[IAEP] Events calendar

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I went into Google Calendar and did some quick searches. I can now
look at any or all of them at once. Somebody needs to look at these
and tell me what they think.

o American Physical Society Calendar
o Association for Computing Machinery
o Calendar for Conferences
o Conferences in the subjects of Education from Routledge and the
Taylor & Francis Group
o Engineers Without Borders
o The Official Family Calendar of The School at Columbia University
o IEEE events
o Mathematics education research
o National Convention Calendar
o Nation Association of Science Teachers
o Science events of note
o Science Education Association
o MIT
o MIT Sloan Alumni Events
o Edulink ICT4D activity calendar
o Mobile Broadband News
o Embedded computers and related industry events


I have not yet attempted to find

o Linux
o English
o Language
o History
o Yale
o Harvard
o Stanford
o UC
o microfinance
o World Social Forum
o sustainability


>> 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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