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Original Invite Here..
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(Caryl's on-the-ground-preview below's better :)<br>
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!</td>
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Caryl Bigenho <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com"><cbigenho@hotmail.com></a></td>
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Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:35:22 -0800</td>
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Raj Baberwal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:raj_baberwal@yahoo.com"><raj_baberwal@yahoo.com></a>, Cherry Withers
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cherry.withers@gmail.com"><cherry.withers@gmail.com></a>, Danny Hembree
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:danny-hembree@dynamical.org"><danny-hembree@dynamical.org></a>, Perin Lal
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:perin@computerwisekids.com"><perin@computerwisekids.com></a>, "Christian Bryant"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:christianabryant@linux.com"><christianabryant@linux.com></a>, Maung Nyeu
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mnyeu@yahoo.com"><mnyeu@yahoo.com></a>, Christina Vargas
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vargaschristi@gmail.com"><vargaschristi@gmail.com></a>, Erica Drew
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:erica.drew@pepperdine.edu"><erica.drew@pepperdine.edu></a>, Andrew MacNamera
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:apm01@umail.ucsb.edu"><apm01@umail.ucsb.edu></a>, Hannah Anderson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hsanderson707@gmail.com"><hsanderson707@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gdunit91@gmail.com"><gdunit91@gmail.com></a>,
Ed Bigenho <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:edbigenho@hotmail.com"><edbigenho@hotmail.com></a></td>
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Adam Holt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:holt@laptop.org"><holt@laptop.org></a>, OLPC SoCal
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:olpc-socal@laptop.org"><olpc-socal@laptop.org></a></td>
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Thank you to all you wonderful OLPC/SugarLabs booth volunteers.
Thanks to all of you who gave of your time to help tell the OLPC
and Sugar stories at SCaLE 9x.<br>
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In all there were 12 of you... but not all at the same time! We
wouldn't have all fitted into the booth! Each of you brought
enthusiasm and talent to the effort and, you are greatly
appreciated!<br>
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Cherry Withers... from the Bay Area, gave up a day at Disneyland
with her family to wow us all with a microscope interfaced with an
XO!<br>
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Anne Emerson, Greg Dreshler, and Hannah Anderson came down from
Santa Barbara and even helped with the presentation about
volunteering and the OLPC Contributors Program.<br>
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Danny Hembree did double duty and helped out on both Saturday and
Sunday! He was great explaining about Sugar and the XOs to people
stopping by.<br>
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Perin Lai, Maung Nyeu and Christina Vargas all gave welcome help
on Saturday afternoon that allowed Cherry and I to take in Bert
Fruedenberg's Etoys/Squeek talk in the OSSIE track. I wish I had
had more time to chat with Perin, but Maung and Christina were
able to stay for the evening "festivities" so we got a chance to
talk about ideas for our OLPC-SoCal community.<br>
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Sunday Danny Hembree was joined by Christian Bryant from UCLA,
Erica Drew from Pepperdine and Steve Costeneau to help with the
Sunday visitors, including the winners of the 2 XO raffle-prizes.
Some of us took part in a mini-podcast about OLPC for a piece
about SCaLE 9X that someone was doing.<br>
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All of you did a great job helping with the many visitors we had
at the booth. Some of you were relative newcomers, but quickly
learned a lot about Sugar and OLPC. Some of you supplied a lot of
great technical knowledge that was definitely way beyond my
expertise. I especially enjoyed talking with you and learning
about all of your hopes and dreams for your own favorite project
with Sugar and OLPC.<br>
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Now, If you have been counting... that is only 11 volunteers. The
twelfth is, of course, my great husband Ed Bigenho who is slowly
but surely becoming an expert on the XO, OLPC, and Suger... even
though he would never admit it! He claims to be a "computer
dinosaur" I think you will all agree that he is much more
tech-saavy than he will admit! He deserves extra thanks for
working all of the shifts and keeping me on schedule and on track.<br>
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I would like to be sure all of you know about the special
"Mapping" conference call that Adam has scheduled especially for
Southern California OLPC and Sugar enthusiasts at 7 pm tomorrow
(Monday) evening. The toll-free number is<br>
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+1 866 213-2185 and <br>
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the Access Code is 1671650#<br>
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If you would like to also follow along on IRC where you can share
links and things like that go to <a
href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a><br>
(that's #olpc-help on irc.freenode.net)<br>
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If you are an "old" subscriber to the olpc-SoCal mailing list, you
will probably get a message from Adam about this. I haven't had
time to put in all the new names yet, so for those of you who just
signed up this weekend this will be new information.<br>
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Thanks again everyone! We will talk soon (maybe tomorrow).<br>
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Caryl<br>
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P.S. Christian Bryant has set up a group blog for us on identi.ca
here is the link:<br>
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<a href="http://identi.ca/group/olpcsocal">http://identi.ca/group/olpcsocal</a><br>
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(And I wondered why he kept doing things on his phone while
working in the booth!)<br>
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Christina Vargas will also be putting up a special page for us on
facebook. I talked to the facebook reps in their booth and they
have offered to give us a special url for our page. Let's see if
they remember??? They have my card...</div>
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