<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hello Pythoners,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">It was really nice to meet and talk with you all at the meeting on thursday. David Richardson and I really appreciated all the advice you had to offer about our upcoming OLPC Hackathon at USC.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">In case you forgot or weren't there, USC ACM is putting on a week-long competition in April where USC students will make OLPC programs with python. (More at <a href="http://codeforacause.net">codeforacause.net</a>)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">As we mentioned we would love to have some help during our competition. I'm sure that you all have jobs and busy lives, so we would like whatever help you can provide when/if you will be available.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">I've made a list of dates and times we are looking for extra assistance. So if you'll be free please let me know.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">4/12 12-6pm - Event kickoff by USC ACM, Introduction to python by Grig Gheorghiu and first day of coding.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">4/13 12-4pm - "Luncheon with the experts" Gives students a chance to ask questions they developed after their first night of coding. Students may still want help developing project ideas.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>4/14-4/18 7-10pm</b> - Office hours where students can come test their code on OLPC hardware and ask experts questions.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">4/19 6-11PM - Extended office hours for last day of coding. Code will be due at 11.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">4/20 4-7PM - Presentations and Judging. If you'd like to come to see what people have made or if you would like to judge, you are welcome to.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">As I see it, the first two days are going to be crucial for the students so I would put those as the highest priority. The office hours will also be important, but everyone will have a better feel for the OLPC and python by that point. So we'll only need one or two python experts at any given time during office hours.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Andre Stechert had mentioned that while some people might not be able to come they might be able to come to a chat room in shifts. So if you think you can do something like that, that works too.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thank you for sticking with me through this long email and thank you for your help. We'd absolutely love whatever help we can get.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Please feel free to shoot me an email at dhodge at usc dot edu or give me a call at 415 717 0262 to work out details. I probably won't be able to get back to you until Tuesday because I have midterms tomorrow.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">thank you!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- David Hodge</p><p></p>