-1. sugarlabs and olpc have the same mission. i think it's entirely appropriate to have one day devoted to technical issues, with the participation of olpc employees (who are also sugarlabs members -- even board members). we have monday, tuesday, friday, saturday, and sunday reserved for sugarlab-specific meetings. --scott
On 11/13/08, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fellow Sugarites, >> >> I must say that I'm pretty much surprised as to how the SugarCamp >> planning is being done. My personal opinion is that SugarLabs is a >> global organization and cannot behave as if it had headquarters in a >> single place because it hasn't. SL contributors are going to travel >> from quite distant places and they should be involved actively in the >> planning. >> >> OLPC has decided that their XOCamp will happen in January, and I think >> that our SugarCamp in November shouldn't be seen as just a prelude to >> that. >> >> OLPC employees can legitimately see SL as a vehicle for their product >> to include more features, so they would be mostly interested in >> technical discussions about those. But I expect the people who share >> the SL goals to be more ambitious and to not forget that Sugar cannot >> stay contained at OLPC's borders. We have the mission to bring Sugar >> to _all_ the kids in the world. >> >> So, talks that IMO are more appropriate for this week, along with >> people I'm most interested in hearing, are: >> >> - How Sugar-on-a-stick can better work for deployments such as the >> ones carried on by http://schoolkey.net (Caroline Meeks) >> >> - How Sugar can better work in a LTSP environment (Brendan Powers) >> >> - How SugarLabs can better work together with teachers (YamandĂș Ploskonka) >> >> - How SugarLabs should communicate its message (Greg DeKoenigsberg) >> >> - How SugarLabs can make easier to contribute to it (Mel Chua) >> >> - How SugarLabs could partner with for-profits that work on related >> projects (Collabora on GNOME's telepathy, Nokia on PyMaemo, etc) >> (Robert McQueen) >> >> - How SugarLabs is going to maintain the infrastructure needed to >> support its own operations (Bernie Innocenti) >> >> - How SugarLabs is going to fund its own operations (Walter Bender) >> >> - How SugarLabs is going to govern itself (Walter Bender, David Farning?) >> >> - How SugarLabs is partnering with other organizations (David Farning) >> >> - etc, you get the idea. >> >> I think most of those talks could give material for discussion for at >> least half a day. I really think SL should make progress on >> non-technical areas and that this face-to-face time we are going to >> have is an opportunity that we shouldn't miss. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > > How about wrapping up with a message/mission session lead by Walter > and Greg on Saturday afternoon? Kind of a here is what we talked > about, here is how it fits into the overall mission of Sugar Labs, and > here is how we communicate that mission via our public message. That > session can run all of Friday afternoon > > Leading into that on Friday we can work on 'playing well with others'. > Staring with Mel and easy to contribute. > Specific example and of partnering by Brenden and Caroline. > General partnering with for-profits by Robert. > General partnering/ local Sugar Labs by Walter and I. > That series of session can run all afternoon and spill over into the > evening for coffee and drinks. > > thanks > david > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep