Sugarcamp SF 2012
SugarCamp++ will be Mon Oct 22 to Wed Oct 24 in San Francisco, immediately following OLPC SF's global community summit: http://olpcSF.org/summit
Presenting an opportunity for all the begin real hacking & implementation of the ideas exchanged over the weekend summit. Please join & help strengthen collaborative global education!
We strongly welcome new participants. Read up on ongoing projects, think about volunteering with Sugar Labs and OLPC, open your imagination to what open-learning-for-all might become, and put yourself on the map :)
Topics
Please add project topics below if you will give them legs :)
- School Server Community Edition (Yes We Khan)
- XOrduino, Curricular Arcs, Streamlined Teacher Training
- Sugar 0.98 & 1.0/beyond (vs Windows 8 releasing Fri Oct 26 ;)
- Hackers Without Borders, Feedback from Small/Medium-sized Deployments, NewCo, ALEARN
Attendees
Please add your name if you will come & contribute to the future of Sugar/OLPC or similar -- include 2 words about your preferred project:
- Adam Holt, Boston
- Alex Kleider, SF - XS Community Edition
- Bastien Guerry? Paris - XS Community Edition?
- Bernie Innocenti, Boston
- Bill Stelzer? US Virgin Islands
- Caryl Bigenho? Los Angeles
- Christoph Derndorfer, Vienna
- Craig Perue, Jamaica - Curricular Arcs
- CScott Ananian? Boston - XOrduino?
- Daniel Drake? Nicaragua
- Gary Martin? Scotland
- George Hunt, NYC - XS Community Edition
- Jerry Vonau? Winnipeg - XS Community Edition?
- Kevin Gordon, Toronto/Kenya
- Mark Battley? Toronto/Kenya - Curricular Arcs
- Mitch Seaton? Philippines/Australia/Denmark
- Nancie Severs? New Hampshire
- Nick Doiron? SF
- Sameer Verma, SF
- Simon Schampijer? Berlin
- Tony Anderson, Rwanda - Karma Learning System, XS Community Edition?
- Walter Bender, Boston
- Yoshiki Ohshima? Los Angeles
Location
UNCONFIRMED BUT LIKELY:
San Francisco State University
835 Market St, 5th Floor (go downtown, NOT the main campus!)
San Francisco, CA 94103
In a modern classroom (or possibly 2!) during business hours. Nearby pubs will be well-used evenings too.
Cost will be kept to an absolute minimum (thanks to the amazing generosity of SFSU) with reliable Wifi included -- lunch/dinner available for purchase downstairs at the large Food Court.
Note the weekend's Community Summit itself (structured talks etc) typically costs about $40/person to pay for room rental, supplies etc.
Accommodations
Great hostels are available in San Francisco but must be booked early. Please write to the olpc-sf public mailing list for tips: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
Suggestions
Most welcome (register & click Edit above!) & also here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugarcamp_SF_2012
Please also join the olpc-sf public mailing list if you'd like to volunteer making this event an important if not historic contribution to global collaborative learning, thanks! You may also write privately to Adam Holt if you prefer: holt @ laptop.org