I went into the calendars I selected and copied a few events to the OLPC Event Suggestions calendar. I would appreciate it if others would look at it and tell us what they think, and start adding other events that they know about. Also, we should have a Wiki page to list Google calendars that have good event listings on various topics.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Edward, Could you put the events you come across on the google calander? >>> Then we can transfer them to the wiki if we are going to have a Sugar >>> presence. >> >> I have created a new public calendar, named OLPC Event Suggestions. >> David Farning is an administrator. Anybody who wants to add events >> should ask David to add a Share permission for them. >> >> I cannot possibly add all of the events I know of, much less all of >> the events I do not know of in domains I have not explored. %-[ We >> will need several people to step up for this, and invite various >> organizations to add their own events. > > I went into Google Calendar and did some quick searches. I can now > look at any or all of them at once. Somebody needs to look at these > and tell me what they think. > > o American Physical Society Calendar > o Association for Computing Machinery > o Calendar for Conferences > o Conferences in the subjects of Education from Routledge and the > Taylor & Francis Group > o Engineers Without Borders > o The Official Family Calendar of The School at Columbia University > o IEEE events > o Mathematics education research > o National Convention Calendar > o Nation Association of Science Teachers > o Science events of note > o Science Education Association > o MIT > o MIT Sloan Alumni Events > o Edulink ICT4D activity calendar > o Mobile Broadband News > o Embedded computers and related industry events > > > I have not yet attempted to find > > o Linux > o English > o Language > o History > o Yale > o Harvard > o Stanford > o UC > o microfinance > o World Social Forum > o sustainability > > >>> All on one calender with a tag in the header would be good for now, if the >>> idea scales we can scale to accommodate the growth. >>> >>> Your point about scope is spot-on. Sugar Labs need to focus on the learning >>> platform, but be willing to talk to anyone and everyone with whom we can >>> have a mutually beneficial relationship. >>> >>> FWIW, I have been amazed at my inability to successfully assess who will >>> become a valuable contributor and who is will not. I am willing to talk to >>> anyone:) >> >> I have a simple rule: Anybody who is willing can contribute >> effectively. Those without 1334 tek skilz can contribute content, or >> just talk to schoolchildren about whatever they know, and learn from >> them. We could use people to fill in events on the calendar, and a lot >> of other relatively unskilled work. We could even ask schoolchildren >> to do some of it. >> >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >> > > > > -- > Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams > fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! > http://www.obamapedia.org/page/Smears Join us! > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children > > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, > The Truth my destination. > -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/page/Smears Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. 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