---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lindsay Michimoto <lindsaym@cs.washington.edu> Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 16:39 Subject: [Cs-grads] UW-One Laptop Per Child student organization To: cs-grads@cs.washington.edu -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: OLPC Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:19:50 -0700 From: Daniel MT <damt@uw.edu> To: S. Morris Rose <rose@cs.washington.edu> Dear Sir/Madam, I'm one of the officers of the UW-One Laptop Per Child student organization. We are also part of the Engineers Without Borders UW Chapter and we truly believe your students could benefit from our activities, so we were wondering if you could please forward the following message to your students mailing list. Thanks in advance. We are the One Laptop per Child group at the University of Washington. Our group develops apps for the XO laptop, a simple computer distributed to schoolchildren in the developing world. These laptops foster self-empowered learning and are supplied by the One Laptop per Child Association. Our work helps increase the educational, social, and practical value of these laptops by developing new applications for them. Currently we are recruiting for new members. All students regardless of background or programming experience are welcome to join us. There are many opportunities available in our group: visual user-interface design, application design, learn how to program in Python, improving programming skills, leadership possibilities, making new friends and many more! We've already made a Checkers game app, and we are working on a Geography quiz app. The next application we make could be your idea! On every Monday at 5:30 pm, we are meeting at the Electrical Engineering Building, room 026. Our first few meetings will have everyone participating in making a simple little app to get everyone comfortable and friendly. People interested in developing will be able to learn Python from scratch (CSE 142 experience recommended). People interested in design will get to practice the process of user-centered UI design and development. After the ramp-up period, we'll start tackling the real applications we want develop for the year! See you next Monday ;-) students.washington.edu/olpc