+1 to focus, however, I think the focus should be on ironing out the Sugar-on-a-Stick details rather than focusing on an activity. If we can demonstrate a simple clear model of getting Sugar running in a classroom setting, that'd be very powerful. But maybe we need to write two proposals, because Jameson's is quite compelling too.
-walter On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The list of projects there are more focused than just sugar in general; more > appropriate for the $10,000 price level. If "we" want to compete, we should > agree on a focused feature that we could promise for that kind of money. I'd > nominate something about collaboration - getting collaboration really > working well for just Write would be great. Really working well means the > whole workflow from a teacher's perspective: giving an assignment to several > groups; having the groups collaboratively create documents, including both > synchronous and asynchronous sessions; getting the first draft; adding > teacher comments and handing it back; getting a second draft; etc. This > should all work in various networking scenarios. Bonus points if making > sugar/nonsugar collaboration work is easy. Other bonus points if it > strengthens bemasc's "without even trying" auto-collaborating python data > structures. > > Clearly, to make the idea more attractive and likely to win, we'd have to > emphasize that Sugar can work on non-OLPC platforms. Improving Sugar's > portability could be left out, included as part of the same proposal, or be > its own separate proposal. I'd vote to include some of that work as part of > the same proposal. > > Jameson > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I take back the taking back. They _do_ accept new ideas, but not on >> the usaid.gov site or the globaldevelopmentcommons.net site. You have >> to go to >> >> http://www.netsquared.org/usaid. > > ... >> >> Once the project submission process has closed, we will hold a >> community vote to select the top fifteen projects. Those projects will >> then go in front of a panel of USAID-selected judges who will >> determine the three winners. >> >> OK, here goes nothing. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep