<div dir="ltr">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.<br><br>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.<br> <br>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.<br><br>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:)<br> <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Edward Cherlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <<a href="mailto:gdk@redhat.com">gdk@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:<br> ><br> >> What sorts of events would people like to see? SCALE (Southern<br> >> California Linux Expo)? Linux World Expo/Open Source Expo? PyCon?<br> >> Education conferences? Bioneers? Solfest? ICT4D? Microfinance?<br> >> embedded systems? or should we consider splitting the calendar (yet)?<br> >> We could have one for events dealing with hardware, software, content,<br> >> and deployment issues (whatever OLPC and Sugar Labs consider to be<br> >> in-scope) and one for everything else related (sustainability,<br> >> greenness, health outside of health education, whatever). If so, Earth<br> >> Treasury dibs the second one, but I would like to have them use the<br> >> same software and reside in the same place, to simplify cross-linking<br> >> and other forms of coordination.<br> ><br> > My $0.02:<br> ><br> > The only event that matters is an event where someone from Sugar Labs<br> > (broadly defined) will be present, and is willing to take ownership of<br> > representing Sugar Labs at the event.<br> ><br> > For example: SCALE is a great event.  Perfect for recruiting folks to the<br> > Sugar mission, showing off the latest Sugar goodness, holding a BoF,<br> > hacking, whatever.  But if no one from Sugar Labs shows up, that event may<br> > as well not even exist.<br> ><br> > I don't want to cross-link a million events.  I want to know where Our<br> > People will be.  There's a gigantic and vitally important difference.<br> ><br> > --g<br> <br> </div>I mentioned SCALE, Linux World Expo, PyCon and the rest specifically<br> because I was there showing laptops and organizing other activities.<br> <br> My point is to offer to say where our people _should_ be, and to see<br> about getting them there. That's another gigantic and vitally<br> important difference.<br> <font color="#888888">--<br> </font><div class="Ih2E3d">Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name<br> And Children are my nation.<br> The Cosmos is my dwelling place,<br> The Truth my destination.<br> _______________________________________________<br> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>