<div><BR>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>I heard public libraries allow you to reserve rooms for mtgs,</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>olpc-chicago-request@lists.laptop.org</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Send OLPC-Chicago mailing list submissions to<BR>olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago<BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>olpc-chicago-request@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>olpc-chicago-owner@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than
"Re: Contents of OLPC-Chicago digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR>1. Windy City's OLPC (Rebecca Rubio)<BR>2. Re: Windy City's OLPC (Mel Chua)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:28:40 -0800 (PST)<BR>From: Rebecca Rubio <TACOTAXI26@YAHOO.COM><BR>Subject: [OLPC-Chicago] Windy City's OLPC<BR>To: olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID: <638544.91948.qm@web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>olpc-chicago-request@lists.laptop.org wrote: Send OLPC-Chicago mailing list submissions to<BR>olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago<BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help'
to<BR>olpc-chicago-request@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>olpc-chicago-owner@lists.laptop.org<BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of OLPC-Chicago digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR>1. Name That Office contest (Mel Chua)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:37:06 -0500<BR>From: Mel Chua <BR>Subject: [OLPC-Chicago] Name That Office contest<BR>To: olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID: <47C7A812.2010408@melchua.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>Yo!<BR><BR>If you've got a few free minutes to help brainstorm, we need a good name <BR>for the OLPC Chicago grassroots office coming full-time to a Chicago <BR>near you (yes, this Chicago) this summer.<BR><BR>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua/Braindumps/Chicago_office<BR><BR>Go!
And look for a big announcement/launch around the week of March 10 <BR>with many more details than this teaser contains.<BR><BR>-Mel<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OLPC-Chicago mailing list<BR>OLPC-Chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago<BR><BR><BR>End of OLPC-Chicago Digest, Vol 7, Issue 12<BR>*******************************************<BR><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-chicago/attachments/20080229/bb56c487/attachment-0001.htm <BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 2<BR>Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:54:36 -0500<BR>From: Mel Chua <MEL@MELCHUA.COM><BR>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Chicago] Windy City's OLPC<BR>To: olpc-chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>Message-ID: <47C8FDAC.8080600@melchua.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>Re: location
accessibility to wheelchairs, etc. (and people who use <BR>public transport)<BR><BR>We hope it'll be closer to the city as well, but it's really dependent <BR>on where we can find space that we can afford. Any pointers towards <BR>cheap/free/donated office space - even as a temporary summer locale so <BR>we can get operations underway while figuring out whether/where/how to <BR>do a longer-term lease - would be very helpful, if anyone on this list <BR>has leads or suggestions.<BR><BR>(I'll also point out that there's a *lot* of Illinois outside the <BR>Chicago area, and a lot of great schools and people - having <BR>/everything/ in the city is a bit more location-exclusive than I'd <BR>personally like - but that's me.)<BR><BR>The current default fallback (100% guaranteed to be possible) is "the <BR>basement of the house all the staff members are living in," but that's <BR>hardly optimal, because that house is out in the suburbs, about an hour <BR>away by train.<BR><BR>One
option under serious consideration is not having a physical base <BR>(outside of the place we're sleeping), but instead making an XO Lab In A <BR>Van, and having project hackathons and events hosted in different <BR>locations across IL each time - that's a lot of overhead and <BR>coordination, but it's possible if the IL OLPC community would be <BR>willing to help host.<BR><BR>But again - many things are getting pinned down for the office right <BR>now, and a lot more information with much less vague hand-waving will be <BR>forthcoming in the announcement a weekend-and-a-week from now.<BR><BR>In the meantime, folks - we're coming to IL this summer for *you*, so <BR>what do you want, what would you like to see, what would you want a <BR>grassroots office space (or roaming van) to do? Want us to help you host <BR>a hackathon or Jam? A "summer camp" or course on electronics, <BR>programming, graphic design, curriculum creation, translation, <BR>wiki-tinkering, Linux, Sugar,
Python? Gearing up for pilot programs in <BR>the fall (what schools? each school needs its own dedicated group of <BR>support volunteers). Internships? Support for and/or work on <BR>research/scholarly papers/conferences on XO/constructi(vi/ioni)st <BR>learning? Approaching local governments? Repairs?<BR><BR>Note, please, that all these things *can* be done by grassroots and <BR>university groups (that's you!), right now - my take on it is that the <BR>role of staff this summer is to help nucleate *your* projects, not to <BR>sweep everything under our giant umbrella; we don't want to be a giant <BR>umbrella, but more of a spark that zips from place to place, connecting, <BR>helping, and catalyzing where we can. We'll be here as full-time <BR>resources - please use us.<BR><BR>What would you like to see us do? (We've got some rough project/charter <BR>ideas, but want to hear yours - brainstorm a bit yourself before reading <BR>on.)<BR><BR>Our thoughts for 4 main projects so
far - not that these would be the <BR>only things we'd help out on or work with, but that these are the <BR>projects the staff members themselves will probably be doing, as their <BR>personal creation-mission for the summer (use <BR>http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php for translation):<BR><BR>* Bss-tevq cbjre trarengvba. Cebgbglcvat punetref jvgu gur vagrag bs <BR>gheavat bhg abg whfg fbzr svavfurq qrfvtaf, ohg n ersrerapr gung bguref <BR>pna fgneg sebz sbe znxvat gurve bja pbzcyrgryl qvssrerag punetre qrfvtaf <BR>(onfvp ryrpgebavpf, fcrpf, zngrevnyf fbheprf, rgp - na bss-tevq-cbjre <BR>pbbxobbx gung rapbhentrf rkcrevzragngvba.)<BR><BR>* Ercnve Pragref Va N Obk - n <BR>uneqjner/fbsgjner/ragercerarhefuvc/erfbhepr xvg gung jvyy arrq nf yvggyr <BR>genafyngvba nf cbffvoyr (aba-yvathvfgvp qrfvta - urnil hfr bs cvpgherf <BR>naq fvzcyr ibpnohynel gb pbzzhavpngr cbffvoyl pbzcyrk gbcvpf).<BR><BR>* Npprffvovyvgl/Urnygu - qrirybc crevcurenyf naq fbsgjner fb gung xvqf <BR>jvgu fcrpvny
arrqf pna hfr gur KB; qbirgnvyf dhvgr pybfryl jvgu rkvfgvat <BR>rssbegf gb znxr urnygu/zrqvpny eryngrq KB-onfrq zngrevnyf.<BR><BR>* Cvybg qngn funevat - gur dhrfgvba bs "jung unccraf jura lbh chg gurfr <BR>va n fpubby?" arrqf gb or frevbhfyl gnpxyrq ng na rqhpngvba erfrnepu <BR>yriry; jung fbeg bs dhrfgvbaf/cebwrpgf/crbcyr/vasenfgehpgher arrq gb or <BR>chg va cynpr gb trg n tbbq ybpny zrgn-haqrefgnaqvat bs jung'f unccravat <BR>va lbhe pynffebbzf, naq ubj pna jr cebgbglcr cebprffrf gung znxr vg rnfl <BR>sbe cvybgf gb funer guvf qngn jvgu rnpu bgure naq rkgreany erfrnepuref, <BR>naq sbe rirelbar gb jbex jvgu naq hfr gur qngn gung'f tvira?<BR><BR>Discuss. I'll try to port the ensuing discussion to wiki (help welcome, <BR>as usual).<BR><BR>-Mel<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OLPC-Chicago mailing list<BR>OLPC-Chicago@lists.laptop.org<BR>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-chicago<BR><BR><BR>End of
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