Adam Holt is a computer scientist who was OLPC's Community/Support Manager, has served schools in Haiti, traveled the world building an understanding of technology around developing world schools, and catalyzes Internet-in-a-Box communities worldwide. He hopes you too will seize the day, unleashing grassroots learning libraries in all countries.

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Open Source for Good

Join us for a hands-on "Open Source for Good" workshop where participants of all skill levels will contribute to real-world social impact projects. Working alongside nonprofit leaders, you'll learn contribution workflows while making meaningful improvements to vetted projects. From beginner-friendly documentation updates to advanced feature implementation, you'll gain practical experience with GitHub tooling and collaborative development practices.

 

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Internet in a Box

Internet-in-a-Box is a revolutionary community education approach, to packing all the world's best open learning into inexpensive knowledge hotspots.  We empower schools, libraries, clinics and individuals the world over, when Internet is not possible, in developing countries especially.  We will describe some big steps forward the project in now taking -- in the footsteps of One Laptop Per Child where we began ths fascinating journey a decade ago -- and how conscientious citizens of all kind can now partake as librarians for our planet!

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