<div dir="auto"><div>Alex, Caryl & All did an amazing job pulling this together.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It really is a new era when many people came by who were born after OLPC's mass production era, had never heard of OLPC at all (or perhaps completely forgot about it a dozen years later...)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While we could not be there the entire 4 days, Fri-Sat-Sun each generated a ton of very thoughtful interest in Sugar, Internet-in-a-Box and many difficult democratized/global learning questions in general — more so than in prior years interestingly!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps the world is a "smaller place" than when OLPC/Sugar began in the 2000s, now approaching its 3rd decade (2020-2030) with a more grounded sense of impactful idealism than when it all began.....</div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 1:52 PM Alex Perez <<a href="mailto:aperez@alexperez.com">aperez@alexperez.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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We had a successful presence at the Southern California Linux Expo, and
booth visitors chose to take several hundred business cards with Sugar
Labs, Sugarizer, Sugar On a Stick, and Internet In A Box logos. In
attendance were myself, my wife, Caryl Bigenho, her lovely husband, and
Adam Holt, all of whom were stationed at the booth to interact with and
answer questions from the attendees.<br>
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Estimated attendee count for <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/blog/scale-17x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">SCaLE 17x</a> was
around 3,000. Despite being crammed in the rear corner of the exhibit
hall, we had a lot of foot traffic, and general interest. We gave away
just under 500 sugarlabs.org-branded promotional items, which was a
sugarlabs.org-branded LED light and whistle key chain item, as well as
several hundred "business cards", which you can view below.<br>
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We had six OLPCs on display, including one XO-4, two XO-1.75's, and an
XO-1.5, all of which could be interacted with by visitors, and had a lot
of kids (I'd guess at least a hundred) stop by and play with the OLPCs.
We briefly explained what Sugar was to adults and children alike, and
encouraged them to try it out for themselves on the machines, as well as
by download Sugar on a Stick.<br>
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We also had Sugarizer on demo on an iPad and Google Nexus 7 tablet, as
well as a new $200 HP laptop running Sugar on a Stick, to demonstrate
how easy it is to run Sugar on commodity hardware.<br>
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Please let me know if you have any questions.<br></div>
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