<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Bruce Baikie" <<a href="mailto:bruce@green-wifi.org">bruce@green-wifi.org</a>><br>Date: Oct 3, 2011 11:10 AM<br>Subject: [OLPC-SF] OLPC SF 2011 Community Summit - Poster contest<br>
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    <h1>OLPC SF 2011 Community Summit -
      Poster contest </h1>
    <h1> Submit your posters!</h1>
    <p>The project poster contest is a new feature of the 2011 OLPC SF
      Community Summit!<br>
    </p>
    <p>The posters are a simple size of 13" X 19", and completing the
      poster would be an excellent way to share your project and where
      help is needed. Your poster can win a nice prize and certificates
      will also be awarded.</p>
    <p>Simply submit your project poster electronically before the
      summit and we will have them professionally printed and mounted on
      foam board. You are welcome to keep your mounted poster after the
      event.</p>
    <p>Submitted posters will displayed in the hallway during the summit
      and when people are networking outside the conference rooms and
      during breaks, they can read about your project, your challenges,
      successes, and where you could use help. Your poster can cover
      your whole project or one specific area like content, training,
      infrastructure (power, connectivity, etc), and school server.</p>
    <p>Winners will be announced during the Sunday luncheon period.</p>
    <p>Rules:</p>
    <ul>
      <li> Posters will be 13” x 19” inches in size.</li>
      <li> Only 1 entry per project.</li>
      <li> All artwork and lettering must be original. Copyrighted
        images are not allowed.</li>
      <li> Entries must be submitted electronically in by 9:00 AM
        Wednesday morning Pacific Time, October 19th, 2011. Submit
        entries to: <a href="mailto:poster-submission@green-wifi.org?subject=Poster%20Submission" target="_blank">poster-submission@green-wifi.org</a></li>
      <li> Posters will be also posted to the OLPC SF website during the
        summit.</li>
    </ul>
    <p>We recommend you use PowerPoint, OpenOffice, or even better an
      open source tool like inkscape. (<a href="http://inkscape.org/download/" target="_blank">http://inkscape.org/download/</a>)</p>
    <p>Helpful sites on making a poster:</p>
    <ul>
      <li> <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Making_scientific_posters" target="_blank">http://openwetware.org/wiki/Making_scientific_posters</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://ipro.iit.edu/students/deliverables/poster" target="_blank">http://ipro.iit.edu/students/deliverables/poster</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign" target="_blank">http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://www.huttenhower.org/content/welcome-and-creating-scientific-poster" target="_blank">http://www.huttenhower.org/content/welcome-and-creating-scientific-poster</a></li>
    </ul>
    <p style="margin-bottom:0.16in">If you need a template for
      inkscape or OpenOffice, email a request to <a href="mailto:poster-submission@green-wifi.org?subject=template%20request" target="_blank">poster-submission@green-wifi.org</a><br>
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    <pre><small><a href="http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2011/poster" target="_blank"><big><big>http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2011/poster</big></big></a></small></pre>
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