On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Mike Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected] > > wrote: > > >>> I wish for a more instructive poster next year with bullet points and >>> photos showing Sugar in use and some of the Activity interfaces. Something a >>> teacher could read in a minute while walking by. I'll try to work on that >>> soon. The Sugar Learning Platform poster meant nothing to most people. >>> Additionally, it would be really nice to have a projector going to do >>> non-stop 10-minute live demos of Sugar and Activities. >>> >>> Collaboration is a killer feature of Sugar, and we were largely blocked >>> from demoing that because the wifi channels at the convention center were >>> saturated much of the time. My Verizon MiFi card wouldn't work for the same >>> reason. I will bring a hub/switch with hard wiring next year. >> >> >> TODO (and this one is on my urgent list) - Bug 1113- I tried this at a local >> expo I went to and IT DID NOT WORK. I have no idea why. Mike, can you try it >> at home >> and let me know if it works for >> you? We need this to work for both conferences and to put computer clusters >> into the GPA. >> >>> > > I'll try one night this week. I don't have a switch, but can pick one up. > > >> >> >>> >>> Lastly, I will know to make a pitch way before Denver to pay for our own >>> table in the open source area so that we can plan for a more versatile booth >>> setup with some assurance of enough table space. I'm sure we could hit up >>> the Scratch and Etoys teams next year for help in expanding the booth. I'd >>> also like not to wait a year before doing another education conference and >>> will be looking for opportunities in the DC area in the coming months to >>> keep practicing our elevator pitches and building the field demo kit. >> >> >> There are Computer Using Educator or similar conferences in every state >> every year, so lots of opportunities to practice. It would be awesome to >> have a kit, and a how to, and to have facilitators all over the country >> going to their local conferences. >> > > > Looks like CUE is mostly in California. I'll look for, and take suggestions > on, conferences or workshops in the mid-Atlantic area where we can set up. > I think the name may change from state to state but we are going to one in Mass and NY this year. I found a huge list of places where Discovery Labs is setting up a booth. We can probably look for other vendors and get ourselves a pretty good list. > > > Mike > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
_______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
