I've forwarded this to the olpc-chicago list (for those of you going to PyCon this year, it may be worth temporarily joining the list and introducing yourselves; there are several active university chapters there along with some independent developers working on projects).
Also see [[OLPC Chicago]] for a (roughly 10 days out of date) overview of people and projects and groups in the area you might want to meet, hook up with, collaborate with, etc. -Mel On Jan 31, 2008 5:18 PM, Kurt Gramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike C. Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080131 19:11]: > > > Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > 2008/1/29 Noah Kantrowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > ... > > >> We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had mentioned that they > > >> wanted one. Can anyone confirm this? > > >> > > > > > > A number of OLPC volunteers will be at PyCon, myself included. Does that > > > work? > > > > > We're told by the PyCon organizers that they require an official request > > and a commitment to staff the booth throughout the conference hours in > > order to get the space reserved. They have the entire Expo hall > > "bookable", so we're competing with people paying for the privilege of > > displaying their "wares". We need to get the request in ASAP to avoid > > losing the booth (i.e. yesterday-ish). > > > > We'd probably need 5-6 people to man the booth throughout the conference > > days without asking someone to spend the whole conference behind the > > desk. I'm certainly willing to take a half-day or more. We should have > > a good selection of XO's available. Would be nice if we had a table, > > maybe a couple of posters and the like, but realistically I don't have > > enough time booked for OLPC before the conference to get that done. > > Perhaps you would like to burn some of our new XO-LiveCd and > spread them to visitors? > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD > > Download: > > http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd > > > > > If we can get 5-6 volunteers to commit to it I'm willing to put together > > an official request and move forward. > > > > Take care, > > Mike > > Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Saludos/Viele Gruesse! > Kurt Gramlich > Projektleitung skolelinux.de > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG Key ID 0xE263FCD4 > http://www.skolelinux.de > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
