<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]--><o:SmartTagType
namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="PlaceName"/>
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="PlaceType"/>
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Georgia;
panose-1:2 4 5 2 5 4 5 2 3 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none none;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Zakiyyah Kareem from Girlstart will be there talking about
our experience working with high school girls to develop games for the XO
laptop: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl</a>.
The panel is called “Fresh Perspectives: Youth-Created Games for Change.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Clare Richardson<br>
Technology and Program Coordinator<br>
Girlstart<br>
<a href="http://www.girlstart.org/">www.girlstart.org</a><br>
512.916.4775<br>
512.916.4776 fax<br>
<br>
Scrub in, Broadcast news, Unmask mysteries!<br>
Don’t miss <a href="http://www.girlstartcamp.org/">Summer Camp 2008</a>! </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
games-bounces@lists.laptop.org [mailto:games-bounces@lists.laptop.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Leonard<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 28, 2008 11:05
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> devel@lists.laptop.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> etoys@lists.laptop.org;
games@lists.laptop.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [OLPC-Games] Games for
Change Festival, June 3rd</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I stumbled across this, on the ELDIS (<a href="http://www.eldis.org/">http://www.eldis.org/</a>)
community site. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It seemed
relevant enough to cross-post to games, etoys and devel lists. An
OLPC presence would seem perfectly logical and potentially very beneficial.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Cjl">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Cjl</a><br>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Registration
for the 2008 Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival is now available! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please
join us at Parsons the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for Design in NYC
for our annual event bringing together non-profits, educators, game designers
and activists of all stripes to explore the growing movement and emerging field
of games for social change.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Leading
scholars Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins will open the festival with a keynote
conversation on June 3rd at 4:30pm.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We are
pleased to announce our closing keynote this year will be the Honorable Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor, scheduled for 4pm on June 4th.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Featured
panelists include: Jim Gasperini, creator of Hidden Agenda, and Chris Crawford
of Balance of Power and Balance of the Planet fame; Ken Eklund, creator of
World Without Oil; Michael Levine, Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center;
Shelley Pasnick, head of the Center for Children and Technology, Mary Flanagan
Director of the Tiltfactor Lab, Tracy Fullerton of USC's EA Innovation Lab, and
representatives from Participant Productions, the MacArthur and Knight
Foundations, PBS, and Electronic Arts, among many others.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>You will
find our usual excellent blend of provocative panels, informal working groups,
funders meetings, ample networking opportunities and the ever-popular Expo
Night where you can see - and play - the new games firsthand, sponsored by
Microsoft.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Check out
the festival site here: <a
href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php">http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>And don't
forget the pre-festival workshop for newbies on June 2nd. We are happy to
announce that this beginners workshop for non-profits new to the field. Let The
Games Begin: A 101 Workshop for Making Social Issue Games was a MacArthur
Foundation DML Competition award-winner out of more than 1000 applicants! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A
separate registration for that day is now available from the festival site
here: <a href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php">http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
We are thankful for the generous contributions of our sponsors AMD and
Microsoft, as well as Parsons the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for Design.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We look
forward to seeing you all there!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Suzanne<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>