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== Past events ==

There are many, see [[Events/2008]].
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== Past : 2008 ==

=== 2008 community events ===
''past events to add: Chicago museum, learning workshops from first-half 2008''

==== [[Game Jam]], [[ILXO]], August 8-10, 2008 ====
''organized by mchua and nlee''

==== LinuxWorld SF ====
: booth organized by Sameer Verma and [[user:mokurai|Ed Cherlin]]
: @ the conf: SFXO (Ed Cherlin, Sameer, SFXO x 15?)

==== [http://sugarlabs.org/go/DocumentationTeam/BookSprint_August_2008 BookSprint], Austin, August 24-29, 2008 ====
''organized by ahyde and agentle''
* [[user:holt|Adam Holt]], [[user:bjordan|Brian Jordan]] (3 days)
* Other attendees: Adam Hyde, [[user:annegentle|Anne Gentle]], [[user:walter|Walter Bender]], [[user:dfarning|David Farning]].
* Remote attendees: [[user:sethwoodworth|Seth]], Belinda Lopez, [[user:christophD|Christoph Derndorfer]], David Cramer, Emily Kaplan, [[user:gregdek|Greg DeKoenigsberg]], Janet Swisher, Robert Nagle, Scott Nesbitt, Caryl Bigenho (Eng/Span).

More detailed information is available at JustWriteClick blog entry http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/26/booksprint-for-floss-manuals-writing-for-the-xo-and-sugar/ and SugarLabs wiki page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DocumentationTeam .

OLPC sponsorship : $1k and travel for Adam H. and Brian J; 8 shirts?

==== [[Physics Jam]], OLPC HQ?, August 29-31, 2008 ====
''Organized by [[user:bjordan|Brian Jordan]]''.

This is a Jam to make use of the new [[physics]] engine on the XO, a version of box2d. Examples to date include the [[Physics (activity)|Physics activity]] and Alex L's new [[x2o]] game framework.
: Attending: GameLab folks, Museum of Science text curators (Engineering is Elementary)
: [[user:mchua|Mel Chua]], [[user:sj|SJ]], Jordans 1-2

: Event support: voluntary donations by attendees, $20-40;
: OLPC sponsorship: $500 total; prizes in OLPC swag -- 2 XOs, and t-shirts for all attendees, and some travel.

==== [[Cambridge documentation jam]] - September 4, 2008 ====
''Organized by [[user:Sethwoodworth|Seth Woodworth]]''
Call Brian at (203)895-8517 to get in
: 10am to 10pm, working on the [http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/XO XO] / [http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar Sugar] manuals.


==== August-September 2008 ====

===== Documentation sprint, August 2008 =====
A week-long documentation meeting to hash out 8.2.0 getting-started and user documents. Organized by Anne Gentle, and Adam Hyde/FLOSSManuals.
: Attending: Adam Holt (potentially: GDK)
: Remotely : Faisal Anwar

==== August 29-31, 2008 ====
Pablo Flores is organizing a CEIBAL Jam through his university.
He expects to have over 20 volunteer developers working over the weekend.
: Requests: OLPC sponsoring up to 20 XOs
: Open an invite to Colombian/Peruvian devs who may want to help.

==== October-December 2008 ====
===== [[Game Jam Peru]], October 23-25, 2008 =====
A 3 day event leading up to / overlapping with an existing open source and tech conference in [[Peru#Cusco|Cusco, Peru]] (isn't this in Lima?) coordinated in part by [[user:hpachas|Hernan Pachas]].
: OLPC support: travel for SJ, two other developers to attend and help with the community Jam
: Travel sponsorship : can we set up matching funds for up to $500 in travel from others around S. America? Open an invite to Uru/Chile/Arg/Bra devs who may want to participate.


===== Global OLPC gathering / FUDCon =====
December 6-8, Boston MA
: Under discussion with GDK @ Fedora. Expected attendees : 80-100 OLPCers, in parallel with global Fedora community members gathering for the quarterly FUDCon.
: Identify people who will need travel covered, and those who just get a stipend -- from both current and future partner countries. Find out who can come and what they need -- plan hotels in advance. Coordinate with Nia & others re: hotel contacts.
: Coordinate travel sponsorship with Fedora for coders.
: Tech contacts from : Mongolia, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Senegal, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Egypt (!), India, China

== General events by date ==
=== XDS 2008 ===
''September 3-5''
: [http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2008 X Developer's Summit, 2008], Ediburgh, UK
: interest: jg
: Cost guestimate: $3200

=== Linux Plumber's Conference ===
: [http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ September 17-19, Portland]
: interest: JG
: [[User:DanielDrake|DanielDrake]] may be present giving a session about libusb
: guestimated cost for Boston attendees: $800
: Deepak Saxena and Chris Ball are presenting "Power Management Challenges at OLPC"

=== FUDCons ===
: June 2008, Boston : attending cjb, dennis, mstone, martin, mako...
: Sept 5-7, June [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 Brno 2008]: attending: marco, tomeu, simon, bernie (please see the SugarLabs wiki for [http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Events/FUDCon_Brno_2008 details])
: Dec 6-8, Boston: interest sj, mstone, marco, [[User:morgs|morgs]] (tomeu? simon?), [[User:Sayamindu|sayamindu]]; attending gdk...

