[IAEP] Events calendar

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> 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.

> 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 <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
>> 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.

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