<!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"> Reply to holt @ laptop.org for our phone presentation's conf-call number, and the below speaker's PDF slides expected within ~24hrs. Parallel Live Chat for those who unable to telephone: <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 irc.freenode.net) <blockquote>Sunday July 11 - Virtual Field Trip Realness (Classrooms ain't in Kansas Nomore) By Laura Susan Bell, Virtual Field Trip Facilitator & OLPC Support Volunteer.     Laura will explain how she administers classrooms in Upper NY State,     taking her students on virtual field trips will real-live NASA engineers etc,     who ship her in-classroom supplies in-advance to dramatically liven the     experience for all kids. Sunday July 18 - Eleven Years Deploying Computers in South African Schools By Alan Field & Donna Wainwright, in person at OLPC in Cambridge, MA.     Alan will discuss the many deep lessons he's learned along the way, over     the 11 years he and his wife Donna have spent teaching & training using     Macs across 30 schools 300KM SE of Johannesburg.  Towards both     "Creative Learning" and "Drill and K^hThrill" -- come learn some tough     and vital lessons on where Mandela's post-World Cup nation is heading:     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.mac.com/donita27/EndumeniLearningMachines/Home.html">http://web.mac.com/donita27/EndumeniLearningMachines/Home.html</a> Sunday July 25 NOON - East Africa and West Africa OLPC Community Public Brunch NYC/Bronx Location announced hereunder -- plz RSVP now to holt @ laptop dot org, thx!     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-nyc/">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-nyc/</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://twitter.com/olpcnyc">http://twitter.com/olpcnyc</a> Sunday Aug 1 - From Viet Cong to Venture Capital to Vietnam Community (TENTATIVE) Location/Parti-Pants to be announced.     How has OLPC's Vietnam Community progressed so far, so fast, in just 1 year?     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpc.vn">http://olpc.vn</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com">http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Vietnam">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Vietnam</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-vietnam/">http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-vietnam/</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.me.com/seanlaurence/olpc/olpc.html">http://web.me.com/seanlaurence/olpc/olpc.html</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/nsevers/4/tpod.html">http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/nsevers/4/tpod.html</a>     <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Vung_Vieng_Fishing_Vietnam">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Vung_Vieng_Fishing_Vietnam</a> Sunday Aug 8 - What's Really Happening in India, at the Grassroots Level? (TENTATIVE) Locations to be announced.     The astonishing number of volunteers and informal community projects     in India makes it hard to keep track of them all.  Professor Sameer Verma     in San Francisco will explain how these amazing community volunteers     and corporate professionals scattered across the Indian subcontinent     can now take their contributions to the next level. </blockquote> REMINDER: while meetings are generally for OLPC volunteers/staff only, accompanying friends are welcome if personally introduce, and are willing to help Make S---^h^h^hUPPORT Happen!! </body> </html>