Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009

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

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
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 Van Assche	Yes	Yes	Yes

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)