as to Ed Cherlin on OLPC with respect to the Marvell presenter, I've seen no other responses. What say I try to get Ed for this coming May meeting and we'll get someone from Marvell a few months later? Time's getting tight, lemme know, please. This'll be my default action by Friday of this week. thanks, jim
On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Michael Paoli wrote:
Quoting Jesse Zbikowski embeddedlinuxguy@gmail.com:
On 4/27/07, jim stockford jim@well.com wrote:
Ed Cherlin is willing to talk on the One Laptop Per Child project. What say? Who's working on getting speakers? Anything committed at this point?
This sounds great. How soon can we confirm?
I will also email my contact at Marvell (Scott McCormack) who wants to send a presenter to talk about OLPC. Would it be better to have (a) both on the same night, (b) back-to-back months, or (c) space 'em out?
Other perspective probably vary, ... but I'd tend to think either have them present both the same night, or space them out by at least a few months or more - at *least* if the areas covered by the presentation are rather similar or overlap a lot.
My guestimate is if we have two consecutive meetings on topic/presentation that's "too similar", we'd probably get sub-optimal attendance for either or both meetings.
Anyway, just my perspective/guestimate. I can come up with some other plausable theories/perspectives, but I'm guesstimating what I already noted above is likely the more plausible and probable.