[Olpc-socal] olpc-SoCal Update for Kennet... and everyone else!

[John Kim]

Hi, 

Ah, I guess traveling explains why Braddock hasn't been able to respond lately. I've been trying to get in touch with him on some efforts for the IiaB project.

Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Kenneth and All...
>SCaLE already does an "OSSIE" Day of sorts with an Education track on
>Friday and an event on Saturday when the youth plan a lot of
>activities. We could certainly offer to do more in both of these. 
>Also, wouldn't it be great if we could combine with some of the other
>OSSIE organizations to have a larger (double or triple) booth at SCaLE 
>with lots of stations for youngsters to do hands on things while their
>parents (and other adults) learn more about the possibilities of OSSIE?
>XO's, Sugar, RPis, Scratch, EToys, etc... the possibilities seem
>endless. We need to think about this!
>The internet-in-a-box project is very alive and well! We have a small
>installation in a school in a women's shelter in Los Angeles. Braddock
>Gaskill went to Toronto (or was it Boston?) to work with George Hunt,
>Adam Holt, and others on the latest server software for the XO family.
>Several installations are being done in other countries. Maybe Braddock
>can fill us in on more of the details.
>As of today, there are about 20% of you added to the new mailing list.
>I'll keep on working on it until everyone has been added. Then we will
>start using it.
>Caryl
>P.S. BTW... this year was the first time we attended the Game Night at
>SCaLE on Saturday. It was wonderful! We'll plan to get there earlier
>next year and do a lot more participation! Maybe we could even sponsor
>some sort of game???
>
>
>
>> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:39:53 -0700
>> From: kmw at caltek.net
>> To: olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Re: [Olpc-socal] SoCal-OSSIE Will Be Ready To Use Soon!
>> 
>> what's happening with the internet in the box with olpc? hopefully
>scale
>> will let us plan an OSSIE day and sessions.
>> 
>> On Sat, August 31, 2013 8:02 am, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> 
>> I am in the process of moving us to our new Google Group mailing
>list,
>> "SoCal-OSSIE." It will take several days to get you all added to the
>list
>> since Google doesn't like it if you add too many people at once…  I
>guess
>> it helps cut down on the junk mail. It also takes a while as I have
>to
>> carefully cut-n-paste each email address into the new list.  I
>started
>> with just a few people as a test and am now working my way through
>the
>> alphabet.
>> 
>> 
>> When you have been added, you will know because you will get a
>"Welcome"
>> message. You won't need to do anything since I will be putting you in
>> automatically. Until everyone has been transferred, both lists will
>run in
>> parallel so please continue to use the OLPC-SoCal list if something
>comes
>> up before the transfer is complete.
>> 
>> 
>> I anticipate that this list will be used only for really interesting
>and
>> important things as our old list has been. Most of you folks have no
>idea
>> of how much spam we are getting every day on the old list. Scores of
>> messages come in from all over the world with stock tips, romantic
>> promises, phishing scams, and… oh well, you name it, it's there.
>Hopefully
>> it will take a while for the spammers to find us on our new list.
>> 
>> 
>> Have a great weekend!
>> Caryl
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