[sf-lug] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2011

[Jeff Bragg]

Just registered myself.  Looking forward to seeing you (and anyone else on
the list attending) there.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The San Francisco volunteer community for One Laptop per Child project
> (http://olpcsf.org) is hosting the OLPC San Francisco Community Summit
> 2011 at the SF State University Downtown Center in San Francisco, on
> October 21,22 and 23. Registration is now open. Please pass this along
> to anyone who may be interested. Space is limited! Hear from people
> who work in the field on complex and complicated problems with
> education, technology and social outreach. At 2.2+ million laptops in
> 40+ countries in 35+ languages the project is growing every day
> addressing children and learning from the city of Birmingham, Alabama
> to the steppes of Tuva (where's Tuva, you ask?
> http://olpctuva.wordpress.com/). That's a whole lotta Tux, if you ask
> me :-)
>
> OLPC SF itself has fourteen projects with deployments in Afghanistan,
> Armenia, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Madagascar, Pakistan,
> Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Tuva, and San Francisco.
> We put offline servers running on solar power in remote places to
> serve Wikipedia, TED videos, Commons music, dictionaries, books, etc.
> so that we can light a fire in different corners of the world [1] that
> are not on the Internet as yet [2].
>
> Come and be part of something tremendous! http://olpcsf.org/summit
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
> --
> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Professor, Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://olpcsf.org/
>
> [1] My six year old daughter tells me that the world cannot have
> corners. Its round like a ball. Children truly rule the world.
> Investing in them is wise :-)
> [2] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
>
> _______________________________________________
> sf-lug mailing list
> sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
> Information about SF-LUG is at http://www.sf-lug.org/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/attachments/20111009/5c91d0c7/attachment.html>