<!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"> Join One Laptop per Child and Sugar Labs tomorrow in Manhattan, for a very thoughtful afternoon on how we're enabling kids worldwide with new kinds of education & learning!  Please invite friends. Learning innovators, Software carpenters, Intl Development veterans, Community Marketing geniuses, Usability experts, Local teachers, Grassroots organizers, Hardware tinkerers, Artists, Quality/Support gurus -- All Welcome. Read Mike Lee's beautiful intro to our NY City Community Summit:     Amping Up OLPC in NYC: Community Summit Nov 21     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_nyc_community_summit.html">http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_nyc_community_summit.html</a> New Draft Schedule: (please hack the below schedule into <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC</a> !!)     12:30PM - early birds organize room (133 West 46th St, 3rd Flr)     1PM - Mike Lee - 30min - OLPC/Sugar backgrounder, DC experience & 2010 opportunities (arrive on time for our special guest!)                Sameer Verma - 5min - San Francisco's similarly path-breaking approach                Caroline Meeks - 10min - Learning Goals, how Sugar supports them, Teacher Training: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y/" target="_blank">http://prezi.com/cv5do02tj-0y</a>                Adam Holt - 5min - Community Innovation for All (perspectives from my current 6-country OLPC/Sugar Learning journey)     2PM - Everyone introduces themselves, their perspective/questions on where we are after 2 years                Everyone will be asked to vote for 1 NYC community idea they feel will have traction over the coming 2 years     2:40 - Three brainstorming sessions, separately around {tech, teaching, twitteriffic etc}                How can NYC spur local projects(s) with structured sustainability?                Can NYC use its place in the world to help build worldwide action?                Where can you connect with Specific Overseas Community? (EG. our hosts at Church of St Mary the Virgin have strong Honduras ties, as do several OLPC volunteers who will be in attendance!)     3:20 -  Everyone re-congregate, explaining "on-whiteboard" your team's Conclusions / Strategies     4PM - Clean up - depart for drinks/dinner nearby! We'll readjust around San Francisco's simultaneous West Cost events live as nec, wherever Professor Sameer Verma there feels Skype/IRC uplinks fit in around his own *awesome* and evolving daylong agenda:     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009</a> Please also jump into the online discussion and help our volunteer-driven movement organize here:     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc</a>   (mailing list)     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a>   (live chat, ask a question anytime, during busiest times of day) Thanks!! </body> </html>