[OLPC_Boston] Open offers: Bug Advocacy workshop + Sugar hacking/testing mentorship

[Mel Chua]

(Yep, here's the email that I meant to send this list - the first one in 
the trio was a draft that I was about to split and revise for this list, 
because I realized that it would be silly to only mail the Olin list 
about these things. My apologies for the confusion - please yell at me 
if you have any issues with this. Anyway, the email:)

Offers I made tonight that are applicable to the Boston-area community. 
  I'm making these as local offer first because I'd like to try them out 
in person on a small scale, but I want to make it make sense to push 
this beyond Boston as soon as possible, and do that as soon as it does; 
help is welcomed for all of this.

Details may be sparse here, as I'm a little sleep-deprived at the 
moment. If something does not make sense, shout to the list with 
questions, and I'll fix.

--Mel

* Bug advocacy workshop. The condition is that I (Mel) will come and 
teach a workshop on how to test (with a focus on bug advocacy) - all 
experience levels, anyone from "what is testing?" up, in person, if at 
least one person commits before the workshop is scheduled to pay it 
forward and run a local workshop teaching others how to do the same.

If you want this, I'll need 2.5 hours, a room with wifi within walking 
distance from the T or transportation from it, advance notice (I can 
usually schedule things 24 hours in advance, and all dates and times are 
fair game, but more time is better). This is an open offer to anyone in 
the Boston area, and it expires Feb. 1, 2009.

* Sugar hacking/testing mentorship over the month of January has been 
offered by core developers and testers. That's all the details that 
there are at this time; right now, email me + this list if you're 
interested. I'm trying to remove myself as a bottleneck for it, and this 
is something that's going to be open to any volunteer worldwide; if you 
want to be mentored, your first job is to harass me to remove the 
bottleneck and make it possible for you and others to get matched up for 
this thing in general. ;)