Thanks for the invite, Charles. I´ve met Donna, she´s really cool & I would´ve loved to attend but if I can make it to any meeting at all tomorrow, I´d be heading to LA Webspinners (sorry hehe).<br><br>Additionally, there´s TONS of events going on tomorrow as it´s International Women´s Day- there´s marches, rallies, conferences & art exhibit kickoff events being hosted all throughout the southland. =P<br>
<br>--miguel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Charles N Wyble <<a href="mailto:charles@thewybles.com">charles@thewybles.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All,<br>
<br>
Here are the details for the LiLAX meeting tomorrow. Hope to see you there!<br>
:)<br>
<br>
Date/Time/Location:<br>
Saturday March 8th 2008 (second Saturday of the month same as usual) 10:00am<br>
to 12:00pm<br>
<br>
WE HAVE A NEW VENUE THIS YEAR!!!! DO NOT GO TO CSUDH!!!<br>
<br>
Gorilla Nation<br>
5140 W Goldleaf Circle 3rd Floor<br>
Los Angeles CA<br>
90056<br>
<br>
Parking will be validated by our awesome host Gorilla Nation. Thank you very<br>
much to Brad Littlefield for his incredibly gracious offer to host LiLAX.<br>
<br>
Afterwards we will head to lunch. Any suggestions for a lunch place are<br>
welcome.<br>
<br>
<br>
Topic Overview/Speaker BIO:<br>
<br>
Donna Charles-Schrokosch is the founder and chair of the non-profit<br>
organization Hawthorne Center for Innovation, <a href="http://www.hawcenter.org/" target="_blank">http://www.hawcenter.org/</a><br>
located in the Fontana area of the Inland Empire. The Center concentrates on<br>
generating innovation in the sciences and humanities and is currently<br>
supporting several disruptive technologies under development in the areas,<br>
among others, of sensor tech, robotics, computer design, clean energy, and<br>
3D web development.<br>
<br>
At the Center, for the last year, Donna has been teaching, while learning,<br>
for free, the open source 3-D object creation application Blender -- with<br>
capabilities similar to proprietary products such as 3D Studio Max,<br>
Lightwave, and Maya. <a href="http://www.blender.org" target="_blank">www.blender.org</a>. Her intention is to attract enough<br>
kids to build a "kid farm" of young people who will have the time and<br>
inclination to contribute to populating virtual worlds in Croquet with<br>
historical figures and scenes--while learning vaulable skill sets for<br>
possible employment in multi-media ventures.<br>
<br>
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