[OLPC-SF] Sugar Camp

[Holt]

Walter Bender wrote:
> One topic only touched upon briefly was the need for a Sugar Camp. We
> have two offers of venues: Bolzano the week of November 6 and Miami
> during a time to be determined. If you would be interested in
> attending a Sugar camp sometime in the November/early December time
> frame, please contact me and also, if you have a preference of venue,
> please voice it.
>   

Oct 21/22 - 24 in San Francisco makes the most sense to me, given it 
will be the largest gathering of OLPC/Sugar/Realness implementors ever: 
(well over 30 RSVP'd so far, from 4+ continents, even before broad 
announcement!)
http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010

Sameer Verma who arranged great hosting with SF State Univ here says we 
can accommodate 100 people.  Mike Lee's been working hard on beautiful 
artistic announcements appearing here shortly, eg:
http://flickr.com/photos/curiouslee

The barcamp-style agenda already shows great Edu, Tech, Depl & Outreach 
tracks, growing fast after we all promote this in coming weeks :)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010#Possible_Topics

In fact those volunteers who've been working hard putting this together 
have drawn heavily upon prior Sugar/XO/Realness Camps and Book Sprints, eg:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/MiniCamp_Paris_2009 
May 2009
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs Sep 2009
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009 
Nov 2009
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2009 
Nov 2009
http://realness.org May/June 2010

The group is considering a very small (perhaps $30) charge to help with 
T Shirts and potentially some partial funding of travel scholarships for 
those from outside North America.  Not yet finalized, but remote access 
will also be strongly encouraged.  Plz join the Very Awesome volunteer 
organizers here if you can!!
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf