We have been having a conversation about what should happen at SugarCamp. As we look at what _should_ happen at a SugarCamp, I would like to keep a couple things in mind.
An opportunity to meet face to face is orthogonal to an opportunity to make decisions. In fact, a face to face meeting not a good time to make decision because such a small subset of the community is present. It is a great opportunity to learn things and teach things. It is a great time to meet new people and re-meet old friends. But, it is not a particularly good decision making venue because of the lack of transparency. Decision still happen in the mailing lists and scheduled meeting. The Sugar Labs community is not about what we can do for you. It is about how Sugar Labs can create a place for _us_ to work together. I have been recently having a conversation with Yama "The Passionate Bolivian" Ploskonka about Feria Tecnológica which is happening the same weekend in La Paz, Bolivia. We were discussing how to coordinate between Bolivia and France with teleconferencing and irc and other technologies But, to be honest, I don't think we need to bother with the fancy technology. I'm not saying that it would not be _very_ cool to have jabber.sugarlabs.org running so participates in France can connect with participants in Bolivia. What we don't need is to try to coordinate via teleconference. The value is in knowing the Chris Ball is in Boston getting Sugar to run on Fedora, Jonas Smedegaard is in Denmark packaging Sugar on Debian, Caryl Bigenho is in California spreading the word, Bryan Berry is in Nepal establishing a deployment, Yama is in Bolivia starting a grass root effort..... The community is _not_ the people meeting in Paris. The community is the hundreds of people spread across the globe working to develop and use Sugar to help kids learn:) david david _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep