[IAEP] Events calendar

[Walter Bender]

I think we only want to point to things that will have some definite
Sugar presence--otherwise the SNR will be too low. -walter

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> 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.
>
> And how about linking to other conference directories?
>
> http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/conferences&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&;jsessionid=L2hJDcgf21WGxwnq2RNhLqpGJC91l1GvNTW6SHtd1Jn2n3fsNzHQ!-723175620
>
> Meetings & Conferences, IEEE Computer Society
>
> http://www.techweb.com/calendar/
> Find the trade show you want
>
> #
> ERMETIS Microelectronics and Reconfigurable Systems Research ...
> This is a calendar of upcoming conferences in the field of computer
> engineering. Click on the following link for more information about
> our conference watch ...
> wwwdsa.uqac.ca/~lsr/emcos/emcos-index.php?page=Computer+Engineering+Conference+Calendar
> - 45k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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> Confy's Computer Science Conference Calendar and Call for Papers ...
> Confy's Computer Science Conference Calendar and Call for Papers, 0.1
> The newest version of this page can be found at: index.php Last
> modified: ...
> apstwo.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~mathijs/conf/index.php - 76k - Cached -
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> Conference Calendar and Event Calendar
> VISAPP 2009 - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and
> .... For historic reasons, we maintain a calendar archive/conference
> archive ...
> www.interaction-design.org/calendar/ - 177k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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> SIGGRAPH Calendar
> If you wish to see the Calendar of Computer Graphics Events in a ...
> Thirty- sixth International Conference on Computer Graphics and
> Interactive Techniques ...
> www.siggraph.org/calendar/ - 7k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
>
> etc.
>
>
> Also, when are we going to start planning for the first global
> XO/Sugar conference in Cambridge?
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> As the nominal leader of the Sugar Labs Events Committee, I've been a bit
>> of a laggard, so I'm getting ready to step it up a bit.  We do have an
>> events calendar here:
>>
>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Events
>>
>> I've got some questions.  Anyone who is interested, please feel free to
>> answer or comment.
>>
>> 1. Who is empowered to add events to this list, and how does it work?
>> Looks like right now it's just Walter, and I think that's insufficient.
>>
>> 2. If we're going to list events, we should also list a contact for each
>> event.  The Fedora mechanism is imperfect in many ways, but its one
>> strength is that it's always clear who in Fedora-land is responsible for
>> our presence at a particular event.
>> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents)
>>
>> Which implies 3. Is it better to make Events wiki-driven, rather than
>> Google Calendar-driven?
>>
>> --g
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