Hello everybody, We did an event in the Fall of 2009, focusing on OLPC deployments hosted in the SF Bay Area. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009 We are itching to do another event in the Fall this year. I'm told itches are good in the FOSS world :-)
We can look into providing a venue in San Francisco (5th and Market). This time around, we'd like to involve educators from elementary education programs from around here, Pythonistas from around here, and of course the micro-deployments we have in the SF Bay Area (Deployments – Afghanistan (Carol Ruth Silver, MTSA) – India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma, SFSU) – Jamaica (Sameer Verma & Univ. of the West Indies) – Madagascar (June Kleider, XO-ology) – Senegal (Drew & Lick-Wilmerding Schools) – South Africa (EduWeavers) – San Francisco (Starr King Elementary) – Uganda (UC Berkeley) ). I've spoken with some of you offlist. I'm looking for feasibility, feedback and enthusiasm. We've had Sugarlabs events. We've had the Realness summit. This is somewhat of a mish-mash. A mingle-and-learn. Would any of you want to be a part of this? We are looking at September/October/November as possible months. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
