Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-08-22
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 22.08.2011, at 17:50, Walter Bender wrote: == Sugar Digest == 1. The OLPC XO 1.75 machines (beta units) are starting to be distributed to developers. This machine is ARM based, which means that it will have superior battery life once all of the fine-tuning is complete. It also means that it uses some different components, e.g., audio circuitry, so there is some driver work to be done. But so far, so good. One of the nice things about the 1.75 is that the OLPC engineering team threw in a few additional sensors. Saadia Husain Baloch got the accelerometer working and I immediately wrote a Turtle Art plug-in (included with v114). Saadia wrote a fun 'etch-a-sketch' program in Turtle Art that works by shaking the machine. Not to be outdone, I added an enhancement to the Portfolio activity while I was on a short flight last week. If you hit the left side of the XO, it will advance to the next slide. If you hit the right side of the XO, it will return to the previous slide. The person sitting next to me on the plane told me, That's the strangest thing I have ever seen anyone do with a computer. The bottom line is the more sensors the better: we want to give young learners more opportunities to observe and interactive with the physical world. The accelerometer is fun to use indeed. I just made an Etoys project that lets you steer a ball by tilting the XO-1.75. Find a description and video at: http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html - Bert - Very awesome stuff indeed!! :-) Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Raspberry Pi - $25 computer coming soon....
On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Valerie Taylor wrote: Raspberry Pi - $25 computer coming soon http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=2 - specs If you leave out the battery and battery charger, display, USB hub, audio input and output, case, keyboard, etc., the XO-1.75 is cheaper than that. But then every teacher and kid has to gather and assemble the parts themselves... There have been any number of these computers built in the past. Anyone remember AMD's 50x15 brick ? Cheers, wad ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Raspberry Pi - $25 computer coming soon....
Yes, then every kid has to gather and assemble the parts themselves... That's their whole point! And they will sell any quantity to anyone. They will sell them one at a time or in small quantities. Their goal is to provide a platform for learning programming - cheap enough to encourage learning through hands-on trial and error by the owner / user. Getting back to the good old days of how does it work They are targeting a very different audience, and it is nice to see that they are able to generate excitement for products in this end of the educational market. Most kids today are only interested in what can it do. There are far too few kids who have the slightest interest in opening the hood and fooling around without worrying about breaking something. Anyone stepping up to that challenge should be commended. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Valerie Taylor wrote: Raspberry Pi - $25 computer coming soon http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=2 - specs If you leave out the battery and battery charger, display, USB hub, audio input and output, case, keyboard, etc., the XO-1.75 is cheaper than that. But then every teacher and kid has to gather and assemble the parts themselves... There have been any number of these computers built in the past. Anyone remember AMD's 50x15 brick ? Cheers, wad ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs@NDSU Team Update
Hello, everyone, Below you will find the Sugar Labs@NDSU team update for the SLOBs meeting on 16 Sept.: Sugar Teams Update Report for SLOBs meeting (09-16-2011) Name of team: Sugar Labs@NDSU Mission statement: The mission of Sugar Labs @ NDSU is to provide the tools and support necessary for the children of Fargo, ND to pursue their curiosities and learning using the Sugar OS. Our goal is to foster a culture of smarter computing through the creation of games and software toward a richer performance of computer literacy. Short Term Goals (three–six months): 1. Create the customized Sugar Labs@NDSU image, and produce and distribute two SoaS drives to each student at Madison Elementary. 2. Begin meeting with the MadisonTech Team with a more organized after-school Sugar (SoaS) plan. 3. Launch the OpenQwaq virtual meeting environment for the Sugar community to use. 4. Create a booth presentation at NDSU's Software Freedom Day celebration 5. Coordinate a Madison Turtle Art Day event in the Fall 2011 6. Receive XO laptops from OLPC and begin plans to implement English dept. production of documentation, as well as Computer Science involvement in the production of new applications 7. Begin to develop a connection with an OLPC school for either an in-school activity or the Spring event. Medium Term Goals (6 months–one year): 1. Continue Madison Tech Team meetings 2. Coordinate second Turtle Art Day event in Spring 2012 3. Recruit more support from both the NDSU and Fargo community through events and other communication channels. Long Term Goals(one year–three years): 1. Establish a stronger Sugar presence at Madison through the encouragement of the Tech Team 2. Continue to work toward the support of a global XO deployment. 