Alex, Caryl & All did an amazing job pulling this together. It really is a new era when many people came by who were born after OLPC's mass production era, had never heard of OLPC at all (or perhaps completely forgot about it a dozen years later...)
While we could not be there the entire 4 days, Fri-Sat-Sun each generated a ton of very thoughtful interest in Sugar, Internet-in-a-Box and many difficult democratized/global learning questions in general — more so than in prior years interestingly! Perhaps the world is a "smaller place" than when OLPC/Sugar began in the 2000s, now approaching its 3rd decade (2020-2030) with a more grounded sense of impactful idealism than when it all began..... On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 1:52 PM Alex Perez <ape...@alexperez.com> wrote: > We had a successful presence at the Southern California Linux Expo, and > booth visitors chose to take several hundred business cards with Sugar > Labs, Sugarizer, Sugar On a Stick, and Internet In A Box logos. In > attendance were myself, my wife, Caryl Bigenho, her lovely husband, and > Adam Holt, all of whom were stationed at the booth to interact with and > answer questions from the attendees. > > Estimated attendee count for SCaLE 17x > <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/scale-17x> was around 3,000. Despite > being crammed in the rear corner of the exhibit hall, we had a lot of foot > traffic, and general interest. We gave away just under 500 > sugarlabs.org-branded promotional items, which was a sugarlabs.org-branded > LED light and whistle key chain item, as well as several hundred "business > cards", which you can view below. > > We had six OLPCs on display, including one XO-4, two XO-1.75's, and an > XO-1.5, all of which could be interacted with by visitors, and had a lot of > kids (I'd guess at least a hundred) stop by and play with the OLPCs. We > briefly explained what Sugar was to adults and children alike, and > encouraged them to try it out for themselves on the machines, as well as by > download Sugar on a Stick. > > We also had Sugarizer on demo on an iPad and Google Nexus 7 tablet, as > well as a new $200 HP laptop running Sugar on a Stick, to demonstrate how > easy it is to run Sugar on commodity hardware. > > Please let me know if you have any questions. >
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