<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Hey all,</span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">It's great to hear about all the activity happening within the grassroots community in June! I'm sure all of these events will facilitate greater communication among us.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For the past few months, OLPC@Duke members have been preparing for an online conference as a platform for grassroots groups to talk about their contributions to One Laptop per Child. That's how we came up with the </font><a href="http://www.olpcgrasscon.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">OLPC Grassroots Web Conference</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> (GrassCon), an event we'll be hosting on July 19th. Now for a shameless quote from the site:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; "><p style=""></p><blockquote type="cite"><p style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The OLPC Grassroots Web Conference was started to increase communication between grassroots projects, as well as increase the general visibility of OLPC projects around the world. This ranges from software/hardware development to pilot programs and public awareness campaigns. We want to hear about what's going on, from the mouths of those involved.</span></font></span></font></p><p style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The theme of this conference will be "From Code to Kids". Presenters will be helping us trace the path of XO Sugar activities from software development to getting the activities into the hands of children.</span></font></span></font></p><p style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We will be holding the conference as a live streaming event with participants from around the world. Conference goers will be able to ask questions of presenters, and the entire conference will be recorded and archived.</span></font></span></font></p></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">If you'd like to participate or help host the event, please get in touch with me. All your help will be appreciated. Also, you can add us on Twitter if you'd like to stay updated - our username is <a href="http://twitter.com/olpcgrasscon">olpcgrasscon</a>.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">-Alex Keybl</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">GrassCon Coordinator</font></div></div></body></html>