[OLPC-NYC] OLPC at Google NYC Geo-Hackathon

[Nicholas Doiron]

Hi OLPC-NY,

I'm an engineering student volunteering programming and content for OLPC.
Google announced a "Geo Hackathon" session at their NYC office on Nov.
20th (day before the OLPC/Sugar summit!).

I hope to represent the new Map Activity (
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Map ) and get advice on a larger
activity that I'm working on, related to Citizen Science. For those not
familiar with the concept, citizen science projects such as Cornell's
Urban Birds ( http://www.birds.cornell.edu/celebration/ ) and U.
Carolina's Project Budburst (
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/resources.php ) rely
on amateur scientists to report their observations to determine
big-picture trends in biology and climatology.  It's an ideal real-world
project for science classes, and each XO laptop has the tools to take
part.

If you can attend the 11/20 event and would be interested in working on
this science & mapping project, please let me know soon so you can
register for the Google event.

Regards,
Nick Doiron
Student, Carnegie Mellon University
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/CitizenScience