Fwd: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

[Edward Cherlin]

This makes three for the OLPC booth at PyCon.

Ed Cherlin
Mike Fletcher
Karen Smith

Others may put their hands up.

What does PyCon need in order to arrange for our exhibitor passes?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Karen T. Smith <kayti99 at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Subject: RE: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed
To: mcfletch at vrplumber.com, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>


Mike/Edward -

 I wanted to update you on my availability for an OLPC booth at Pycon. I can
 be there for Saturday daytime, something like 10A - 4P. Does that sound
 about right? I unfortunately can't make it on Friday. My husband is having
 knee surgery that day (freak bending accident, we are getting so old, LOL)
 and it just wouldn't be wifely of me to be at a conference instead of
 attending to his every need.

 I will only come to the exhibit floor (and hallways surrounding) so I will
 not be attending any part of the conference - does that make it easier to
 get me a pass? I probably couldn't do it if it required more personal cash
 outlay than gas/parking, though I don't mind contacting Carl Karston, who
 mentioned Pycon at the Google Chicago OLPC meetup in January, to see if he
 can find a way to squeeze me in (he mentioned financial aid possibilities
 for the con to a bunch of students at that meetup, I believe he's on the
 committee.)

 Summary: I'm happy to be a resource, would really enjoy the opportunity to
 network more with OLPC folks, and in the lulls, would bend anyone's ear
 about learning design of XO activities. ;)

 Sidenote: I remember hearing about a coding jam before or after the
 conference. Is that right? Would a set of requirements/use cases/learning
 designs for activities be put to use if I went to the trouble of creating
 them? Meaning, could I get one of my pet projects built if I documented it
 and sent it to someone in advance? Any thoughts? I am not familiar with the
 programming jam concept so I might be completely misunderstanding its
 purpose.

 Thanks much - hope all is well with you both,
 Karen Smith
 St. Charles, IL
 (closeish to the pycon location)




 -----Original Message-----
 From: Mike C. Fletcher [mailto:mcfletch at vrplumber.com]
 Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:24 AM
 To: Edward Cherlin; Karen Smith
 Subject: Re: Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

 Edward Cherlin wrote:
 ...
 > I will make sure the booth is staffed at all times. I have done booth
 > duty and staff management at other conferences, such as Linux World.
 > Send volunteers my way, and we will work out a schedule.
 >
 Karen is interested, but may not be able to find child-care for the two
 days, she'll let us know.
 Karen Smith <kayti99 at comcast.net>

 Myself, obviously.

 I thought Kurt had volunteered, but he's actually in Germany and was
 just suggesting the LiveCD as a distributable... oh well.

 The application requires a signature that can bind the organization from
 what I read, I've sent Walter the information and a link to the
 application to print and fax to PyCon.

 Thanks, and take care,
 Mike

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