Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-06 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
I might have hit with a generous donor that might pay my way... Could you confirm dates so they can get me tickets early while they are still less expensive? I would want to learn and share, and if possible/if there is interest work on Wetware issues, especially The Medium Is The Message as

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might have hit with a generous donor that might pay my way... Could you confirm dates so they can get me tickets early while they are still less expensive? I would want to learn and share, and if possible/if there

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might have hit with a generous donor that might pay my way... Could you confirm dates so they can get me tickets early while they are

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like an *excellent* plan to me! I'd be certainly glad to participate and I'm sure will be the same for Tomeu. We can also involve some Boston local activity authors to help out mentoring. Great! So if Tomeu or any

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-05 Thread Samuel Klein
Nice. A good point about Thanksgiving week -- the converse is that the week before is often midterms for students. But there are a number of local activity developers (or would-be devs who haven't finished their first!) that would be excited to join. SJ On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Tomeu

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Walter Bender
I'd really like to be at the Sugar planning meeting, so the 18th is not my first choice. Why not do the hackfest on Tuesday and split the technical talks between Monday and Wednesday? I'll see if there is a conference room available at MIT. -walter On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Marco Pesenti

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to be at the Sugar planning meeting, so the 18th is not my first choice. Why not do the hackfest on Tuesday and split the technical talks between Monday and Wednesday? Monday is even worst for OLPC employees

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello, we met to discuss schedule and scope of the meeting today. Tomeu, Marco, Scott, Mel, Michael, Samuel was present. == Schedule == We came up with two possible schedules, we haven't made a call about which

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we met to discuss schedule and scope of the meeting today. I was thinking of something along the lines of regular afternoon presentations (including talk proposals that should really come up before Jan) and a longer

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monday 17 - Hackfest. Mel: might be a good time to do a so, coders in Boston, you've wanted to learn how to help out This would be hard for Monday. But the following weekend might work. (Saturday?) Saturday is taken by

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Mel Chua
Monday 17 - Hackfest. Mel: might be a good time to do a so, coders in Boston, you've wanted to learn how to help out This would be hard for Monday. But the following weekend might work. (Saturday?) Saturday is taken by SL planning... :/ It's also the start of Thanksgiving

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday is taken by SL planning... :/ It's also the start of Thanksgiving week, which is a holiday that many US folks (myself included) may be taking off to celebrate with family and such. Also, I think the 17th is basically

Re: [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Mel Chua
Sounds like an *excellent* plan to me! I'd be certainly glad to participate and I'm sure will be the same for Tomeu. We can also involve some Boston local activity authors to help out mentoring. Great! So if Tomeu or any other core Sugar dev can commit to being a second, I'll lock in the