Re: [Olpc-open] OLPC San Francisco Jan 2020 meeting

2020-01-11 Thread Sameer Verma
Quick update: We meet in room 609. Sameer On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 10:25 AM Sameer Verma wrote: > Happy New Year! > > We will be holding our January meeting on Jan 11 2020 from 10AM to 1PM at > the SF State University Downtown Campus. This meeting marks completion of > 12 years o

[Olpc-open] OLPC San Francisco Jan 2020 meeting

2020-01-09 Thread Sameer Verma
! SFSU Downtown Campus 6th Floor, 835 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94103 https://www.olpcsf.org/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc

Re: [Olpc-open] November meeting

2019-11-08 Thread Sameer Verma
OLPC-SF November meeting is tomorrow, Nov 9 from 10 AM to 1 PM in room 609. 835 Market Street. San Francisco, CA 94103 See you there! Sameer On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 8:01 PM Sameer Verma wrote: > Greetings! > > a quick heads up about our November meeting. We will be meeting this

[Olpc-open] No October meeting

2019-10-10 Thread Sameer Verma
Due to some scheduling conflicts, we do not have a meeting this month. We will plan on holding a November meeting on Nov 9, 2019. Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu

[Olpc-open] No OLPC-SF August meeting

2019-08-09 Thread Sameer Verma
We do not have any meetings this month either. Fall semester begins in two weeks. We will reorg for a September 14 meeting. best, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF May meeting

2019-05-10 Thread Sameer Verma
We meet tomorrow (May 11, 2019) at SFSU downtown campus. 835 Market St. San Francisco CA 94103 Room 610 10 AM to 1PM. We are looking forward to a visit by Samson Goddy. We will also be working on some of our local projects. Please join us! Sameer ___

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF meeting - February 9, 2019

2019-02-07 Thread Sameer Verma
Greetings! OLPC San Francisco will be meeting this coming Saturday. When: 10AM to 1PM Where: SFSU Downtown Campus. DTC 610, 835 Market St. San Francisco 94103 Topics: Updates on Ethiopia (Andi Gros) and Honduras (Sameer Verma). Possible new project in Guatemala. Snapcraft images of Pathagar

Re: [Olpc-open] Happy birthday, OLPC-SF!

2019-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
We have a last minute room change. Same building and floor, but room 609 instead of 610. Sameer On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 10:30 AM Sameer Verma Happy birthday to OLPC-SF! We meet to celebrate the group's beginnings > in January 2008. As we begin our 12th year, join us to exchange > stories,

[Olpc-open] Happy birthday, OLPC-SF!

2019-01-09 Thread Sameer Verma
10AM to 1PM. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open

Re: [Olpc-open] Community Summit 2018

2018-04-27 Thread Sameer Verma
Friendly reminder. We begin the hackathon tomorrow! http://hackathon.sfsu.edu/ Sameer On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 11:36 AM Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Remember our Community Summit? We didn't host one last year due to > logistical challenges and such, but we are getting ready

[Olpc-open] Community Summit = OpenHack 2018

2018-04-22 Thread Sameer Verma
ts-45329250007 Also, let us know if you plan to attend, so we can look out for other arrangements as well, as necessary. Sameer Verma: sve...@sfsu.edu Aaron Borden: adborr...@live.com ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapt

Re: [Olpc-open] [Grassroots-l] OLPC-SF April meeting Saturday

2018-04-14 Thread Sameer Verma
Today's OLPC SF meeting room has changed to DTC 610. Same floor, different room. Sameer On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:01 PM Aaron D Borden wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting this Saturday, > April 14th, from 10:00AM - 1PM at the

[Olpc-open] Community Summit 2018

2018-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
. Details will be out shortly, but mark your calendars. April 27-29, 2018 https://www.olpcsf.org/open-hack-2018 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing

Re: [Olpc-open] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF meeting postponed

2017-09-15 Thread Sameer Verma
Our September meeting will be tomorrow, Sept 16 in room 607 at the SFSU Downtown Center. 835 Market St. San Francisco CA 94103 10am to 1 pm Sameer On Sep 8, 2017 8:49 PM, "Andreas Gros" wrote: > Great! Looking forward to it > Andi > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:20 AM Aaron

