[sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:12 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
>> It currently looks like the week of November 17 - 21 is our target for our
>> planning meeting, so as to avoid travel during the (following) US
>> Thanksgiving holiday week.  I concur with Scott's suggestion of having a
>> sugarlabs contact connect with SJ to move things forward.
>
> Just to clarify: like our "mini-conferences" in the past, the plan is
> to have at least three days full of talks and hacking, so that we all
> have a chance to present plans and wild ideas in lots of technical
> detail, and listen to talks and presentations from the learning side,
> before we have to sit down and draw up concrete priorities and goals
> for 9.1.  Hopefully some crazy ideas will seem less crazy when they
> are presented in depth, and perhaps some "reasonable" ideas will have
> enough holes poked in them during Q&A to shift our thinking as well.
>
> Walter Bender has already said he will be out of the country until
> "late in the week", and it's reasonable to expect that the final
> knock-down drag-out draw-up-the-big-list summary meeting will be at
> the end of all this.  But I'd encourage both sides here to consider
> making this a full week of presentation and exploration (and
> publication!).

Are you proposing something like:

17 - 21 Talks and hacking
24 - 25 Concrete priorities and goals

?

Marco