[OLPC-NYC] [UKids] Is anyone going to Maker Faire in NYC this year?

Pharos pharosofalexandria at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 16:30:39 EDT 2014


I think we'll have some extra space at the Wikimedia NYC booth this
weekend, if some of you would like to bring your OLPCs, maybe signage, and
do outreach with us Wiki-folk.

Thanks,
Richard

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> Unexpectedly over a dozen people across the Northeast (Virginia/DC,
> Toronto, Philly, Montreal, Boston) have now organized making the big trip
> to http://makerfaire.com NYC Sept 20-21, giving us all a chance to
> explain in person Cultures of Invention being unleashed this year in
> Haiti/Ghana/etc.
>
> Thanks Steve & Nick for kicking us each+all to speak up on some exciting
> international action not yet published on http://planet.laptop.org !
>
> Already in NYC?  Even better!  Details soon on when/where to meet up
> Saturday/Sunday mornings/evenings in just over 2 weeks (and don't forget
> your bikes ;)
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nick,
>>
>> Great look forward to meeting you and others there.  Also if we have some
>> XO's we can create lanyards for them and use them as "walking billboards".
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Nick Doiron <ndoiron at mapmeld.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve!
>>>
>>> We're going to have a few people going from Unleash Kids / OLPC + Haiti
>>> network. No plans for a booth, but maybe flyers would be a good idea.
>>>
>>> I work in NYC now (at MoMA), so I'm definitely going. We should all meet
>>> up sometime during Maker Faire if not sooner.
>>>
>>> -- Nick Doiron
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Will there be another stealth setup for UnleashKids this year?  If not
>>>> is anyone going?
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>>>> ---
>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
>>>> Groups "Unleash Kids" group.
>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
>>>> an email to unleashkids+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  --
>>> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>>> ---
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
>>> Groups "Unleash Kids" group.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
>>> an email to unleashkids+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> To some of us, writing computer programs is a fascinating game. A program
>> is a building of thought. It is costless to build, weightless, growing
>> easily under our typing hands. If we get carried away, its size and
>> complexity will grow out of control, confusing even the one who created it.
>> This is the main problem of programming. It is why so much of today's
>> software tends to crash, fail, screw up.
>>
>> When a program works, it is beautiful. The art of programming is the
>> skill of controlling complexity. The great program is subdued, made simple
>> in its complexity.
>>
>> - Martin Harverbeke (from Eloquent JavaScript
>> <http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html>)
>>
>> --
>> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLPC-NYC mailing list
> OLPC-NYC at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-nyc/attachments/20140915/db9db25b/attachment.html>


More information about the OLPC-NYC mailing list