[OLPC-NYC] OLPC NYC/Bronx Brunch - TOPIC: East/West Africa - Sun July 25

[Marife Mago]

Hi Joanne,

Yes, most definitely .  I really hope that we can tap students from
different colleges and universities within the vicinity.


~marife



On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Joanne Clemente <Joanne.Clemente at dc.edu>wrote:

> This sounds great to me. I would like some students to get involved and
> this would help to orient them.
> ________________________________________
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> On Behalf Of Marife Mago [marife.mago at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 12:07 PM
> To: OLPC NYC
> Subject: Re: [OLPC-NYC] OLPC NYC/Bronx Brunch - TOPIC: East/West Africa -
>     Sun July 25
>
> Thanks Adam!
>
> We should definitely take advantage of the weather.  There are some
> suggestion on a plan for a regular meet up for OLPC-NYC group.  In which we
> can schedule it either the last Saturday or last Sunday of the month,
> whichever is feasible to everyone.
>
> Here are some of the activities for the meet up that I've gathered so far.
>
> 1.  Meet up session for old and new OLPC_NYC members "XO for Dummies"
> (using the xo, sugar activities, trouble shooting)
>
> 2.  XO activity development 'XO Hackathon' for programmers who would want
> to meet and colllaborate with existing new sugar development or new sugar
> activity.  (e.g George Hunt's Xophoto activity etc...) or it can be a how to
> start developing acitivities in XO.
>
> 3.  SoaS (Sugar on Stick 101) and activity session
>
> 4.  Deployment gathering and sharing session
>
> 5. etc...
>
> Suggestion for activities and venues are welcome.  Interested to facilitate
> above activities? Plz email us.
>
> Feel free to visit our wiki page for upcoming events.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC-NYC
>
> Our facebook group: One Laptop per Child - NYC
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Laptop-Per-Child-NYC/131242860240611<
> http://tinyurl.com/2b8hrya>
>
> Our twitter updates: @olpcnyc, #olpcnyc
>
> Thanks and hope to see everyone in our upcoming events.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Holt <holt at laptop.org<mailto:
> holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
> Marife Mago wrote:
> can we include here our initial meet-up can be earlier before brunch or
> after brunch?
>
> Yes, let's meet afterwards 2PM or soon after, for those serious about
> driving forward partic projects.
>
> I'm quite happy to improvise walking to a nearby park/cafe/oceanfront etc
> at that time -- Soundview Park is just a few min to the South, or we can
> follow others' suggestions...
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Holt <holt at laptop.org<mailto:
> holt at laptop.org>> wrote:
>
> Why:
>
>   OLPC/Sugar community volunteers working in East Africa (Uganda,
>   Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, etc) updating each/others working in West
>   Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, etc) on their progress.
>
>   The restaurant is a few blocks away from where the famous incident
>   of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo occurred.  The restaurant building
>   is connected to the NYS Assemblyman Diaz clinic named after Diallo.
>
>   We might even allow discussion of Sao Tome & Principe from
>    http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com<http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com/> since
> Beth is in fact flying thru
>    NYC on her way back from Africa, exactly then :)
>
> Date:
>
>   12 NOON
>   Sunday July 25th
>
> Location:
>
>   Fouta Food Corp Restaurant
>   1762 Westchester Ave (Subway #6 Uptown Bronx St. Lawrence station)
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_%28New_York_City_Subway_service%29
>   Between Commonwealth & St Lawrence Aves.
>   Bronx NY 10472
>
>   Tel: 718 792 1700
>   Owner / Manager: Amadou
>
> Menu:
>
>   We've spoken to Amadou and he intends to provide West African's best.
>   The menu is very affordable.  He'll be glad to know what would be
>   your favorite dishes, wishing the very best for our team!
>
> Please forward as appropriate, joining our open-community conversation:
>
>   http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC
>   http://twitter.com/olpcnyc
>
> 1729 and Present Day Maps:
>
> [ http://www.waado.org/cgi-bin/Historical/MapOfWestAfrica_1729.jpg ]
> [ http://www.donparrish.com/images/EastAfricaMap.jpg ]
>
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> --
> Cheers,
> @marife
>
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