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF June meeting third Saturday

2017-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
The Ethiopia Report is live at https//youtu.be/dtU6jBg3OUM Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Aaron Borden <adbor...@live.com> wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLP

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF April meeting Saturday

2017-04-15 Thread Sameer Verma
Room change. We meet in DTC 607. Sixth floor. Sameer On Apr 13, 2017 10:08 PM, "Aaron Borden" wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, > April 15th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market > Street, 5th floor,

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF March meeting: Ethiopia

2017-03-11 Thread Sameer Verma
Youtube stream should be here: http://youtube.com/-4-GpTa-pJ0 Sameer On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Likely on Hangouts/YouTube at YouTube.com/olpcsf > > I'm on the train, getting there, but will ask Aaron to confirm and post >

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF March meeting: Ethiopia

2017-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
w device at work. We'll have a discussion with the project lead Andres Gros of Facebook and project computer expert Sameer Verma of SFSU. Discussion will be moderated by Alex Kleider. We will have Ethiopian coffee and light snacks. Agenda - Meet and greet - Ethiopia and the new OLPC XO-NL3 Laptop -

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-11 Thread Sameer Verma
On Jul 11, 2016 3:48 PM, "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > > On 11 July 2016 at 14:20, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> No minutes taken. Our usual note taker is out. so is the back up. >> Plus, our meetings are

[Olpc-open] Candidacy for Sugar Labs Oversight Board

2015-12-28 Thread Sameer Verma
beginning the first week of February 2016. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Olpc-open mailing

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF September meeting this Saturday

2015-09-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Note room change for the meeting today. We met in Room 610 (sixth floor) instead of 597 in the same building. Sameer On Sep 10, 2015 9:09 AM, "Aaron Borden" wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, > September 12th, from 10AM

Re: [Olpc-open] Nepal quake

2015-04-26 Thread Sameer Verma
. Cheers, Christoph Am 25.04.2015 22:04 schrieb Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: Anybody have any updates from our friends in Nepal? I saw one post on OLENepal's Facebook page and that's it. News out of Nepal is very disturbing :-( I hope they are ok. Sameer

Re: [Olpc-open] Nepal quake

2015-04-26 Thread Sameer Verma
On Apr 26, 2015 9:30 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Thanks Christoph? Thanks Christoph! Excuse the typo. Sameer I cannot even begin to imagine what it will take to rebuild and re-establish. All the people I know in Nepal have now checked in as safe, but clearly that's not the case

Re: [Olpc-open] Laura de Reynal at OLPC-SF tomorrow!

2015-04-10 Thread Sameer Verma
Room change. We meet in 612 on the 6th floor. Same building. Sameer On Apr 10, 2015 12:53 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Super excited that Laura de Reynal will be joining us tomorrow for OLPC-SF's April meeting! She'll be talking about Mozilla's Webmaker (https://webmaker.org

[Olpc-open] Laura de Reynal at OLPC-SF tomorrow!

2015-04-10 Thread Sameer Verma
of OLPC France and was very active in Nosy Komba, Madagascar and with us in OLPC Jamaica. ALEARN, as they used to say ;-) See you tomorrow!!! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http

[Olpc-open] Watch WEB: The Film for free today

2014-11-17 Thread Sameer Verma
about the new opportunities, communities and changes that modern technology brings with it. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

[Olpc-open] Fwd: Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever | Indiegogo

2014-11-15 Thread Sameer Verma
As discussed at the meeting today. Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:07 PM Subject: Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever | Indiegogo To: XS Devel server-de...@lists.laptop.org, xsce-devel xsce-de

Re: [Olpc-open] [Grassroots-l] OLPC-SF Community Summit and Turtle Art Day

2014-10-17 Thread Sameer Verma
) 12PM -12:45 Fix-it Session (Alex Kleider, Nina Stawski, Hilary Naylor) Lunch 12:45PM to 2PM 2:00PM - 2:45PM Lightning talks: project updates in 5 minutes each. Jamaica, India, Tanzania, Australia, Madagascar, and more 2:50PM- 3:35PM Analytics in Nepal and Australia (Sameer Verma, Martin Abente) 3

