BALUG 2007-05-15: Ed Cherlin: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) & demo; etc.

For our May 15th, 2007 BALUG meeting, we have:

Ed Cherlin, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project contributor and author of the forthcoming book _Ending Poverty for Fun and Profit_.

The One Laptop Per Child project was founded in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of MIT Media Lab veterans. Its flagship XO laptop is a unique machine with features created specifically for children of the emerging world. Ed Cherlin, project contributor and author of the forthcoming book _Ending Poverty for Fun and Profit_, will talk about the XO and demo its hardware and software. For more information about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, see: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) http://www.laptop.org/ and: One Laptop Per Child News http://www.olpcnews.com/

Meeting time, location, etc.: 7:00 P.M. US/Pacific $11.00 fee for dinner Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108-2113 Feel free to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. at the bar for social chat, etc. before the main meeting.

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