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

[Holt]

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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