[Baypiggies] April Meeting Proposal - Ivan Krstić

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On 3/12/07, Rand Bradley <rbradley at projectway.com> wrote:
> As everyone on the list is probably aware, Ivan Krstić gave an excellent
> keynote talk at PyCon 2007 on the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC). I was
> so impressed, I emailed Ivan to see if he or someone from the OLPC project
> might be interested in speaking for SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG. I
> also suggested Wednesday 4/11 if possible. Ivan wrote me back that he was
> interested and  that Google also wanted him to give a technical talk in the
> near future. He contacted Google with the proposed date and Google responded
> positively. Ivan is available to speak on either 4/11 or 4/12. (I think he
> is giving a private technical talk at Google on 4/12).
>
>  I would like to propose that we again hold a joint EMTECH/BayPiggies
> meeting for April. The higher-ups for the EMTECH-SIG would like to keep the
> scheduled day of Wednesday 4/11 for the event. It will be hard for me to get
> EMTECH to move the date to 4/12. I would like to propose that BayPIGgies
> host the event at Google, it Google is willing and can accommodate 4/11.
>
> So, I have some questions for the group...
>
> Would BayPIGgies like to make this a joint EMTECH-SIG meeting?
> Is the 4/11/2007 date okay? Can BayPIGgies accommodate moving the April
> meeting forward by one day?
> Can we hold the event at Google on 4/11? How can we confirm? (Note we can
> use EMTECH-SIG location if necessary).
> If the group is willing, can someone contact me to help coordinate the
> event?

+1 However it turns out!

This was the most inspiring keynote at PyCon.  My blog entry, which I
covered at the last meeting, is here:

http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2007/02/pycon-keynote-one-laptop-per-child.html

Best Regards,
-jj

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