[IAEP] Happy Birthday twitter!

2011-03-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho 

Hi All,

In honor of twitter's 5th birthday today, I would like to share this link to a 
neat blog by a relative of mine about all things twitter, including some great 
ways to use it with students.

http://bit.ly/hUmLEh

Enjoy!
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] eduJAM! 2011: A Vibrant Summit With A Diverse Range Of Offerings

2011-03-21 Thread David Farning 
> -Original Message-
> From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel-
> boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Organización eduJAM! 2011
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 2:05 PM
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> Subject: [Sugar-devel] eduJAM! 2011: A Vibrant Summit With A Diverse Range Of
> Offerings
> 
> We are very excited to update you with the latest information about
> the�eduJAM! 2011  �summit. It is
> great to see that the different pieces of the puzzle are coming together for 
> what
> will undoubtedly be a landmark for the international community of educational
> free-software developers. Many of the main developers behind the Sugar
> platform will be present (Walter Bender, Aleksey Lim (alsroot), and Bernie
> Innocenti among�others  ). Additionally,
> people working on different OLPC deployments will be there which guarantees
> an excellent environment for moving the area of 1-to-1 computing in education
> projects and related discussions forward.
> 
> More than anything we aim to make the summit an event to create and amplify
> relationships in this community.
> 
> Place
> 
> The summit will take place at the Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (UTU) 
> and
> more specifically in its brand-new�PAOF building
>  �which is located in Ciudad Viaja, the 
> historic
> and commercial heart of Montevideo. Apart from this allowing us to work within
> a comfortable and versatile space, it also provides opportunities to enjoy 
> this
> beautiful part of the city during free hours.
> 
> Program
> 
> The summit will begin in the afternoon of�Thursday, May 5 with an informal
> reception aimed at allowing us to get to know each other as well as catch up.
> 
> On�Friday, May 6 the intensive work begins. This day will be organized in two
> tracks. In the morning we will focus on a broad vision of the core challenges
> encountered when designing a software platform aimed at learning in school
> environments in general and in 1-to-1 scenarios in particular. We can revise 
> and
> revisit these experiences in light of the experiences made within this 
> context in
> the past few years. What has and hasn�t worked when it comes to the
> software? How can we support the creation of effective learning communities?
> How can we make the development processes in such a diverse and distributed
> community more efficient? Which applications are we still missing? These are
> some of the questions which will be on the table.
> 
> In the afternoon the summit will turn sweet as we fully dedicate it to Sugar. 
> On
> the one hand we will hold a �Sugar Camp� where will discuss the current state
> of developments, local labs, the roadmap and how to optimize the work in the
> community.
> 
> Simultaneously on Friday afternoon there will be workshops aimed at people
> such as students and newcomers who want to learn how to develop for Sugar.
> 
> On�Saturday, May 7 the morning will be focused on the various experiences
> made in 1-to-1 projects. There will be talks by people working on different
> deployments, explaining what they have done and discussing the necessities and
> requirements when it comes to software platform. We consider this to be an
> important input for planning future work.

I would like to make a personal invitation to deployment developers and 
technical support staff to participate in the events Saturday, Sunday and (if 
possible) into the next week. On Saturday, Activity Central will create a 
'Critical Tasks' list. As we identify critical tasks which are shared across 
multiply deployments, we will add them to the Dextrose TODO list for our 
upcoming release and inclusion in the next OLPC OS release.

> This afternoon will be run in an �unconference� mode. This means that there
> will be different talks, workshops, and discussion rounds which will be 
> planned
> and decided upon by the participants on the spot. We thereby hope to learn
> more about the various ongoing projects, discuss roadmaps as well as form
> small development and investigation groups.

Starting Saturday afternoon Activity Central developers will run a 'Critical 
Tasks' workshop to help deployments identify and work on their important bugs 
and feature requests. Through the follow week AC developers will be available 
to:
1. Help you solve those critical tasks.
2. Help you push those solutions upstream to OLPC and Sugar Labs.
3. Help you identify and coordinate with other deployments and organizations 
that are facing similar issues.

