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

Attending | FOSDEM'09

Please sign up here if you plan to attend! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

• ChristophD (flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5)
• niklaus
• Tomeu
• Benjamin Berg
• Marcopg (not sure yet)
• Guillaume Desmottes

Attending | Community Meetup

Please sign up here if you plan to attend! ChristophD 03:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

• ChristophD (flight to Brussel is booked, will arrive on the evening of Feb. 5)
• niklaus
• Tomeu (flight booked, arrive Feb 6th at 10.30am)
• Benjamin Berg
• Marcopg (not sure yet)
• Erikos (not sure yet, will try my best)

Schedule

TBD

Have proposed two talks, one in the Fedora dev room and the other in the GNOME dev room. tomeu 12:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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)