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. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep