[OLPC_Boston] REMINDER! Boston Book Fest - OLPC invite! (Sat Oct 16)

[Holt]

  We are short people for this Saturday's 11-2pm and 2-5pm slots!

Can *you* please drop by for a bit to volunteer for the OLPC 
tables/area?  Or bring your friended literary family :)

Saturday weather is still windy but clearing up, thanks!!!


PS please do ask us about the OLPC/Sugar Community's largest ever 
contributor/volunteer summit, happening next weekend in SF:
        http://olpcSF.org/CommunitySummit2010
        
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010


On 10/14/2010 12:29 PM, Holt wrote:
> Welcome to all those screwdriving folk who joined our Boston Community 
> Saturday September 18 (almost 30 of you!) during that singularly 
> amazing repair fest at OLPC:
>
> http://abdimom.tumblr.com/post/1147859637/olpc-repair-training-fest-cambridge-mass-part 
>
> http://abdimom.tumblr.com/post/1148085173/olpc-repair-training-fest-cambridge-mass-find 
>
> http://abdimom.tumblr.com/post/1148145522/olpc-repair-training-fest-cambridge-mass-part 
>
>
> In just 2 weeks, on Saturday October 16, we ask OLPC Bostonians to 
> take your dedication to learning public -- celebrating the Boston Book 
> Fest right in Copley Square, Boston.
>
> One Laptop per Child is contributing a full tent arrangement, and we 
> could *very much* use enthusiastic book-lovers (in 3 shifts!) 
> explaining the power of OLPC to spark minds globally -- in Your words:
>
>   8 - 11am  Erecting Posters & Tent, earlybird Snacks?!
>  11 - 2pm   Lunch
>   2 - 5pm   Afternoon
>
> Bring vivid proof of your very own OLPC/Sugar learning/artistic 
> projects to share if you can :-)
>
> We'll have roughly three tables, and 3 posters with great photos, 
> along with live Internet.  The tables will cover:
>
>  = book-readers (the event theme!) such as those from the new 
> http://olpcCanada.com
>    or Uruguay/Ceibal, and specific book collections (including health)
>
>  + OLPC's global reach (photos! and languages)
>
>  # cool kids websites (including math and games)
>
>  * local projects that Boston OLPC'ers can talk about, such as the
>    new OLPC Australia / http://www.digiliteracy.org project, and
>    Sugar on a Stick classroom trials in Somerville, Massachusetts
>
>  % repairs & hardware (someone from Olin College hopefully!)  Showing 
> off a
>    brand-new blue Uruguayan High School XO, solar power, new 
> keyboards, ETC
>
> Please get in touch if you can hang out / help out any part!  Whether 
> chatting up the friendly general public -- in the very shadow of one 
> of the world's foundational libraries (bpl.org) -- or better yet 
> sharing your Own dreams.  About when & how You believe "quality 
> universal basic education" will enrich, instead of deplete, our Mother 
> Earth?
>
> So long as you also bring along your lifetime favorite book or e-book...

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