Tons of progress with over 30 very different people participating now-- nevermind the evening social events Mike Lee & all are organizing almost every night.
This week's Call Conclusions / Forward Challenges: (A) People not familiar with Book Sprints should read why on earth we're each paying our own way to lock ourselves in a room at Gallaudet University in Washington DC for a week-- and why you might too ;-) http://en.flossmanuals.net/booksprints (B) Next Sunday we'll need all your best Teacher/Deployment/Activities stories listed (everyone prepare a tiny list, real quick contact everyone on your list for killer/fresh materials) to get us closer to nailing down an actual Table of Contents. At that time we'll all start to nail down what inspiring chapter *you* want to write/photograph/mentor with which SME (subject matter expert), so Be Prepared :-) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts#Table_of_Contents (C) To this end we made lots of Wiki changes live on-call this afternoon -- thanks to all the people who joined, agreeing that all attendees (in-person and remote) should now write in the chapter OR skill you want to contribute, right next to your name here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts#Needs Everyone can do this, by clicking "EDIT" (D) Being an Immigrant is NOT Easy: Giving even the brightest teachers cultural bridges to (open source, alternative power engineering, constructivist, shipping/import, volunteer, finance etc) needed to inspire a successful deployment *won't* be at all easy in let's-say-30 pages. But we Supportives _won't_ give up easy! (E) Please volunteer or suggest who might be our Photo Archivist/Librarian/Editor collecting our best images we'll each dig up from places like: (in case our Gallaudet Univ interns don't come through) http://flickr.com/olpc/sets http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_media PS reply to me if you can join our weekly Sunday prep calls! (Free call in the USA or Canada, or with a full Skype account) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep