[Olpc-open] G1G1 launch parties!

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

My experience tells me that younger kids are fascinated by chat (if there
are multiple xos) and record, and they like the cartoon builder, speak, and
the puzzles. I just upgraded my xos to the new release -- sadly, my day job
and family issues intervened -- and am systematically trying the latest
versions of activities.  I plan to try my theory out in my kids' old k8
school and our local library.  As a Life Member of Girl Scouts and an ex
leader, I thought of offering to come to assorted Brownie and Junior
meetings as well. But we'll see how the first few go.  I feel that we are
still not quite production quality for unsupervised use by very young kids,
and older kids here in Silicon Valley may be too jaded by having fast, new
computers at home.

I want to offer a parent-child meet-up so that parents know what they are
getting this time and there isn't so much aggravation.  I'd like to set up a
dual boot with the other boot being Debian or Ubuntu with media codecs and
Skype installed, to show its utility as a mobile laptop to the parents.I
also think we need to emphasize the "Give 1" half of the equation.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com>
> wrote:
> > I think public library children's sections, especially around story time
> and
> > after school.
>
> What activities would you suggest at these locations?
>
> > Offer to do a special program for after school programs at
> > public schools, aimed at early graders.  Have a stack of flyers for them
> to
> > take to their parents.
>
> Great idea. Again, what would you suggest that we put on these flyers?
> I can help put something together that can be used by others who wish
> to run similar programs/presentations.
>
> Sameer
>
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I hear you.  I don't know of anything in LA yet...
> >> >
> >> > SF will hopefully have a little something -- Sameer, what do you
> >> > think?  update us after your meeting tomorrow :-)
> >> >
> >>
> >> We had our meeting today. Will post slides and photos in a bit.
> >> Nothing planned for a release party as yet...just got off the plane
> >> last night and still jetlagged. Here are some ideas:
> >>
> >> 1) show up at their neighborhood Starbucks and Borders stores in
> >> groups toting their XOs :-)
> >> 2) Take your XO with you wherever you go. To the restaurant, movie,
> >> the park, etc.
> >> 3) still thinking...
> >>
> >> Sameer
> >>
> >> > SJ
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Thom Uber <uberthom at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> Looking for ANYTHING in Los Angeles
> >> >>
> >> >> On Nov 14, 2008 11:37 AM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> This is the weekend for G1G1 launch parties around the world.
> >> >>
> >> >> DC and SF are having regularly scheduled meetings (though I don't
> know
> >> >> what they are doing sunday night -- come party with us!), and here in
> >> >> Cambridge the Boston-area OLPC community are hosting a Ground Zero
> >> >> G1G1 party, to celebrate the birthday of the 567,890th XO and the
> >> >> one-year anniversary of the xo giving program.
> >> >>
> >> >> It seems we've just grown out of the original venue planned for the
> >> >> event, so I'm doing a quick check to see who will be in town and
> >> >> interested in a little Pantone 361-tinted celebration, to help
> reserve
> >> >> a suitable place.
> >> >>
> >> >> If you are
> >> >> * going to be within 100km of Cambridge this Sunday
> >> >> * considering coming to our party
> >> >> * no longer on the FBI's Most Wanted list  (we don't want to get shut
> >> >> down again)
> >> >>
> >> >> Please send me an offlist email with "G1G1 party" in the subject
> line,
> >> >> the # of people you'd be bringing, and your probability of attending.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!
> >> >> SJ
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