<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Alas!  There were several weekends under consideration.  This is the only one I couldn't make. I will be traveling out of state that whole week.   I really wish I could be there. <div><br></div><div>For those of you that can attend, Southwest Airlines has a bargain fare sale going on right now (until Aug 5), so you might be able to get a good deal.  Example... LAX-SFO is only $59 plus tax.  </div><div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br>> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:29:56 -0400<br>> From: holt@laptop.org<br>> To: olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org; support-gang@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; maho@realness.org<br>> Subject: [IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness<br>> <br>> Thanks to the great volunteers who joined the conf-call:<br>> <br>> Now comes the fun part pulling together what may well be the biggest <br>> community summit OLPC/Sugar have ever had -- with a core focus on <br>> Deployment Realness around the SF Bay area /and/ deep testimonials / <br>> skill-building / expert educator-implementor sessions from around the world.<br>> <br>> Hosted at San Francisco State University, right downtown, where Open <br>> Internet Culture began 40 years ago (or so it's argued!) Expected to be <br>> co-hosted in SF dovetailing right alongside the Internet Archive's Oct <br>> 21-22 "Books in Browsers" worldwide summit, not yet announced at <br>> http://archive.org reminding us all the keep our content strategies Real!<br>> <br>> Organizers are just now beginning to reach our to truly special guests <br>> around the world, so our polished event page http://olpcSF.org will go <br>> live well before end of August. Starting soon with <br>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010 <br>> but with a High Impact main page much like http://Realness.org, opening <br>> a warm welcome, to large and small deployment professionals and <br>> volunteers worldwide.<br>> <br>> It will be so exciting to finally meet the California crowd all <br>> together, many of whom have still never met each other now the "global <br>> silent heros" of our EdTech movement -- not just Silicon Valley but also <br>> real Valley Girls like Caryl Bigenho hopefully inviting several up from <br>> her rapidly expanding OLPC-SOCAL Gang!<br>> <br>> <br>> The Scoop:<br>> <br>> SFSU's Prof of Open Source & Free Beer Sameer Verma is in charge, with <br>> his truly exceptional OLPC-SF community, and welcomes all -- but please <br>> be patient as details emerge in the coming month. Just watch out world <br>> for The no-nonsense, no-grudges, no-paparazzi REAL-as-it-Gets OLPC/Sugar <br>> party you will never forget :-)<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div> </body> </html>