Press and Awards

Open Video Chat

The OVC Team won the Student Achievement category of the 2011 Digital Rochester GREAT Awards.

• Boing Boing: Students create video-chat program for deaf kids
• RIT News Release: Video Chat Program to Facilitate Global Deaf Communication
• Rochester Business Journal: Digital Rochester announces GREAT Awards finalists

OVC and POSSE Press Release

• Red Hat Partners with Rochester Institute of Technology; Students Develop Open Source Video Chat to Enhance Communication for Deaf Children
• Open Video Chat for One Laptop Per Child Emerges from Red Hat and Rochester Institute of Technology Partnership
• Rochester Institute To Repeat Summer Open Source Instructor Training

Hackfests and Events

• GNOME Python Hackfest 2010: FOSS@RIT goes to OLPC HQ
• Foss@RIT Returns to OLPC Headquarters
• Night of the Living Election

OLPC at RIT

• RIT on TV: One Laptop Per Child