Talk:Grassroots bootcamp

I need help in order to attend

Post what you need here and some info about your situation, and we'll start a conversation with you about what resources we can find to help.

• I need a place to crash from Friday evening (June 6) to at least Sunday (June 8) or possibly longer depending on whether I can get a day off work. ChristophD 18:23, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

Christoph, if my housemates say it's okay, we may have a futon in the living room you can crash at. Mchua 21:56, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

Thanks, that would be great! A futon, free wifi and the daily shower is all I really need anyway... ChristophD 23:43, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

People who should be invited

A suggestion list - add your thoughts here. Being on this list doesn't mean they will come to the event - we're not sure how much space we have yet... (Initial list by Christoph Derndorfer)

• Mike Lee who is running the OLPC Learning Club DC
• someone from the Dallas FortWorth Area XO users group to come to Boston.
• Maybe also one of the Nortel folks?
• Greg DeKonigsberg
• Benjamin Mako Hill
• support-gang members
• someone from OLPC Chicago - Sheila Miguez, someone from MVCC (Larry, Steve) or IMSA (Scott, Kevin, Jason, April-Hope)?
• maybe Ben Racher (the guy who wants to start OLPC Tennessee)

Ideas for June 2008

Have a relatively open and potentially larger session (open space session) on the preceding Saturday and/or Sunday to gather feedback from as many people as possible and then use the more private meeting from June 9 to 13 to draw upon that input in deciding on how to proceed with the community / grassroots / volunteer efforts.

• Mel
• Christoph
• --Sj talk

To invite

People who should be on the community@ mailing list.

• Existing groups
  • Team: contributors
  • Support-gang members
• People who actively want to come / have been suggested to invite individually
  • Grassroots leaders within the US
  • OLPC bloggers
• Contributors
  • People in the contributors program / with XOs
  • People in the community-group program

next steps

• Inviting people
  • We want 20-40. Can we make a list of people to invite?
  • Prerequisites list - see below
• Open space weekend
  • The site of Community Jam Boston was glorious... can someone from MIT book the space for us?
  • Need to find someone to run this, preferably someone who's facilitated open space before.
• Supplies
  • Tshirts?
  • Food?
  • Markers, giant post-it notes, nametags for the first day
  • Loaner XOs - Jam kit should be okay
• Jam
  • See what's needed, below

Jam

We're running a Jam in NYC for the "final exam" of the bootcamp. June 14-15 are the dates.

What we need from a host location

• space, chairs and tables (our crew can come on Friday afternoon to set up and so forth) - access to a microphone, projectors/large-screen monitor, etc. would help, but we can improvise equipment
• wireless internet access for attendees at the location
• a budget for supplies, t-shirt printing, and food (say $20/person and you can set how many people you'd like to have - 100?)
• permission to use your logo (if you want it on the publicity)
• permission to bug your developers, if you want your projects worked on - we can send somebody in NYC for a day or two this month to spend an hour or two with the team for each project you'd like people to work on
• access to development resources (your server/bug-tracking tools/repositories if you want people to contribute directly to those resources, or a request to set something like that up for your project on your servers, or a request to set something like that up for your project on our servers)

What we can provide

We can do the rest.

• publicity
• attendee recruitment
• registration
• designing and printing t-shirts
• running the space during the weekend itself
• making sure code repositories and tickets and etc. are hosted and ready to go
• setup and cleanup
• talking with your developers to get their projects ready for jammin'
• can talk about additional things as needed

Context

The context is that we're having an OLPC grassroots bootcamp in Boston from June 9-13, and want to have the attendees run a Jam as their "final exam" - and we'd love to do it for you folks (wanted to talk to SJ about that last sentence clause, which is why I said I'd email you about this later - this is that "later" email.)

I'd propose a focus on development/deployment of projects from the host organzation that involve software (or hardware) that could work on/with the XO, or projects/deployment that could involve the use of XOs.