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Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
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I am confirming I will be there.<br>
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Thanks to the (1) MANY Sugar/OLPC enthusiasts opening their homes
across DC (2) flying in from around the continent on their own dime (3)
making our Community Invitation truly more beautiful every day (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts</a> ), (4) Gallaudet University
teaching us the real meaning of Accessibility, with likely professional
facilities (5) organizers of lovely extracurricular/evening cerebral
shakedowns Sept 6-11 keep it up! (6) nevermind OLPCorps Africa
participants I never expected to attend as they return to their own
schooling, but will contribute so much on-the-ground small deployment
insight, (7) embracers of remote conferencing access for the
geographically-challenged, (8) ETC, takes my breath away the way folks
slave to build a movement behind the scenes -- some see it and some
don't. But it's a Cathartic experience and there is no other word. (9)
OLPC/Sugar community-glue-since-1864 union T shirts forthcoming...<br>
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<img src="cid:part1.06020201.04010201@laptop.org" alt=""><br>
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Craftsmanship = Pride. And 2 public news/blog invitations by 3
different volunteers are apparently imminent, but here's a fun preview
I stole from volunteer Sarah Burns who'll hopefully later publish
under her own name:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dev.laptop.org/~holt/get-crafty.html">http://dev.laptop.org/~holt/get-crafty.html</a><br>
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OK: Now begins our real work digging thru the last 20 months of our
forgotten life lessons. Ask someone that cares to draw their your own
world map of every different deployment that Meant Something since
2007. Pass it along: many different deployment entrepreneurs have
articulated *very* compelling
visions for the Table of Contents, so please now get over your shyness
(you know who you are!) and humbly get crackin' editing this outline,
even if you cannot attend in person :)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts#Needs">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts#Needs</a><br>
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(Volunteers who made this come together in the last week generally
advocated for something like a National Geographic-style 30-page
explanatory visual guide, to build very clear 1st Line Support
expectations for people who don't read FAQ's -- highly multi-authored
but w/o unnecessarily dashing worldly antipoverty/educatory/pen-paling
dreams -- and PracTiCal. Longer works of great battled-tested
deployment stories you uncover/write/photograph/map should later
appear, in a lengthier/dreamier if less polished, while
similarly-community-curated "mosaic" ...<i>a near-universal request...</i>
but only we can teach teachers to stumble, pick themselves up in
multiple languages, AND finally make National Geographic jealous with
full cartographic <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer</a> eg. watch out
for Caryl Bigenho showing us up yet again yesterday with her Pakistan
deployment photos/precis.....)<br>
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<pre><b><i>Thanks Mike Lee, Mel Chua and Support Gangsters all who pulled this together into a major event:
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The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers,
with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced.
This idea arose from our Support Gang (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang</a>) volunteers wanting
to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and
after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there.
The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations
from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will
enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans
jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business
hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring
the Washington DC area with groups like <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://OLPClearningclub.org">http://OLPClearningclub.org</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://hacDC.org">http://hacDC.org</a> and others:
Sunday Sept 6: Dinner to meet fellow writers
Monday Sept 7: Labor Day (no holiday for us!)
...
Friday Sept 11: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)
Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate
yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ laptop.org
(<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots</a>) explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product
-- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :)
Possible Book Title: (very tentative)
20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops:
Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers
Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them
Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang
Needs:
ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
Graphics designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
Experienced tech writers, copy-editors
Photographs!
Likely Attendees:
Mel CHUA
Luke FARAONE (invited)
David FARNING (invited)
Adam HOLT
SJ KLEIN
Mike LEE
Yamandu PLOSKONKA
Bryan STUART
Sameer VERMA
Seth WOODWORTH (invited)
Remote Attendees:
Caryl BIGENHO
Sandy CULVER (invited)
Christoph DERNDORFER
Daniel DRAKE (invited)
Pablo FLORES (invited)
Daytime/workroom venues currently under consideration:
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href="http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us">http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.gallaudet.edu">http://www.gallaudet.edu</a>
Accommodations -- until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://hostels.com">http://hostels.com</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://airbnb.com">http://airbnb.com</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://melchua.com">http://melchua.com</a>
Please Join Our Online Venues Today!
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href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a> (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang</a>)
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:grassroots@laptop.org">grassroots@laptop.org</a> (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots</a>)
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a> (#olpc-help and #sugar)
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs">http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs</a> ??
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the
work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
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