<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4A82BA7E.6050000@bolinux.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> I am confirming I will be there. </blockquote> Thanks to the (1) MANY Sugar/OLPC enthusiasts opening their homes across DC (2) flying in from around the continent on their own dime (3) making our Community Invitation truly more beautiful every day ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts</a> ), (4) Gallaudet University teaching us the real meaning of Accessibility, with likely professional facilities (5) organizers of lovely extracurricular/evening cerebral shakedowns Sept 6-11 keep it up! (6) nevermind OLPCorps Africa participants I never expected to attend as they return to their own schooling, but will contribute so much on-the-ground small deployment insight, (7) embracers of remote conferencing access for the geographically-challenged, (8) ETC, takes my breath away the way folks slave to build a movement behind the scenes -- some see it and some don't. But it's a Cathartic experience and there is no other word. (9) OLPC/Sugar community-glue-since-1864 union T shirts forthcoming... <img src="cid:part1.06020201.04010201@laptop.org" alt=""> Craftsmanship = Pride.  And 2 public news/blog invitations by 3 different volunteers are apparently imminent, but here's a fun preview I stole from volunteer Sarah Burns who'll hopefully later publish under her own name: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dev.laptop.org/~holt/get-crafty.html">http://dev.laptop.org/~holt/get-crafty.html</a> OK: Now begins our real work digging thru the last 20 months of our forgotten life lessons.  Ask someone that cares to draw their your own world map of every different deployment that Meant Something since 2007.  Pass it along: many different deployment entrepreneurs have articulated *very* compelling visions for the Table of Contents, so please now get over your shyness (you know who you are!) and humbly get crackin' editing this outline, even if you cannot attend in person :) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts#Needs">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts#Needs</a> (Volunteers who made this come together in the last week generally advocated for something like a National Geographic-style 30-page explanatory visual guide, to build very clear 1st Line Support expectations for people who don't read FAQ's -- highly multi-authored but w/o unnecessarily dashing worldly antipoverty/educatory/pen-paling dreams -- and PracTiCal.  Longer works of great battled-tested deployment stories you uncover/write/photograph/map should later appear, in a lengthier/dreamier if less polished, while similarly-community-curated "mosaic" ...a near-universal request... but only we can teach teachers to stumble, pick themselves up in multiple languages, AND finally make National Geographic jealous with full cartographic <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer</a> eg. watch out for Caryl Bigenho showing us up yet again yesterday with her Pakistan deployment photos/precis.....) <blockquote cite="mid:4A82BA7E.6050000@bolinux.org" type="cite">Holt wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4A8113DF.9010602@laptop.org" type="cite"> <pre>Thanks Mike Lee, Mel Chua and Support Gangsters all who pulled this together into a major event: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts</a> The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced. This idea arose from our Support Gang (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang</a>) volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there. The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://OLPClearningclub.org">http://OLPClearningclub.org</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hacDC.org">http://hacDC.org</a> and others: Sunday Sept 6: Dinner to meet fellow writers Monday Sept 7: Labor Day (no holiday for us!) ... Friday Sept 11: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!) Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ laptop.org (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots</a>) explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :) Possible Book Title: (very tentative) 20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang Needs: ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib Graphics designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever) Experienced tech writers, copy-editors Photographs! Likely Attendees: Mel CHUA Luke FARAONE (invited) David FARNING (invited) Adam HOLT SJ KLEIN Mike LEE Yamandu PLOSKONKA Bryan STUART Sameer VERMA Seth WOODWORTH (invited) Remote Attendees: Caryl BIGENHO Sandy CULVER (invited) Christoph DERNDORFER Daniel DRAKE (invited) Pablo FLORES (invited) Daytime/workroom venues currently under consideration: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us">http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gallaudet.edu">http://www.gallaudet.edu</a> Accommodations -- until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hostels.com">http://hostels.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://airbnb.com">http://airbnb.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://melchua.com">http://melchua.com</a> Please Join Our Online Venues Today! <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a> (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang</a>) <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grassroots@laptop.org">grassroots@laptop.org</a> (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots</a>) <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a> (#olpc-help and #sugar) <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs">http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs</a> ?? “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint Exupery <img src="cid:part2.08010108.09090607@laptop.org" alt=""> </pre> <pre wrap=""><hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ support-gang mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</a> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>