| Starts: | Saturday November 21, 2009 at 1:00pm |
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| 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:
- a nucleation point for exchange between local groups, towards the OLPC Boston office and back, and with other groups worldwide
- helping in organizing XOs for the local groups
- supporting and cherishing the autonomy of local groups
- focusing on rough consensus, grassroots involvement, and working projects
Short URL to wiki page
http://bit.ly/olpcny