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== Proposals ==
 
== Proposals ==
Moved to [[Sugarcamp/Proposals]].
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Talk [[Sugarcamp/Proposals]].
 
 
== Events ==
 
 
 
* [[Sugarcamp hackathon]] the evening of Monday, November 17. ([[User:Mchua|Mchua]] coordinating)
 
 
 
== Donations ==
 
These were donations made for the original XOcamp; the contributors need to be contacted to see whether they are willing to put the money towards a sugarcamp instead.
 
 
 
* [[User:CScott]] (cscott at cscott.net) has pledged $1000 for ''sugar developers''
 
* [[User:Mstone|Michael Stone]] (michael at laptop.org) has pledged $1000 for ''speakers''
 
* Christoph ( christoph at olpcnews.com) has pledged $100 for ''anyone''
 
* [[User:Ohshima]] (yoshiki at vpri.org) has pledged $50 for ''anyone''
 
* An anonymous donor has pledged $800.
 
* [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020435.html Peter Robinson] pledged $50.
 
* George Mavrothalassitis pledged $50.
 
* [[User:garycmartin|Gary]] (gary at garycmartin dot com) has paypaled $100 for ''sugar developers''
 
* [[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]] has paypaled $42.42 as a symbolic gesture to fund ''sugar developers and supporters''
 
 
 
== Housing ==
 
 
 
* Bill Bogstad will host Edward Cherlin.
 
* Mel Chua (and Chris Carrick) <s>can take 2 guests</s> (update: both mattresses in our guest room are full, we are housing two guests for Sugarcamp - hurrah!) We do live 15min walking from the airport for those with weird flight times who don't mind air mattresses or the sofa in the living room. (mel at laptop)
 
* The [http://www.acetarium.com/ Acetarium] and its dépendence reserved royal suites for their valued Italian attendees (bernie and marcopg).
 
* Tomeu is hosted by Adam and Seth, arriving the 16th at 9.45PM and leaving on the 23rd at 6.05PM.
 
* [[User:Chris | Chris Rowe]] has 2-3 beds available 10 min. walk from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Square Harvard Square] and a 5-10 min. subway to the Conference.
 
 
 
== Housing Requested ==
 
 
 
* <s>need an indoor surface to spread a sleeping bag the night of Saturday.  I am arriving Saturday, but accommodations previously arranged begin the evening of Sunday...</s>  Solved!  thank you for several kind offers! Yama Ploskonka
 
  
 
== Adopt a speaker! ==
 
== Adopt a speaker! ==
These are out-of-town speakers (and links to their proposals) who could present at Sugarcamp.
 
 
''Please feel free to add anyone I've missed; I just compiled this quickly by scanning emails to [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/ devel@] and [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/ sugar@] with 'Proposal' in the title.  If you're one of the listed developers, please add your location and the approximate cost of airfare, if you can determine it -- or remove yourself if you've made a proposal but aren't actually interested in attending, or can donate your own travel costs.  I tried to roughly sort by number of proposals made (talks to be given).''
 
 
; Marco Pesenti Gritti (marcopg).
 
: Core Sugar developer
 
: Proposals: [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020595.html Desktop compatibility], [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020597.html Top Five performance problems], [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020598.html Web-based activities]
 
: From: Milan, Italy.  Cost: booked for US$542.
 
 
; Tomeu Vizoso
 
: Core Sugar developer
 
: Proposals: None
 
: From: Prague, Czech Republic Cost: booked for US$720
 
 
; Carlos Mauro
 
: Proposals: [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020695.html MouseTrap for Sugar], [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020694.html Per-Country Sugar themes], [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020696.html Usability testing]
 
: From: ?  Cost: ?
 
  
; Mikus Grinbergs?
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:Want to contribute?
: Proposals: [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020436.html Submitting homework], [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020566.html Control Panel improvements]
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:Looking for an accommoation?
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:Need travel funding?
  
; Edward Cherlin
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Go to [[Sugarcamp/Logistics]].
: Proposals: [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020447.html Textbooks]
 
: From: Cupertino CA Cost: $300
 

Revision as of 00:58, 17 November 2008

Participation is open to all Sugar and OLPC volunteers and employees!

For the XOCamp-2, originally scheduled for November but now postponed to January, see here.

Space-time coordinates

When

November 17, 2008 - November 20, 2008

Where

Cambridge Innovation Center
One Broadaway
Cambridge MA, USA
  • Training room, 5th floor (Mon to Thu)
  • Meeting room, 15th floor (Fri)
  • MIT Media Lab (Sat)

Schedule

Sugarcamp/Schedule

Attendees

  • C. Scott Ananian (speaker)
  • Michael Stone (speaker)
  • Chris Ball (speaker)
  • Marco Gritti (Milan, Italy) (speaker)
  • Tomeu Vizoso (Prague, Czech Republic) (speaker)
  • Martin Langhoff (?) (speaker)
  • Bernie Innocenti (Florence, Italy) (speaker)
  • Walter Bender (at the end of the week) (speaker)
  • Mel Chua (speaker)
  • Wade Brainerd (Monday at least)
  • Caroline Meeks
  • David Farning
  • Eben Eliason
  • Greg de Koenigsberg
  • Brian Jordan
  • Edward Mokurai Cherlin (Silicon Valley) 16 eve-22 afternoon
  • Greg S. Will try to stop by when I can. Waiting to see the agenda to figure out exactly when.
  • John Tierney
  • Brendan Powers
  • Yamandú Ploskonka (speaker) 15th eve to 20th afternoon
  • Christian Marc Schmidt
  • Guillaume Desmottes
  • Chris Rowe (speaker) Open Learning Exchange (OLE)
  • Ryan Kabir

Proposals

Talk Sugarcamp/Proposals.

Adopt a speaker!

Want to contribute?
Looking for an accommoation?
Need travel funding?

Go to Sugarcamp/Logistics.