Talk:Laptop demonstrations
I am folding content from the Presentations page in here.--Mokurai 02:03, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
Calendar
At some point it will become clumsy to handle requests for demos and presentations here in the Wiki. We will need some other software to handle contacts, requests, scheduling, funding, and whatever else turns out to be important. Suggestions, please. A mailing list with calendar functions? Drupal? Would OLPC host it?--Mokurai 02:03, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
Drupal + civicrm ?--Hummingbird20:36, 13 April 2007
Geographic Organization
I think demos would be a great way to draw attention and support... but if we are going to add to this list all possible requests and suggestion about conferences, the list will probably lose focus and utility.
A possibility is to list conferences in a sub-page for each country and then be aggregated in the main article page. That way, local people can focus on their area and people that are travelling somewhere can check by destination...--Xavi 23:31, 3 February 2007 (EST)
I think a kind of "speakers bureau" would be useful, listing people who are willing to talk about OLPC and where they are located. -- Ian Bicking 23:08, 4 April 2007 (EDT)
- Sounds good! I was about to jump into the idea (read, make a section for it) but faced the following issues on how to organize it:
- speaker level (guru, technical, general, etc)
- geography (by state, country, city) ?
- availability (calendar)
- any suggestion/idea on how to deal with them? It would be nice to have also a 'list of cities' around the globe where XO's have been delivered... --Xavi 23:19, 4 April 2007 (EDT)
I think categorized by country, except the US which should be subdivided by region as well (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West). Or countries can just subdivide when they get a lot of speakers.
People can note availability if they have very limited availability, but I don't think it would be very helpful; for instance, if I'm going to be someplace for a week, it's unlikely that someone in that place will notice this page at just the right time -- I'll probably have to reach out to people there directly. Generally it's just easiest to just coordinate directly with someone. And instead of speaker level, perhaps just general role (programmer and educator being the most prominent distinction). -- Ian Bicking 11:14, 5 April 2007 (EDT)
