{"id":840,"date":"2008-05-18T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T02:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/05\/18\/grassroots-events-in-june\/"},"modified":"2008-05-18T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T02:04:32","slug":"grassroots-events-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/05\/18\/grassroots-events-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots events in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the great projects that are currently underway in the OLPC world began with personal connections between an enthusiastic volunteer and a school or developer working directly with schools and teachers in a deployment region.  A few that come to mind are the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Blog_educativo\">blogging project<\/a> in Uruguay that <strong>Greg Smith<\/strong> has helped facilitate as well as his work with server development for <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/OLPC_Nepal\">Nepal<\/a>&#8216;s school trials last month; and the Spanish-language educators list (<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.laptop.org\/mailman\/olpc-sur\"><strong>olpc-sur<\/strong><\/a>@lists.laptop.org) that Yama Ploskonka has recently gotten off to a very active start.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an ongoing effort to increase direct connections between the  communities and schools interested in and implementing OLPC, we are holding a long week of grassroots events in early June.   There will be an <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/grassroots_unconference\">unconference<\/a> for general grassroots organization, a week-long <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Grassroots%20bootcamp\">bootcamp<\/a> for people interested in becoming advisors for local user groups (both in Cambridge), and a weekend-long <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Grassroots_Jam\">grassroots jam<\/a> in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Bootcamp admission is by application, and the event is targeted at active community members; limited support is available or travel (and crash space) for the bootcamp, for people who cannot otherwise afford to come.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a look at the event pages above, and sign up for those you are interested in joining, whether or not you can attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the great projects that are currently underway in the OLPC world began with personal connections between an enthusiastic volunteer and a school or developer working directly with schools and teachers in a deployment region. A few that come to mind are the blogging project in Uruguay that Greg Smith has helped facilitate as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-dy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}