Our meet-up have been more about playtime than anything else... but I took<br>
notes at the very first meetup (who was there, tips & tricks, etc) and<br>
found myself as the "go-to" person after that. LOL!<br>
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Cosi's address is: 290 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142<br>
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my work with ebooks has been slow going as I got caught up in other OLPC<br>
volunteer stuff... but I recently started in again. I'm trying to create<br>
notes on exactly what page size & how to easily format to convert from<br>
Project Gutenberg texts into a PDF that is tweaked especailly for the<br>
XO...... thanks for asking!<br>
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are you interested in anything in particular? We have members of the local<br>
group who have worked on StarChart (a great activity if you ahven't tried it<br>
before!) and GPS and lots of other stuff.<br>
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Diane<br><br>it seems like a good idea to be putting the ideas together! i have learned some tricks here and there but can never seem to remember them. to put the best little lessons learned together and (possibly) post em on the forums would be pretty cool. since i take obscene amounts of notes in class (doesnt everyone try and write down everything ver baitum that the teacher says? :-P) and would love to have a cheat sheet with the answers to quesions that come up...maybe i'll write down a note or two :-) <br>
<br>thats really cool what you're doing with the format of pages...its more important than people might realize. i have a word to pdf converter, and one time when i wanted to convert a book in text to pdf i used my software. the way the program worked though ...it screwed up the format of the book and make it impossible to read. <br>
<br>i have heard of the starchart program! wow, i cant believe how many olpc forum celebrities are a part of our group. I personally have a big interest (and alot of ideas) in making sugar more useable...both to children in the 3rd world, and grownups in the us of a. unfortunately my "l33t computer skillz" are limited to html right now...so i'm basically looking for suggestions (such as which books and maybe even where to go to take a class) for learning things like python and java.<br>
<br>oh 2 and questions if you dont mind...1. why do you guys meet every tuesdays as opposed to weekends and 2. is the way that i am responding to the e mails okay? <br><br>oh and thanks for giving me the address btw...i will be coming via T and will be finding the restaraunt via google earth (i heart google earth) <br>
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