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Join One Laptop per Child and Sugar Labs tomorrow in Manhattan, for a
very thoughtful afternoon on how we're enabling kids worldwide with new
kinds of education & learning! Please invite friends.<br>
<br>
<i>Learning innovators,
Software carpenters, Intl Development veterans, Community Marketing
geniuses, Usability experts, Local teachers, Grassroots organizers,
Hardware tinkerers, Artists, Quality/Support gurus -- All Welcome.</i><br>
<br>
Read Mike Lee's beautiful intro to our NY City Community
Summit:<br>
<br>
Amping Up OLPC in NYC: Community Summit Nov 21<br>
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href="http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_nyc_community_summit.html">http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_nyc_community_summit.html</a><br>
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New Draft Schedule: (please hack the below schedule into <b><a
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC</a></b>
!!)<br>
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12:30PM - early birds organize room (<strong>133 West 46th St, </strong><strong>3rd
Flr</strong><strong>)</strong><br>
<br>
1PM - Mike Lee - 30min - OLPC/Sugar backgrounder, DC experience
& 2010
opportunities (<b>arrive on time for our special guest!</b>)<br>
Sameer Verma - 5min - San Francisco's similarly
path-breaking approach<br>
Caroline Meeks - 10min - Learning Goals, how Sugar
supports them, Teacher Training: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y/" target="_blank">http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y</a><br>
Adam Holt - 5min - Community Innovation for All
(perspectives from my current 6-country OLPC/Sugar Learning journey)<br>
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2PM - Everyone introduces themselves, their perspective/questions
on where we are after 2 years<br>
Everyone will be asked to vote for 1 NYC community idea
they feel
will have traction over the coming 2 years<br>
<br>
2:40 - Three brainstorming sessions, separately around {tech,
teaching, twitteriffic etc}<br>
How can NYC spur local projects(s) with structured
sustainability?<br>
Can NYC use its place in the world to help build
worldwide action?<br>
Where can you connect with Specific Overseas Community?
(EG. our hosts at <b>Church of St Mary the Virgin</b> have strong
Honduras ties, as do several OLPC volunteers who will be in attendance!)<br>
<br>
3:20 - Everyone re-congregate, explaining "on-whiteboard" your
team's Conclusions / Strategies<br>
<br>
4PM - Clean up - depart for drinks/dinner nearby!<br>
<br>
We'll readjust around San Francisco's simultaneous West Cost events
live as nec,
wherever Professor Sameer Verma there feels Skype/IRC uplinks fit in
around his own *awesome* and evolving daylong agenda:<br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009</a><br>
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Please also jump into the online discussion and help our
volunteer-driven movement organize here:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc</a> (mailing list)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a> (live chat, ask a question anytime,
during busiest times of day)<br>
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Thanks!!<br>
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