<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> In 2009 Caryl Bigenho took the pioneering initiative of building the 1st known local (and lowercase ;) olpcMAP, showcasing ~10 Sugar/XO projects -- long before olpcMAP.net itself reached 500 volunteer/projects -- crystallizing and catalyzing a community now made up of well over 100 Southern California volunteers: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/erEQQJ">http://j.mp/erEQQJ</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects</a> Thanks OLPC Southern California OSSIE (Open Source Software in Education!) We've come a long way Babe! Now, on Sunday 1PM PST (that's 4PM EST) we're coming together to reinforce Caryl's extensive+amazing "glocal" mentoring of projects around her city, and around the globe. Much of this work done silently around <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program</a> and not yet recognized by anyone at all! And she's not the only one. So our "barn raising" will introducing new larger LA/Southern Calif edutech volunteers to the next level here -- to each other -- and to each others' projects we'll work together to showcase here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net/?go=southern_california">http://olpcMAP.net/?go=southern_california</a> In preparation for Feb 25-27's quite huge SCALE / Southern CA Linux Expo: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.socalLinuxExpo.org/scale9x/">http://www.socalLinuxExpo.org/scale9x/</a> Join us to raise !! Sunday Feb 20, 1PM PST (4PM EST) +1 866 213-2185 or +1 609 454-9914 Access Code: 1671650# Backchannel: <a 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) Sunday we're all about to learn how far we've come, with OLPC/Sugar/edutech with along our favorite Hollwood iBoulevards & iHighways -- next week we'll be hitting the longer road exploring a new city/region each week, so think hard about those Sugar/OLPC teachers/kids projects in your own town that have done phenomenal stuff, WHY YOUR CITY IS DIFFERENT, and most important the secret dad/sister/mentors behind the scenes who deserves their fair shake / quiet honor around our global community map at long last (lowercase+UPPERCASE ;) Those who share the very most creative stories of grassroots/community accomplishment (whether told already in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.laptop.org">http://planet.laptop.org</a> and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org">http://planet.sugarlabs.org</a>) or not, will receive a RED XO, as a month+ ago here, when so many similarly unknown talents were shared here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP/Trivia_Contest">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP/Trivia_Contest</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcMAP.net">http://olpcMAP.net</a> !</pre> </body> </html>