<!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"> Meet the guy volunteering his life for OLPC/Sugar on 4 different continents, almost 4 years later. Meet retired R&D director, founder, VP, CTO of embedded technologies at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codewiz.org/wiki/DevelerCompany">http://codewiz.org/wiki/DevelerCompany</a> Meet Sugar Labs' lead global sysadmin and Harvard School of Education part-time student. Meet a 21st Century Italian Cowboy, who foolishly misses his Commodore 64... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bernie_Innocenti_interview">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bernie_Innocenti_interview</a> Meet Bernie Innocenti, original promoter of the $200 laptop that makes Microsoft tremble: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codewiz.org/wiki/TwoHundredDollarLaptop">http://codewiz.org/wiki/TwoHundredDollarLaptop</a> Ask him Why he chose to help this poor, landlocked S. American nation of only 6million, providing new Sugar learning software? Ask him How impoverished Paraguay has very patiently worked over 2+ years building up to 4000 XO's, more than doubling that soon? Ask him Where WE can help teachers stop fearing computing, unleash the latent potential of deployments, sparking kids to collaborate far beyond mind-deadening jobs? Ask him When will our Not-That-Innocenti Italian stop traveling into and beyond Asuncion recruiting kids & universities while barely speaking Spanish? Ask him What YOU can do to invest in Paraguay's digital generation once he leaves, onto his next gig in August.....? Listen to Bernie's Paraguay Stories Live tomorrow Sunday March 14!         4PM Boston Time    5PM Asuncion Time    9PM Paris Time         BEWARE USA CLOCKS MOVE FORWARD 1HR TONIGHT         REPLY TO holt @ laptop.org FOR TELECONFERENCE CALL CODE         Free Call from USA/Canada or anybody worldwide with a Full Skype account.         Sorry, OLPC Radio’s tower isn’t fully erected yet for worldwide live public broadcasts just yet, but stay tuned…         Public Backchannel if Volunteers Help:         <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a>         (that's #olpc-help on freenode) If time, Bernie will even explain How he charms Russian women: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/monday-begins-on-saturday/">http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/monday-begins-on-saturday/</a> But please first, review Bernie's beautiful recent 95-page photo-presentation (14.5 MB) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf">http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/slides/sugar-paraguay-v6-es.pdf</a> And his "kids need cute customizable software" cultural anthropology: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03#mon-mar-8--children-want-sugar-084-for-the-wrong-reasons">http://codewiz.org/wiki/blog/2010/03#mon-mar-8--children-want-sugar-084-for-the-wrong-reasons</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-March/thread.html#10317">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-March/thread.html#10317</a> MARCH/APRIL GUEST SPEAKERS: (tentative, suggestions welcome) March 21 - no meeting scheduled so you can Celebrate Spring Outdoors :) March 27/28 - Mike Lee at the XO-1.5 Book(let) Sprint in DC - GET STARTED!                         <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Start">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Start</a> April 4 (Easter) - Richard Smith on solar energy options for XO-1 and XO-1.5                            MIT's Robert Pilawa on his solar energy PhD work: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-pilawa/2/40/470">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-pilawa/2/40/470</a>                            Kim Quirk on her solar/alt energy startup: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://energyemp.com">http://energyemp.com</a>                            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/power/2010-March/000028.html">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/power/2010-March/000028.html</a> April 11 - TENTATIVE: Improving the XO as a Sahana/HADR Platform: Lessons in disaster relief, from the Founder of <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://Sahana.lk">http://Sahana.lk</a> and Naval Postgrad School -- how the XO can (and cannot) be further prepared for future catastrophes: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/XOs_for_HADR">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/XOs_for_HADR</a>                 Important Background: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org">http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org</a> All presentations Sunday 4PM Boston/Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted. </body> </html>