[OLPC-SF] next meeting...

[Sameer Verma]

Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu
> <mailto:sverma at sfsu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     This is a preliminary announcement that we will be holding the next
>     OLPC-SF meeting on the 21st of June at Google, in Mountain View.
>     Details
>     will be coming in a day or so.
>
>
> This is actually bad news for me, as I was hoping to video a friend of
> mine opening her OLPC XO, and Google almost never allows videotaping
> on their premises.  If it is at all possible to do some videotaping
> there, I am willing, of course, to have a Googler present at all
> times, and make sure that there is nothing to show that it is at
> Google.  After all, the Google rooms basically just look like any
> other office building, even an office building in Redmond.  Heh. 
>
> In fact, we have no video at all of Google or Googlers, because Google
> has such a keen reputation for discouraging video that I have never
> even asked Google PR for permission to interview a Googler about their
> role in the global digital tipping point.  In a way, it is really a
> shame, in view of the fact that Google has played and will play a huge
> role in opening up the Internet and the desktop software industry.
>
> It is also ironic, because one of the ways that we were able to
> minimize the role of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office at our
> local FOSS public middle school project in San Francisco was through
> the use of Google Docs and Spreadsheets.  For two years near (almost,
> GDS has not been out a full two years) the school has used GDS to
> teach kids how to do stand-up presentations in front of their peers
> and "supervisor-like" people like teachers. 
>
> And yet we have no Google footage at all.  Nada.  Zip.  Zilch.
>
> So in addition to filming my friend opening her OLPC XO, it would be
> great if I could eventually get an interview with someone like Chris
> DiBona or (why not dream) even Sergey or Larry or Eric. 
>
> Sameer, do you think it might be possible for your to ask your Google
> contact to allow me to video my friend and the people and conversation
> at this Google OLPC XO meet up?  Again, I would not be video anything
> Googley at all.  It would just be us in a naked room. 
>
> ---
> Christian Einfeldt,
> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
>

Hi Christian,

The real reason to hold a meeting in Mountain View is to attract XO
owners and OLPC enthusiasts from the peninsula and south bay. I do not
know what Google's policy is on videotaping or taking pictures. I'll
check with my sponsor and let you all know.

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/