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:
http://j.mp/erEQQJ
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects
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
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program 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:
http://olpcMAP.net/?go=southern_california
In preparation for Feb 25-27's quite huge SCALE / Southern CA Linux
Expo:
http://www.socalLinuxExpo.org/scale9x/
Join us to raise !!
Sunday Feb 20, 1PM PST (4PM EST)
+1 866 213-2185 or
+1 609 454-9914
Access Code: 1671650#
Backchannel:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat
(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
http://planet.laptop.org and
http://planet.sugarlabs.org) or not,
will receive a RED XO, as a month+ ago here, when so many similarly
unknown talents were shared here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP/Trivia_Contest
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Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net !