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

Fri Sep 19 19:26:32 EDT 2014

Thanks OLPC (Malay)Asia you're our inspiration to the entire world, where
the OLPC community & movement is headed next.  I just hope the propaganda
department's new OLPC film (
http://blog.laptop.org/2014/09/19/the-award-winning-documentary-film-web-will-have-its-global-release-next-week/)
makes proper mention of people like yourself who made this all happen!

Wish you were here back in the center of the universe (who said NYC has an
ego ;) where we have a full booth this year at http://makerfaire.com shared
with the true Saints of Wikipedia. The very guys who came out of nowhere 10
years ago and taught us What Our Grassroots Civic Learning Movement Can Be!

Actually it was the gals who engineered this children affair first :) Last
year with ~75,000 people attending, most of them families, bringing far
more kids than most OLPC meetups, growing far beyond the geek ghettos,
where so many other civic hacktivist havens plateau in their own echo
chamber...

So do join, Turning Learning into Burning (just don't play with matches, we
have soldering irons to rewire the planet for that!) Can't miss our
booth/tables in "Zone 2" if you ask...

What's Needed: help the masses refurb/reflash their 7-year-old XO's to
HaitiOS or similar - involve them in our new work building proper KidsLabs
in Haiti, Africa and beyond - show off Android on XO-4 - show off OLPC
Release 13.2.1 and new Sugars - show off School Server 5.1 (Community
Edition, with new hardware AND Internet-in-a-Box AND solar battery monitor,
Etc!)

Perhaps Most Important: please email in advance to help us provide better
mentoring/love on Sunday when many of us volunteers have to return by
Greyhound to our home cities across the Northeast and Canada. Even if you
just want to hand out postcards/shirts, and challenge families to write an
email while powering an XO solely with a hand crank, then do invite them to
serve more deeply overseas like Sean Collins leaving to Haiti Tuesday!

All volunteers most graciously welcome; just help us to unleash kids around
the world in your own way, to act on their consciences like Ed Snowden &
Laura Poitras or any other DIY/OpenStreetMap constructors who inspire
Paying It Forward, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL !!
On Sep 16, 2014 4:15 AM, "T.K. Kang" <tsikit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good to hear things are happening! Here is something on this side of the
> world. Just booked my flight with MAS from HK to Malaysia (or somewhere).
>
> To continue the Basecamp2013 fires I will be doing 5 workshops to get
> people/students interested in OLPC and the mobile Open learning Chest
> (mOLC)  in Penang from Nov 15-16. Small fires needs a little fanning to get
> the burning going again. If there are anything I can demo do let me know!
>
> http://www.pscpen.com/workshop-one/
>
> If anyone of you want to visit Malaysia and do a  basecamp2014 trek let me
> know. I make my way from Penang/Pahang/KL/Malacca
>
> Save up for next year if you can't make it this year.
>
> .Hopefully we can all meet for the the 10 years of XoD in 2015. Like the
> last basecamp2013 we self-organise
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> That's really incredible news Richard.  Carolina Brum (McGill Univ
>> musical/artistic sensor hacker PhD) also wants to share tablespace with
>> us.  She can reply with more demo details to be sure!  EG if that's OK with
>> you; would we/she (
>> http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/carolina-brum-medeiros/19/51/385) also have
>> access to a bit of electricity?
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>>
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