Marketing Team/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008

There have been a number of excellent "9.1 proposals" posted to devel@ and sugar@ recently. Since OLPC seems to have cancelled XOcamp, here's a proposal for an alterna-conference during the same time period.

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

Housing

These were people willing to host speakers during XOcamp; they need to be contacted regarding their willingness to host for Sugarcamp.

• Michael Stone (michael at laptop.org) has pledged to house 2 friendly speakers.
• Bill Bogstad can a twin bed in a basement.
• Chris Ball has a flat space.
• Mel Chua (and Chris Carrick) can take 2 guests - air mattress and sofa - and live 15min walking from the airport for those with weird flight times. (mel at laptop)

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

Morgan Collett (morgs)

Sugar developer/Collaboration developer

Proposals: Link local collaboration, Server based collaboration, removing Presence Service, File Transfer / Journal Object sharing

From: South Africa. Cost: $1300

Edward Cherlin

Proposals: Textbooks

From: Cupertino CA Cost: $300

Yamandu Ploskonka?

Proposals: Report Cards on XO

From: ? Cost: ?