Greetings! It's the end of July, and getting close to the October timeframe when we usually have our summit. This year, given the recent changes in the project, scope, etc. we at OLPC SF are leaning towards an online summit, with offline flavors. The weekend of Oct 18, 2014.
The idea is to have online sessions, with a local offline meetup to: 1) Provide a continued local meeting space and participation in projects championed by enthusiasts local to the San Francisco Bay Area, and 2) Provide a platform that allows global participation from locations that have not had a chance to be a part of the global dialogue. To facilitate the online piece, we are looking at "Summit", a platform used by Ubuntu to run their online summits. See http://summit.ubuntu.com for a recent summit that they ran on this platform. Aaron Borden is looking into the code and is going to run a version for olpcsf.org. Briefly, the sessions are organized to be run on Google Hangout for presenters, with live Youtube feeds for attendees, with a chat session to ask questions live during the session. For the offline part, we are looking to get space at our usual location, with support for participation in online sessions, and offline workshops. We do not want to miss out on the camaraderie that brews around the annual summit. Hint: We think offline gatherings in Washington DC, Paris, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Sydney, Kathmandu, Montevideo, and many other locales would be in order as well :-) So, this is the stub of an idea. Feedback welcome and appreciated. Volunteers for both online and offline sessions are much needed. Please write back and let us know onlist or offlist. If you have experience running online sessions, hangouts, etc. you are in demand! 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/ _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
