Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009

About
OLPC / Sugar Labs is present at FOSDEM'09 taking place in Brussels (Belgium) from Saturday, February 7 and Sunday, February 8.

Pre-conference community meetup
In addition to FOSDEM, we're gathering on Friday, February 6 at the Hacker Space Brussels for a one-day OLPC / Sugar community meetup.

Please add yourself to the list of attendees if you would like to join us. Contact Bernie Innocenti for further details and directions.

Goals

 * discussing the current state of things
 * making plans for 2009:
 * better defining the relation between OLPC and Sugar Labs
 * advancing the Sugar platform
 * making awesome educational content
 * writing cool activities
 * building and contacting relevant communities around OLPC and Sugar
 * generally making it easier to contribute to OLPC and Sugar
 * translating existing documentation (e.g. FlossManuals)
 * writing materials geared towards how teachers can use the XO and Sugar in schools
 * designing great marketing materials
 * pilot projects in Europe
 * create a web page that shows you OLPC enthusiasts geographically close to you
 * socializing, finally being able to put faces to nicknames
 * socializing, finally being able to put faces to nicknames

Goals | FOSDEM'09

 * getting more developers to work on Sugar related tasks
 * gnash as a real flash replacement and activity development platform would be great and needs help!

Attendance
Please sign up here if you plan to attend! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

FOSDEM Schedule
What about joining sometime after 18:00 the Friday Beer Event?

Some Sugar hackers will meet with Rob Savoye in the GNOME dev room to work on improving flash support in Sugar, will be Saturday at 10:00 AM.

Tomeu is going to talk about "The Sugar platform" in the GNOME dev room on Saturday 15:00.

Greg is going to talk about "Sugar and Fedora" in the Fedora dev room on Saturday 17.00.

To-Do

 * decide if we are going to ask a sister project for a piece of a booth (we did so last year in the GNOME booth)
 * lots of things...

Swag
Mchua is getting swag over for the conference; you folks are getting Marketing Team/Stickers and a batch of the generic Sugar Labs/Business cards.

Comments
Please add relevant notes and thoughts! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)