[OLPC-NYC] FREE OLPC Repair+Training FEST - Cambridge, Mass - Sat Sept 18, NOON-3PM
Holt
holt at laptop.org
Mon Sep 13 18:50:17 EDT 2010
Be there or be square, at an event that might never happen again--
don't miss your rock star trainers who will be:
_Ian Daniher_: *pioneered the OLPC Community
Repair Center* in the spring of 2007, inspiring
many others around the world here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations
_Richard Smith_: *invented half this stuff*, anything and
everything XO, XO-1.5 and beyond, nevermind
you can't find a friendlier guy (north of Arkansas;
with apologies to Mary Lou Jepsen who May have
invented even more ;)
Come walk through the XO-1 de-bricking process, *learning critical
repair techniques* like this to protect your own XO investment and
helping tons of others globally, if the screen ever stops working etc:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_clock
http://olpc-france.org/blog/2010/09/date-systeme-invalide/
We'll also produce some *awesome new videos* for upcoming OLPC
deployments in the Midde East, meeting some of this region's
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_*Learning_Team* as well as surveying some
brand new XO-1.5 repair tricks!
When: 12 Noon to 3PM
Saturday, September 18
Where: OLPC Headquarters
1 Cambridge Center, 10th Floor
Kendall Square / MIT Red Line Subway Stop
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lunch: Included *if* you help de-brick at least 2 XOs,
for use by dedicated OLPC volunteers worldwide:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
RSVP: ALL WELCOME, families/friends and all ages,
but you must reply to holt @ laptop . org
(including your phone number, thanks)
/ Price: Enthusiasm -- Smile or you will NOT be admitted to OLPC!!/
Aside from our upcoming *Oct 21/22 - 24 San Francisco Community Summit*
(details *imminent* at http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010 ) you
will NOT find a more committed group of volunteer *fixers, tinkerers &
doers*, anywhere on our reduced, reused and recycled planet.
Thank you for joining in 5 days; Thanks for keeping it Real!//
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