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Meet the guy volunteering his life for OLPC/Sugar on 4 different
continents, almost 4 years later.<br>
Meet retired R&D director, founder, VP, CTO of embedded
technologies at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codewiz.org/wiki/DevelerCompany">http://codewiz.org/wiki/DevelerCompany</a><br>
Meet Sugar Labs' lead global sysadmin and Harvard School of Education
part-time student.<br>
Meet a 21st Century Italian Cowboy, who foolishly misses his Commodore
64... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bernie_Innocenti_interview">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bernie_Innocenti_interview</a><br>
<i>Meet <b>Bernie Innocenti</b>, original promoter of the $200 laptop
that makes Microsoft tremble: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://codewiz.org/wiki/TwoHundredDollarLaptop">http://codewiz.org/wiki/TwoHundredDollarLaptop</a></i><br>
<br>
Ask him Why he chose to help this poor, landlocked S. American nation
of only 6million, providing new Sugar learning software?<br>
Ask him How impoverished Paraguay has very patiently worked over 2+
years building up to 4000 XO's, more than doubling that soon?<br>
Ask him Where WE can help teachers stop fearing computing, <u>unleash
the latent potential of deployments</u>, sparking kids to collaborate
far beyond mind-deadening jobs?<br>
Ask him When will our Not-That-Innocenti Italian stop traveling into
and beyond Asuncion recruiting kids & universities
while barely speaking Spanish?<br>
<i>Ask him What YOU can do to invest in Paraguay's digital generation
once he leaves, onto his next gig in August.....?</i><br>
<br>
Listen to Bernie's Paraguay Stories Live tomorrow Sunday March 14!<br>
<i><br>
</i> 4PM Boston Time 5PM Asuncion Time 9PM Paris Time<br>
BEWARE USA CLOCKS MOVE FORWARD 1HR TONIGHT<br>
<br>
REPLY TO holt @ laptop.org FOR TELECONFERENCE CALL CODE<br>
Free Call from USA/Canada or anybody worldwide with a Full
Skype account.<br>
Sorry, OLPC Radio’s tower isn’t fully erected yet for worldwide
live public broadcasts just yet, but stay tuned…<br>
<br>
Public Backchannel if Volunteers Help:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a><br>
(that's #olpc-help on freenode)<br>
<br>
If time, Bernie will even explain How he charms Russian women:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/monday-begins-on-saturday/">http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/monday-begins-on-saturday/</a><br>
<br>
But please first, review Bernie's beautiful recent 95-page
photo-presentation (14.5 MB)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf">http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf</a><br>
And his "kids need cute customizable software" cultural anthropology:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03#mon-mar-8--children-want-sugar-084-for-the-wrong-reasons">http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03#mon-mar-8--children-want-sugar-084-for-the-wrong-reasons</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-March/thread.html#10317">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-March/thread.html#10317</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
MARCH/APRIL
GUEST SPEAKERS: (tentative, suggestions welcome)<br>
<br>
March 21 - no meeting scheduled so you can Celebrate Spring Outdoors :)<br>
<br>
March 27/28 - Mike Lee at the XO-1.5 Book(let) Sprint in DC - GET
STARTED!<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Start">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Start</a><br>
<br>
April 4 (Easter) - Richard Smith on solar energy options for XO-1 and
XO-1.5<br>
MIT's Robert Pilawa on his solar energy PhD
work: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-pilawa/2/40/470">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-pilawa/2/40/470</a><br>
Kim Quirk on her
solar/alt energy
startup: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://energyemp.com">http://energyemp.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/power/2010-March/000028.html">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/power/2010-March/000028.html</a><br>
<br>
April 11 - TENTATIVE: Improving the XO as a Sahana/HADR Platform:
Lessons
in disaster
relief, from the Founder of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://Sahana.lk">http://Sahana.lk</a>
and Naval Postgrad School
-- how the XO can (and cannot) be further prepared for future
catastrophes: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/XOs_for_HADR">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/XOs_for_HADR</a><br>
Important Background: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org">http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org</a><br>
<br>
<i>All presentations Sunday 4PM Boston/Eastern Time, unless otherwise
noted.</i>
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