Announcement of Weekly olpc/sugar MAP JAM February 22, 2011

From Adam Holt:

Every week you will learn completely new tricks about how to build local edutech community, during our global audio/chat calls, that you will be able to use the rest of your life. I want to give out a red XO every week to the local who most vividly/authentically communicates her/his on-the-ground accomplishment, experience, eye-opening trivia (or quite simply photography) onto http://olpcMAP.net , til they run out!  Or will they

*VERY* preliminary schedule follows — dates and 4PM EST/EDT Sunday timing will both change if we can hopefully accommodate the “doer” country/group’s request:

    Feb 27 – Southern California Meets @ http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x : How it All Comes Together
                    http://olpcMAP.net?go=southern_california
    Mch 6 – OLPC France: How to Build a Volunteer Network that LASTS
                  http://olpcMAP.net?go=france
    Mch 13 – Franxophonie.org on Africa: Gabon, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal
                    http://olpcMAP.net?go=cameroon
    Mch 20 – eKindling / Philippines Island-Hopping Expansion?
                    http://olpcMAP.net/?go=philippines
    Mch 27 -  Kenya’s Extensive Community Deployment Fabric
                     http://olpcMAP.net?go=kenya
    Apr 3 – OLPC Austria
                 http://olpcMAP.net?go=europe
    Apr 10 – Washington DC’s olpcLearningClub.org & Sugar Labs DC
                   http://olpcMAP.net?go=maryland
    Apr 17 – OLPC Deutschland
                   http://olpcMAP.net?go=germany
    Apr 24 – Ghana: Princeton Engineers w/o Borders Build a Broad-based XO Library
                   http://olpcMAP.net?go=ghana
    May 1 – Rural Uruguay: do the Rural Poor really want Internet?
                  http://olpcMAP.net/?go=montevideo
    May 8 – Urban Montevideo: Are We There Yet?
                  http://olpcMAP.net/?go=uruguay
    May 15 – Jamaica: Teacher Training Truisms (you think you know, but don’t)
                    http://olpcMAP.net?go=jamaica
    May 22 – Lifelong Learning in Haiti: How to Fight the Good Fight
                    http://olpcMAP.net/?go=haiti

Those who share the very most creative stories of grassroots/community accomplishment 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

Caryl Bigenho Presentation on Sunday, Feb 20 February 19, 2011

From Adam Holt:

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/

     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

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