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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #464646"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Hello SoCal OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education) Enthusiasts!</font></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Info Tech a Great Success</font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">There is a lot of good news coming out of OLPC and Sugar Labs this week, but first let's welcome 14 new subscribers to our list who signed up at last Saturday's Info Tech event at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This new group includes some really important people in the process of children's learning: teachers, school IT personnel, and interested, active parents! </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Saturday's event was "showtime" for SoaS at the CUELA booth. In addition to having several XO-1s and one XO-1.5, we ran Sugar v2 (Blueberry) from a USB stick on an eeePC and a MacBook, proving it really can be done! </font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">This year's event was sponsored by Target as one of their community involvement projects. Everything was free... even parking and a great lunch! They said there were about 4000 people there including kids.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">You can see some photos of the event here. I wish I had had time to take more (and to see the other booths).</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">This Week's Big News:</font></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #464646"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma">The biggest news out of OLPC and SugarLabs this week is the official announcement that they are partnering with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to bring 500,000 XO laptops running Sugar (and dual booting with Gnome) to Palestine Refugee Children </font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. </font></font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #464646"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I'll put some links below to the Official Press Release and some of the media coverage. If you are a developer and are interested in helping prepare the software, Sugar Labs would love to have you join their team of enthusiastic volunteers (most of whom have day jobs too).</font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"> </font><b> </b><span style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande; color: #666666"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://bit.ly/calRDk">http://bit.ly/calRDk</a></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #464646"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Press release:</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font> <a href="http://bit.ly/9T51pe">http://bit.ly/9T51pe</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #464646"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Selected Media Coverage</font>:</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">BBC:</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier; color: #2f6ac9"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8651580.stmt">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8651580.stm</a></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">People's Daily (China):</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier; color: #2f6ac9; min-height: 16.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="text-decoration: underline"></span><br></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Next time I'll send more local news, but I really wanted to share this big international news story while it was still fresh!</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Caryl OLPC-SoCal mailing list Admin.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">P.S. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">If some of you on the list (including new members) would like to join in the testing of Sugar on a Stick on your own computers, send me a note at caryl@laptop.org and I'll help you get started. Almost anything (except the older G4 PowerPC Macs) will work.</font></span></span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">
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