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We are having a "state of the OLPC" mini-conference at OLPC headquarters on '''April 3-4''', 2008.
We had a "state of the OLPC" mini-conference at OLPC headquarters
in [[Has location city::Cambridge]] [[Has location country::USA]]
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on '''[[Start date::April 3, 2008]] - [[End date::April 4, 2008]]'''.


Sorry, we couldn't do real-time streaming; we got most of the talks on DV, and I'm encoding and posting them as I find time.
Sorry, we couldn't do real-time streaming; we got most of the talks on DV, and I'm finally done encoding and posting them; let me know if you want/need different formats or resolutions.


== Schedule ==
== Schedule ==


===Thursday (April 3)===
===Thursday (April 3)===
* 12:30pm: "The Hand Key"
* 12:30pm: "The Hand Key" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/The_Hand_Key/ Video])
** we discussed the hand key: implementing it might not be so hard!
** We discussed the hand key: implementing it might not be so hard!
** [http://download.laptop.org/content/20080403-mini-conference/The_Hand_Key/ Video from the talk]
* 12:45pm: '''Ben Schwartz''', "Frameworks for collaboration" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Collaboration/ Slides and video])
* 12:45pm: '''Ben Schwartz''', "Frameworks for collaboration"
** Slides: [[Image:Miniconf_dobject.odp.gz]]
** [http://download.laptop.org/content/20080403-mini-conference/Collaboration/ Video from the talk]
* 1:30pm: '''Richard Smith''', "Suspend/Resume"
* 1:30pm: '''Richard Smith''', "Suspend/Resume"
** Merged with Chris' talk.
** Merged with Chris' talk.
* 2:30pm: '''Chris Ball''', "Power Management"
* 2:30pm: '''Chris Ball''', "Power Management" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Power/ Video])
** [http://download.laptop.org/content/20080403-mini-conference/Power/ Video from these talks]
* 3:30pm: ''break''
* 3:30pm: ''break''
* 4:00pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "New Activity management design" ''(Lightning talk)''
* 4:00pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "New Activity management design" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Activity_Management/ Video])
** Main wiki page: [[Designs/Activity Management]]
** [http://download.laptop.org/content/20080403-mini-conference/Activity_Management/ Video from the talk]
* 4:30pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "Automatic transfer/update of activities" ''(Lightning talk)''
* 4:30pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "Automatic transfer/update of activities" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Activity_Sharing/ Video])
** [http://download.laptop.org/content/20080403-mini-conference/Activity_Sharing/ Video from the talk]
* 5:00pm: '''Edward Cherlin''', "State of i18n" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/L18N/ Slides and speaker notes])
* 5:00pm: '''Edward Cherlin''', "State of i18n" ''(Lightning talk)''
** Slides and speaker notes: [[Media:Edward Cherlin Localization Strategy.odp]] Sorry, it turns out that ".odp" is an unwanted file type.


===Friday (April 4)===
===Friday (April 4)===
* 12:30pm: '''C. Scott Ananian''', "olpcfs"
* 12:30pm: '''C. Scott Ananian''', "olpcfs" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Olpcfs/ Slides and video])
** Main wiki page: [[Olpcfs]]
** Slides: [[Media:C Scott Ananian olpcfs.pdf]]
** [http://download.laptop.org/content/20080403-mini-conference/Olpcfs/ Video from the talk]
* 1:30pm: '''Charles Merriam''', "April Fool Build Process" (on the phone) ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Build_Process/ Slides and video])
* 1:30pm: '''April Fool''', "Build Process" (Charles should be on the phone)
** Follow-up Article: [[April Fool 2008 Build Process]]
* 2:30pm: '''Dafydd Harries''', "Communications outlooks" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Communications/ Slides and video])
** Slides: [[Media:April1pres.pdf]]
** Follow-up Article: [[April_Fool_2008_Build_Process]]
* 2:30pm: '''Dafydd Harries''', "Communications outlooks"
* 3:30pm: ''break''
* 3:30pm: ''break''
* 4:00pm: '''Martin Langhoff''', [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012441.html "State of the schoolserver"] ''(Lightning talk)''
* 4:00pm: '''Martin Langhoff''', [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012441.html "State of the schoolserver"] ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/School_Server/ Outline and video])
* 4:30pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "Toolbars & (no) tabs" ''(Lightning talk)''
* 4:30pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "Toolbars & (no) tabs" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Toolbars/ Video])
** Main wiki page: [[Designs/Toolbars]]
* 5:00pm: '''Michael Stone''', "State of security" ''(Lightning talk)''
* 5:00pm: '''Michael Stone''', "State of security" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Security/ Video] sorry, recording damaged)
* 5:30pm: '''Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos''', "Cerebro" ''(Lightning talk)''
* 5:30pm: '''Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos''', "Cerebro" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Cerebro/ Slides and video])


