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Awesome we've a dozen+ truly wonderful RSVPs for Saturday's Clinic:
coming from as far away as 7hrs down the road in Rochester NY (go
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://foss.rit.edu/blog">http://foss.rit.edu/blog</a> !), New Jersey, and even some exotic land
called CaliFilippines, but can you guess the Furthest?? (*)<br>
<br>
OLPC's VP of Hardware Engineering is working with me to find some
really cool door prizes as a result, so no this ain't Cuba where even
BIC lighters are repaired, but nor did we imagine how successful this
skillbuilding/videomaking event (helping Palestinian kids & beyond)
would become...<i>welcome All Olin College students :)</i><br>
<br>
And with particular apologies to those atoning as part of Yom Kippur
who cannot participate this Saturday, I dearly hope all can participate
online later -- empowering overlooked+marginalized kids in all
countries -- with our growing library of How-To-Vids that I'd *love*
for someone to step forward and begin curating, organizing the best
here just like Wikipedia does?<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Disassembly">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Disassembly</a><br>
<br>
Thanks & See Y'all Soon, Saturday Noon, working fast to earn your
free lunch!<br>
<br>
(*) sorry Philippines SuperCherry @
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://queakland.org/about/people/bio.jsp?id=60">http://queakland.org/about/people/bio.jsp?id=60</a> we actually have
several great volunteers from Kazakhstan arriving; wonderful folks
whose names are *not* Borat, but might give you all your first taste of
Kazakh Cuisine ;)<br>
<br>
<br>
Holt wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C8EAAA9.4080005@laptop.org" type="cite">Be there
or be square, at an event that might never happen again--<br>
don't miss your rock star trainers who will be:<br>
<br>
<u>Ian Daniher</u>: <b>pioneered the OLPC Community<br>
Repair Center</b> in the spring of 2007, inspiring<br>
many others around the world here:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations</a><br>
<br>
<u>Richard Smith</u>: <b>invented half this stuff</b>, anything and<br>
everything XO, XO-1.5 and beyond, nevermind<br>
you can't find a friendlier guy (north of Arkansas;<br>
with apologies to Mary Lou Jepsen who May have<br>
invented even more ;)<br>
<br>
Come walk through the XO-1 de-bricking process, <b>learning critical<br>
repair techniques</b> like this to protect your own XO investment and<br>
helping tons of others globally, if the screen ever stops working etc:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_clock">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_clock</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpc-france.org/blog/2010/09/date-systeme-invalide/">http://olpc-france.org/blog/2010/09/date-systeme-invalide/</a><br>
<br>
We'll also produce some <b>awesome new videos</b> for upcoming OLPC<br>
deployments in the Midde East, meeting some of this region's<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_</a><b>Learning_Team</b>
as well as surveying
some<br>
brand new XO-1.5 repair tricks!<br>
<br>
When: 12 Noon to 3PM<br>
Saturday, September 18<br>
<br>
Where: OLPC Headquarters<br>
1 Cambridge Center, 10th Floor<br>
Kendall Square / MIT Red Line Subway Stop<br>
Cambridge, Massachusetts<br>
<br>
Lunch: Included *if* you help de-brick at least 2 XOs,<br>
for use by dedicated OLPC volunteers worldwide:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program</a><br>
<br>
RSVP: ALL WELCOME, families/friends and all ages,<br>
but you must reply to holt @ laptop . org<br>
(including your phone number, thanks)<br>
<br>
<i> Price: Enthusiasm -- Smile or you will NOT be admitted to
OLPC!!</i><br>
<br>
Aside from our upcoming <b>Oct 21/22 - 24 San Francisco Community
Summit</b><br>
(details *imminent* at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010">http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010</a>
) you<br>
will NOT find a more committed group of volunteer <b>fixers, tinkerers
&<br>
doers</b>, anywhere on our reduced, reused and recycled planet.<br>
Thank you for joining in 5 days; Thanks for keeping it Real!<br>
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