ClassActs

Teachers' Mini-Deployment Guide (Washington DC)

Sept 6 Sunday: Dinner to meet fellow writers

Sept 7 Monday: Labor Day (no holiday for us!)

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Sept 11 Friday: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)

Come and join our Community Book Sprint!

The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a Mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced.This idea arose from our Support Gang volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there.

The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like:

Join a Historic Book Sprint

Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ lists.laptop.org explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :)

Possible Book Title

(Very Tentative)

20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers

Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang

Needs

ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
Graphics designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
Experienced:
- Tech Writers
- Copy Editors
- Photographs, Illustrations & Screenshots!!
Blog to Invite DC and World
Map Representative Deployments (opening page of book?)
Draft Table of Contents

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Deployment_Resources
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Resources
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Technical_Manual
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Workbook
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar
      GuideXOGabon2.pdf Pedagogic Guide (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French, not yet published])
       Billy's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published)

Post-production (lulu.com sales, chapters that stand as PDF case studies, e-book for XO and beyond, etc)

Likely Attendees

Remote Attendees

Caryl Bigenho
Sandy Culver (invited)
Christoph Derndorfer
Daniel Drake (invited)
Pablo Flores (invited)
Rita Freudenberg (invited)
Bryan Stuart

Daytime/Workroom Venues

Currently under consideration:

Parks & Recreation, Evening tete-a-tetes

Do suggest Great humble Restaurants & Evening Itineraries!
Rock Creek Park
US National Arboretum
Taste of India restaurant (The owner is a friend of Open Source)
The Brickskeller Dining House & Down Home Saloon - a 17-page menu, with only one page being food. ;-)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial - as monuments and memorials go, this one is actually worth going to.
Bike the Sites - bike rentals and tours.
For the clubbers: The 9:30 Club, The Birchmere, The Black Cat
Dave & Buster's (White Flint Metro station)
The Washington City Paper - Find your own fun.
Takoma Park Folk Festival (post-sprint: Sunday, September 13)
<add suggestions here>

Accommodations

Until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:

Hostels.com
Great Affordable Bed & Breakfasts
holt @ laptop.org may have friends!
Mel Chua

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