Look forward to see you at eduJAM.
david

 
> Conozco Uruguay Tour
> 
> Independent of the summit, a variety of activities will take place in the days
> leading up to it. These activities are aimed at people who want to explore the
> experiences Uruguay is making with Plan Ceibal in more depth. They will take
> place between Saturday, April 30 a

[IAEP] eduJAM! 2011: A Vibrant Summit With A Diverse Range Of Offerings

2011-03-21 Thread Organización eduJAM! 2011 
We are very excited to update you with the latest information about the eduJAM!
2011  summit. It is great to see that
the different pieces of the puzzle are coming together for what will
undoubtedly be a landmark for the international community of educational
free-software developers. Many of the main developers behind the Sugar
platform will be present (Walter Bender, Aleksey Lim (alsroot), and Bernie
Innocenti among others ). Additionally,
people working on different OLPC deployments will be there which guarantees
an excellent environment for moving the area of 1-to-1 computing in
education projects and related discussions forward.

More than anything we aim to make the summit an event to create and amplify
relationships in this community.

*Place*

The summit will take place at the Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (UTU)
and more specifically in its brand-new PAOF
building which
is located in Ciudad Viaja, the historic and commercial heart of Montevideo.
Apart from this allowing us to work within a comfortable and versatile
space, it also provides opportunities to enjoy this beautiful part of the
city during free hours.

*Program*

The summit will begin in the afternoon of *Thursday*, May 5 with an informal
reception aimed at allowing us to get to know each other as well as catch
up.

On *Friday*, May 6 the intensive work begins. This day will be organized in
two tracks. In the morning we will focus on a broad vision of the core
challenges encountered when designing a software platform aimed at learning
in school environments in general and in 1-to-1 scenarios in particular. We
can revise and revisit these experiences in light of the experiences made
within this context in the past few years. What has and hasn’t worked when
it comes to the software? How can we support the creation of effective
learning communities? How can we make the development processes in such a
diverse and distributed community more efficient? Which applications are we
still missing? These are some of the questions which will be on the table.

In the afternoon the summit will turn sweet as we fully dedicate it to
Sugar. On the one hand we will hold a “Sugar Camp” where will discuss the
current state of developments, local labs, the roadmap and how to optimize
the work in the community.

Simultaneously on Friday afternoon there will be workshops aimed at people
such as students and newcomers who want to learn how to develop for Sugar.

On *Saturday*, May 7 the morning will be focused on the various experiences
made in 1-to-1 projects. There will be talks by people working on different
deployments, explaining what they have done and discussing the necessities
and requirements when it comes to software platform. We consider this to be
an important input for planning future work.

This afternoon will be run in an “unconference” mode. This means that there
will be different talks, workshops, and discussion rounds which will be
planned and decided upon by the participants on the spot. We thereby hope to
learn more about the various ongoing projects, discuss roadmaps as well as
form small development and investigation groups.

*Conozco Uruguay Tour*

Independent of the summit, a variety of activities will take place in the
days leading up to it. These activities are aimed at people who want to
explore the experiences Uruguay is making with Plan Ceibal in more depth.
They will take place between Saturday, April 30 and Thursday, May 5.
Together with RAP Ceibal and OLPC we have developed the following itinerary:

   -

   Saturday, 30: Welcome dinner
   -

   Sunday, 1: Visit to Tala, Canelones, its rural school and Proyecto
   Aurora. Asado included;-)
   -

   Monday, 2 (morning): Visit to and activities at Escuela 173 in Las
   Piedras, Canelones
   -

   Monday, 2 (afternoon): Meeting with members of Flor de Ceibo, a project
   by the Universidad de la República which supports Plan Ceibal
   -

   Tuesday, 3: Visit to and activities at Esciela 33 in La Paloma, Durazno
   -

   Wednesday, 4 (morning): Montevideo city tour
   -

   Wednesday, 4 (afternoon): Visit of Euskal Erría school and the RAP
   Montevideo Center as well as meeting with RAP Ceibal volunteers

This agenda is still subject of possible changes but the start (Saturday,
April 30) and end dates (Thursday, May 5) have been confirmed. We are also
working on possible changes to include a touristic activity such as the
visit of a Uruguayan winery.

More information is available at:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Conozco_Uruguay_Tour

*Sugar Code Sprint*

There are also plans for an activity aimed at Sugar developers to take place
after the meeting. The days between Sunday, May 8 and Wednesday, May 11 will
be focused on intensive Sugar programming sessions in collaboration with
developers from Sugar Labs, OLPC and hopefully also other deployments.

