[OLPC-Chicago] chgo location
Rebecca Rubio
tacotaxi26 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 1 15:50:36 EST 2008
There's a restuarant called Weather Mark Inn - roomy with wiFi. If OLPC users buy food or drinks I'm sure they'll let us in. They open at 11:00 and usually don't look too busy at that time.
I heard public libraries allow you to reserve rooms for mtgs,
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I hope this will really be in the City of Chgo not suburbs. I'm in a wheelchair and am good at getting around anywhere downtown.
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Yo!
If you've got a few free minutes to help brainstorm, we need a good name
for the OLPC Chicago grassroots office coming full-time to a Chicago
near you (yes, this Chicago) this summer.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua/Braindumps/Chicago_office
Go! And look for a big announcement/launch around the week of March 10
with many more details than this teaser contains.
-Mel
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From: Mel Chua
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Re: location accessibility to wheelchairs, etc. (and people who use
public transport)
We hope it'll be closer to the city as well, but it's really dependent
on where we can find space that we can afford. Any pointers towards
cheap/free/donated office space - even as a temporary summer locale so
we can get operations underway while figuring out whether/where/how to
do a longer-term lease - would be very helpful, if anyone on this list
has leads or suggestions.
(I'll also point out that there's a *lot* of Illinois outside the
Chicago area, and a lot of great schools and people - having
/everything/ in the city is a bit more location-exclusive than I'd
personally like - but that's me.)
The current default fallback (100% guaranteed to be possible) is "the
basement of the house all the staff members are living in," but that's
hardly optimal, because that house is out in the suburbs, about an hour
away by train.
One option under serious consideration is not having a physical base
(outside of the place we're sleeping), but instead making an XO Lab In A
Van, and having project hackathons and events hosted in different
locations across IL each time - that's a lot of overhead and
coordination, but it's possible if the IL OLPC community would be
willing to help host.
But again - many things are getting pinned down for the office right
now, and a lot more information with much less vague hand-waving will be
forthcoming in the announcement a weekend-and-a-week from now.
In the meantime, folks - we're coming to IL this summer for *you*, so
what do you want, what would you like to see, what would you want a
grassroots office space (or roaming van) to do? Want us to help you host
a hackathon or Jam? A "summer camp" or course on electronics,
programming, graphic design, curriculum creation, translation,
wiki-tinkering, Linux, Sugar, Python? Gearing up for pilot programs in
the fall (what schools? each school needs its own dedicated group of
support volunteers). Internships? Support for and/or work on
research/scholarly papers/conferences on XO/constructi(vi/ioni)st
learning? Approaching local governments? Repairs?
Note, please, that all these things *can* be done by grassroots and
university groups (that's you!), right now - my take on it is that the
role of staff this summer is to help nucleate *your* projects, not to
sweep everything under our giant umbrella; we don't want to be a giant
umbrella, but more of a spark that zips from place to place, connecting,
helping, and catalyzing where we can. We'll be here as full-time
resources - please use us.
What would you like to see us do? (We've got some rough project/charter
ideas, but want to hear yours - brainstorm a bit yourself before reading
on.)
Our thoughts for 4 main projects so far - not that these would be the
only things we'd help out on or work with, but that these are the
projects the staff members themselves will probably be doing, as their
personal creation-mission for the summer (use
http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php for translation):
* Bss-tevq cbjre trarengvba. Cebgbglcvat punetref jvgu gur vagrag bs
gheavat bhg abg whfg fbzr svavfurq qrfvtaf, ohg n ersrerapr gung bguref
pna fgneg sebz sbe znxvat gurve bja pbzcyrgryl qvssrerag punetre qrfvtaf
(onfvp ryrpgebavpf, fcrpf, zngrevnyf fbheprf, rgp - na bss-tevq-cbjre
pbbxobbx gung rapbhentrf rkcrevzragngvba.)
* Ercnve Pragref Va N Obk - n
uneqjner/fbsgjner/ragercerarhefuvc/erfbhepr xvg gung jvyy arrq nf yvggyr
genafyngvba nf cbffvoyr (aba-yvathvfgvp qrfvta - urnil hfr bs cvpgherf
naq fvzcyr ibpnohynel gb pbzzhavpngr cbffvoyl pbzcyrk gbcvpf).
* Npprffvovyvgl/Urnygu - qrirybc crevcurenyf naq fbsgjner fb gung xvqf
jvgu fcrpvny arrqf pna hfr gur KB; qbirgnvyf dhvgr pybfryl jvgu rkvfgvat
rssbegf gb znxr urnygu/zrqvpny eryngrq KB-onfrq zngrevnyf.
* Cvybg qngn funevat - gur dhrfgvba bs "jung unccraf jura lbh chg gurfr
va n fpubby?" arrqf gb or frevbhfyl gnpxyrq ng na rqhpngvba erfrnepu
yriry; jung fbeg bs dhrfgvbaf/cebwrpgf/crbcyr/vasenfgehpgher arrq gb or
chg va cynpr gb trg n tbbq ybpny zrgn-haqrefgnaqvat bs jung'f unccravat
va lbhe pynffebbzf, naq ubj pna jr cebgbglcr cebprffrf gung znxr vg rnfl
sbe cvybgf gb funer guvf qngn jvgu rnpu bgure naq rkgreany erfrnepuref,
naq sbe rirelbar gb jbex jvgu naq hfr gur qngn gung'f tvira?
Discuss. I'll try to port the ensuing discussion to wiki (help welcome,
as usual).
-Mel
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