Marketing Team/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008

Participation is open to all Sugar and OLPC volunteers and employees!

For the XOCamp-2, originally scheduled for November but now postponed to January, see here.

Space-time coordinates

When

November 17, 2008 - November 20, 2008

Where

Cambridge Innovation Center

One Broadaway

Cambridge MA, USA

• Training room, 5th floor (Mon to Thu)
• Meeting room, 15th floor (Fri)
• MIT Media Lab (Sat)

Schedule

Sugarcamp/Schedule

Attendees

• C. Scott Ananian (speaker)
• Michael Stone (speaker)
• Chris Ball (speaker)
• Marco Gritti (Milan, Italy) (speaker)
• Tomeu Vizoso (Prague, Czech Republic) (speaker)
• Martin Langhoff (?) (speaker)
• Bernie Innocenti (Florence, Italy) (speaker)
• Walter Bender (at the end of the week) (speaker)
• Mel Chua (speaker)
• Wade Brainerd (Monday at least)
• Caroline Meeks
• David Farning
• Eben Eliason
• Greg de Koenigsberg
• Brian Jordan
• Edward Mokurai Cherlin (Silicon Valley)
• Greg S. Will try to stop by when I can. Waiting to see the agenda to figure out exactly when.
• John Tierney
• Brendan Powers
• Yamandú Ploskonka (speaker) 15th eve to 20th afternoon
• Christian Marc Schmidt
• Guillaume Desmottes

Proposals

Moved to Sugarcamp/Proposals.

Events

• Sugarcamp hackathon the evening of Monday, November 17. (Mchua coordinating)

Donations

These were donations made for the original XOcamp; the contributors need to be contacted to see whether they are willing to put the money towards a sugarcamp instead.

• User:CScott (cscott at cscott.net) has pledged $1000 for sugar developers
• Michael Stone (michael at laptop.org) has pledged $1000 for speakers
• Christoph ( christoph at olpcnews.com) has pledged $100 for anyone
• User:Ohshima (yoshiki at vpri.org) has pledged $50 for anyone
• An anonymous donor has pledged $800.
• Peter Robinson pledged $50.
• George Mavrothalassitis pledged $50.
• Gary (gary at garycmartin dot com) has paypaled $100 for sugar developers
• Bernie Innocenti has paypaled $42.42 as a symbolic gesture to fund sugar developers and supporters

Housing

• Bill Bogstad can a twin bed in a basement. One person for the entire time period. Confirmed for Sugarcamp.
• Mel Chua (and Chris Carrick) can take 2 guests (update: both mattresses in our guest room are full, we are housing two guests for Sugarcamp - hurrah!) We do live 15min walking from the airport for those with weird flight times who don't mind air mattresses or the sofa in the living room. (mel at laptop)
• The Acetarium and its dépendence reserved royal suites for their valued Italian attendees (bernie and marcopg).
• Tomeu is hosted by Adam and Seth, arriving the 16th at 9.45PM and leaving on the 23rd at 6.05PM.

Housing Requested

• need an indoor surface to spread a sleeping bag the night of Saturday. I am arriving Saturday, but accommodations previously arranged begin the evening of Sunday... Solved! thank you for several kind offers! Yama Ploskonka

Adopt a speaker!

These are out-of-town speakers (and links to their proposals) who could present at Sugarcamp.

Please feel free to add anyone I've missed; I just compiled this quickly by scanning emails to devel@ and sugar@ with 'Proposal' in the title. If you're one of the listed developers, please add your location and the approximate cost of airfare, if you can determine it -- or remove yourself if you've made a proposal but aren't actually interested in attending, or can donate your own travel costs. I tried to roughly sort by number of proposals made (talks to be given).

Marco Pesenti Gritti (marcopg).

Core Sugar developer

Proposals: Desktop compatibility, Top Five performance problems, Web-based activities

From: Milan, Italy. Cost: booked for US$542.

Tomeu Vizoso

Core Sugar developer

Proposals: None

From: Prague, Czech Republic Cost: booked for US$720

Sayamindu Dasgupta (unmadindu)

Sugar developer/Translation lead

Proposals: Legacy compatibility, i18n and l18n in 9.1 and beyond

From: Kolkata, India Cost: $1400

Carlos Mauro

Proposals: MouseTrap for Sugar, Per-Country Sugar themes, Usability testing

From: ? Cost: ?

Martin Langhoff

School server developer

Proposals: Printing, School Server Update

From: ? Cost: ?

Mikus Grinbergs?

Proposals: Submitting homework, Control Panel improvements

Edward Cherlin

Proposals: Textbooks

From: Cupertino CA Cost: $300