On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >> What sorts of events would people like to see? SCALE (Southern >> California Linux Expo)? Linux World Expo/Open Source Expo? PyCon? >> Education conferences? Bioneers? Solfest? ICT4D? Microfinance? >> embedded systems? or should we consider splitting the calendar (yet)? >> We could have one for events dealing with hardware, software, content, >> and deployment issues (whatever OLPC and Sugar Labs consider to be >> in-scope) and one for everything else related (sustainability, >> greenness, health outside of health education, whatever). If so, Earth >> Treasury dibs the second one, but I would like to have them use the >> same software and reside in the same place, to simplify cross-linking >> and other forms of coordination. > > My $0.02: > > The only event that matters is an event where someone from Sugar Labs > (broadly defined) will be present, and is willing to take ownership of > representing Sugar Labs at the event. > > For example: SCALE is a great event. Perfect for recruiting folks to the > Sugar mission, showing off the latest Sugar goodness, holding a BoF, > hacking, whatever. But if no one from Sugar Labs shows up, that event may > as well not even exist. > > I don't want to cross-link a million events. I want to know where Our > People will be. There's a gigantic and vitally important difference. > > --g
I mentioned SCALE, Linux World Expo, PyCon and the rest specifically because I was there showing laptops and organizing other activities. My point is to offer to say where our people _should_ be, and to see about getting them there. That's another gigantic and vitally important difference. -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
