[Olpc-socal] [IAEP] Weekly olpc/sugar MAP Jam #1 - LA/SoCal! (1PM PST Sunday)

[Christian Bryant]

Count me in!  Just be gentle with this newbie, please :)

Cheers,

Christian Bryant,
One Laptop Per Child
Support Volunteer #262
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/user:christianabryant


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> In 2009 Caryl Bigenho took the pioneering initiative of building the 1st
> known local (and lowercase ;) olpcMAP, showcasing ~10 Sugar/XO projects --
> long before olpcMAP.net itself reached 500 volunteer/projects --
> crystallizing and catalyzing a community now made up of well over 100
> Southern California volunteers:
>
>     http://j.mp/erEQQJ
>     http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects
>
> Thanks OLPC Southern California OSSIE (Open Source Software in Education!)
> We've come a long way Babe!
>
> Now, on Sunday 1PM PST (that's 4PM EST) we're coming together to reinforce
> Caryl's extensive+amazing "glocal" mentoring of projects around her city,
> and around the globe.  Much of this work done silently around
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program and not yet recognized by
> anyone at all!  And she's not the only one.
>
> So our "barn raising" will introducing new larger LA/Southern Calif edutech
> volunteers to the next level here -- to each other -- and to each others'
> projects we'll work together to showcase here:
>
>     http://olpcMAP.net/?go=southern_california
>
> In preparation for Feb 25-27's quite huge SCALE / Southern CA Linux Expo:
>
>     http://www.socalLinuxExpo.org/scale9x/
>
> Join us to raise !!
>
>     Sunday Feb 20, 1PM PST  (4PM EST)
>
>     +1 866 213-2185    or    +1 609 454-9914
>     Access Code: 1671650#
>
> Backchannel:
>
>     http://forum.laptop.org/chat
>     (that's #olpc-help on irc.freenode.net)
>
> Sunday we're all about to learn how far we've come, with OLPC/Sugar/edutech
> with along our favorite Hollwood iBoulevards & iHighways -- next week we'll
> be hitting the longer road exploring a new city/region each week, so think
> hard about those Sugar/OLPC teachers/kids projects in your own town that
> have done phenomenal stuff, WHY YOUR CITY IS DIFFERENT, and most important
> the secret dad/sister/mentors behind the scenes who deserves their fair
> shake / quiet honor around our global community map at long last
> (lowercase+UPPERCASE ;)
>
> Those who share the very most creative stories of grassroots/community
> accomplishment (whether told already in http://planet.laptop.org and
> http://planet.sugarlabs.org) or not, will receive a RED XO, as a month+ ago
> here, when so many similarly unknown talents were shared here:
>
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP/Trivia_Contest
>
> --
> Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net !
>
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