[IAEP] Events calendar

[Edward Cherlin]

I went into the calendars I selected and copied a few events to the
OLPC Event Suggestions calendar. I would appreciate it if others would
look at it and tell us what they think, and start adding other events
that they know about. Also, we should have a Wiki page to list Google
calendars that have good event listings on various topics.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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