Awesome we've a dozen+ truly wonderful RSVPs for Saturday's Clinic:
coming from as far away as 7hrs down the road in Rochester NY (go
http://foss.rit.edu/blog !), New Jersey, and even some exotic land
called CaliFilippines, but can you guess the Furthest?? (*)
OLPC's VP of Hardware Engineering is working with me to find some really
cool door prizes as a result, so no this ain't Cuba where even BIC
lighters are repaired, but nor did we imagine how successful this
skillbuilding/videomaking event (helping Palestinian kids & beyond)
would become.../welcome All Olin College students :)/
And with particular apologies to those atoning as part of Yom Kippur who
cannot participate this Saturday, I dearly hope all can participate
online later -- empowering overlooked+marginalized kids in all countries
-- with our growing library of How-To-Vids that I'd *love* for someone
to step forward and begin curating, organizing the best here just like
Wikipedia does?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Disassembly
Thanks & See Y'all Soon, Saturday Noon, working fast to earn your free
lunch!
(*) sorry Philippines SuperCherry @
http://queakland.org/about/people/bio.jsp?id=60 we actually have several
great volunteers from Kazakhstan arriving; wonderful folks whose names
are *not* Borat, but might give you all your first taste of Kazakh
Cuisine ;)
Holt wrote:
Be there or be square, at an event that might never happen again--
don't miss your rock star trainers who will be:
_Ian Daniher_: *pioneered the OLPC Community
Repair Center* in the spring of 2007, inspiring
many others around the world here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations
_Richard Smith_: *invented half this stuff*, anything and
everything XO, XO-1.5 and beyond, nevermind
you can't find a friendlier guy (north of Arkansas;
with apologies to Mary Lou Jepsen who May have
invented even more ;)
Come walk through the XO-1 de-bricking process, *learning critical
repair techniques* like this to protect your own XO investment and
helping tons of others globally, if the screen ever stops working etc:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_clock
http://olpc-france.org/blog/2010/09/date-systeme-invalide/
We'll also produce some *awesome new videos* for upcoming OLPC
deployments in the Midde East, meeting some of this region's
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_*Learning_Team* as well as surveying some
brand new XO-1.5 repair tricks!
When: 12 Noon to 3PM
Saturday, September 18
Where: OLPC Headquarters
1 Cambridge Center, 10th Floor
Kendall Square / MIT Red Line Subway Stop
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lunch: Included *if* you help de-brick at least 2 XOs,
for use by dedicated OLPC volunteers worldwide:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
RSVP: ALL WELCOME, families/friends and all ages,
but you must reply to holt @ laptop . org
(including your phone number, thanks)
/ Price: Enthusiasm -- Smile or you will NOT be admitted to OLPC!!/
Aside from our upcoming *Oct 21/22 - 24 San Francisco Community Summit*
(details *imminent* at http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010 ) you
will NOT find a more committed group of volunteer *fixers, tinkerers &
doers*, anywhere on our reduced, reused and recycled planet.
Thank you for joining in 5 days; Thanks for keeping it Real!
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