[ANNOUNCE] LinuxSA February 2007 Meeting

[Geoffrey D. Bennett]

Hi all,

Time for the February meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...

The usual details:

  When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
          Tuesday, 20th February, 2007
  Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
          of South Australia (SSABSA)
          Boardroom (1st floor)
          60 Greenhill Road
          Wayville SA
  Cost:   FREE
  Who:    Anyone and everyone.
          No pre-registration necessary.

Presentation:

  Joel Stanley will be giving a talk on the One Laptop per Child
  (OLPC) project:

  OLPC[0], a not for profit group originating from the MIT Media
  Lab[1], have spent the past two years dreaming up, designing and
  developing a sub-US$100 laptop for use by children, to be sold
  exclusively to governments who will provide them to disadvantaged
  children.

  At LCA 2007, Jim Gettys[2], VP of Software at OLPC announced that
  they were giving away a couple of XO[3] laptops, to those who were
  willing to work on them. Joel Stanley was lucky enough to receive
  one, which he will display on Tuesday. He will give some background
  on the OLPC project, and talk about the current status laptop,
  including some of the more interesting technology it employs.

  Joel is 21, in his final year of an Electrical Engineering (Computer
  Systems) and Economics double degree at the Uni of Adelaide. He runs
  ubuntu, edits with vim, and doesn't care if Han shot first.

  [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_Per_Child
  [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab
  [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys
  [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Machine

Pizza:

  After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
  Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

  For more information:

  Email:        organisers at linuxsa.org.au
  Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
  Mailing List: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au

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Geoffrey D. Bennett, RHCE, RHCX               mailto:g at netcraft.com.au
Senior Systems Engineer                          sip:g at netcraft.com.au
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