OLPC NYC

OLPC New York
Local metro-area grassroots group

Events

Future Activities

• Join OLPC/Sugar visionaries from DC, NY and Boston converging on NY City for a Community Summit:
  

• Saturday November 21; 1 - 4PM
  

• The Church of St Mary the Virgin
  
• 3rd Floor Meeting Room, Mission House
  
• 133 West 46th Street
  
• (btn 6th and 7th Avenues)
  
• Google Map View
  
• Church Web Site

The 1PM formal presentation will include:

• - OLPC's brand new XO 1.5 B2 Laptop
• - Summary account of the 1 Million XO Laptops now shipped around the world
• - Previews of upcoming Sugar Learning software
• - Some directly personal explanations of our movement's strongly maturing "volunteer ladder".
• - Come see some actual books written by our Community!
• - Participate and strategize around OLPC and Sugar's unheralded successes
• - Local Projects, and long-term forward path.
  

• Teachers, Technologists, and Twitterers -- Please do join us for an afternoon of serious structured brainstorming -- examining how all of us can now directly impact education worldwide.

• Everyone Can Help: Learning innovators, Software carpenters, Community Marketing geniuses, Usability experts, Local teachers, Grassroots organizers, Artists, Quality assurance/Support gurus, all Most welcome...

• Meetup signup here!
• Consider also joining our general NYC mailing list: OLPC-NYC@laptop.org

• Would you like to plan something? Add it here!

• (DRAFT ANNOUNCEMENT)

Past Activities

• Story Jam New York - March 28-30, 2008. At UNICEF.

About

The New York Interest Group is a way for people in the New York metro area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC. We aren't necessarily interested just in trying to bring OLPC into classrooms in New York (although we generally think it's a wonderful idea) we're also interested in volunteering/contributing to the project.

OLPC New York IS

1. a nucleation point for exchange between local groups, towards the OLPC Boston office and back, and with other groups worldwide
2. helping in organizing XOs for the local groups
3. supporting and cherishing the autonomy of local groups
4. focusing on rough consensus, grassroots involvement, and working projects

OLPC New York IS NOT

1. going to do a local pilot in your school (although we'll encourage and support you if you want to do one yourself)
2. going to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do (although we're always up for idea-bouncing and brainstorms)

Contact and chapters

Mailing list

If there's enough demand, we'll set up a mailing list. If you'd like to have an NYC-OLPC mailing list, post a link to your contact info (wiki userpages work) below - the minimum number for starting a list is 10 recent requests.

1. Joanna Burgess
2. Nicholas Schaefer
3. Rob Lockhart
4. Mark Wilson
5. Tim Cooper
6. Jim Lombard
7. Mafe Mago

Chapters

If you know of any New-York area schools, organizations, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a Grassroots group or an University chapter, please ask them to add a link below.

Existing projects

• Teaching Matters is running a pilot in the city - see their blog here.

Short URL set up for this wiki page

http://bit.ly/olpcny

Project ideas

If you're in New York and want to work on a project with someone local, post ideas here.

• I would love to set up a fundraiser event that brings awareness to this amazing initiative as well as collecting funds to buy and provide even more of these laptops to kids around the world. I'm relatively new to the NY area and to fundraising, so anyone else who's interested, please post here! (Post your ideas if you have them!)

• Hope to brainstorm this idea on this event: (School Service Learning Program with Universities and Colleges)
  • Plz see details of the program here: User:Mafe