On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1. > > sugarlabs and olpc have the same mission.
Don't know about that, but even if that was true, both restaurants below my flat have the same mission but I don't think their owners need to take care of exactly the same issues. OLPC and SL are different groups of people and have a very different set of problems. Though there's a lot of synergy and we should take that into account, of course. > 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. I'm personally ok with having most technical talks on Wednesday, Regards, Tomeu > --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 (Yamandú 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/ ) > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
