[Grassroots-l] OLPC NYC/Bronx Brunch - TOPIC: East/West Africa - Sun July 25 Noon

[Holt]

Great I've received over a dozen RSVP's for Noon Sunday (incl 3+ 
deployment people very recently returned from East/West Africa) but the 
restaurant wants a more precise count -- plz RSVP to me now if you haven't!


Holt wrote:
> Marife Mago wrote:
>> can we include here our initial meet-up can be earlier before brunch 
>> or after brunch?
>
> Yes, let's meet afterwards 2PM or soon after, for those serious about 
> driving forward partic projects.
>
> I'm quite happy to improvise walking to a nearby park/cafe/oceanfront 
> etc at that time -- Soundview Park is just a few min to the South, or 
> we can follow others' suggestions...
>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Holt <holt at laptop.org 
>> <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Why:
>>
>>        OLPC/Sugar community volunteers working in East Africa (Uganda,
>>        Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, etc) updating each/others working in West
>>        Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, etc) on their progress.
>>
>>        The restaurant is a few blocks away from where the famous incident
>>        of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo occurred.  The restaurant building
>>        is connected to the NYS Assemblyman Diaz clinic named after Diallo.
>>
>>        We might even allow discussion of Sao Tome & Principe from
>>        http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com <http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com/> since Beth is in fact flying thru
>>        NYC on her way back from Africa, exactly then :)
>>        
>>     Date:
>>
>>        12 NOON
>>        Sunday July 25th
>>
>>     Location:
>>
>>        Fouta Food Corp Restaurant
>>        1762 Westchester Ave (Subway #6 Uptown Bronx St. Lawrence station)
>>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_%28New_York_City_Subway_service%29
>>        Between Commonwealth & St Lawrence Aves.
>>        Bronx NY 10472
>>
>>        Tel: 718 792 1700
>>        Owner / Manager: Amadou
>>
>>     Menu:
>>
>>        We've spoken to Amadou and he intends to provide West African's best.
>>        The menu is very affordable.  He'll be glad to know what would be
>>        your favorite dishes, wishing the very best for our team!
>>
>>     Please forward as appropriate, joining our open-community conversation:
>>
>>        http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc
>>        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC
>>        http://twitter.com/olpcnyc
>>
>>     1729 and Present Day Maps:
>>
>
> [ http://www.waado.org/cgi-bin/Historical/MapOfWestAfrica_1729.jpg ]
> [ http://www.donparrish.com/images/EastAfricaMap.jpg ]
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