<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>From Maraih:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#772953"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:17pt" size="5"><img style="margin-right:0px" src="cid:ii_ipr2w8zo0_15578e29523eeea1" width="444" height="314"><br>
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<font size="4"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif">We are excited to announce that Open Ed Jam has been revamped! It is now called<i> Libre Learn Lab</i>
and will be hosted at MIT's Sloan School of Management on Oct 8th &
9th, 2016. This year's theme is "From Play to Policy" which we think
will bring in great sessions, workshops and panels. Check out the new
website! <a href="http://www.librelearnlab.org" target="_blank">www.librelearnlab.org </a></font></font><br></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><i>"Libre Learn Lab is a binannual two-day summit at the Tang Center in the
Sloan School of Management at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts on October
8th and 9th 2016 for people who create and implement freely licensed
resources for education, bringing together educators, policy experts,
software developers, hardware hackers, and activists to share best
practices and address the challenges of widespread adoption of these
resources in education."</i></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><font size="4"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif">Feel free to reach out to Mariah through this email address for any correspondence about the event.</font></font><br></p>
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<i><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">3 important things to note:</font></font></i></p>
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<font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4"><b>1. Our Call for Proposals is live!</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">If you're interested in submitting a proposal, you have plenty of time to do it! Our <a href="http://www.librelearnlab.org/call-proposals" target="_blank">Call for Proposals</a> closes on July 15th. Please share it with anyone who may be interested along with the CFP flyer attached to this email<b>.
We are reaching out to you specifically because you helped make Open Ed
Jam great by being an active participant and we would
love to see you again this fall!<br></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4"><b><br></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%">
<font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4"><b>2. Keynote Speakers confirmed!<br></b></font></font></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">Our
two keynote speakers will be Stefania Druga from HacKIDemia and Andrew
Marcinek from the U.S. Department of Education. We appreciate their
involvement in our event and look forward to the conversations that are
sparked from their experiences. Learn more about <a href="http://www.librelearnlab.org/keynote-speakers" target="_blank">their work</a> on our website.<br></font></font></p><br><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%">
<font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">For
more event information visit, <a href="http://www.librelearnlab.org/event-info" target="_blank">http://www.librelearnlab.org/event-info</a></font></font></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%">
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<font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">Registration will open soon, so you'll receive an update on that shortly!</font></font></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">In case you're on Twitter, the hashtag for the event is
#LiLeLa. Our handle is <a href="http://www.twitter.com/LibreLearnLab" target="_blank">@LibreLearnLab</a><br></font></font></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">IRC anyone? We'll have a channel set up on Freenode using #LiLeLa.<br>
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<font face="sans-serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4"><font face="Droid Sans, sans-serif">Visit
us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/LibreLearnLab" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, as
well!</font></font></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(166,77,121)"><font size="5"><b>Looking forward to seeing yall again!</b></font></span><span></span></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><span><font color="#888888">- The Libre Learn Lab Organizing Team</font></span><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><span><font color="#888888">If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please reach out!</font></span></p></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Mariah Noelle<br></div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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