and feel free to email me personally if
you have any questions.  Thanks.

-Alex


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Yifan <yifan.sun at students.olin.edu> wrote:

> Hey there
>
> I'm Yifan Sun. I was an IMSA grad 06, and I'm currently a rising Junior at
> Olin College, like Greg, and majoring in electrical and computer
> engineering. I'm involved in the university chapter at Olin, and next
> semester will be working mainly with software developing at Olin. I'm also
> working on the XO intersession at IMSA, hopefully to be held in Boston. Nice
> meeting all of you!
>
> Yifan
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Gregory Marra <
> Gregory.Marra at students.olin.edu> wrote:
>
>>  My name is Greg Marra. I am a rising Junior at Olin College majoring in
>> Electrical and Computer Engineering. I try to be of assistance when I can,
>> and will likely be taking Olin's "Developing XO Peripherals" course in the
>> fall. I also like to play with XOs, and think they are perfect for writing
>> Python on the subway. I have a few ideas about how to make the XO into a
>> better book reader than it is, but we'll see where those go.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: university-chapters-bounces at lists.laptop.org on behalf of Nicole
>> Lee
>> Sent: Thu 8/14/2008 12:56 AM
>> To: Andrew Bouchard
>> Cc: university-chapters at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Re: [University-chapters] Introductions!
>>
>> to follow up on that [although i believe most/all of you know me
>> already...], i'm nikki, head of the olin college OLPC chapter. i started
>> this list to get chapters in communication with one another, so that we can
>> share tips, collaborate on projects, and keep one another inspired.
>>
>> so, olin's plans for the coming school year:
>> * we are going to be collaborating with a potential pilot school in
>> Cambridge, MA
>> * there is a 1 credit [3 hr/week; a "normal" class is 4 credits]
>> independent study course on XO peripheral development slated for the fall
>> * we have a number of students looking into Activity development and are
>> trying to once again get Activity dev incorporated in the Software Design
>> [required ECE course; at least 1/3 of olin's students take it at some point]
>> final project curriculum
>> * we are looking to organize a jam for the spring [hopefully in
>> collaboration with other boston/cambridge area chapters]
>> * and of course, keeping in touch with 1CC and keeping the student body up
>> to date on OLPC's happenings
>>
>> -nikki
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Andrew Bouchard <teddybouch at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         Good evening, all. I'm Andrew Bouchard, and I'm a grad student in
>>         mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University. Since I'm working
>> on a
>>         Master's thesis soon, I'm not sure how much I'll be able to do,
>> but I'm
>>         on this list because I would love to spread the good new of OLPC
>> and
>>         open source at Vanderbilt, where is doesn't seem to have
>> penetrated yet.
>>
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