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

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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...