*A vibrant summit to unite an

[IAEP] [Sur] Tour of Uruguay / Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay

2011-03-21 Thread Carlos Rabassa 
Respondo a la reciente solicitud de ideas para proyectos relacionados con la 
próxima Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay:

S044 - Corriendo en Bicicleta
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1OHWGAmSjGhyzGiycUCgxH57IP3PhxTM5YyYBYtAl8rk

May I answer the recent request for ideas for projects related to the 
forthcoming Tour of Uruguay.

E044 - Bicycle: Riding fast
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=16hsf2pumJxZmbd6YyZjVhRgnVU5UDKGdFZDPKWiwV8I


Carlos Rabassa
Voluntario
Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal
Montevideo, Uruguay





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Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-21 Thread Juan Rafael Fernández García 
2011/3/21 Christoph Derndorfer :

> Especially given how much Linux is used around
> schools in the country and that Latin America is the hotbed for all
> things OLPC and 1-to-1 computing at the moment I'm simply surprised that
> there's no established olpc/Sugar community here already.

I'm also surprised that I've seen a bigger OLPC/Sugar community in
France than in Spain. I have an explanation, though: PCs with some GNU
Linux educational distro are deployed all around Spain, taken care of
by the regional authorities, which makes the situation different from
the French one (individual or local initiatives) or the Central/South
American one (OLPC or similar hardware).

Consider the case in Andalusia. All the computers, the thousands of
them, are administered and updated remotely - so the operating system
has to be the same all around, the network configuration and services,
etc. From the Spanish point of view, Sugar running on GNU LInux, as an
environment like Squeak, would be more interesting than as an
alternative independent approach.

IMHO.
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Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-21 Thread Christoph Derndorfer 
Gustavo, David,

thanks for the information, background and links, keep 'em coming.

Given the constraints of my situation (mainly time) the main (only)
thing I'd like to do is try and establish some sort of olpc/Sugar
presence while I'm here. Especially given how much Linux is used around
schools in the country and that Latin America is the hotbed for all
things OLPC and 1-to-1 computing at the moment I'm simply surprised that
there's no established olpc/Sugar community here already.

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 21.03.2011 15:03, schrieb David Van Assche:
> Bah... ok...perhaps that was a bit of harsh statement. meh would
> be better... However, I have met many south Americans down here who
> want to get involved and us the sugar environment in their future
> endevours once they return home. I worked for Guadalinex.-edu, the
> largest single Linux deployment in the world conclusion: Great
> softwware, not tailored enough for them (5 million computer, 500
> laptops per year, Ubuntu latest, but via something complex like rsync
> or anything like that... that just made a great job at adding
> important parts if they were educational, and spoke about them the
> folllowing year to see if others might want to include it. The biggest
> advantage here is that because Spain now had over 10 years fo
> successfully using Linux in all areas of life, its just  a mtter of
> showing any new things to make teahcers lives easier and really
> kissing their asses so they cna push the rest if spain. Its clear
> though, Linux is here to stay in Andalucia now hwat to u primtive
> northern  folks say to that.
>
> kind regrads,
> David Van Assche
>
> [Please Please read above]
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Gustavo Ibarra  wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Edward Cherlin  wrote:
>>> Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in
>>> Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar
>>> on their laptops.
>>>
>>> http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
>> more related links:
>> http://tinyurl.com/5w7ocee
>> http://squeak.educarex.es/Squeakpolis
>> squeakpo...@juntaextremadura.net
>>
>> Diego an José L worked in the "squeak inextremadura" project and as
>> far as iknow they live in spain
>>
>> Diego Gomez Deck
>> José L. Redrejo Rodríguez 
>>
>>
>>> Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list?
>>>
>>> There seems to have been a very modest OLPC España effort, but its
>>> Wiki page has vanished away. Perhaps you can help restart it.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:56, Christoph Derndorfer
>>>  wrote:
 Hi all,

 as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago
>>> How's your Spanish?
>>>
 and will
 be here at least until the end of May but possibly also until late summer.

 Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on
 olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?

