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Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009

2009-02-02T12:07:50Z

Xardox: /* Attendance */

== About ==

OLPC / Sugar Labs will have a presence at [http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ FOSDEM'09] taking place in Brussels (Belgium) from Saturday, February 7 to Sunday, February 8.

== Pre-conference community meetup ==

In addition to FOSDEM, we're gathering on Friday, February 6 at
the [http://hsb.wikidot.com/ 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 [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] for further
details and directions.

== 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!

== Goals | Community Meetup ==

* 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

== Attendance ==

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

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Name
! Community Meetup Friday 6th
! FOSDEM Saturday 7th
! FOSDEM Sunday 8th
! Notes
! Hotel
|-
| [[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:niklaus|Niklaus Giger]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the at 12:30 Feb. 5
|
|-
| [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight booked, arrive Feb 6th at 10.30am and leave Feb 9th at 17:00
| Frederiksborg 6th-9th
|-
| [[User:BenjaminBerg|Benjamin Berg]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Arrives at 11:01 on Friday at Bruxelles-Midi, leaving again on Monday 17:59.
| Frederiksborg 6th-9th
|-
| [[User:Marcopg|Marcopg]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| (not sure yet)
|
|-
| [[User:Cassidy|Guillaume Desmottes]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|-
| h01ger / Holger Levsen
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|-
| [[User:nubae|David "nubae" Van Assche]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
|
|-
| [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Flight booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb 5, leave in the morning of Feb 9
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. the 5th and leave the evening of the 9th
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Booking travel soon; will probably arrive for Beer Event on Fri and leave on the last train on Sunday.
| Probably Frederiksborg 6th-7th
|-
| [[User:xardox|Don Hopkins]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Taking the train from Amsterdam. Arriving Friday, leaving Monday. Rewriting SimCity/Micropolis GUI with C++/Python/GTK/Cairo/Pango/[http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/SimCityPacMan.png PacMan].
| A little hotel by the Manneken Pis.
|-
|}

== Schedule ==

What about joining sometime after 18:00 the [http://fosdem.org/2009/beerevent Friday Beer Event]?

Tomeu is going to talk about [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom#head-fed044e7ec0c3f61c0819739876aaa276e55c8e1 "The Sugar platform"] in the [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom GNOME dev room] on Saturday 15:00.

Greg is going to talk about "Sugar and Fedora" in the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009#Speakers_in_the_Dev_Room 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)
* find a venue for the friday meeting
* lots of things...

== Accommodation ==

http://www.booking.com/hotel/be/frederiksborg.html?aid=314065&label=tripad-LB901-20219&tab=1&do_availability_check=on&checkin_monthday=5&checkin_year_month=2009-2&checkout_monthday=9&checkout_year_month=2009-2&lang=en

Has several double rooms free, at 50e per room and night. Localization doesn't look too bad. It's said to have free wifi. We should book soon!

== Swag ==

[[User:Mchua|Mchua]] is getting swag over for the conference; you folks are getting [[MarketingTeam/Stickers]] and a batch of the generic [[Business cards]].

== Comments ==

Please add relevant notes and thoughts!
[[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]] 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009

2009-02-02T12:03:43Z

Xardox: /* Attendance */

== About ==

OLPC / Sugar Labs will have a presence at [http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ FOSDEM'09] taking place in Brussels (Belgium) from Saturday, February 7 to Sunday, February 8.

== Pre-conference community meetup ==

In addition to FOSDEM, we're gathering on Friday, February 6 at
the [http://hsb.wikidot.com/ 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 [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] for further
details and directions.

== 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!

== Goals | Community Meetup ==

* 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

== Attendance ==

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

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Name
! Community Meetup Friday 6th
! FOSDEM Saturday 7th
! FOSDEM Sunday 8th
! Notes
! Hotel
|-
| [[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:niklaus|Niklaus Giger]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the at 12:30 Feb. 5
|
|-
| [[User:Tomeu|Tomeu]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight booked, arrive Feb 6th at 10.30am and leave Feb 9th at 17:00
| Frederiksborg 6th-9th
|-
| [[User:BenjaminBerg|Benjamin Berg]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Arrives at 11:01 on Friday at Bruxelles-Midi, leaving again on Monday 17:59.
| Frederiksborg 6th-9th
|-
| [[User:Marcopg|Marcopg]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| (not sure yet)
|
|-
| [[User:Cassidy|Guillaume Desmottes]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|-
| h01ger / Holger Levsen
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
|
|
|-
| [[User:nubae|David "nubae" Van Assche]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
|
|-
| [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Flight booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb 5, leave in the morning of Feb 9
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| flight booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. the 5th and leave the evening of the 9th
| Frederiksborg 5th-9th
|-
| [[User:MartinDengler|Martin Dengler]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Booking travel soon; will probably arrive for Beer Event on Fri and leave on the last train on Sunday.
| Probably Frederiksborg 6th-7th
|-
| [[User:xardox|Don Hopkins]]
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Taking the train from Amsterdam. Arriving Friday, leaving Monday.
| A little hotel by the Manneken Pis.
|-
|}

== Schedule ==

What about joining sometime after 18:00 the [http://fosdem.org/2009/beerevent Friday Beer Event]?

Tomeu is going to talk about [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom#head-fed044e7ec0c3f61c0819739876aaa276e55c8e1 "The Sugar platform"] in the [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom GNOME dev room] on Saturday 15:00.

Greg is going to talk about "Sugar and Fedora" in the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009#Speakers_in_the_Dev_Room 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)
* find a venue for the friday meeting
* lots of things...

== Accommodation ==

http://www.booking.com/hotel/be/frederiksborg.html?aid=314065&label=tripad-LB901-20219&tab=1&do_availability_check=on&checkin_monthday=5&checkin_year_month=2009-2&checkout_monthday=9&checkout_year_month=2009-2&lang=en

Has several double rooms free, at 50e per room and night. Localization doesn't look too bad. It's said to have free wifi. We should book soon!

== Swag ==

[[User:Mchua|Mchua]] is getting swag over for the conference; you folks are getting [[MarketingTeam/Stickers]] and a batch of the generic [[Business cards]].

== Comments ==

Please add relevant notes and thoughts!
[[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]] 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)