<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Impoverished Learning among this planet's 2 billion kids has gone on too long. 200 million of which get 1 year or less of school, according to OLPC VP Matt Keller (who will be joining us and presenting!) Having lived much of the last year in Haiti, I know we all have excruciating OLPC/Sugar stories to tell, some astonishing & historic appearing in books soon -- others unprintable even on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.laptop.org">http://planet.laptop.org</a> making us laugh/scream/cry in utter despair. Yet Others Will Crack Open The Future. Hacking open our San Francisco summit's central weekend schedule in new ways, EG. via Google Hangouts with OLPC's founding engineers CScott Ananian & Richard Smith and the founder of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://activitycentral.com">http://activitycentral.com</a> all for the very 1st time: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcSF.org/summit">http://olpcSF.org/summit</a> (draft) We've 5 evening/extracurricular events lining up over the course of the week (Oct 17-24) precisely so all can let loose moving our transgressive ideas & art forward right here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012#Evening_Excitement">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012#Evening_Excitement</a> Special Thanks to the ~50 people making the supreme effort joining from so far away (Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, Uruguay, several from Europe, 5-6 from Canada alone, etc) for SF's Community Summit & Sugarcamp++ hacksprint workshops both: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012#Attendees">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012#Attendees</a> Please all help juice up the above lists...and open education in general...and Register Now !! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://eventbrite.com/event/4025544512">http://eventbrite.com/event/4025544512</a> Registered attendees mutually organize last-minute dinners/homestays/segway-biking adventures/etc here: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:olpc-social@googlegroups.com">olpc-social@googlegroups.com</a> In Short: Not too late to invite other Sugar Labs hackers, teachers, implementers, artists sweating their asses off for our Little Movement That Could. To what will be an incredible week in SF connecting 5+ intimately related events and communities: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/2012">http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/2012</a> Oct 20-21), Books in Browsers (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bib.archive.org">http://bib.archive.org</a> Oct 24-26), AfricaHackTrip (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://twitter.com/AfricaHackTrip">http://twitter.com/AfricaHackTrip</a> Oct 17 & 24) and our very own evolving legacy -- whether or not you personally win a <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_4_B1">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_4_B1</a> ;) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/olpc_san_francisco_community_summit_2012.html">http://olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/olpc_san_francisco_community_summit_2012.html</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>