XO/OLPC Shared Experiences
Friday, March 14
Room B111
12-1:30pm
The One Laptop Per Child initiative
(http://www.laptop.org/)
has
created an exciting buzz following its introduction in 2007. In this
special event, folks will share experiences with the XO
computer thus far. We expect to have at least one XO computer on
hand. Among the folks who plan to participate:
- Suzanne Buchele, a Fullbright Scholar and Lecturer at Ashesi
University in Ghana, who can share first-hand accounts of OLPC on the
ground in that country. Suzanne is on both the implementation team
and advisory team for OLPC Ghana.
- Jill Dimond, a PhD student at Georgia Tech, who is using the XO as
the context (i.e., target platform and audience) for Girl Scouts at
summer camp to build IM clients. The work is being done using
Revolution (http://www.runrev.com) to create an authoring tool for
the Girl Scouts; Revolution can produce OLPC executables.
- Joe Bergin of Pace University has been porting Karel (python
version) to the OLPC and has a running, although not very successful,
version.
- Vicki Almstrum of The University of Texas at Austin is supervising
a distributed team of senior capstone students (5 in Austin, 5 at
Amrita University in India) who are creating two projects that target
the OLPC. She is also advising GirlStart, a non-profit organization
in Austin, TX, in their IT Girls project, where high school girls are
using python to develop educational games for the XO platform.