===Additional proposed talks===
===Additional proposed talks===
The following talks were proposed, but the proposer is unable to be present.
The following talks were proposed, but the proposer was unable to be present.
* "Removable Activities" (Mikus Grinbergs) (related to datastore work and activity management)
* "Removable Activities" (Mikus Grinbergs) (related to datastore work and activity management)
* "Sugar Performance" (Tomeu Vizoso)
* "Sugar Performance" (Tomeu Vizoso)
* "Hand-key scrolling" (Tomeu Vizoso) (also, "magnifying class" and "bulletin-board" keys)
* (Better integration with legacy) "Desktop Applications" (Marco Gritti)
* (Better integration with legacy) "Desktop Applications" (Marco Gritti)
* "Performance, Performance, Performance" (Mitch Bradley)
* "Performance, Performance, Performance" (Mitch Bradley)


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== Presenter guidelines ==
== Presenter guidelines ==
For the 1-hour long talk categories, the goal should be ~25 minutes of
For the 1-hour long talk categories, the goal was ~25 minutes of
"presentation" and ~25 minutes of "discussion" (interleaved if you
"presentation" and ~25 minutes of "discussion" (interleaved if you
like), with a 5 minute leg-stretch break between talks. For the
like), with a 5 minute leg-stretch break between talks. For the
lightning talks, let's aim at ~10 minutes of presentation, the same
lightning talks, we aimed at ~10 minutes of presentation, the same
~25 minutes of discussion, and 5 minutes of R&R.
~25 minutes of discussion, and 5 minutes of R&R.


Latest revision as of 01:04, 11 December 2010

We had a "state of the OLPC" mini-conference at OLPC headquarters in Has location city::Cambridge Has location country::USA on Start date::April 3, 2008 - End date::April 4, 2008.

Sorry, we couldn't do real-time streaming; we got most of the talks on DV, and I'm finally done encoding and posting them; let me know if you want/need different formats or resolutions.

Schedule

Thursday (April 3)

  • 12:30pm: "The Hand Key" (Video)
    • We discussed the hand key: implementing it might not be so hard!
  • 12:45pm: Ben Schwartz, "Frameworks for collaboration" (Slides and video)
  • 1:30pm: Richard Smith, "Suspend/Resume"
    • Merged with Chris' talk.
  • 2:30pm: Chris Ball, "Power Management" (Video)
  • 3:30pm: break
  • 4:00pm: Eben Eliason, "New Activity management design" (Lightning talk) (Video)
  • 4:30pm: Eben Eliason, "Automatic transfer/update of activities" (Lightning talk) (Video)
  • 5:00pm: Edward Cherlin, "State of i18n" (Lightning talk) (Slides and speaker notes)

Friday (April 4)

Additional proposed talks

The following talks were proposed, but the proposer was unable to be present.

  • "Removable Activities" (Mikus Grinbergs) (related to datastore work and activity management)
  • "Sugar Performance" (Tomeu Vizoso)
  • (Better integration with legacy) "Desktop Applications" (Marco Gritti)
  • "Performance, Performance, Performance" (Mitch Bradley)


Presenter guidelines

For the 1-hour long talk categories, the goal was ~25 minutes of "presentation" and ~25 minutes of "discussion" (interleaved if you like), with a 5 minute leg-stretch break between talks. For the lightning talks, we aimed at ~10 minutes of presentation, the same ~25 minutes of discussion, and 5 minutes of R&R.

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