3. Develop Sugar activities to contribute to the community. 4. Develop support documentation for both Sugar and OLPC communities. What does the SL@NDSU see as its constraints from being more successful in its Mission? No constraints to report currently that are applicable to the Sugar Labs community. Thank you, Chris Lindgren Graduate Instructor Department of English, Rm 217 North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105 Research Assistant Sugar Labs @ NDSU | fargoxo.wordpress.com From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] on behalf of Walter Bender [walter.ben...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 8:20 AM To: Wade Brainerd; Gary C Martin; Simon Schampijer; Pilar Saenz; Eben Eliason; Christian Marc Schmidt; David Farning; Bernie Innocenti; Sean DALY; Aleksey Lim; Chris Leonard; Rafael Ortiz; Frederick Grose Cc: iaep; sl...@sugarlabs.org; Sebastian Silva Subject: [IAEP] team updates At the last Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the need to update the status of the various teams and local labs. You are receiving this email because you are currently listed as a team coordinator on the wiki [2]. We would like each of you to make a short report on your team by email to the iaep list by 9 September and plan to attend the next scheduled SLOBs meeting, 16 September. Below [3] is an outline prepared by John Tierney that may serve to guide you in preparing your report. I am aware that some of you are no longer active in your roles. In those cases, could you please send me some names of possible replacements as team coordinators. Also, in some cases, the teams themselves are perhaps obsolete. This will be one of the discussion topics on the 16th. Note that Sebastian Silva will be contacting the local labs on behalf of the oversight board. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org [1]: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2011/Meeting_Minutes-2011-08-05 [2]: Team coordinators Activity Wade Brainerd Gary C Martin Bug Squad Simon Schampijer Deployment Pilar Saenz Walter Bender Design Eben Eliason Christian Marc Schmidt Development none Documentation David Farning Education Walter Bender Infrastructure Bernie Innocenti Marketing Sean Daly Oversight Board Walter Bender Platform Team Aleksey Lim Translation Chris Leonard Rafael Ortiz Wiki Frederick Grose [3]: Report outline (optional) Sugar Teams Update Report Name of team: Mission statement: Short Term Goals(three–six months): 1. 2. 3. Medium Term Goals(6 months–one year): 1. 2. 3. Long Term Goals(one year–three years): 1. 2. 3. What does the team see as its constraints from being more successful in its Mission? What are you doing to try to resolve the constraint? What can Sugar Labs 'central' or the community do to help? ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)
Hi... Tabitha was right! There is something funny happening with the date/time settings on the 10 XO-1s I am transferring to another project. Last night I reflashed all 10 of the machines to 11.2.0 (os874). This morning I met with the two teachers, who will be using the machines most, to orient them on the ins and outs of the XO and Sugar. We used 3 of the machines for the workshop. While working we found funny dates coming up so, following Tabitha's advice, I showed them how to go to Terminal and ask for the date. Two of us had dates in 1999. The other one was in 2028! These machines are XO-1s from a CP project that was stalled. They appear to be in new, or near-new, condition so I doubt they have a problem with the clock battery. (They boot just fine). So, how do we reset to the current time? In the Fix Clock section of the wiki there are instructions for resetting the date and time if you can Boot Into Linux. Since Sugar can boot just fine, can we just go into Terminal and put in the same command? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fix_Clock#If_the_screen_turns_on_and_you_can_boot_into_Linux Will the change persist through future boots and software updates? If the fix is something else... what is it? Thanks! Caryl Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:30:48 +1200 From: tabi...@tabitha.net.nz To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; test...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds) On 29 August 2011 16:16, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Later, when I looked at the Journal entries on some of the machines, I found they were incredibly old like 12 years! (Image3). There was one that said 18 years ago also, but I seem to have misplaced the image. Did you check what year the laptop thought it was? If prior to you making any changes the laptop time was set to very far in the past, and then while doing the updating the time got reset to the current time, or anytime 12 years later than when the journal entries were created, then you could get that time showing in the journal. To check the current time set on the laptop, open terminal and type date and press enter. Tabitha ___ Testing mailing list test...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
