<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It sounds like you're either forming an OLPC group _at_ BU or you are<br>
forming a student group for OLPCorps? (probably the latter)</blockquote><div><br>If it's the former, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_chapters#University_Groups">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_chapters#University_Groups</a> may be helpful; there isn't a BU group listed yet.<br>
<br>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 <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boston%20pilots">Boston-area XO/Sugar pilots</a>, with the first round of laptops going to a deployment at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cambridge_Friends_School">Cambridge Friends School this month</a>. 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.)<br>
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The OLPC Boston group has a meetup tonight at Cosi's in Kendell Square<br>
(<a href="http://tr.im/hqXC" target="_blank">http://tr.im/hqXC</a>) from 5:30 til roughly 7:30.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
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Also, given that you're both at BU, you should probably meet with<br>
Lauren O'Hanlon who has done some work with various OLPC groups in<br>
boston, including the Cambridge Friend School pilot.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>--Mel<br></div></div>