[Grassroots-l] OLPC/Sugar Radio - Paraguay Deployment Stories Live - Sunday Open Call 4PM Boston Time

[Holt]

Meet the guy volunteering his life for OLPC/Sugar on 4 different 
continents, almost 4 years later.
Meet retired R&D director, founder, VP, CTO of embedded technologies at 
http://codewiz.org/wiki/DevelerCompany
Meet Sugar Labs' lead global sysadmin and Harvard School of Education 
part-time student.
Meet a 21st Century Italian Cowboy, who foolishly misses his Commodore 
64... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bernie_Innocenti_interview
/Meet *Bernie Innocenti*, original promoter of the $200 laptop that 
makes Microsoft tremble: http://codewiz.org/wiki/TwoHundredDollarLaptop/

Ask him Why he chose to help this poor, landlocked S. American nation of 
only 6million, providing new Sugar learning software?
Ask him How impoverished Paraguay has very patiently worked over 2+ 
years building up to 4000 XO's, more than doubling that soon?
Ask him Where WE can help teachers stop fearing computing, _unleash the 
latent potential of deployments_, sparking kids to collaborate far 
beyond mind-deadening jobs?
Ask him When will our Not-That-Innocenti Italian stop traveling into and 
beyond Asuncion recruiting kids & universities while barely speaking 
Spanish?
/Ask him What YOU can do to invest in Paraguay's digital generation once 
he leaves, onto his next gig in August.....?/

Listen to Bernie's Paraguay Stories Live tomorrow Sunday March 14!
/
/        4PM Boston Time    5PM Asuncion Time    9PM Paris Time
        BEWARE USA CLOCKS MOVE FORWARD 1HR TONIGHT

        REPLY TO holt @ laptop.org FOR TELECONFERENCE CALL CODE
        Free Call from USA/Canada or anybody worldwide with a Full Skype 
account.
        Sorry, OLPC Radio's tower isn't fully erected yet for worldwide 
live public broadcasts just yet, but stay tuned...

        Public Backchannel if Volunteers Help:
        http://forum.laptop.org/chat
        (that's #olpc-help on freenode)

If time, Bernie will even explain How he charms Russian women: 
http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/monday-begins-on-saturday/

But please first, review Bernie's beautiful recent 95-page 
photo-presentation (14.5 MB)
http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf
And his "kids need cute customizable software" cultural anthropology:
http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03#mon-mar-8--children-want-sugar-084-for-the-wrong-reasons
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-March/thread.html#10317



MARCH/APRIL GUEST SPEAKERS: (tentative, suggestions welcome)

March 21 - no meeting scheduled so you can Celebrate Spring Outdoors :)

March 27/28 - Mike Lee at the XO-1.5 Book(let) Sprint in DC - GET STARTED!
                        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Start

April 4 (Easter) - Richard Smith on solar energy options for XO-1 and XO-1.5
                           MIT's Robert Pilawa on his solar energy PhD 
work: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-pilawa/2/40/470
                           Kim Quirk on her solar/alt energy startup: 
http://energyemp.com
                           
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/power/2010-March/000028.html

April 11 - TENTATIVE: Improving the XO as a Sahana/HADR Platform: 
Lessons in disaster relief, from the Founder of http://Sahana.lk and 
Naval Postgrad School -- how the XO can (and cannot) be further prepared 
for future catastrophes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/XOs_for_HADR
                Important Background: http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org

/All presentations Sunday 4PM Boston/Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted./
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