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

[Seth Woodworth]

I'll be acting as Henry's proxy in the meeting, and I'll be generic
collecting git repo's from him and distributing them at the event.

--S

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----------
>
> 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.
>
> ###
>
> Contact:
> <insert your name, address, title, phone number, email here>
>
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