<html> <head> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <style></style> <div dir="ltr">Hi Folks,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">For me, nothing beats real FTF contact with folks you have only met online and old friends from prior conferences. The SF Summit is a high point of the year for many of us. The get-together at SCaLE12x in Los Angeles this past January was also fun and very productive. <div><br></div><div>That said… some people cannot afford the time or cost of travel to a live summit. Perhaps a "blended" FTF and Virtual Summit is the answer. Live feeds of all sessions could be provided along with recordings to be viewed later (OLPC France did a great job with this recently). Some presenters could be located elsewhere and their sessions shown in a meeting room via Google Hangout or Skype. This was done last year in SF with a blended panel… some people at the conference, others present virtually.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we can get a team of interested folks to make this happen… perhaps more than once in a year! Time zone differences are always a challenge with things like this, but that can be worked out.</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div>> From: sverma@sfsu.edu<br>> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:26:47 -0700<br>> To: devel@lists.laptop.org; marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: [IAEP] Virtual Summits<br>> <br>> A few years ago, Ubuntu switched from physical face-to-face summits to<br>> virtual summits. I've been peeking into these summits, and their setup<br>> is quite nicely done. It's mostly a good organization around Google<br>> Hangout and IRC sessions. Ubuntu Online Summit 14.06 is going on<br>> right now.<br>> <br>> Something to consider on our end?<br>> <br>> http://summit.ubuntu.com/<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> </div></body> </html>