Community-organized Haitian EduTech Dinner, Tuesday night 5PM SHARP: Tue Jan 25, 5PM One Laptop per Child 1 Cambridge Center Kendall Sq/MIT Red Line subway stop
Please join! Best of all, Boston'shttp://Haitian-Coalition.org will join our OLPC_Boston monthly community meeting to discuss certain very intriguing next-gen EduTech plans (OLPC, Sugar,http://open1to1.org etc) emerging in Somerville Massachusetts, as well as the 400 OLPC laptops shipping to Haiti shortly, with Waveplace's own Beth Santos flying in to Boston en route to Haiti here: http://waveplace.org/news/blog/2011/01/22/t-4-750-haiti-laptops/ Alongside deeply committed Haitian diasporas far beyond. Our 3 week old olpcMAP workshop proved the unstoppable *force* of passion behind grassroots deployments globally, just like those we'll be discussing in Haiti, with almost 500 projects/volunteers now vividly emerging: http://olpcMAP.net Marina's blog (http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com) is just 1 of many now summarizing the incredible volunteering-is-NOT-a-spectator-sport work ongoing here: http://planet.laptop.org We dearly hope to see you Tuesday -- with 9+ tangentially related trips to Haiti in Feb alone, among some very connected AND deeply dedicated Haitians-and-Friends education/tech thinkers and doers in Boston here, it's clear there will be Tons to discuss! Dinner is being prepared by extraordinary Haitian-American OLPC volunteer Alexandra Merceron, entirely of her own initiative: optionally feel free to bring desserts/drinks if you can& RSVP! Then join us taking the next step in this critical educational design challenge -- 1 humble country at a time ;) -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
