Hi Mike, and Happy 4th to you!<br><br>Welcome to the group. I'm Diane,
I go by the name AuntiMame on the OLCP wiki and the OLPC News forums.
I'm sorta-kinda the leader of this motley band of XO fans (never take
notes at a first meeting, you'll find yourself in charge after that!)<br>
<br>We do meet once a month -- the last Tuesday evening of the month
from 6-8PM in the back room of the Cosi restaurant in Kendall Square.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to come. People do bring their XOs, but
not everyone has an XO-- so some XOs get passed around during the
meeting.<br>
<br>There are also other local meetings you may want to join or attend:<br><ul><li>there
is an Open Jam every Saturday afternoon from 2 to 6pm at the OLPC
headquarters at 1 Cambrige Center, Kendall Square (commonly called
1cc). You can find our more about that at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_Saturday_OJ" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston_Saturday_OJ</a> ------------------ (I don't think this weekend's jam is happening due to the holiday)<br>
</li></ul><ul><li>The MIT Museum has a couple of XOs on display and
they are looking for volunteers to work with visitors and show them
stuff. We did this last weekend for the Open Jam "event" and it was
really fun. You can read more about the Museum's call for help at <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc_boston/2008-July/thread.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc_boston/2008-July/thread.html</a></li>
</ul><ul><li>There is a local (Lexington-based) Google group <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lexo?hl=en&lnk=sg" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/lexo?hl=en&lnk=sg</a></li></ul><br>Hope to see you at our next meeting, or this Saturday if you can come to the Museum.<br>
<br>Diane<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Mike H <<a href="mailto:jrghoull@gmail.com">jrghoull@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hiya, my name is mike, i'm a 21 year old history major at umass boston, i live in quincy, and i love everything about the XO and the philosophy behind it. Not to say that i think the project is perfect (far from it) but the core ideas and the fact that such a project as important as this has finally come about makes me anxious to keep up with everything that is going on. by being a part of this group i hope to make friends, and have an easier time keeping up with not just the regular news about the XO, but the underground news as well (ie, what kind of hacks people have been doing to their XOs and what the have been able to accomplish with them). <br>
<br>anyway, a brief skim over the forum tells me you guys meet up once a month so i will try and attend the next one (providing i'm invited, and that my schedule isnt too hectic). I take it also we bring our XOs? <br>
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<br>-mike<br></font><br>ps: i look forward to meeting all of you. <br>
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