OLPC SanFranciscoBayArea/Community Summit 2010
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Community Summit 2010
We're still in the planning phases of this event, please consider all details tentative
OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Summit 2010 is OLPC-SF community event designed to primarily foster collaboration amongst deployment teams in the SF Bay Area. We also hope that the event will help in improving the visibility of OLPC and Sugar to a wider group around this area.
The event is a "Birds of a Feather" type event but largely run as an unconference. Claim your session!
Date (tentative): Saturday, October 23 - Sunday, October 24, 2010
Location (tentative): SFSU Downtown Campus 835 Market St. 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94103
Note: This location is not the main campus. This is the same building as the new Westfield mall that houses Bloomingdale's. Look for the SFSU banner on Market St. between 4th and 5th streets, right next to Walgreens. Take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Presenters and Facilitators
Organizing Volunteers
- Sameer Verma sverma@sfsu.edu
- Grant Bowman grantbow@gmail.com
- Hilary Naylor
- Carol Ruth Silver
- Elizabeth Krumbach lyz@princessleia.com
Planning to attend?
Planning Meetings
Weekly planning meeting August 4
Attendees
Sameer Verma Carol Ruth Silver Elizabeth Krumbach Grant Bowman Hilary Naylor Adam Holt
Items discussed
- Pretty much confirmed for Fri 21 evening, Sat 22 & Sun 23
- Non-trivial costs are involved for using SFSU's Downtown Center on Sunday, but it remains a possibility
- Investigating other locations
- Naming: OLPC San Francisco Bay Area Summit 2010
- Include related icons on site and during promotion: sugar labs, realness
- Daily structure not strictly split, but loosely:
- Friday night: Introduction and networking
- Saturday: Outside SF sessions
- Sunday: OLPC SF members sessions
- Grant Bowman to register .org/com/net domains
- Website suggested for slicker-than-wiki promotion
Weekly planning meeting July 28
Attendees
Sameer Verma, Hilary Naylor, Carol Ruth Silver, Elizabeth Krumbach
Items discussed
- Dates requested: October 23-24, Saturday is fine, $$ for Sunday, Sameer looking into and will get back to us
- Have an opening/welcome/introduction session Friday evening and/or Saturday morning
- Other options for location: Space on main campus, issue may be transportation there since there are restricted transit options
- Must have registration for head count regarding insurance, still need to hear about charging a fee (discuss token fee? donation?)
- Come up with list of what we will need to pay for.
- Name of the event: OLPC-SF Community Summit 2010
- Goal: More of a "meetup" than a "meeting" - focused on Discussion (collaboration, issues, possible solutions) rather than Decision.
- Do we want "facilitators" for rooms during sessions?
- Find more volunteers for planning and organization.
Kickoff meeting, July 17, 2010
Photos of the white board:
Notes taken by Ben Devine:
Expected Contributions and Take Away
- Evaluate problems
- Report problems
- E-books
- Manage deployment interests: grassroots to ---> Large deployment
- Moodle – Math modules
- Programming workshop (python, sugar)
- Advocacy
- SoaS on Mac.
- Documentation sessions
- Kids using XO session
- FOSS education
- Sugar onto MNCSF.org computers
- MNCSF.org as a resource
- School server on low power
- Problems in rural schools
- Advocacy participation
- Kids from Oakland, CA
- Technology (software, hardware, networks)
- MOUSE, CA
- Deployment Stories
- Deployments Success/failures
- Implementations success
- Best practices
- Failures
Attendees
Attending via Skype
Caryl Bigenho - Southern California projects, Mail list Olpc-socal@lists.laptop.org, Roadshow in a box, XO-1 (9)
- Cherry Withers - Ekindling, 100 laptops in the Phillipines, pilot 4th &5th grades, Squeakland Board Member, E-toys
Attending via Phone
- Sonya Sokolov - Internet math tutoring project, 10 XOs + SoaS in Ghana, 5 XOs in California, Math, Flash based (Flash on SoaS), Ph.D. in Teaching/Design from Stanford.
Attending in person
- Sameer Verma - Professor at SF State University, and organizer, OLPC SF
- Grant Bowman - XO toaster, organization help
- Elizabeth Krumbach - Organization help, Ubuntu community council
- Larry Cafiero - Fedora Ambassador, works with 3 kids as XO testers
- Ben Devine - Student, SF State University. Organization help
- Luis Chavez - MNCSF.org ,Everett middle school and youth workshop
- Robert Howard - Porting XS to ARM. Has several ARM devices at home.
- Carol Ruth Silver - Afghanistan Deployment, Planning
- Hilary Naylor - Oakland Schools, Trainer, amnesty international.
- June Kleider - Madagascar deployment.
- Alex Kleider - Technology, Linux, Python, etc.
