[OLPC-SF] I'm new here

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Kirrily Robert <skud at infotrope.net> wrote:
> I'm also new and was thinking of coming along on Saturday.  I wanted to ask
> -- what do you do for lunch, since the meeting runs 10am-2pm?
>

When we meet in the downtown SF area, there are plenty of choices.
This meeting is over at SFSU's main campus and the closest place for
food is the Stonestown mall. You are welcome to bring in boxed lunch
though.

> About me: I'm an open source geek, got an OLPC during the Give One Get One
> program a year or so back, haven't used it for much since then, though I
> keep it in the kitchen for looking up recipes etc since it's a bit more
> food-proof than my other laptops ;)  I spent some time in Vanuatu in the
> southwest Pacific in 2007 where I worked with a friend who was looking at
> getting OLPCs for kids there, so I'm interested from that perspective too.
> Some of my blog posts about Vanuatu: http://infotrope.net/blog/tag/vanuatu/
>
> I recently read about the Wellington, NZ OLPC group and wondered if there
> was something similar here, and found this mailing list.
>
> K.
>
>
> --
> Kirrily Robert
> skud at infotrope.net
> http://infotrope.net
>

The more the merrier! See you Saturday.

Sameer
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Director, Center for Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
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