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Talented social cartographers & deployment folks from across the
OLPC/Sugar community will be fly to Boston Dec 27-31 -- to
physically map our geo-social fabric of small/medium/large
implementations in completely new ways -- on and around CMU/Nick
Doiron's rapidly evolving global deployment/volunteering map:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a><br>
<br>
Just like a Book Sprint (writing an entire book within a week, like
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://laptop.org/manual">http://laptop.org/manual</a>) we will beautify, rigorize and publish
this community product within 5 business days.<br>
<br>
We are looking for our very best talent globally to join us, to lay
critical seeds Connecting-The-Dots of learning/deployment/content
knowledge globally, starting with one single student's social map --
that has already powerfully captured the popular imagination of
deployments worldwide, since its alpha-launch in San Francisco last
week.<br>
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SAVE THE DATE, and RSVP early to confirm your (a) contribution and
(b) spot! We have a long way to go, and need your help. The venue
will likely be OLPC's headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts or a
nearby university -- both very conveniently transit-accessible to
Boston's airport "BOS". Details to follow later in November, off of
this page:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP</a><br>
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Thank you to the organizing volunteers (email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:beautify@olpcMAP.net">beautify@olpcMAP.net</a>)
already INvesting so much of their personal/family resources, flying
in during 2010's Season of Giving, just 2 months away now, to
celebrate a Cause They Believe In. That cause being to grow our
community of face2face deployment doers, with new
volunteer/internship opportunities None Of Us Have Yet Imagined. So
far we have these powerhouse volunteers/contributors:<br>
<br>
Nick Doiron (Pittsburgh/NH)<br>
Marina Zdobnova (Russia, sort of!)<br>
Kurt Maier (Indiana)<br>
David Farning (Wisconsin)<br>
Walter Bender (Boston, partial attendance)<br>
Caroline Meeks (Boston, partial attendance)<br>
Claudia Urrea (Boston, partial attendance)<br>
Reuben Caron (Boston, partial attendance)<br>
Adam Holt (Boston)<br>
(Special Chicago guest/s from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://IITempoweringHaiti.org">http://IITempoweringHaiti.org</a> !)<br>
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<u>Please spread the word to our most effective global contributors
now</u>. I with match up rich volunteers with poor, just as I did
in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcSF.org/summit">http://olpcSF.org/summit</a>, to make sure housing and a few <u>select
airfares are covered, when truly exceptional talent is
demonstrated</u>. See you there!!<br>
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