[OLPC_Boston] OLPC - Boston University

[Mel Chua]

>
> It sounds like you're either forming an OLPC group _at_ BU or you are
> forming a student group for OLPCorps?  (probably the latter)


If it's the former,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_chapters#University_Groups may be
helpful; there isn't a BU group listed yet.

Either way, welcome! If you'd like to get some hands-on experience with XOs
at deployments, you're on the right mailing list - among the traffic that
goes out over this list is information about Boston-area XO/Sugar
pilots<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston%20pilots>,
with the first round of laptops going to a deployment at Cambridge Friends
School this month <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cambridge_Friends_School>. Just
let us know what aspects of deployments you're most interested in learning
about and helping with - the various team leads are listening on this list.
(Everything from fundraising to server setup to repairs to marketing to
curriculum design and anything else you could probably think of.)


> The OLPC Boston group has a meetup tonight at Cosi's in Kendell Square
> (http://tr.im/hqXC) from 5:30 til roughly 7:30.


Darn, I must just have missed you guys then. I had a class that ended at 7
and stopped by Cosi's at 7:15 on my way home to say hi, but nobody was
there.


> Also, given that you're both at BU, you should probably meet with
> Lauren O'Hanlon who has done some work with various OLPC groups in
> boston, including the Cambridge Friend School pilot.


Is Lauren still in China? Definitely recommended that you look her up,
though - there's also a BU education professor (Evangeline Harris
Stefanakis) who's interested in doing some research work on the use of Sugar
as a portfolio.

--Mel
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