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 (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/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 http://OLPClearningclub.org, http://hacDC.org and others:
Sunday Sept 6: Dinner to meet fellow writers
Monday Sept 7: Labor Day (no holiday for us!)
...
Friday Sept 11: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)
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
(http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots) 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!
Blog to Invite DC and World
Draft Table of Contents
Map Representative Deployments (opening page of book?)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar
Great Humble Restaurants & Evening Itineraries
(ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS HERE)
Likely Attendees:
Mel CHUA
Paul COMMONS
Luke FARAONE
David FARNING (invited)
Adam HOLT
SJ KLEIN
Mike LEE
Yamandu PLOSKONKA
Sameer VERMA
Seth WOODWORTH (invited)
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:
http://www.gallaudet.edu
http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddesign/searchkids.shtml
http://www.loc.gov
Accommodations -- until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:
http://hostels.com
http://airbnb.com
http://melchua.com
Parks & Recreation:
Rock Creek Park: http://www.nps.gov/rocr/
US National Arboretum: http://www.usna.usda.gov
Please Join Our Online Venues Today!
support-gang@laptop.org (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang)
grassroots@lists.laptop.org (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots)
http://forum.laptop.org/chat (#olpc-help and #sugar)
http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs ??
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the
work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
