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  • From: "Cristóbal Palmer" <cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com>
  • To: "internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] [Invitation] Greg Dekoenigsberg on One Laptop Per Child @ 2007-02-02 7pm - 2007-02-08 9pm (6 days & 2 hrs)
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:27:06 -0500

Oy vey.

Sorry about teh google calendar mess. :(

-CMP

On 2/2/07, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com > wrote:

internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org, you are invited to

Greg Dekoenigsberg on One Laptop Per Child

2007-02-02 7pm - 2007-02-08 9pm (6 days & 2 hrs)
(Eastern Time)
Red Hat HQ http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html (map )

Cross-posting this because the topic should be of general interest. Please accept my apologies if you received this multiple times. The following press release was sent to local papers several weeks ago. In case you missed it on their calendars, here goes: Executive Summary ------------------------------ WHO: Greg Dekoenigsberg (Community Development Manager for Red Hat) WHAT: One Laptop Per Child ( http://www.laptop.org/ ) HOW: Live presentation at the TriLUG meeting (http://www.trilug.org) WHEN: Feb 8, 2007 at 7pm. WHERE: Red Hat HQ (http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html ) ETC: This meeting (including the pizza) sponsored by InCentric Solutions. http://www.incentric.com. Open to the public. For Immediate Release --------------------------------- At the February meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG, http://www.trilug.org/), Greg Dekoenigsberg, Red Hat's Community Development Manager, will be giving a presentation on One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a project started at the MIT Media Lab that will develop and market a $100 laptop to developing countries for use by children in educational settings. These laptops incorporate various innovations both to reduce cost and to make them appropriate for children in remote environments, including dual-mode screens that are readable in bright daylight, power via a hand crank, and ad-hoc wireless mesh networking. The laptops will run a Linux-based Operating System developed by Red Hat. The meeting is open to the public. Free pizza and drinks will be sponsored by InCentric Solutions, http://www.incentric.com -- Cristóbal M. Palmer TriLUG Vice Chair "There are many roads to enlightenment, and thus many roads back to the One True Debian" --crimsun
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