<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>Hi Sameer,</div><div><br></div>This is an interesting idea! There may be enough folks in the LA area to have a SoCal meet-up as a part of this. Hopefully some other folks (Curt, Braddock, Kenneth, etc… you know who you are) can work together to make it happen. I won't get back to LA until sometime in the first week of October, so things like a venue would need to be arranged locally. I'll help out with anything that can be done from afar.<div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br><div>> From: sverma@sfsu.edu<br>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:32:21 -0700<br>> To: olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; grassroots@lists.laptop.org; olpc-open@lists.laptop.org; marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: [IAEP] Community Summit 2014<br>> <br>> Greetings!<br>> <br>> It's the end of July, and getting close to the October timeframe when<br>> we usually have our summit. This year, given the recent changes in the<br>> project, scope, etc. we at OLPC SF are leaning towards an online<br>> summit, with offline flavors. The weekend of Oct 18, 2014.<br>> <br>> The idea is to have online sessions, with a local offline meetup to:<br>> <br>> 1) Provide a continued local meeting space and participation in<br>> projects championed by enthusiasts local to the San Francisco Bay<br>> Area, and<br>> <br>> 2) Provide a platform that allows global participation from locations<br>> that have not had a chance to be a part of the global dialogue.<br>> <br>> To facilitate the online piece, we are looking at "Summit", a platform<br>> used by Ubuntu to run their online summits. See<br>> http://summit.ubuntu.com for a recent summit that they ran on this<br>> platform. Aaron Borden is looking into the code and is going to run a<br>> version for olpcsf.org. Briefly, the sessions are organized to be run<br>> on Google Hangout for presenters, with live Youtube feeds for<br>> attendees, with a chat session to ask questions live during the<br>> session.<br>> <br>> For the offline part, we are looking to get space at our usual<br>> location, with support for participation in online sessions, and<br>> offline workshops. We do not want to miss out on the camaraderie that<br>> brews around the annual summit. Hint: We think offline gatherings in<br>> Washington DC, Paris, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Sydney, Kathmandu,<br>> Montevideo, and many other locales would be in order as well :-)<br>> <br>> So, this is the stub of an idea. Feedback welcome and appreciated.<br>> Volunteers for both online and offline sessions are much needed.<br>> Please write back and let us know onlist or offlist. If you have<br>> experience running online sessions, hangouts, etc. you are in demand!<br>> <br>> cheers,<br>> Sameer<br>> -- <br>> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>> Professor, Information Systems<br>> San Francisco State University<br>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/<br>> http://commons.sfsu.edu/<br>> http://olpcsf.org/<br>> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br></div></div> </div></body> </html>