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From: reas / ucla reas@ucla.edu Date: January 23, 2007 7:41:38 AM EST Subject: O P E N @ UCLA

Hello!

The schedule for OPEN is locked and the website promoting the event is now live. Please help get the word out. Please send the announcement (below) to your internal department email lists, friends, and other relevant lists.

The event is free and open for all. We're encouraging people to register so we can judge attendance and provide wireless access. UC faculty and graduate students will have priority for the workshops because space is limited.

I'm very excited about the program and I look forward to seeing you soon. I'll be sending an email about tech checks, parking, and other details on the week of the event.

If you have any questions or concerns about the event, please let me know via email or phone (+1 310 382 6007).

Regards, Casey

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O P E N

UC Digital Arts Research Network Open Source Sound, Image, and Electronics

9,10 February 2007 @ EDA, Broad Arts Center, UCLA

A gathering for open source users, advocates, and developers.

Symposium (Friday): Cory Doctorow - USC, Boing Boing Greg Niemeyer - UC Berkeley David Cuartielles - Arduino.cc, K3 Malmo Beatriz da Costa - UC Irvine Xavier Amatriain - UC Santa Barbara, MATi, CREATE Michael Zbyszynski - UC Berkeley, CNMAT Ben Fry - Processing.org, Carnegie Mellon Robert Nideffer - UC Irvine

Workshops (Saturday): Processing - Ben Fry Arduino - David Cuartielles PD - August Black

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information visit: http://ucdarnet.org/projects/OPEN/

Please register here: http://ucdarnet.org/projects/OPEN/registration.php

All lectures take place in the EDA, Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 1250 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Directions: http://dma.ucla.edu/info/directions.php

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Also, in association with O P E N:

Regents' Lecturer: Nicholas Negroponte Eliminating Poverty by Learning Learning

February 8, 2007, 6:00pm

Common practice in bridging the so-called "digital divide" in developing nations is to build computer labs in schools and teach children WORD and EXCEL thirty minutes a week. This is misguided. Children should not learn productivity software suited for office workers. They should make things, they should communicate, they should explore the Internet. In short, they should learn learning, which includes the passion to learn.

The One Laptop per Child project is guided by the belief that you can eliminate poverty with education. It aims to engage children in their own education as well as peer-to-peer learning, by equipping every child with a connected laptop with features you have never dreamed of. By doing this globally, at a very large scale, and as a non-profit association, the birth of the $100 laptop is feasible. At least six countries, three continents and five million children will be involved in the launch.

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O P E N is a joint program of the UC Digital Arts Research Network and the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA.

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