Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009

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OLPC / Sugar Labs will have a presence at 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 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 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! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Name	Community Meetup Friday 6th	FOSDEM Saturday 7th	FOSDEM Sunday 8th	Notes	Hotel
ChristophD	Yes	Yes	Yes	flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5	Frederiksborg 5th-9th
Niklaus Giger	Yes	Yes	Yes	flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the at 12:30 Feb. 5
Tomeu	Yes	Yes	Yes	flight booked, arrive Feb 6th at 10.30am and leave Feb 9th at 17:00	Frederiksborg 6th-9th
Benjamin Berg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Arrives at 11:01 on Friday at Bruxelles-Midi, leaving again on Monday 17:59.	Frederiksborg 6th-9th
Marcopg	Yes	Yes	Yes	(not sure yet)
Guillaume Desmottes	Yes	Yes	Yes
h01ger / Holger Levsen	Yes	Yes	Yes
David "nubae" Van Assche	Yes	Yes	Yes	flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5
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
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
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
Don Hopkins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Taking the train from Amsterdam. Arriving Friday, leaving Monday. Rewriting SimCity/Micropolis GUI with C++/Python/GTK/Cairo/Pango/PacMan.	A little hotel by the Manneken Pis.
Greg DeKoenigsberg	Maybe	Yes	Yes	Train from AMS on Friday, in leaving Sunday night	Novotel Brussels

Schedule

What about joining sometime after 18:00 the Friday Beer Event?

Tomeu is going to talk about "The Sugar platform" in the GNOME dev room on Saturday 15:00.

Greg is going to talk about "Sugar and Fedora" in the 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

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! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)