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

• Where: Cambridge MA, USA (exact location to be confirmed)
• When: November 17, 2008 - November 21, 2008

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

Proposals

I'm first going to list all the proposals, then group them, then attempt to schedule them. If you're reading this page now, I think I finished 'listing'. The first division I'll make is between people who will be present in person, and those who will not be attending; feel free to correct if you know you will/will not attend.

Expected to attend

• Journal, reloaded (C. Scott Ananian)
• Legacy compatibility (C. Scott Ananian]
• Security and isolation (C. Scott Ananian)
• Translation improvements (C. Scott Ananian)
• "Asynchronous internet" (C. Scott Ananian)
• Printing support (C. Scott Ananian)
• Shutdown menu (Paul Fox)
• Dealing with low memory/OOM (Deepak Saxena)
• Clarifying zoom (Eben Eliason)
• Performance (Erik Garrison)
• Files (Erik Garrison)
• Uruguay observations (Michael Stone)
• What's an "Activity"? (Michael Stone)
• Activities as Building Blocks (Michael Stone)
• Language learning on the XO (Chris Ball)
• Desktop compatibility (Marco Gritti)
• Top Five performance problems (Marco Gritti)
• Web-based activities (Marco Gritti)
• View source everywhere (Tomeu Vizoso)
• Printing (Martin Langhoff)
• Forgotten tools (Michael Stone)
• School Server Update (Martin Langhoff)
• Textbooks (Edward Cherlin)
• Portfolio (Walter Bender)
• Brainstorm: Making SugarLabs the easiest project ever to contribute to (Mel Chua)
• Sugar Labs Infrastructure, current status & planning (Bernie Innocenti)
• The Gospel According to Sugar. How do we make the Sugar message ubiquitous? (Greg de Koenigsberg)
• Report Cards on XO (Yamandu Ploskonka)
• Interfacing with Wetware: Teacher Training (Yamandú Ploskonka)

Possibly attending via telephone

• Legacy compatibility (Sayamindu Dasgupta)
• i18n and l18n in 9.1 and beyond (Sayamindu Dasgupta)
• Link local collaboration (Morgan Collett)
• Server based collaboration, removing Presence Service, File Transfer / Journal Object sharing (Morgan Collett)

Not known to be attending

• MouseTrap for Sugar (Carlos Mauro)
• Per-Country Sugar themes (Carlos Mauro)
• Usability testing (Carlos Mauro)
• Submitting homework (Mikus Grinbergs)
• Control Panel improvements (Mikus Grinbergs)

XO specific

I think these are not appropriate for Sugarcamp, they are XO specific and would fit much better in January XOCamp. -- Marcopg

• Improving antitheft (C. Scott Ananian)
• Update improvements (C. Scott Ananian)
• Fedora integration (C. Scott Ananian)
• Power (Chris Ball/Richard Smith)
• Filesystems (Deepak Saxena)
• Build Tools (Michael Stone)

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... 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: View source everywhere, others?

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