Date: April 11th 2009

What: Family XO Mesh Meetup (other netbooks welcomed!) When: Saturday, April 18th, 2009, 10 am to 1pm Where: Gallaudet University, Student Union Building, Lower Level, Flexible Room L040 and L041, Washington, D.C. 20002

Meeting regular Kim Toufectis will give a presentation this month about using cloud computing on the OLPC XO. These are secure web sites, which, to varying degrees, mimic computer desktop functionality. Kim wrote an article on the subject for OLPC News back in February.

We will also report more on the club’s first business meeting as well as some great developments in the form of direct support from OLPC Headquarters. Kevin has been sounding the drumbeat on the major National Educational Computing Conference, NECC 2009, to be held here at the D.C. Convention Center June 28 - July 1. We’re hoping to have a presence in the exhibit hall to promote OLPC and Sugar Labs.

Our meeting in May should be on Saturday the 16th back at the Arlington Career Center. Check back on the blog for the confirmation, or if you haven’t already, sign up for our email announcements. Based on a great suggestion from Phoebe Bennett, we will be supporting international MIT Scratch Day at the meeting with demos of local student projects. I’ve added us to their Google Map.

Congratulations to Sugar Labs on being accepted as a mentoring organization in this year’s Google Summer of Code.

Visit the club's blog for links to all the things mentioned in this email:

http://www.olpclearningclub.org

If this is your first time, please consult the interactive Google Map of the Gallaudet University campus and transportation options:

http://tinyurl.com/c2xtxe

Scroll down the list of buildings on the left to see the link for the Student Union. All visitors need to stop at the security kiosk just inside the Florida Avenue gate. The guard will direct you to parking or the Student Union Building if you're walking.

Hope to see you there!

Mike

curiouslee gmail com