[IAEP] Useful resource about organizing future OLPC / Sugar hackathons
Hi all, I just stumbled across an article called Hosting Hackathons: The Organizer's Checklist ( http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons-the-organizers-checklist) and it contains some great information which could be very helpful for the organization of future OLPC / Sugar related events. Please also note the first article in that series which focuses on the team required for setting up such events: http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons-the-team Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such systems, please submit applications. -- Yoshiki ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Useful resource about organizing future OLPC / Sugar hackathons
Good stuff, but really the same-old, same old Plan Ahead! And, I might add one thing... find ways to make sure you reach those who might need a little extra encouragement to get them to attend... women and people of color. Check the photos of their otherwise well attended event to see what I mean. It is nice to have a framework to start with. Thanks Christoph! And, sorry for the small soap-box rant. Caryl Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:58:18 +0200 From: christoph.derndor...@gmail.com To: sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [IAEP] Useful resource about organizing future OLPC / Sugar hackathons Hi all, I just stumbled across an article called Hosting Hackathons: The Organizer's Checklist (http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons-the-organizers-checklist) and it contains some great information which could be very helpful for the organization of future OLPC / Sugar related events. Please also note the first article in that series which focuses on the team required for setting up such events: http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons-the-team Cheers,Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ 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
[IAEP] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri June 10, 2:45PM EDT)
Please join us now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations mentoring relationships--starting right here: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 7 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals. Plz join us advocating for reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC Training, Math and Secondary Students, Peace Corps Masters Intl - Calif State Univ Northridge 2. OLPC Tanzania Rural Cancer Prevention Initiative - Dallas, TX 3. GPS navigator for bicycle (with modified charger for bicycle) - Beijing, China 4. Marysville Rotary Literacy XO Repair Facility - Guatemala Marysville, WA 5. SWAG for Upcoming LUG Meeting - Los Angeles, CA 6. Turning Slumdogs into Millionaires/Vocational Skills Transfer - Kolkata, India 7. OLPC Paktika, with Paiwastoon - Afghanistan * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27 * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries 1. OLPC Training, Math and Secondary Students - Peace Corps Masters Intl, Calif State Univ Northridge http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81518 http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth014/peacecorps/PCMI_10_2010.html SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net http://j.mp/6UhCtd Requests 10 XOs over 36 months Project Objectives: California State University, Northridge (CSUN) requests 10 OLPC computers for instruction of Math and Secondary Education CSUN Peace Corps Master's International students. CSUN students will learn to use existing educational software and develop new projects appropriate for middle and high school level students. We will also teach CSUN students use to some tools developed by CSUN faculty for Mathematics. 2. OLPC Tanzania Rural Cancer Prevention Initiative - Dallas, TX http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81646 SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net http://j.mp/6UhCtd Requests 4 XOs and 12 months Project Objectives: The Healthnovations International-UT Dallas Chapter aims to utilize the OLPC laptops in order to establish a thorough curriculum to promote cancer awareness to the Tanzanian community. The goal of the project is to empower pediatric cancer victims in the region to access information about the causes and consequences of the disease and to assist their communities in combating pediatric cancer with access to primary healthcare, education, counseling, emotional support, and medical care. 3. GPS navigator for bicycle (with modified charger for bicycle) - Beijing, China http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81836 SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net http://j.mp/6UhCtd Requests 1 XOs over 9 months Project Objectives: 1. Since I will be a volunteer to teach some students in Qinghai Province(a very poor province of china) late July, if I can get one before July, I can take it to these children to find out how favor do them like this , and what do they want and so on. 2. Help with some translate projects although my english is also very poor... 3. Since the olpc 1.75 works only 2W, so we can use the hand-shake charger to charge it for all the use. But it will do us a favor if we can charge the battery while riding bicycles! 4. With a usb gps receiver connected to our olpc laptop , and bind it to the bicycle , we can use it as a good navigator. We can develop a program using google map api, providing some history and culture information arround where you are, and you can also select anywhere to learn something about the place you select. I think I can develop it using Qt. 4. Marysville Rotary Literacy XO Repair Facility - Guatemala Marysville, WA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82243 http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?cid=275 SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net http://j.mp/6UhCtd Requests 10-15 brickes XOs over undetermined months Project Objectives: This is a project that is being lead and developed by High School students with supervision from adult school staff and with the support of outside community computer professionals. Students will learn technology troubleshooting skills, which will be used during the project. Skills include but are not limited to: using a multi-meter, oscilloscope, audio equipment and soldering equipment. Also students will create a working business model on the proper manner of receiving, processing, repairing, packaging and shipping of the XO systems. 5. SWAG for Upcoming LUG Meeting - Los Angeles, CA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82585 SPECIFIC
Re: [IAEP] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such systems, please submit applications. -- Yoshiki Sorry, I forgot to include the link: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011/submitting/posters-demos/ -- Yoshiki ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing
Turtle Art would be great for this, especially my version with icons instead of words on the blocks. Unfortunately, I am not in a position to do a presentation. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:27, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote: At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such systems, please submit applications. -- Yoshiki Sorry, I forgot to include the link: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011/submitting/posters-demos/ -- Yoshiki ___ squeakland mailing list squeakl...@squeakland.org http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Etoys Video's for Khan Academy
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:47, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I have a page at Sugar Labs called The Undiscoverable, which mentions Etoys but does not give many details. I would like help filling it in. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable/Etoys A couple Holders act as collections Variable types Would you add those to the page with your comments on why they are Undiscoverable and what hints would help? I looked at http://projecteuler.net/ and thought it is a step in the right direction, One can use Etoys to achieve solve these problem, Without a goal it's easy to loose focus and see tutorials as they come without context. With a goal in mind a tutorial can help you achieve that goal Karll -- 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://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Don Hopkins worked on a PostScript-based window system (HyperLook) that would let you flip over an object on the screen to see behind it a control panel with the guts of its implementation visible. You could modify those, then flip it back and it would resume running. See: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html and http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/hyperlook-demo.html . Self: The Movie is also worth watching. The self guys thought that continuous execution of the code was important for liveness, along with some other views (like direct correspondence between objects and representation) which I don't think I actually agree with. But still, worth thinking about: http://www.smalltalk.org.br/movies/ --scott -- ( http://cscott.net ) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
