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Welcome to all 5PM tonight -- 10+ have RSVP'd, several of whom are
traveling to Haiti in coming days/weeks for important projects --
optionally plz bring a small dessert or Haitian drink to our potluck
if poss!<br>
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<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed;
font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Community-organized Haitian
EduTech Dinner, Tuesday night 5PM SHARP:<br>
<br>
Tue Jan 25, 5PM
<br>
One Laptop per Child
<br>
1 Cambridge Center
<br>
Kendall Sq/MIT Red Line subway stop
<br>
<br>
Please join! Best of all, Boston's <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://Haitian-Coalition.org">http://Haitian-Coalition.org</a>
will
<br>
join our OLPC_Boston monthly community meeting to discuss
certain very
<br>
intriguing next-gen EduTech plans (OLPC, Sugar, <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open1to1.org">http://open1to1.org</a>
<br>
etc) emerging in Somerville Massachusetts, as well as the 400
OLPC
<br>
laptops shipping to Haiti shortly, with Waveplace's own Beth
<br>
Santos flying in to Boston en route to Haiti here:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://waveplace.org/news/blog/2011/01/22/t-4-750-haiti-laptops/">http://waveplace.org/news/blog/2011/01/22/t-4-750-haiti-laptops/</a>
<br>
<br>
Alongside deeply committed Haitian diasporas far beyond. Our 3
week
<br>
old olpcMAP workshop proved the unstoppable <b
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>force<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> of passion behind
<br>
grassroots deployments globally, just like those we'll be
discussing
<br>
in Haiti, with almost 500 projects/volunteers now vividly
emerging:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
<br>
<br>
Marina's blog (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com">http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com</a>)
is just 1 of many
<br>
now summarizing the incredible
volunteering-is-NOT-a-spectator-sport
<br>
work ongoing here:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://planet.laptop.org">http://planet.laptop.org</a>
<br>
<br>
We dearly hope to see you Tuesday -- with 9+ tangentially
related
<br>
trips to Haiti in Feb alone, among some very connected AND
deeply
<br>
dedicated Haitians-and-Friends education/tech thinkers and doers
<br>
in Boston here, it's clear there will be Tons to discuss!
<br>
<br>
Dinner is being prepared by extraordinary Haitian-American OLPC
<br>
volunteer Alexandra Merceron, entirely of her own initiative:
<br>
optionally feel free to bring desserts/drinks if you can &
RSVP!
<br>
<br>
Then join us taking the next step in this critical educational
<br>
design challenge -- 1 humble country at a time <span
class="moz-smiley-s3" title=";)"><span>;)</span></span>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Help kids everywhere map their world, at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a>
!<br>
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