Impoverished Learning among this planet's 2 billion kids has gone on too
long. 200 million of which get 1 year or less of school, according to
OLPC VP Matt Keller (who will be joining us and presenting!)
Having lived much of the last year in Haiti, I know we all have
excruciating OLPC/Sugar stories to tell, some astonishing & historic
appearing in books soon -- others unprintable even on
http://planet.laptop.org making us laugh/scream/cry in utter despair.
Yet Others Will Crack Open The Future. Hacking open our San Francisco
summit's central weekend schedule in new ways, EG. via Google Hangouts
with OLPC's founding engineers CScott Ananian & Richard Smith and the
founder of http://activitycentral.com all for the very 1st time:
http://olpcSF.org/summit (draft)
We've 5 evening/extracurricular events lining up over the course of the
week (Oct 17-24) precisely so all can let loose moving our transgressive
ideas & art forward right here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012#Evening_Excitement
Special Thanks to the ~50 people making the supreme effort joining from
so far away (Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, Uruguay, several from
Europe, 5-6 from Canada alone, etc) for SF's Community Summit &
Sugarcamp++ hacksprint workshops both:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012#Attendees
Please all help juice up the above lists...and open education in
general...and Register Now !!
http://eventbrite.com/event/4025544512
Registered attendees mutually organize last-minute
dinners/homestays/segway-biking adventures/etc here:
olpc-soc...@googlegroups.com
In Short:
Not too late to invite other Sugar Labs hackers, teachers, implementers,
artists sweating their asses off for our Little Movement That Could. To
what will be _an incredible week in SF_ connecting 5+ intimately related
events and communities: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit
(http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/2012 Oct 20-21), Books in
Browsers (http://bib.archive.org Oct 24-26), AfricaHackTrip
(http://twitter.com/AfricaHackTrip Oct 17 & 24) and our very own
evolving legacy -- /whether or not you personally win a
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_4_B1 ;)/
http://olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/olpc_san_francisco_community_summit_2012.html
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