[Olpc-open] A very cool project with TurtleArt

2014-09-08 Thread Sameer Verma
Found a very cool project made with TurtleArt! http://joshburker.blogspot.com/2014/04/3d-printed-turtleart-stamps-for-clay.html Talk about covering S, T, E, A, and M! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF July 2014 meeting

2014-07-15 Thread Sameer Verma
, and online is expected to include more global locations. Please send in additional agenda items. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

2014-06-20 Thread Sameer Verma
On Jun 17, 2014 6:22 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Aaron Borden adbor...@live.com wrote: Hey folks, please note the new location this month. Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly meeting on Saturday, June 21st, from

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

2014-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Aaron Borden adbor...@live.com wrote: Hey folks, please note the new location this month. Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly meeting on Saturday, June 21st, from 10AM - 1PM. The address is 972 Mission St, 5th floor, note this is

Re: [Olpc-open] [OLPC-SF] olpc-sf May Meeting

2014-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
I'm bringing a XO 4 with the latest Android/Sugar build. I'm also bringing with me a Printrbot 3D printer. We'll try to run a few prints from the XO and see how that goes. See you there! Sameer On May 13, 2014 8:26 AM, Aaron Borden adbor...@live.com wrote: olpc San Francisco will be hosting

Re: [Olpc-open] OLPC-SF April Meeting: Featuring Gonzalo Odiard

2014-04-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: We are looking forward to a special guest at our OLPC-SF April meeting. On April 12, 2014 we will hear from Gonzalo Odiard, contributor extraordinaire to OLPC and Sugar. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Godiard https

[Olpc-open] coffee table books

2014-02-22 Thread Sameer Verma
I'm not sure if I've shared this with the lists before. We produced three coffee table books for our community summits. The books are available for purchase at cost by anyone. Here are some more details: http://www.olpcsf.org/node/206 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF poster submission

2013-10-13 Thread Sameer Verma
Friendly reminder! We are getting close to the deadline. Please do send in your posters if you are planning to. http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/posters cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

[Olpc-open] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2013 - Poster Gallery | OLPC San Francisco

2013-08-29 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Hilary Naylor hnay...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:46 AM Subject: [OLPC-SF] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2013 - Poster Gallery | OLPC San Francisco To: olpc-sf olpc...@lists.laptop.org dear all, Can't make it to the OLPC SF

[Olpc-open] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Call For Proposals: OLPC SF Community Summit 2013

2013-08-22 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Hilary Naylor hnay...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM Subject: [OLPC-SF] Call For Proposals: OLPC SF Community Summit 2013 To: olpc-sf olpc...@lists.laptop.org OLPC-SF has opened proposal submission for the 2013 Community Summit held in

[Olpc-open] Fwd: Peering into Journal Data

2013-08-12 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:37 PM Subject: Peering into Journal Data To: XS Devel server-de...@lists.laptop.org Cc: Leotis Buchanan leotisbucha...@exterbox.com Some of you may find this useful. This was written by Leotis

[Olpc-open] OLPC AU's fantastic resource

2013-05-01 Thread Sameer Verma
Saw this over at OLPC AU (One Education) Facebook page, and thought I'd share it here: http://academy.one-education.org/ A whole bunch of lesson plan ideas and guides. Very nicely done! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http

Re: [Olpc-open] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF April Meeting

2013-04-19 Thread Sameer Verma
://www.slideshare.net/sverma/pathagar-a-book-server) , the offline book server. Sheevaplug, Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi, and maybe an XO. We'll also have the latest build running on the XO-4. Maybe we'll do a teardown? Hint hint ;-) Bring your projects and friends. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

2013-02-23 Thread Sameer Verma
For all those who were at the OLPC SF meeting today, Andres Aguirre tells me that the CAD design will be updated in a few days to the newest version. The current design is at http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Mec%C3%A1nica_Buti%C3%A1_V1.8 The rest of this email has

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

2013-02-15 Thread Sameer Verma
I'll bring the Butia robot. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Robotics#Buti.C3.A1_Project Anybody from Noisebridge (cc'd) interested in joining? Cheers, Sameer On Feb 12, 2013 9:09 AM, Aaron Borden adbor...@live.com wrote: Hello, OLPC San Francisco will be hosting this month's meeting on Saturday,

