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 MiniCamp Paris 2009.

Sessions

School Server

• XS-0.6 is looking sweet;-)
• timeframe for 0.6: July (?)
• bootable SD card to turn an (unlocked) XO into an XS

GCompris

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

OLPC Quebeque

• get template of 'in-school-use document'

Random Discussions

• How can European grassroots initiate and run successful Sugar pilot?

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

Organization of similar future events

• introductory round at the beginning of the day
• wifi needs to be available all the time
• location needs one large room to assemble everyone, smaller seperate spaces to get work done
• food and drinks should be available (Lebanese food prefered;-)
• end with what people liked and didn't like
• don't put too much strain on one person
• 2 Sugar focused days as minimum
• make it possible for remote contributors to attend during the event
• make summaries of what was discussed available to the larger community
• follow up on what was discussed
• find sponsorship for event