LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 8 May, 2007
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Speaker
- John (J5) Palmieri, One Laptop Per Child Project
- John Palmieri, former Vice-President of LILUG, now working for Red Hat, travelled down from Boston to give us a presentation on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
- John gave a brief overview of the goals of the project ("OLPC is an education project, not a laptop project", in the words of Nicholas Negroponte, the project founder). He also showed a working version of the laptop and demonstrated some of its features.
- He then went on to discuss Sugar. Sugar is the graphical user interface for this laptop. John specifically mentioned Sugar-jhbuild, Sugar rolling builds, and the Sugar SDK LiveCD
- He showed us an example of coding in Sugar, using the Block Party app (a Tetris clone).
- John fielded many, many questions from the audience on a variety of OLPC topics.
Discussions/Announcements
Food and Drink
- In honor of this 100th meeting of LILUG, LILUG President Matt Newhall treated the group to a bunch of pizza (like the good old days when only 10 people would come to a meeting!). The group also enjoyed a plethora of donuts, soda, cake and other consumables courtesy of the General Fund.
Raffles
- Rails Cookbook book: Bill Burns
- Linux Appliance Design book: Lincoln
- Pentium II Motherboard: Bill Sampson
- 15" Monitor: Mark S.
- Canon printer: Wes
- Samsung B/W laser printer: Bill Sampson
Msurico 23:40, 8 May 2007 (EDT)