Date: May 26th 2009

Hello,

This is a quick mid-month email to let you all know that there will be a meetup tomorrow night in DC with members of a team of local students who are leaving soon to do a deployment of OLPC XOs in Madagascar. Here's the blog announcement:

Are you excited about the OLPCorps idea - teams of college students headed to Africa with a stack of XO’s and determination to make a change? Want to meet a winning group that’s headed to Madagascar from right here in DC? The OLPC Ampitso team is leaving in early June, but before they go, they need your help.

They need the collective wisdom of OLPC Learning Club-DC, our excitement, and our years of exploration with the XO laptop. They can also use our support - deployment in Madagascar is going to be tough, and we can supply research and expertise that would be priceless to OLPC Ampitso and their beneficiaries, the children of Ambatoharanana.

So come out and meet OLPC Ampitso, learn what they’re planning, and share what you know:

OLPC Ampitso Meetup
Wednesday, May 27, 6:30pm
Looking Glass Lounge
Back beer garden
3634 Georgia Ave NW

Visit either the Learning Club blog http://tinyurl.com/o3z5sm

or OLPC News http://tinyurl.com/pqw3kq

For more information, and to see the comments being posted about this project and others happening in Madagascar.

The Learning Club blog already has some new content and a wrap-up on Scratch Day is being finalized. Our next meeting will be at Gallaudet on Saturday, June 20th. Another email will go out to confirm.

Mike