Marketing Team/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008

Participation is open to all Sugar and OLPC volunteers and employees!

For the XOCamp-2, originally scheduled for November but now postponed to January, see here.

Space-time coordinates

When

November 17, 2008 - November 20, 2008

Where

Cambridge Innovation Center
One Broadaway
Cambridge MA, USA
  • Training room, 5th floor (Mon to Thu)
  • Meeting room, 15th floor (Fri)
  • MIT Media Lab (Sat)

Schedule

Sugarcamp/Schedule

Attendees

  • C. Scott Ananian (speaker)
  • Michael Stone (speaker)
  • Chris Ball (speaker)
  • Marco Gritti (Milan, Italy) (speaker)
  • Tomeu Vizoso (Prague, Czech Republic) (speaker)
  • Martin Langhoff (?) (speaker)
  • Bernie Innocenti (Florence, Italy) (speaker)
  • Walter Bender (at the end of the week) (speaker)
  • Mel Chua (speaker)
  • Wade Brainerd (Monday at least)
  • Caroline Meeks
  • David Farning
  • Eben Eliason
  • Greg de Koenigsberg
  • Brian Jordan
  • Edward Mokurai Cherlin (Silicon Valley) 16 eve-22 afternoon
  • Greg S. Will try to stop by when I can. Waiting to see the agenda to figure out exactly when.
  • John Tierney
  • Brendan Powers
  • Yamandú Ploskonka (speaker) 15th eve to 20th afternoon
  • Christian Marc Schmidt
  • Guillaume Desmottes
  • Chris Rowe (speaker) Open Learning Exchange (OLE)

Proposals

Moved to Sugarcamp/Proposals.

Events

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
  • Bernie Innocenti has paypaled $42.42 as a symbolic gesture to fund sugar developers and supporters

Housing

  • Bill Bogstad will host Edward Cherlin.
  • Mel Chua (and Chris Carrick) can take 2 guests (update: both mattresses in our guest room are full, we are housing two guests for Sugarcamp - hurrah!) We do live 15min walking from the airport for those with weird flight times who don't mind air mattresses or the sofa in the living room. (mel at laptop)
  • The Acetarium and its dépendence reserved royal suites for their valued Italian attendees (bernie and marcopg).
  • Tomeu is hosted by Adam and Seth, arriving the 16th at 9.45PM and leaving on the 23rd at 6.05PM.
  • Chris Rowe has 2-3 beds available 10 min. walk from Harvard Square and a 5-10 min. subway to the Conference.

Housing Requested

  • need an indoor surface to spread a sleeping bag the night of Saturday. I am arriving Saturday, but accommodations previously arranged begin the evening of Sunday... Solved! thank you for several kind offers! Yama Ploskonka

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: None
From: Prague, Czech Republic Cost: booked for US$720
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
Edward Cherlin
Proposals: Textbooks
From: Cupertino CA Cost: $300