One Laptop per Child NYC

Starts: Saturday November 21, 2009 at 1:00pm
Ends: Saturday November 21, 2009 at 4:00pm
Event Type: Fundraiser
Region: Greater New York City Area
Location: Church of St. Mary the Virgin (Times Sq.)
133 W. 46th Street 3rd Fl New York (btwn 6th/7th Ave.)
New York, NY 10036 US
Price:
Website: http://meetup.com/olpcnyc
Industry: internet
Keywords: Volunteering, Technology, Laptop.Org, Xo, Nicholas Negroponte, Olpc, Media, Marketing, Education, Wireless, Mobile, One Laptop Per Child, Internet, Nyc, New York City
Intended For: Everyone who wants to learn more about OLPC and get involved.
Organization: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) NYC

Join OLPC/Sugar from DC, NY and Boston converging on NYC for a community summit.

Date: Saturday, November 21st

Time: Presentation begins promptly at 1 PM

Location: The Church of St Mary the Virgin 3rd Floor Meeting Room, Mission House 133 West 46th Street (btn 6th /7th Ave.)

The formal presentation will include:

  • OLPC's brand new XO 1.5 B2 Laptop
  • Summary account of the 1 Million XO Laptops now shipped around the world
  • Previews of upcoming Sugar Learning software
  • Some directly personal explanations of our movement's strongly maturing "volunteer ladder".
  • Come see some actual books written by our Community!
  • Participate and strategize around OLPC and Sugar's unheralded successes
  • Local Projects, and long-term forward path.

Teachers, technologists, and Twitterers -- Please do join us for an afternoon of serious structured brainstorming -- examining how all of us can now directly impact education worldwide.

Everyone can help: Learning innovators, software carpenters, community marketing geniuses, usability experts, local teachers, grassroots organizers, artists, quality assurance/support gurus, all welcome...

OLPC NYC IS:

  1. a nucleation point for exchange between local groups, towards the OLPC Boston office and back, and with other groups worldwide
  2. helping in organizing XOs for the local groups
  3. supporting and cherishing the autonomy of local groups
  4. focusing on rough consensus, grassroots involvement, and working projects

Short URL to wiki page

http://bit.ly/olpcny