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

2013-02-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Is there any way to buy an already assembled one? From you or anyone else inside the project. One of the things I want to explore is to see if we can produce these locally in San Francisco. Hence the cc to

[Olpc-open] Of aluminum poles and fruitcake

2012-12-23 Thread Sameer Verma
I've got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!! http://youtu.be/dS7-jcsB_WQ Happy Festivus!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus cheers, Sameer ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

2012-11-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Click on the names in the text of the post... We've posted the slides: Matt Keller http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/literacy-public/Keller-Reading.ppt, Richard Smithhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18S9eSMMZeCxiCRxXZl4VgVAxQFTLIWQCOkO2GVGjk8g/edit, C. Scott Ananian

Re: [Olpc-open] [Grassroots-l] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

2012-11-12 Thread Sameer Verma
I'll let Fareed know the next time I see him... or just let @fareedzakaria know ;-) cheers, Sameer On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: Irony: It's not captioned... ___ Olpc-open mailing list

[Olpc-open] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

2012-11-10 Thread Sameer Verma
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/09/how-fast-can-you-learn/ Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

Re: [Olpc-open] [Grassroots-l] send in a poster

2012-10-04 Thread Sameer Verma
://www.olenepal.org * Visit our Digital Library at http://www.pustakalaya.org * On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Do you run a OLPC [related] project, but can't make it to the OLPC SF Community Summit this year? Submit a poster! http://www.olpcsf.org

[Olpc-open] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012 - Poster Gallery | OLPC San Francisco

2012-09-24 Thread Sameer Verma
Can't make it to the OLPC SF Community Summit this year? Submit to our poster gallery! Blog post with details at http://www.olpcsf.org/node/71 cheers, Sameer ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Olpc-open] Join as a volunteer

2012-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open Which school is this? Where are you located? Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

[Olpc-open] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012

2012-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
Registration is now open for the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012. http://www.olpcsf.org/node/70 See you there! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org

Re: [Olpc-open] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012

2012-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
Note that we will be hosting SugarCamp++ right after the summit. SugarCamp++ will be Oct 22-24 at the same location. cheers, Sameer On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Registration is now open for the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012. http

[Olpc-open] Fwd: job openings at OLPC Association

2012-07-14 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Date: Jul 12, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: job openings at OLPC Association To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org support-g...@lists.laptop.org Cc: da...@laptop.org via Bob Hacker and David

[Olpc-open] The Agility of One Laptop Per Child with CTO Ed McNierney 06/05 by IE Radio | Blog Talk Radio

2012-06-09 Thread Sameer Verma
Approx. 30 minutes. Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ieradio/2012/06/05/the-agility-of-one-laptop-per-child-with-cto-ed-mcnierney cheers, Sameer ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open

[Olpc-open] a little magic, Jamaica style!

2012-05-19 Thread Sameer Verma
=XMAZlPWCkw4 We're jammin', Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open

[Olpc-open] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Pixel Qi Mary Lou in sfgate.com via sf-lug

2012-05-13 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Bowman grant...@fedoraproject.org Date: Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:45 PM Subject: [OLPC-SF] Pixel Qi Mary Lou in sfgate.com via sf-lug To: OLPC SF olpc...@lists.laptop.org -- Forwarded message -- From: Bobbie Sellers

[Olpc-open] Fwd: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 Ometepe released

2012-02-20 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM Subject: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 Ometepe released To: XS Devel server-de...@lists.laptop.org Hi, Named after the island for which it was developed, XS-0.7 Ometepe is released.

[Olpc-open] All continents covered.

2012-02-16 Thread Sameer Verma
a XO 1.5 When you heat Sugar it caramelizes. What happens to Sugar in extreme cold? Hmm... cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org

Re: [Olpc-open] RES: Defining success

2012-01-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:43:32PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Marta Voelcker In fact, in schools where the government has stopped caring or assessing, the teachers actually have more

[Olpc-open] Digital divide game...

