[IAEP] SugarCamp

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Fellow Sugarites,

I must say that I'm pretty much surprised as to how the SugarCamp
planning is being done. My personal opinion is that SugarLabs is a
global organization and cannot behave as if it had headquarters in a
single place because it hasn't. SL contributors are going to travel
from quite distant places and they should be involved actively in the
planning.

OLPC has decided that their XOCamp will happen in January, and I think
that our SugarCamp in November shouldn't be seen as just a prelude to
that.

OLPC employees can legitimately see SL as a vehicle for their product
to include more features, so they would be mostly interested in
technical discussions about those. But I expect the people who share
the SL goals to be more ambitious and to not forget that Sugar cannot
stay contained at OLPC's borders. We have the mission to bring Sugar
to _all_ the kids in the world.

So, talks that IMO are more appropriate for this week, along with
people I'm most interested in hearing, are:

- How Sugar-on-a-stick can better work for deployments such as the
ones carried on by http://schoolkey.net (Caroline Meeks)

- How Sugar can better work in a LTSP environment (Brendan Powers)

- How SugarLabs can better work together with teachers (Yamandú Ploskonka)

- How SugarLabs should communicate its message (Greg DeKoenigsberg)

- How SugarLabs can make easier to contribute to it (Mel Chua)

- How SugarLabs could partner with for-profits that work on related
projects (Collabora on GNOME's telepathy, Nokia on PyMaemo, etc)
(Robert McQueen)

- How SugarLabs is going to maintain the infrastructure needed to
support its own operations (Bernie Innocenti)

- How SugarLabs is going to fund its own operations (Walter Bender)

- How SugarLabs is going to govern itself (Walter Bender, David Farning?)

- How SugarLabs is partnering with other organizations (David Farning)

- etc, you get the idea.

I think most of those talks could give material for discussion for at
least half a day. I really think SL should make progress on
non-technical areas and that this face-to-face time we are going to
have is an opportunity that we shouldn't miss.

Regards,

Tomeu