Presentations/April 2008 Technical Mini-conference

We had a "state of the OLPC" mini-conference at OLPC headquarters on April 3-4, 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.

Schedule

Thursday (April 3)

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

Friday (April 4)

• 12:30pm: C. Scott Ananian, "olpcfs"
  • Slides and video
• 1:30pm: April Fool, "Build Process" (Charles should be on the phone)
  • Follow-up Article: April_Fool_2008_Build_Process
  • Slides and video
• 2:30pm: Dafydd Harries, "Communications outlooks"
  • Slides and video
• 3:30pm: break
• 4:00pm: Martin Langhoff, "State of the schoolserver" (Lightning talk)
  • Outline and video
• 4:30pm: Eben Eliason, "Toolbars & (no) tabs" (Lightning talk)
  • Video from the talk
• 5:00pm: Michael Stone, "State of security" (Lightning talk)
  • Video from the talk
• 5:30pm: Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos, "Cerebro" (Lightning talk)
  • 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)
• "Hand-key scrolling" (Tomeu Vizoso) (also, "magnifying class" and "bulletin-board" keys)
  • This one Eben ended up presenting for us.
• (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.