Introductions

[Frankie Roberto]

Okay, so I thought it'd be good if everyone could introduce themselves
as they join this group.

I'm Frankie Roberto, a web developer/producer working at the Science
Museum in London (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/). I first found out
about the OLPC project ages ago when it was first in the news. Since
then I've followed the project a little, through the Community News
mailing list (http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/community-
news) and the unofficial OLPC News blog (http://www.olpcnews.com/).

I bought an xo through eBay (from Canada) a couple of months ago, and
have started to learn how to use it and explore some of the activities
(including installing a few new ones). I'm interested in helping to
develop activities for the xo, but haven't made much of a start yet!

I started this group with the hope of organising a meetup of London xo
users.

Cheers,

Frankie

[mden...@gmail.com]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 04:49:26AM -0700, Frankie Roberto wrote:
>
> Okay, so I thought it'd be good if everyone could introduce
themselves
> as they join this group.

I'm Martin Dengler, a programmer working at a hedge fund in the city.
I'd been looking for a fun/cheap laptop upon with to run Fedora, and I
thought the G1G1 program looked like a good way to do something good
and get a cool toy. I got my XO when I was in the US for Christmas
and have been hacking around with Sugar and annoying people on the dev
list for a month or so.

I'm interested in continuing the development of Sugar on GNU/Linux.

> Cheers,
>
> Frankie

Martin

[Jeremy]

I'm Jeremy Ottevanger, another museum web monkey. Basically just
interested to know/think about whether we should be looking to tailor
our content for the XO, and get a feeling for the hardware itself. It
may well turn out not to used widely in the UK and other developed
countries - depends perhaps on whether that market is occupied by
eeePCs etc - but the technology itself might turn up elsewhere.

Jeremy

[msim...@gmail.com]

Hi

I'm mark simpkins, during the day I technically manage projects at the
BBC but in my spare time I organise conferences like geekyoto.com, and
build sites such as Ivotedforyoubecause.com. I have been called an
Online Activist in the Guardian and I am happy with that :)

I got an XO via the G1G1 programme, via a friend in the States.

I am interested in the device, in the philosophy of the project and
now the politics.

It is also a cool looking device and sadly I am in the end a sucker
for them. oh well.

cheers,

mark.

[David Barry]

My name is David Barry. I have a special interest in how people can
work, or learn, together, without being in the same place; or even
without being together in the same place at the same time. I am Chair
of Governors at a Primary School in N. Islington which is in the
process of being moved to a new build building on a new site. Expect
to get there about 2010. I am really excited by the possibilities that
"Ubiquitous Computing" presents for education. I have, an as yet, very
sketchy idea that if we could get the sponsorship we might be able to
mark the move to the new building by adopting a new IT infrastructure
based on everyone -staff, pupils, Governors, PTA having something like
an OLPC device.

[Shanmu]

Hi,
I am Shanmu. My day job is working as a enterprise software
development consultant and I am based at Reading. Looks like I am the
only one XO owner in Reading - so have joined the London XO owners
group.
I got the XO through my brother in the US - got it just now.
I'm interested in developing Sugar/new Activities for the XO.

Regards,
Shanmu.