Marketing Team/Events/MiniCamp Paris 2009/Christoph's Notes

Here's a list of notes from the various sessions and discussions I attended here at Marketing Team/Events/MiniCamp Paris 2009.

Sessions

need a maintainer for the Sugar branch (!)
GCompris admin interface and student progress => something we need for all Sugar activities

information subject of change so take it with a grain of salt and await details and confirmation from the actual development team
estimated release: end of September, to coincide with...
- GNOME 2.28 (final release: Sept. 23)
- Fedora 12 release (final freeze: Sept. 22, final release: Nov 3rd)
considerations about how to include the artefacts produced by the Google Summer of Code projects (=>communicate with GSoC students and mentors)
focus on bug fixes
- clean up and consolidation of Trac
switch from Matchbox to Metacity
toolbars: redesign of default view
experimentation with new features (mostly in terms of designs and concepts, not necessarily implemented in Sugar-core code)
- Group view
- reward system
- audio subsystem
general discussion on the question of what features are important (input from deployments and pilot sites is badly needed)

frameworks, frameworks, frameworks
Uruguay contact (Italian students)
improve research angle, collect related information and contacts from around the world

2 Sugar focused days as minimum (4 days as a maximum)
WiFi needs to be available all the time
location should have one large room to assemble everyone, smaller seperate spaces to get work done
food and drinks should be available (Lebanese food prefered;-)
don't put too much strain on one person (e.g. Sean during Sugar Camp Paris 2009)
make it possible for remote contributors to attend during the event

introductory round at the beginning of the day (esp. when new people are present)
announce how remote contributors can attend during the event
- preferably organize a certain time-slot (e.g. mid-day and/or at the end of the day)
end with what people liked and didn't like