On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tomeu, > > Great! > > I can handle the translation between the spanish teachers and the french > developers if the need arises. > > Podré apoyar las comunicaciones entre los profesores de Uruguay, Panama y Peru > por una parte, y los desarroladores en Paris, por si alguien necesita.
Wow, this is getting interesting ;) Thanks, Tomeu > Bests, saludos > > > Samy > > > Quoting Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi Lionel and all OLPC France, >> >> excuse me if this comes too late or isn't to the point, but would like >> to propose to hack on a mind mapping activity during the CodeCamp in >> Paris. >> >> I think this project has the appeal of being in direct connection to >> the needs in the field. Teachers from Uruguay, Peru and Panama have >> asked for such a tool, and have been exploring alternatives that may >> not be the best: drawing in Paint, using the connectors in Etoys, >> executing a java app (CMaps) inside the X Activity or using web apps. >> >> Happens that a pygtk application for mind mapping already exists and >> its architecture makes for an easy port to sugar. It's called >> Labyrinth [0] and was proposed more than one year ago by Jim Gettys >> [1] though no resources were allocated. Recently, teachers in the >> olpc-sur mailing lists asked again for it [2] and I gave a quick (2 >> hours) try to sugarize it with some success [3]. >> >> In [3] you can find links to the activity bundle, a screenshot and a >> patch to the code in the svn repository. >> >> [0] http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html >> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4577 >> [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001168.html >> [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html >> >> My proposal is for the CodeCamp participants to divide in pairs and >> each pair to choose one feature to add or bug to fix. At the end of >> the session, everybody would integrate all the changes and produce a >> single bundle. >> >> Most of the functionality is already in the original pygtk app, it's >> "just" a matter of exposing that functionality through the Sugar UI. >> >> I will try to be in #sugar at FreeNode during the CodeCamp to answer >> questions. >> >> After the CodeCamp, we could send the bundle to teachers in olpc-sur >> and ask them to try it and give feedback. Also, at some point whoever >> is interested in following up could contact the authors of Labyrinth >> and see the best way to upstream the changes. >> >> What do you say, looks like a challenge? >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >> 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > >> > >> > OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC CodeCamp in Paris on November >> > 15th. >> > >> > >> > >> > Five workshops are planned: >> > >> > >> > >> > · Sugar: development and experimentation on Sugar/python, >> > >> > · School Server: setting up and test of school server on multiple >> > platform (standard PC, Booba server, CherryPal, …), >> > >> > · Mono: development of new activities using Mono, >> > >> > · Pedagogic usage: Feedbacks from Haïti, Ethiopia and Palestine >> > deployment. Brainstorming with French teachers to find usage and class >> > activity for the XO. >> > >> > · French localization: French translators will work all the days to >> > translate in French, sugar, activities and FLOSS manual. >> > >> > >> > >> > If you're interested to meet the French OLPC community and to have a nice >> > trip to Paris: you're welcome ! >> > >> > >> > >> > More information on: >> > >> http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=OLPC_France_CodeCamp_15_november >> > >> > >> > >> > Best regards from France. >> > >> > >> > >> > Lionel Laské >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Devel mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep