[OLPC-NYC] NYC Community Summit Schedule - Saturday Nov 21st 1-4PM

[Adam Holt]

Hi to all people on the new One Laptop per Child (OLPC) / Sugar Labs NYC 
mailing list -- please forward & invite friends -- no registration 
required!  Do join tomorrow: /Learning innovators, Software carpenters, 
Community Marketing geniuses, Usability experts, Local teachers, 
Grassroots organizers, Hardware tinkerers, Artists, Quality/Support 
gurus -- All Welcome!/

Please read Mike Lee's beautiful intro to our NY City's Community Summit:

    Amping Up OLPC in NYC: Community Summit Nov 21
    http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_nyc_community_summit.html

Draft Schedule: (please hack the below schedule into 
*http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC* !!)

    12:30PM - early birds organize room (*133 West 46th St, **3rd Flr**)*

    1PM - Mike Lee - 30min - OLPC/Sugar backgrounder & immediate 
opportunities (30min)
               Sameer Verma - 5min - San Francisco's approach
               Caroline Meeks - 10min - Learning Goals, how Sugar 
supports them, Teacher Training: http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y 
<http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y/>
               Adam Holt - 5min - Community Innovation for All 
(perspectives from my insane current 6-country OLPC/Sugarific journey)

    2PM - Everyone introduces themselves, their perspective/questions on 
where we are after 2 years
                Everyone must vote for 1 NYC community idea they feel 
will have traction over the coming 2 years

    2:40 - Three brainstorming sessions, separately around {tech, 
teaching, twitteriffic etc}.
               How can NYC spur local projects(s) with structured 
sustainability?
               Can NYC use its place in the world to help build a 
worldwide action?

    3:20 -  Everyone re-congregate, explaining "on-whiteboard" your 
team's Conclusions / Strategies.

    4PM - Clean up - depart for dinner nearby!

We'll readjust around San Francisco's live co-hosted events as nec, 
wherever Professor Sameer Verma there feels live/Skype uplinks fit in 
around his own awesome schedule:

    
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009


> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org 
> <mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Caroline!
>
>     Can you please speak for exactly 10min towards the end of our 1st
>     hour?  Mike Lee will be our main presenter during the 1st hour
>     (starting 1PM).  Leave me a few min too, to explain this insane
>     6-country OLPC/Sugarific trip I'm currently on etc -- so
>     techie/teacher/twitter (movement-building) groups can then begin
>     to form/introduce very shortly after 2pm,
>     --A!
>
>
>
>     Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>         http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y/
>
>         I'm presenting this for school on Thursday. I could do a
>         version on Sat if you want, talking about the Learning Goals,
>         how Sugar supports them, and the ideas on how we might
>         approach teacher training.
>
>         Don't put me on first! There are not more bus slots on
>         Saturday so the 8:30 bus it is for me.
>
>         Cheers,
>         Caroline
>
>         -- 
>         Caroline Meeks
>         Solution Grove
>         Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
>         617-500-3488 - Office
>         505-213-3268 - Fax
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
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