=== DebConf 2008 ===
''in Mar de Plata, Arg''
: interest: Martin, JG

=== Boston GNOME Conference 2008 ===
''October, in Boston''

=== 25C3, Berlin ===
''December 26-29, 2008''
: interest: SJ (will cover most of own expenses; bring more swag!), christophe, olpc austria, [[OLPC Germany]]
: 27th only: [[User:Bert|Bert]] + Rita + Kid(s)

=== FOSS.IN ===
''November 25th to 29th''
: [[User:Sayamindu|Sayamindu]] is giving a talk on Sugar Activity Development


=== Usenix 2008 ===
''June, in Boston''
: attending: JG

=== Pycon 2008 ===
: booth organized by ILXO and Ed C?
: Attending: ...

=== MontaVista Vision Embedded Linux Developer's Conference 2008 ===
''October, in San Francisco''
: Deepak Saxena presenting keynote on OLPC's use of Linux and challenges we face there

=== Other events ===
* X Dev conference, ''April 2008 in SFO''.
*: attending: cjb
* NANOG

== Proposed events ==
=== Oct-Dec 2008 ===
==== South African FOSS materials conference, October 2008 ====
: Attending: Morgs

=== Various MoodleMoots Oct 2008 ===
* [http://moodlemootau.org/ MoodleMoot AU - 2nd, 3rd October 2008 - All Hallows' School, Brisbane, Queensland]
** Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
* [http://www.elearning.org.nz/ MoodleMoot NZ - 8th-10th October 2008 - Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier - Hawkes Bay]
** Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)
* [http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33 MoodleMoot Italy - 21st, 22nd October 2008 - Rome, Italy]
** Attending: Perhaps - Martin Langhoff
* [http://moodlemoot.net/ MoodleMoot Spain - 23rd to 25th October 2008 - Barcelona, Spain]
** Attending: Martin Langhoff (with several talks)


=== OLPC Latin America / Africa event, Fall 2008 ===
Lidet Tilahun and Kit Barron, are organizing events @ Harvard focusing on Africa and Latin America.
<blockquote>
I was thinking we could make this a full ~1.5-day workshop that focused alternately on Latin America and on Africa : organized by student groups from both regions, inviting major speakers to address the need for educational change in the most remote areas, and its potential impact on basic sustainable agriculture, health, economics and city development.

'''Attendees''' -- development-group organizers to speak to the need of broad cross-country community support to make these efforts sustainable across political/educational turmoil; students to launch new projects and local university OLPC chapters; educators to share their experiences in the field and brainstorm how to make things work at many levels; on the ground, with parent/teacher gropus, with local districts, with ministries, and globally.

'''potential outcomes'''
a plan for regional events in south america, central america, and parts of africa;
a list of groups to engage and invite to join future events to learn about and contribute ideas to the project; including groups already engaged in educational reform projects
a list of luminaries to contact to form regional advisory groups;
identifying [student] contacts for major universities and libraries;
identifying regions most in need of this sort of change, and groups/organizations we (as a conference group) know with field experience in each one
:: 1 August 2008 (UTC)
</blockquote>


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 02:27, 16 April 2009

These are important events for broadening OLPC's mission. If you have an event you want to attend or see people who support OLPC attend, list it here (or add Property:Start date to its page on the wiki). If you are attending an event on behalf of OLPC, to give a talk or with some OLPC sponsorship, make sure you are on the attendees list on this page.

Community groups and OLPC have limited resources, which we try to dedicate to materials and tools that event organizers do not cover for speakers. If you plan to attend an event, please budget what the visit will cost, try to get sponsorship from the event planners, and include a budget estimate/request if you are looking for funding support. Ask for donated booth space, submit talks and apply for travel scholarships; and check with local XO groups, who may be able to offer support.

Other events to include : Mini-conferences each quarter. Run a naming contest! XO-tech? Xocon? Propose paper talks during the event.


Upcoming events on wiki.laptop.org

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Upcoming community events

Co-sponsored events

2009 and beyond

GUADEC 2009

interest: marco, morgs, (tomeu? simon? ), Sayamindu, DanielDrake, mtd

LinuxConf.AU 2009

January, in Tasmania

  • Erik Garrison and Deepak Saxena have submited "An Analysis of Flash File System Alternatives" as a talk proposal.
  • Pia Waugh will run an OLPC BOF so come along to hack, chat, and help with the regional community development of OLPC Friends!

Proposed 2009 events

FISL, Feb 2009

Wikimania, Aug 2009

in Buenos Aires

FUDCon S.America (March? 2009)

in Brazil

Past events

There are many, see Events/2008.

See also

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