<div dir="ltr">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.<br><br>--S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Mel Chua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mel@laptop.org">mel@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Won't be on the call, so:<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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Mel Chua: Attending in-person?<br>
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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.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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- List of 07 Jam attendees / contact info?<br>
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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...<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston_June_2007/Results" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston_June_2007/Results</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston</a><br>
and<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Game_Jam_Boston_June_2007#Introduce_yourselves.21" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Game_Jam_Boston_June_2007#Introduce_yourselves.21</a><br>
has some old contact info.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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- How did we get mainstream media coverage for the 07 Game Jam? Was<br>
that via Olin or OLPC?<br>
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OLPC. In case it helps, I've included the press release we used below.<br>
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One Laptop Per Child<br>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
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ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD ORGANIZES GAME JAM TO CREATE FREE VIDEO GAMES FOR THE WORLD'S POOREST CHILDREN<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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 <a href="http://hackronym.com/olpc/gamejam" target="_blank">http://hackronym.com/olpc/gamejam</a>.<br>
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About OLPC<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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