 I've looked around quite a bit but unfortunately didn't find anything
 related to olpc/Sugar/ICT4E so far, plus similarly minded communities
 (e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also seem to be quite rare around here.
> Well the first step has been to try and get `people together here
> which is damn hard... Iv'e ad 4-5 people involed here and we are
> quickly moving towards creating a more ideas towards creating some
> sort of charter fo what is an ettiquette of sorts, but nothing too
> restrictive, more things like, if u'd like to something, then just set
> a non conflicting date and do it
>
> David
>
 Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers, suggestions or contacts in this area.

 Thanks,
 Christoph

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>>>
>>>
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>>
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Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-21 Thread Christoph Derndorfer 
Am 20.03.2011 20:13, schrieb Edward Cherlin:
> Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in
> Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar
> on their laptops.
> 
> http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
> 
> Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list?

Not yet, that's an excellent suggestion! :-)

> There seems to have been a very modest OLPC España effort, but its
> Wiki page has vanished away. Perhaps you can help restart it.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:56, Christoph Derndorfer
>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago
> 
> How's your Spanish?

I'm half-decently fluent I'd say (you can hear a short sample at the
beginning of this interview:
http://portal.educ.ar/noticias/entrevistas/especialistas-modelos-11-talle-1.php).

Thanks,
Christoph

>> and will
>> be here at least until the end of May but possibly also until late summer.
>>
>> Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on
>> olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?
>>
>> I've looked around quite a bit but unfortunately didn't find anything
>> related to olpc/Sugar/ICT4E so far, plus similarly minded communities
>> (e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also seem to be quite rare around here.
>>
>> Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers, suggestions or contacts in this area.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
>>
>> --
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>> co-editor, www.olpcnews.com
>> e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com
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> 
> 
> 

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Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-21 Thread David Van Assche 
Bah... ok...perhaps that was a bit of harsh statement. meh would
be better... However, I have met many south Americans down here who
want to get involved and us the sugar environment in their future
endevours once they return home. I worked for Guadalinex.-edu, the
largest single Linux deployment in the world conclusion: Great
softwware, not tailored enough for them (5 million computer, 500
laptops per year, Ubuntu latest, but via something complex like rsync
or anything like that... that just made a great job at adding
important parts if they were educational, and spoke about them the
folllowing year to see if others might want to include it. The biggest
advantage here is that because Spain now had over 10 years fo
successfully using Linux in all areas of life, its just  a mtter of
showing any new things to make teahcers lives easier and really
kissing their asses so they cna push the rest if spain. Its clear
though, Linux is here to stay in Andalucia now hwat to u primtive
northern  folks say to that.

kind regrads,
David Van Assche

[Please Please read above]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Gustavo Ibarra  wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Edward Cherlin  wrote:
>> Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in
>> Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar
>> on their laptops.
>>
>> http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
>
> more related links:
> http://tinyurl.com/5w7ocee
> http://squeak.educarex.es/Squeakpolis
> squeakpo...@juntaextremadura.net
>
> Diego an José L worked in the "squeak inextremadura" project and as
> far as iknow they live in spain
>
> Diego Gomez Deck        
> José L. Redrejo Rodríguez 
>
>
>> Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list?
>>
>> There seems to have been a very modest OLPC España effort, but its
>> Wiki page has vanished away. Perhaps you can help restart it.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:56, Christoph Derndorfer
>>  wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago
>>
>> How's your Spanish?
>>
>>> and will
>>> be here at least until the end of May but possibly also until late summer.
>>>
>>> Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on
>>> olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?
>>>
>>> I've looked around quite a bit but unfortunately didn't find anything
>>> related to olpc/Sugar/ICT4E so far, plus similarly minded communities
>>> (e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also seem to be quite rare around here.

Well the first step has been to try and get `people together here
which is damn hard... Iv'e ad 4-5 people involed here and we are
quickly moving towards creating a more ideas towards creating some
sort of charter fo what is an ettiquette of sorts, but nothing too
restrictive, more things like, if u'd like to something, then just set
a non conflicting date and do it

David

>>> Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers, suggestions or contacts in this area.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>> co-editor, www.olpcnews.com
>>> e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com
>>> ___
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>>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
>> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
>> http://www.earthtreasury.org/
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>
>
>
> --
> Saludos,
> Gustavo.-
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