[Chicago] next meeting

[Ian Bicking]

Atul Varma wrote:
> On 2/27/07, *Carl Karsten* <carl at personnelware.com 
> <mailto:carl at personnelware.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have been playing with running OLPC in a VM.  Which means it can
>     also be run
>     on a real M.  I would be willing to do a 20 min Howto demo in hopes
>     that a low
>     entry point will cause others will be sucked into the project.  But
>     it is the
>     kind of talk that should really follow someone showing off the real
>     deal and
>     what it is all about.  (hint hint)
> 
> 
> Thanks, Carl, that would be awesome.  Is there interest in having a 
> sprint for this?  I was talking it over with Chris and Ian and they were 
> interested, and I think some others are too... It could be a cool way to 
> connect with other local area non-Python SIGs, too.

Yes, I'll be in town on the 8th, so the laptop will be there.  Right now 
we're trying to improve the how-do-I-develop-for-OLPC story, and 
hopefully we'll have this figured out by the end of the PyCon sprint. 
Then some weekend we could do a sprint -- start out with installation, 
do an hour or two of tutorial (make sure everyone gets a Hello World 
activity running), then split up and do whatever people think is cool. 
I imagine we'd get some people who haven't really used Python, but that 
should be okay -- or at least, the goal I'd have for a sprint is really 
getting people started more than specific output during the sprint.

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Ian Bicking | ianb at colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org