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== Details ==

* Monday, November 17, 2008
* 6:30pm - 10pm (we will order food together at the beginning; bring your own $ for dinner)
* One Broadway, Cambridge MA 02142 (at the corner of Broadway and 3rd, by the Kendall T stop)
* Call [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] to be let in when you arrive - 847.970.8484

== About ==

=== For developers ===

This is a "new Sugar coders hackfest" evening, where people can come to learn about making Activities - bring a project you want to work on, and we'll have people from the core Sugar team around to help, teach, answer questions, run impromptu tutorials, and make tools/patches as needed to ease the entry route for new coders.

=== For non-developers ===

We're also looking for people who ''won't'' be coding that night to sprint with David Farning on community infrastructure setup. Problems to tackle include building a Newbie Welcome Wagon package, handling [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8630 licensing] of both content and Activity bundles, documentation and testing systems, and more.

== Attendees ==

Sign up if you're coming, so we know how many to expect- tentatives and drop-ins are ok, but make things much harder to plan for. Also let us know (in parentheses) what you'll be doing!

* Marco (on-site mentor, Sugar Activity development)
* Tomeu (on-site mentor, Sugar Activity development)
* [[User:Dfarning|Dfarning]] (on-site mentor, infrastructure and documentation)
* [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (hackathon coordinator, working on Larry, a language-learning Activity)
* Yifan + others from Olin, may drop by to check things out
* Owen Williams (PenguinTV, may be a little late)
* Tom Boyle (StarChart, focusing on localization)
* [[User:Wade|Wade]] (Sugar Activity development)
* Brian Jordan (Sugar Activity development, Pippy love)
* Amanda Peyton (MIT Sloan project looking at the SugarLabs organizational structure)
* Ryan Kabir (new development contributor to Sugar, looking for a place to start)
* Brendan Powers (new contributor,looking for something simple to get used to the project)
* Chris Ball (from 7:30)
* Erik Blankinship (updating the Map Activity)

== Stuff to hack on ==

* Spreadsheet activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-February/004225.html
* Mind mapping activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html
* Make the Sugar shell react to changes in the ~/Activities dir using inotify.
* A quiz game with competitive collaboration (cjb) -- e.g. generate arithmetic problems, have a shared countdown, and then the first person to answer correctly gets the most points.  Generalizable to quizes about non-math stuff too.
* A simple searching game: "hot/cold" where the XO is hiding somewhere on the screen (not displayed) and as the cursor moves closer or farther from the XO, the computer responds warmer/colder or hot/cold.

== To do ==

Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help!

* <s>Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes).</s>
* <s>make invitations and send them out</s>
* <s>find some way to make nametags for everybody</s> (Actually, we probably won't need these - we're small enough.)
* make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards
* send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp