[OSGeo-Boston] olpcMAP SPRINT - Dec 27-31 in Boston!

[Holt]

Talented social cartographers & implementers from the global community 
of One Laptop per Child (http://blog.laptop.org) and 
http://SugarLabs.org will fly to Boston Dec 27-31 -- to physically map 
our geo-social fabric of small/medium/large deployments worldwide.  In 
completely new and different ways -- on and around CMU/Nick Doiron's 
rapidly evolving adoption/volunteering map:

http://olpcMAP.net

Just like a Book Sprint (writing an entire book within a week, like 
http://laptop.org/manual) we will beautify, rigorize and publish this 
community product within 5 business days.

We're looking for the very best talent globally to join us, to lay 
critical seeds Connecting-The-Dots of OLPC/Sugar/ICT4Education around 
learning/deployment/content knowledge.  Globally!  Starting with one 
single student's social map -- that has already powerfully captured the 
popular imagination OLPC sites around the world, since its alpha-launch 
in San Francisco last week.

SAVE THE DATE, and RSVP early to confirm your (a) any dedicated 
contribution and (b) spot!  We have a long way to go and Need Your Help: 
_cartographic tools, deployment experts, artistic curators 
all...coalescing into our geosocial FABRICation_.  EG. Who will package 
this for XO laptops in offline countries 
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap) and iPhone App both??

The venue for making this happen will likely be OLPC's headquarters, in 
Cambridge, Massachusetts or a nearby university -- both very 
conveniently transit-accessible to Boston's airport "BOS".  Details to 
follow later in November, off of this page:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP

Thank you to the organizing volunteers (email beautify at olpcMAP.net) 
already INvesting so much of their personal/family resources, flying in 
during 2010's Season of Giving.  Just 2 months away now, to celebrate a 
Cause They Believe In!  That cause being to grow our community of 
face2face doers building 21st century educational opportunities for the 
world's poorest children, with new volunteer/internship opportunities 
that None Of Us Have Yet Imagined.  We are thrilled to already have in 
attendance these powerhouse contributors:

     Walter Bender (Sugar Labs Executive Director, partial attendance)
     David Farning (ActivityCentral.org, Executive Director, Wisconsin)
     Caroline Meeks (SolutionGrove.com, Executive Director, partial 
attendance)
     Nick Doiron (Carnegie Mellon University)
     Marina Zdobnova (Russia, http://SaigonOLPC.wordpress.com)
     Kurt Maier (OLPC Support Gang founding member, Indiana)
     Claudia Urrea (OLPC learning coordinator for Latin America, partial 
attendance)
     SJ Klein (OLPC Director of Outreach, partial attendance)
     Reuben Caron (OLPC global deployment support, partial attendance)
     Adam Holt (OLPC Community Support Manager)
     (Special Chicago guest/s from http://IITempoweringHaiti.org )

_Please spread the word._  I with match up rich volunteers with poor, 
just as I did for http://olpcSF.org/summit last week, to make sure 
housing and a few _select airfares are covered, when truly exceptional 
talent is demonstrated_.  Thanks & see you there!!

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