Begin forwarded message:
From: reas / ucla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 23, 2007 7:41:38 AM EST
Subject: O P E N @ UCLA
Hello!
The schedule for OPEN is locked and the website promoting the event
is now live. Please help get the word out. Please send the
announcement (below) to your internal department email lists,
friends, and other
relevant lists.
The event is free and open for all. We're encouraging people to
register so we can judge attendance and provide wireless access. UC
faculty and graduate students will have priority for the workshops
because space is
limited.
I'm very excited about the program and I look forward to seeing you
soon. I'll be sending an email about tech checks, parking, and
other details on the week of the event.
If you have any questions or concerns about the event, please let me
know via email or phone (+1 310 382 6007).
Regards,
Casey
--
O P E N
UC Digital Arts Research Network
Open Source Sound, Image, and Electronics
9,10 February 2007
@ EDA, Broad Arts Center, UCLA
A gathering for open source users, advocates, and developers.
Symposium (Friday):
Cory Doctorow - USC, Boing Boing
Greg Niemeyer - UC Berkeley
David Cuartielles - Arduino.cc, K3 Malmo
Beatriz da Costa - UC Irvine
Xavier Amatriain - UC Santa Barbara, MATi, CREATE
Michael Zbyszynski - UC Berkeley, CNMAT
Ben Fry - Processing.org, Carnegie Mellon
Robert Nideffer - UC Irvine
Workshops (Saturday):
Processing - Ben Fry
Arduino - David Cuartielles
PD - August Black
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information visit:
http://ucdarnet.org/projects/OPEN/
Please register here:
http://ucdarnet.org/projects/OPEN/registration.php
All lectures take place in the EDA, Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E.
Young Drive, Room 1250 Los Angeles, CA 90095
Directions: http://dma.ucla.edu/info/directions.php
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Also, in association with O P E N:
Regents' Lecturer: Nicholas Negroponte
Eliminating Poverty by Learning Learning
February 8, 2007, 6:00pm
Common practice in bridging the so-called "digital divide" in
developing
nations is to build computer labs in schools and teach children
WORD and
EXCEL thirty minutes a week. This is misguided. Children should not
learn productivity software suited for office workers. They should
make things, they should communicate, they should explore the
Internet. In short, they should learn learning, which includes the
passion to learn.
The One Laptop per Child project is guided by the belief that you can
eliminate poverty with education. It aims to engage children in
their own education as well as peer-to-peer learning, by equipping
every child with a connected laptop with features you have never
dreamed of. By doing this globally, at a very large scale, and as a
non-profit association, the birth of the $100 laptop is feasible.
At least six countries, three continents and five million children
will be involved in the launch.
--
O P E N is a joint program of the UC Digital Arts Research
Network and the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA.
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deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from
scarcity." -John Gilmore
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