You are invited to attend Nepal's first OLPC Game Jam Come develop learning activities for the One Laptop Per Child project
Date: Saturday, 15th of December Time: 10 AM - 4 pm Venue: Prime College, Khusibu Development Area, Nayabazar OLE Nepal, Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN), and Prime College will host a day long workshop to develop learning activities for Nepal's pilot of the One Laptop Per Child project. The primary instructors will be Surendra Sedhai and Luke Gorrie of OLE Nepal. Special Instructor Bert Freudenberg of OLPC http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/ will also assist. Bert is one of the core developers for the OLPC project. He will be coming to Nepal to speed up the development of learning activities for Nepal's OLPC pilot For programmers, artists, and educators of any age who are interested in developing learning activities for both OLPC and the LTSP projects. Each participant will have their own computer during the workshop. We only have spots for 30 people so please register early by sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This is event is not only for programmers but anyone interested in the development of learning activities. This workshop will train participants how to develop learning activities -- "Etoys" -- using Squeak, a SmallTalk-based open-source media-authoring system. Squeak is an easy-to-use, cross-platform system that programmers and non-programmers can use to quickly develop learning activities. At the end of the workshop, attendees should be able to develop their own fully-functioning EToys. If you have any suggestions or questions about the event pls see the event for the event http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Kathmandu_December_2007 . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
