[olpc-nz] Catering for our testing this saturday

[tara_robertson at yahoo.com]

Fun! Tabitha do you want me to stop by your place to pick up the XOs to bring to this?

It sucks when there's more people than computers.

Cheers,
tara

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz> wrote:

> From: Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz>
> Subject: [olpc-nz] Catering for our testing this saturday
> To: olpc-nz at lists.laptop.org
> Received: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 5:32 PM
> National Library are hosting a
> hackfest this Saturday.
> 
> They'd love for the OLPC testing group to turn up - and
> they're
> putting on catering for us too.
> Edward and I will be there (Tabitha's in Auckland). It'll
> be great for
> the rest of the team to show up.
> 
> See below, it's 10am-5pm, Saturday 20 June 2009
> Lower ground floor conference room, National Library of New
> Zealand
> Corner of Molesworth & Aitken Streets, Wellington
> 
> If you can RSVP to me or to Jo Eaton below by Friday that
> would be
> great. They say they have kept 15 places for us, but would
> like to
> know how much coffee/pastry/pizza/beer to order for us.
> 
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: Hey Brenda,
> Date: Monday 08 June 2009
> From: "Jo Eaton" <Jo.Eaton at natlib.govt.nz>
> To: brenda at catalyst.net.nz
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> 10am-5pm, Saturday 20 June 2009
> Lower ground floor conference room, National Library of New
> Zealand
> Corner of Molesworth & Aitken Streets, Wellington
> 
> Come along and
> - Give our API a decent thrashing
> - Whip up some code samples to help other developers
> kick-start their
> own creations
> - Make nice stuff!
> - Consume pizza, beer and sugary confections
> - Score secret freebies - so secret, even we don't know
> what they are yet
> 
> Bring yourself and your laptop. We'll provide the WiFi.
> This is a low-key event - feel free to come along for
> however long you
> can, even just a couple of hours.
> 
> RSVP to jo.eaton at natlib.govt.nz
> 
> DigitalNZ Search aggregates information about NZ digital
> content from
> more than 40 content providers and makes them available via
> an API.
> You can get a  glimpse of what's inside at http://search.digitalnz.org
> 
> Here are just a few examples of what you could get up to:
> - Image analysis of thumbnails and search by colour
> - Build an advanced search based on DigitalNZ facets
> - Example mashup with Eventfinder
> - Road-test the Ruby Gem
> - Extend the DigitalNZ Timeline app from MIT's Simile
> project
> 
> A few designery-CSS-type-folk will also be in attendance,
> if you would
> like to make your app look pretty.
> 
> We hope to see you there.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Jo Eaton
> Community Manager
> DigitalNZ
> Ph 04 474 3134 (ext 8785)
> 
> 
> 
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