2012-01-28 Thread Sameer Verma
The California Association of Independent Schools (http://caisca.org) has a series of events as part of its professional development program. I will be at one of their events representing OLPC San Francisco and the the OLPC project in general Link: http://olpcsf.org/node/52 cheers, Sameer

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF Jan 14 meeting

2012-01-13 Thread Sameer Verma
, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc

[Olpc-open] Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with OLPC at 1:30pm Eastern time Jan 11, 2012

2012-01-11 Thread Sameer Verma
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/live-from-the-engadget-ces-stage-an-interview-with-olpc/ In a show fueled by gadget one-upsmanship, it's nice to see a company actually focused on making a difference in the world. OLPC, the organization that brought the world the ultra-affordable XO laptop will

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF Community summit poster contest

2011-10-05 Thread Sameer Verma
We are hosting a OLPC community poster contest along with the OLPC SF Community Summit this year. See http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2011/poster and send in your poster, even if you don't plan on attending. We'll put all the PDFs up on the olpcsf site. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D

Re: [Olpc-open] [OLPC-SF] June Meeting TOMORROW 10AM

2011-06-11 Thread Sameer Verma
at 10:47 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron Borden adbor...@live.com Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM Subject: [OLPC-SF] June Meeting TOMORROW 10AM To: OLPC SF olpc...@lists.laptop.org Hello! Tomorrow, Saturday June 11th we'll

[Olpc-open] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] June Meeting TOMORROW 10AM

2011-06-10 Thread Sameer Verma
...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

[Olpc-open] OLPC SF Community Summit 2011

2011-06-03 Thread Sameer Verma
, 2011 for its regular monthly meeting at #553, 835 Market St., San Francisco, CA. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http

[Olpc-open] Jamaica pilots

2011-02-25 Thread Sameer Verma
1.5 laptops. We now have a channel on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/olpcjamaica and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129075173804215 The project site is at http://olpcjamaica.org.jm More to come soon. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor

[Olpc-open] OLPC in Tunisia?

2010-10-27 Thread Sameer Verma
Anything happening in Tunisia? One of my students (who is from Tunisia) wants to know. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http

[Olpc-open] OLPC on Colbert Report

2010-10-26 Thread Sameer Verma
What a pleasure to see this project on Colbert Report [1] :-) http://on.fb.me/dqbqga cheers, Sameer [1] ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open

[Olpc-open] Proclamation, wine, laptops and learning!

2010-10-24 Thread Sameer Verma
. http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625222079022/ and http://picasaweb.google.com/tuxwingsgroup/Olpc# You can join us online today at 11:30AM and 13:45pm Pacific. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/olpcsf-community-summit-2010 cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate

[Olpc-open] XODock from OLPC-SF meeting

2010-08-30 Thread Sameer Verma
://is.gd/eJ3WH cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

[Olpc-open] notes from today's OLPC-SF meeting

2010-07-17 Thread Sameer Verma
! A big thank you to all those who could attend. Notes and photos of the white board are up at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010 Please clean up (see photos for reference) and ...feel free to add items. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate

[Olpc-open] Fall 2010...

2010-07-10 Thread Sameer Verma
Ruth Silver, MTSA) – India (Humaira Mahi Sameer Verma, SFSU) – Jamaica (Sameer Verma Univ. of the West Indies) – Madagascar (June Kleider, XO-ology) – Senegal (Drew Lick-Wilmerding Schools) – South Africa (EduWeavers) – San Francisco (Starr King Elementary) – Uganda (UC Berkeley) ). I've spoken

[Olpc-open] slides from March OLPC-SF presentation on XS

2010-07-06 Thread Sameer Verma
. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open

[Olpc-open] OLPC-SF May meeting: Afghanistan and Nepal

2010-05-12 Thread Sameer Verma
College of Business Graduate Program for letting us use a room on Saturdays. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Olpc-open] OLPC-SF May meeting: Afghanistan and Nepal

2010-05-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Also posted at Also posted at http://tinyurl.com/olpc-sf -- Sameer On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: We will meet at SFSU Downtown Center from 10 am to 2pm on May 15. Carol Ruth Silver, who recently returned from Afghanistan and Nepal, will talk about

[Olpc-open] OLPC-SF at BALUG tonight

2010-04-20 Thread Sameer Verma
contexts. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc

Re: [Olpc-open] [OLPC-SF] Jan 16 meeting

2010-01-15 Thread Sameer Verma
. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http

[Olpc-open] Jan 16 meeting

2010-01-14 Thread Sameer Verma
/bart.htmlhttp://www.sfsu.edu/%7Eparking/directions/downtown_center/bart.html A huge thank you to San Francisco State University's College of Business Graduate Program http://cob.sfsu.edu/cob/graduate-programs/overview.cfmfor letting us use a room on Saturdays. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D

Re: [Olpc-open] Jan 16 meeting

2010-01-14 Thread Sameer Verma
Correction: Its Room 553, and not 558. Also posted http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/671 and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_San_Francisco_Bay_Area Sameer On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: We will meet at SFSU Downtown Center from 10 am to 2pm on Jan 16

[Olpc-open] an interesting article on an article on learning styles...

