Date: February 13th 2010

We return to Gallaudet University this snowy February to meet two young social entrepreneurs who are making a big difference in the OLPC community.

What: Family XO Meetup
 When: Saturday, February 20th, 2010, 10 am to 1pm
 Where: Gallaudet University
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 **NOTE ROOM CHANGE: We are UPSTAIRS from the old meeting rooms in the basement on the first floor, in computer lab SAC 1010, Washington, D.C. 20002

In the summer of 2009, Beth Santos worked with OLPC and an NGO to successfully deploy 100 XO laptops at a secondary school on the small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, which is in the Gulf of Guinea off the western equatorial coast of Africa. Beth will share some stories from her remarkable journey and detail her plans to return to the island this year with more laptops.

Beth's web site

http://bit.ly/DxHbA

Perfectly complimenting Beth’s talk, Luke Faraone, a longtime member of the Learning Club, will conduct a beginner’s workshop on maintaining and repairing the XO laptop hardware. Luke runs the Learning Club’s busy repair center, which is authorized by OLPC to install original replacement parts and revive laptop software that refuses to start.  The XO laptop is uniquely designed to be easily repaired in the field with an ordinary screwdriver. Please bring your XO laptop and a small Phillips head screwdriver if you want to follow along.

Luke's web site

http://luke.faraone.cc/
DC Repair Center

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_DC_Repair

More help for the children of Haiti

After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, many immediately thought of the rugged XO laptop as a perfect solution for bringing education to the children in the camps. In addition to longer-term plans with other NGOs, OLPC has come up with a plan to recover unused Give One, Get One laptops. Visit the OLPC blog for details on where to ship if you have one to donate.

OLPC Haiti

http://bit.ly/6V8a6I

Upcoming events…

Thursday, March 11 - Project H Design has begun its Design Revolution Road Show featuring a display of 36 innovative products (from their book of 100, which includes the XO laptop) that are making a significant social impact in the world. The national mobile tour brings their Airstream trailer to Baltimore for a stop and evening lecture at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Design Revolution Road Show

http://bit.ly/1td9Bs

Saturday, March 20 - We’ll be back at the Arlington Career Center.

For more information and updates:

http://olpclearningclub.org/

Hope to see you,

Mike Lee
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