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

[Holt]

OLPC's Lidet Tilahun, currently based out of Ethiopia -- who helps 
coordinate/negotiate many large OLPC projects in their early stages 
around Africa, is sadly unable to join us due to a wedding -- but will 
call in Sunday approx 2PM or soon after our meal.

We are honored to have her presence, and deep voice of experience, 
however briefly!


Holt wrote:
> Great I've received over a dozen RSVP's for Noon Sunday (incl 3+ 
> deployment people very recently returned from East/West Africa) but 
> the restaurant wants a more precise count -- plz RSVP to me now if you 
> haven't!
>
>
> Holt 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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