[OLPC-Games] Physics Game Jam - duties + conference call Tuesday Aug 19 4:30pm EST

[Mel Chua]

Won't be on the call, so:
> Mel Chua: Attending in-person?
>   
Not as a full-time - I'll try to drop by if I can, but am not yet sure 
what my schedule will be like that weekend.
> - List of 07 Jam attendees / contact info?
>   

I no longer have the sheet with everyone's contact info (I promised 
people they wouldn't get spammed post-Jam - that's actually something 
I'd ask about this time, whether people want to be contacted about stuff 
afterwards) but...

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston_June_2007/Results
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston
and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Game_Jam_Boston_June_2007#Introduce_yourselves.21
has some old contact info.

> - How did we get mainstream media coverage for the 07 Game Jam? Was
> that via Olin or OLPC?
>   
OLPC. In case it helps, I've included the press release we used below.

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One Laptop Per Child
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
 
ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD ORGANIZES GAME JAM TO CREATE FREE VIDEO GAMES FOR 
THE WORLD'S POOREST CHILDREN
 
 
Cambridge, Mass., INSERT DATE HERE One Laptop per Child, a non-profit 
organization with the goal of providing children in developing nations 
with laptop computers, today announced the first Game Jam on June 8-10.  
The three-day event will be hosted  by Olin College in Needham, Mass.
 
One hundred game developers, educators, authors, musicians, artists, and 
writers from across the United States will work round-the-clock to 
create open source games for education in the span of a weekend.  All 
games created will be released under an open license on Sourceforge and 
featured in the Experimental Gameplay Workshop in San Francisco, with 
the winning team taking home an XO laptop and free passes to the 2008 
Game Developer's Conference.
 
Current organizers and attendees include OLPC's Director of Content SJ 
Klein, Serious Games Initiative co-founder Ben Sawyer and IGDA Education 
Co-officer Darius Kazemi The deadline for conference applications is May 
12.  For more information and applications go to 
http://hackronym.com/olpc/gamejam.
 
About OLPC
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization created to 
design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently 
inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and 
modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments and 
issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. These 
machines will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy efficient that 
hand-cranking alone will generate sufficient power for operation. Mesh 
networking will give many machines Internet access from one connection.
 
OLPC is based on constructionist theories of learning pioneered by 
Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, as well as the principles expressed 
in Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital. The founding corporate members 
are Nortel Networks, Google, News Corporation, AMD, Red Hat, Brightstar, 
Marvell, eBay, Quanta Computer, Chi Mei and 3M.
 
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