Caryl & others,
I have removed all of the recipients who are already members of the IAEP
mailing list from the CC: list, so they do not receive duplicate e-mails.
I will be in attendance at SCaLE 17x, along with my wife, who is
currently a first grade schoolteacher, and has taught second grade,
kindergarten, and pre-K here in California. Since this is a
volunteer-run, kid-friendly event, it has a fairly different emphasis
than a lot of other Linux-oriented conferences.
Since there are nearly 240 subscribers to the IAEP mailing list, I would
like to propose we peel off the discussion of the specifics to a
general-purpose "events" mailing list, with only the people who actually
wish to be involved in the specifics of this discussion. I can set one
up easily, and we can continue discussion there. Thoughts?
On the subject of the banner, see below...
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
We also need to decide on a possible new banner for the booth or
whether we might just use the one we already have. See the attached
photo of the booth at SCaLE 15X. If we want a new one, we should get a
design and order it right away. It always costs less if you order
early. The one in the photo lists most, but not all, of the various
organizations and projects that are offshoots from, or related to, the
old OLPC organization. Thus, the title "olpc 2.0."
I am strongly in favor of _not_ re-using this banner, for a few reasons:
- It has at least one domain on it that is no longer functional
- planet.sugarlabs.org lacks quality content these days, and I really
don't think we should be encouraging people to visit it
- "OLPC 2.0" is a bit of an odd term, and since this was a
proposed/prototyped piece of hardware at one time, if people googles the
term, they get nothing useful. Furthermore, since the OLPC Foundation
still is a legal entity which exists, and holds a current, valid
trademark on OLPC, I am against using it on signage, without the
express written consent of OLPC, Inc, which is based in Miami.
I would personally prefer to emphasize "Sugar Labs" logo, and have it be
most prominent. If I print the banner, are there any objections to that?
Do you or does anyone else know who created the banner used at SCaLE
15x? Just curious.
SCaLE is in Pasadena again this year. There are a couple of hotels
close by and they usually offer a small discount to conference
attendees. There is also the possibility of some of us getting
together and renting a large house in the area via AirBnB or one of
the other rental companies. Availability for these right now is
excellent, but I expect they won't last long. If folks would like to
do this, we need to move on it soon.
Let's make this happen!
Caryl Bigenho (unofficial SCaLE 19X booth chairperson... unless
someone else wants to do it!)
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