[OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness

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Thanks to the great volunteers who joined the conf-call:

Now comes the fun part pulling together what may well be the biggest 
community summit OLPC/Sugar have ever had -- with a core focus on 
Deployment Realness around the SF Bay area /and/ deep testimonials / 
skill-building / expert educator-implementor sessions from around the world.

Hosted at San Francisco State University, right downtown, where Open 
Internet Culture began 40 years ago (or so it's argued!)  Expected to be 
co-hosted in SF dovetailing right alongside the Internet Archive's Oct 
21-22 "Books in Browsers" worldwide summit, not yet announced at 
http://archive.org reminding us all the keep our content strategies Real!

Organizers are just now beginning to reach our to truly special guests 
around the world, so our polished event page http://olpcSF.org will go 
live well before end of August.  Starting soon with 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010 
but with a High Impact main page much like http://Realness.org, opening 
a warm welcome, to large and small deployment professionals and 
volunteers worldwide.

It will be so exciting to finally meet the California crowd all 
together, many of whom have still never met each other now the "global 
silent heros" of our EdTech movement -- not just Silicon Valley but also 
real Valley Girls like Caryl Bigenho hopefully inviting several up from 
her rapidly expanding OLPC-SOCAL Gang!


The Scoop:

SFSU's Prof of Open Source & Free Beer Sameer Verma is in charge, with 
his truly exceptional OLPC-SF community, and welcomes all -- but please 
be patient as details emerge in the coming month.  Just watch out world 
for The no-nonsense, no-grudges, no-paparazzi REAL-as-it-Gets OLPC/Sugar 
party you will never forget :-)