[OLPC-NYC] OLPC NYC/Bronx Brunch - TOPIC: East/West Africa - Sun July 25
Holt
holt at laptop.org
Wed Jun 30 16:18:33 EDT 2010
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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