Hi Sameer, This is an interesting idea! There may be enough folks in the LA area to have a SoCal meet-up as a part of this. Hopefully some other folks (Curt, Braddock, Kenneth, etc… you know who you are) can work together to make it happen. I won't get back to LA until sometime in the first week of October, so things like a venue would need to be arranged locally. I'll help out with anything that can be done from afar. Caryl
> From: sve...@sfsu.edu > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:32:21 -0700 > To: olpc...@lists.laptop.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > grassro...@lists.laptop.org; olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org; > marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [IAEP] Community Summit 2014 > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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