View source for Presentations/April 2008 Technical Mini-conference

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" ([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!
* 12:45pm: '''Ben Schwartz''', "Frameworks for collaboration" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Collaboration/ Slides and video])
* 1:30pm: '''Richard Smith''', "Suspend/Resume"
** Merged with Chris' talk.
* 2:30pm: '''Chris Ball''', "Power Management" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Power/ Video])
* 3:30pm: ''break''
* 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]]
* 4:30pm: '''Eben Eliason''', "Automatic transfer/update of activities" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Activity_Sharing/ Video])
* 5:00pm: '''Edward Cherlin''', "State of i18n" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/L18N/ Slides and speaker notes])

===Friday (April 4)===
* 12:30pm: '''C. Scott Ananian''', "olpcfs" ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Olpcfs/ Slides and video])
** Main wiki page: [[Olpcfs]]
* 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])
** 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])
* 3:30pm: ''break''
* 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)'' ([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)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Security/ Video] sorry, recording damaged)
* 5:30pm: '''Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos''', "Cerebro" ''(Lightning talk)'' ([http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080403-olpc-mini-conf/Cerebro/ Slides and video])

===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)

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== 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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