Hi Folks, For me, nothing beats real FTF contact with folks you have only met online and old friends from prior conferences. The SF Summit is a high point of the year for many of us. The get-together at SCaLE12x in Los Angeles this past January was also fun and very productive. That said… some people cannot afford the time or cost of travel to a live summit. Perhaps a "blended" FTF and Virtual Summit is the answer. Live feeds of all sessions could be provided along with recordings to be viewed later (OLPC France did a great job with this recently). Some presenters could be located elsewhere and their sessions shown in a meeting room via Google Hangout or Skype. This was done last year in SF with a blended panel… some people at the conference, others present virtually. Maybe we can get a team of interested folks to make this happen… perhaps more than once in a year! Time zone differences are always a challenge with things like this, but that can be worked out. Caryl > From: sve...@sfsu.edu > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:26:47 -0700 > To: de...@lists.laptop.org; marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org; > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [IAEP] Virtual Summits > > A few years ago, Ubuntu switched from physical face-to-face summits to > virtual summits. I've been peeking into these summits, and their setup > is quite nicely done. It's mostly a good organization around Google > Hangout and IRC sessions. Ubuntu Online Summit 14.06 is going on > right now. > > Something to consider on our end? > > http://summit.ubuntu.com/ > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Professor, Information Systems > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://commons.sfsu.edu/ > http://olpcsf.org/ > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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