Meeting Raceout or Rainout, Reschedule proposed for Thurs 04 June 2009

[Frederick Grose]

Sorry for the confusion.  We didn't realize that the RIT campus would be closed to parking (and some officers said buildings were closed too) due to the 2009 JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge race that attracted over 9000 runners or walkers for quite an event.

A few of us managed to walk in or avoid the barriers and we had a good chat for a couple of hours.  See our notes below.

It's been proposed that we reschedule for next week, 04 June 2009, at the same time 7:00 pm and place (I will confirm its availability in a follow-up announcement from the Google Calendar next week).  You can check the olpc-rochester-ny calendar here, http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=MONTH&src=8oiuv3dqsb1kf...@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York.

If you can make the rescheduled meeting, we'll repeat from our last agenda and continue planning with Sugar Summer Program participants. See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program.  We have 3 RIT Co-ops, Eric Mallon in New Hampshire and G. Tyler Bragdon in Boston, MA and Wesley Dillingham locally, with Jerry Green (local RIT student) assisting.

Bill Schaub and I are hoping to associate with Jeff Sonstein's Sahana rework team as another Summer Program project.

If you would like to join one of the projects or start another, please come and join the planning.

Hope to see you.     --Fred

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From the wiki page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/28May2009:

Race lockout or Rainout - The RIT Campus parking was closed to all but VIP pass holders to provide safety for the over 9000 runners in the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge annual race, so most were unable to attend.

Four members (Bill Schaub and Chuck Bryerton from Hornel and Dan Liss and Fred Grose) managed to get past the guards or walked in to Building 70. We had a good discussion covering the agenda items and news about the OLPC XO-1.5 and Sugar Labs plans.

Agenda:

1. Reconnect with each other
2. Learn about the Sugar Summer Program
3. Prepare for more educator recruiting
   1. prepare contact list
   2. save dates for future events
   3. post and update opportunities available over the summer.
4. Learn about the NYSCATE conference in Rochester 22-24 November 2009, http://www.mail-archive.com/ia...@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04039.html

Bill Schaub described the work he has been undertaking to provide a lightweight Network News Transport Protocol service to allow XOs or other Wi-Fi-enabled computers to discovery each other and share accumulated information as might be needed when "the world as we know it" is disrupted. He will be writing to Professor Jeff Sonstein about contributing to the Sahana rework project we learned about on 26 Feb 2009.

Dan Liss described the RocGeeks group that he's a member of, and we considered joining them and the LUGOR in one of their future meetings.

[Karlie Robinson]

I will not be at the meeting next week. It's my 10th wedding anniversary!

Frederick Grose wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion. We didn't realize that the RIT campus would
> be closed to parking (and some officers said buildings were closed
> too) due to the 2009 JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge race that
> attracted over 9000 runners or walkers for quite an event.
>
> A few of us managed to walk in or avoid the barriers and we had a good
> chat for a couple of hours. See our notes below.
>
> It's been proposed that we reschedule for next week, 04 June 2009, at
> the same time 7:00 pm and place (I will confirm its availability in a
> follow-up announcement from the Google Calendar next week). You can
> check the olpc-rochester-ny calendar
> here, http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=MONTH&src=8oiuv3dqsb1kf...@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

> <http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=MONTH&src=8oiuv3dqsb1kf...@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York>.

>
> If you can make the rescheduled meeting, we'll repeat from our last
> agenda and continue planning with Sugar Summer Program participants.
> See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program. We have 3 RIT
> Co-ops, Eric Mallon in New Hampshire and G. Tyler Bragdon in Boston,
> MA and Wesley Dillingham locally, with Jerry Green (local RIT student)
> assisting.
>
> Bill Schaub and I are hoping to associate with Jeff Sonstein's Sahana
> rework team as another Summer Program project.
>
> If you would like to join one of the projects or start another, please
> come and join the planning.
>
> Hope to see you. --Fred
>
> _____________________
> From the wiki
> page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY/Event_history/28May2009:
>

> *Race lockout or Rainout* - The RIT Campus parking was closed to all

> but VIP pass holders to provide safety for the over 9000 runners in
> the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge annual race, so most were
> unable to attend.
>
> Four members (Bill Schaub and Chuck Bryerton from Hornel and Dan Liss
> and Fred Grose) managed to get past the guards or walked in to
> Building 70. We had a good discussion covering the agenda items and
> news about the OLPC XO-1.5 and Sugar Labs plans.
>

> *Agenda:*
>
> 1. Reconnect with each other
> 2. Learn about the Sugar Summer Program
> <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Summer_Program>
> 3. Prepare for more educator recruiting
> 1. prepare contact list
> 2. save dates for future events
> 3. post and update opportunities available over the summer.
> 4. Learn about the NYSCATE conference in Rochester 22-24 November

> 2009, http://www.mail-archive.com/ia...@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04039.html
>
> Bill Schaub described the work he has been undertaking to provide a
> lightweight Network News Transport Protocol service to allow XOs or
> other Wi-Fi-enabled computers to discovery each other and share
> accumulated information as might be needed when "the world as we know
> it" is disrupted. He will be writing to Professor Jeff Sonstein about
> contributing to the Sahana rework project we learned about on 26 Feb
> 2009

> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY/Event_history/26February2009>.