Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009
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About
OLPC / SugarLabs will have a presence at FOSDEM'09 taking place in Brussels (Belgium) from Saturday, February 7 to Sunday, February 8.
Additionally plans are underway to have a one-day OLPC / Sugar community meetup on (probably) Friday, February 6.
Goals | FOSDEM'09
- getting more developers to work on Sugar related tasks
- gnash as a real flash replacement 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
- ...
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChristophD | Yes | Yes | Yes | flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5 |
| niklaus | 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 |
| Benjamin Berg | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 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 | Will arrive by car from Italy, probably on the evening of Feb. 6 |
Schedule
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...
Comments
Please add relevant notes and thoughts! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)