[TriLUG] February TriLUG meeting: Greg Dekoenigsberg on One Laptop Per Child

[Cristóbal Palmer]

Cross-posting this because the topic should be of general interest.
Please accept my apologies if you received this multiple times. The
following press release was sent to local papers several weeks ago. In
case you missed it on their calendars, here goes:

Executive Summary
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WHO: Greg Dekoenigsberg (Community Development Manager for Red Hat)
WHAT: One Laptop Per Child ( http://www.laptop.org/ )
HOW: Live presentation at the TriLUG meeting (http://www.trilug.org)
WHEN: Feb 8, 2007 at 7pm.
WHERE: Red Hat HQ (http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html)
ETC: This meeting (including the pizza) sponsored by InCentric
Solutions. http://www.incentric.com. Open to the public.

For Immediate Release
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At the February meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG,
http://www.trilug.org/), Greg Dekoenigsberg, Red Hat's Community
Development Manager, will be giving a presentation on One Laptop Per
Child (OLPC), a project started at the MIT Media Lab that will develop
and market a $100 laptop to developing countries for use by children
in educational settings. These laptops incorporate various innovations
both to reduce cost and to make them appropriate for children in
remote environments, including dual-mode screens that are readable in
bright daylight, power via a hand crank, and ad-hoc wireless mesh
networking. The laptops will run a Linux-based Operating System
developed by Red Hat.

The meeting is open to the public. Free pizza and drinks will be
sponsored by InCentric Solutions, http://www.incentric.com

-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
TriLUG Vice Chair
"There are many roads to enlightenment, and thus many roads back to
the One True Debian" --crimsun