2009-12-17 Thread Sameer Verma
. *And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom. http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http

[Olpc-open] OLPC-SF Community Summit 2009

2009-11-10 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org

[Olpc-open] Next incarnation of XO at OLPC-SF this Saturday...

2009-10-14 Thread Sameer Verma
details are posted at http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] Montessori madness...

2009-10-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I've been reading Montessori Madness for a few hours now, and I find Another good one is Montessori Today http://www.amazon.com/Montessori

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] Montessori madness...

2009-10-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to add something to this conversation. I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students and teachers with a

[Olpc-open] OLPC-SF October meeting...

2009-10-11 Thread Sameer Verma
fit. Bring a friend, or two. See tinyurl.com/olpcsf for details. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

[Olpc-open] Fwd: BBC - dot.life: Can a laptop change the world?

2009-09-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Robert Howard rihow...@rawbw.com wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open

Re: [Olpc-open] any news on getting the new motherboard?

2009-09-28 Thread Sameer Verma
://blog.laptop.org/2009/09/28/xo-1-5-create-collaborate-contribute/ and apply via the Contributor Program. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Olpc-open] OLPC-SF meets on 22nd August

2009-08-21 Thread Sameer Verma
://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/656 Note the room change (We will be meeting in Room 558 instead of 553). See you all there! 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

[Olpc-open] OLPC-SF meets on 22nd August

2009-08-20 Thread Sameer Verma
of 553). See you all there! 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/ ___ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc

[Olpc-open] OLPC-SF meets on Saturday, July 18, 2009

2009-07-16 Thread Sameer Verma
Details posted at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea 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

[Olpc-open] Fwd: [TwinCLinG] first Indian python conference

2009-06-29 Thread Sameer Verma
FYI PyCon India 2009 26th and 27th September 2009 Venue: IISC, Bengaluru Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:38 AM Subject: [TwinCLinG] first Indian python conference To: chenna...@googlegroups.com, Indian

[Olpc-open] learning implode...

2009-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
!!! She even taught her mother how to play the game later this evening. For all the arm chair naysayers out there, get with the program! Children are amazing!!! cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA

Re: [Olpc-open] [support-gang] OLPCorps blogs

2009-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
cc'ing olpc-open and grassroots-l I've aggregated all the feeds into one OPML file. You can import this into Google Reader or any other Feed Aggregator. You can also find it at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F04644957024613667662%2Flabel%2FOLPCorps?hl=en cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma

[Olpc-open] OLPC Photo DVD project via LegalTorrents

2009-06-12 Thread Sameer Verma
My OLPC Photo DVD project is now torrenting via LegalTorrents :-) Its much faster than my wimpy home DSL upload. http://beta.legaltorrents.com/torrents/569-olpc-photo-dvd Download, burn, and loop away!!! cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-12 Thread Sameer Verma
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep +1 Some similar approaches: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sneakernet and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Motoman Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http

[Olpc-open] Fwd: OLPC Photos on DVD...

2009-06-09 Thread Sameer Verma
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM Subject: OLPC Photos on DVD... To: Support Gangsters support-g...@laptop.org I hope some of you will find this useful at your next convention, expo, conference or simply an LCD screen

Re: [Olpc-open] OLPC Photos on DVD...

2009-06-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM Subject: OLPC Photos on DVD... To: Support Gangsters support-g...@laptop.org I hope some of you will find

Re: [Olpc-open] Videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei

2009-06-02 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Or maybe olpc.tv can send its videos to our contact at Dailymotion? They can encode it in ogg and make them available for kids at:  http://olpc.dailymotion.com Don't hesitate. +1 for sure! Sameer

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