Several people commented on the little USB keyboards that Chris, Wayne and I brought to last Sunday's meeting. These little things are just about the width of the XO itself, are actually pretty good for touch typing and are certainly much, much better then the XO's child-size membrane keyboard.

(If you would prefer a weeknight meeting sometime, like Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, starting at 6pm, please respond and let us know. Maybe we'll do an evening meeting sometime too!) - There's plenty of electricity and extensions, but you might want to bring your XO power adapter along. Write your name on it or on some tape, so you go home with the correct one.
- There's also plenty of WiFi
- The door on 1st Ave has a call box, press #5 and wait to be buzzed in.
- It's a couple of very steep staircases up to the Saturday House space. There's hand-rails, please be careful with coming up.
- If you can't manage the stairs, there is a freight elevator on the back of the building which is wheelchair capable. Please give me a call on my cell phone, and I'll come meet you. Chris Altwegg 206-523-6477)

Dress warmly, it can be kinda chilly in the Saturday House space. And if you need computer glasses, be sure to bring those, the menus in Opera are TINY,
but worth it! Even if you haven't gotten your machine yet, please come!

Chris Altwegg, Tim Celeski, Wayne Wong
Seattle XO User Group

Saturday House:
1952 First Ave. S., Suite 5, Seattle
http://www.saturdayhouse.org/
http://tinyurl.com/24fsa2

We had a great Sunday meeting at the Saturday House space. (I know, that sounds odd.)

We'll post more about the meeting activities and outcomes, but here's an early warning for the next meeting in the sidebar.

Some pictures also:

Since a number of us have had our little XOs for a week or so, it's a great time to post your first impressions. So, add your comments to this message for all to see what the new machines are all about.

Happy holidays to all Seattle area OLPC XO enthusiasts:

Over the past couple of weeks, we've collected about 45 email addresses of folks who are interested in some kind of group for XO laptop users and friends.

We'd like to have a get-together and planning meeting this Sunday, December 30, at 1 pm at the Saturday House meeting space. It's in the SODO area of Seattle. (Address and map below.)

The purpose of this meeting is to just have some fun, some learning, and later do some talk about the various elements of putting together the user group and set up a basic structure for it. It will probably go for 2 - 3 hours.

We will try to have folks around to help you install Opera (a web browser that makes all the difference for using this little machine) as well as exploring some of the software and other capabilities. The space has WiFi so we'll be able to connect to the internet.

After we play for a couple of hours, we need to decide the mission of the group, when and where we might meet for regular meetings. Most likely we will also want to initiate several SIGs (Special Interest Groups) in areas such as "New Users," "Programming," "Locally supporting the OLPC global mission" just to give some examples.

All are welcome to stay for the planning meeting, but please be prepared to share the work. If you can't come or can't undertake this project, please share your ideas for the group.
1. What would a user group provide to you?
2. How sophisticated or simple should it be?
3. When would be your first choice of a meeting day and time?
4. What is your second choice of day and time?

Please RSVP so we have some idea of how many folks might be there.
seattlexo@gmail.com

Dress warmly, it can be kinda chilly in the Saturday House space. And if you need computer glasses, be sure to bring those, the menus in Opera are TINY, but worth it! Even if you haven't gotten your machine yet, please come!

Chris Altwegg, Tim Celeski, Wayne Wong
Seattle XO User Group


Saturday House:
1952 First Ave. S., Suite 5, Seattle
http://www.saturdayhouse.org/
http://tinyurl.com/24fsa2

If you haven't already sent us your email address along with your name and mailing address, please do. We're putting together the list to contact folks for upcoming meetings and you won't want to be left out.

seattlexo@gmail.com

Chris Altwegg & Tim Celeski
Seattle XO

One of the first things you notice when you get your XO and try to connect it is all the different wireless routers in your neighborhood. It's those great little green ears doing their job. Easily the best wireless connection I've ever experienced. Out of curiosity, how many wireless connections have you run across using the XO?