Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009
About
OLPC / Sugar Labs is present at FOSDEM'09 taking place in Brussels (Belgium) from Saturday, February 7 and 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
- 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
Agenda
| Time | Hacker space Brussels |
| 1000 | Coffee and introduction |
| 1030 | |
| 1100 | |
| 1200 | |
| 1300 | Lunch |
| 1400 | Sugar 0.84 development status update (Simon Schampijer) |
| 1500 | Sugar Labs BugSquad - How to get involved (Simon Schampijer) |
| 1600 | Sugar 0.86 roadmap planning (Tomeu Vizoso) |
| 1700 | |
| 1800 | -> FOSDEM Beer Event |
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!
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 |
| 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 | Arrive evening of 6th (for Beer Event); leave late evening Sunday the 8th. | Frederiksborg 6th-8th |
| 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 |
| Eightdot | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FOSDEM Schedule
What about joining sometime after 18:00 the Friday Beer Event?
Some Sugar hackers will meet with Rob Savoye in the GNOME dev room to work on improving flash support in Sugar, will be Saturday at 10:00 AM.
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)
- lots of things...
Swag
Mchua is getting swag over for the conference; you folks are getting Marketing Team/Stickers and a batch of the generic Business cards.
Comments
Please add relevant notes and thoughts! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)