Re: [IAEP] Write: The file 'abc.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file...
Hi Yamalos, Actually Write saves as ODT by default. What you see is a bug in your Ubuntu distro. I think it's fixed now. Try updating your Ubuntu distribution. Cheers Martin On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Yamaplos . wrote: > I came upon this error trasferring a file from a kid's XO here in > Bolivia to my Ubuntu. I am not sure what system he had, since before > I got to open the file in my machine I updated his to os874. I will > try again tomorrow, hoping this old, old issue is no longer... > > My understanding is that the Write files were RTF misnamed as ODT. > However, I renamed this one to RTF and it didn't open at all. As ODT, > it does eventually open in LibreOffice (which says it "repairs" it, > whatever that means) > > hmmm... Can we have some kind of a standard? I imagine a file made in > Ubuntu will not work in the XO, which is no good, and viceversa. > "corrupt" is not a comforting word for any teacher. I wonder how much > worse this works within windoze, which is what teachers are given in > many places in their, ahem, mentally "corrupt" administrators realm. > > If we can't do good ODT, can we at least do decent RTF? or at least > the much easier and much more universal HTM? THAT would be rather > clever! Kids would produce web pages by default. > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] The OLPC Australia programme in action
Awesome! Great video! I'm very happy to have played a small part in the program :-) I'll cross post it to abiword-dev and blog about it. Cheers Martin On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Here's a video we produced to mark OLPC Australia's second anniversary: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-VNhgZLDw > > Feel free to distribute far and wide :) > > > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > Technical Manager > One Laptop per Child Australia > M: +61 425 239 701 > E: srid...@laptop.org.au > A: G.P.O. Box 731 > Sydney, NSW 2001 > W: www.laptop.org.au > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] Commenst for an Oceania project
Dear Ian, Thank you for very interesting two posts. On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we can explain how to make a Marovo translation of AbiWord and Write. Best Regards, Martin Sevior On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ian Thomson wrote: > Hi All, > > In the Pacific Ocean, we have a list serve for educationalists. There have > been some posts about the article from Australia about their Governments > “struggles” with introducing laptops into secondary schools. > > These posts have prompted the Principle of Patuake College (in the outer > islands of Solomon Islands) to make the following two posts about the OLPC > project we have there. > > You may have seen the evaluation by the Australian Council of Education > Research that was conducted some time ago on this project. Here are some > recent views about what is happening. > > PS. NOPERS are people who subscribe to the list serve, called NOPE > > I am Brian Bird (Principal of Patukae College - Marovo Lagoon, Solomon > islands). Patukae College is one of the schools piloting the OLPC project in > the Solomons. I welcomed the article published yesterday. It helps to point > out the challenges we all face in introducing laptops into classroom, to > some extent not fully utilised and realised for their desired or intended > purpose. I have also appreciated views and comments surfaced from other > fellow nopers. I would like to think of the article as a beacon that shows > pathway for the schools, teachers, students, parents but more so for each > island country governments to see beyond just equipping schools with laptops > as some nopers have said they are just tools needing humans to make them > work. > > It is always a positive initiative to have ICT introduced in schools but it > seriously requires innovation on the part of island states governments who > are responsible of generating and regulating policies, to institute a > mechanism that would allow the use of ICT in classroom compatible with the > national curriculums. Unless this is realised ICT in classroom would remain > a challenge for teachers. > > For my country Solomon Islands, it needs to collaborate how ICT should be > used to help implement the national curriculum. Only then would teachers > deploy the intended use of this vital and useful technology. > > > > Brian Bird > > Let me add something raw and home based to my previous article to nopers > yesterday. Patukae CHS is one of the OLPC projects project in the Solomon. > While it is true that technology does not in itself responsible for driving > change, it is a tool that can be used to drive change in learning and in > commitment to learn. In Patukae College for instance which is one of the > pilots in the OLPC project we accepted OLPCs as tools and we invested > efforts to make them work. We ran training programme for teachers, and > students, and we provided back-up support to both teachers and students and > the results have been quite exciting. Student literacy rates have gone up. > The overall academic performance of students with laptops had increased and > we have seen increase in school pass rates since the introduction of > laptops. The attitudes of students with laptops have changed; they are more > active in their learning objectives. Parents have also becoming more engaged > in their children’s learning and some of them have even improved their own > English literacy through the use of the reading and pronunciation tools in > the OLPC. > > We at Patukae College have definitely found the OLPC very useful. They have > pushed the boundaries of Education, they have given teachers more option and > ideas, and it has enabled students to learn in a different way. To make it > work we took its vision, drive and commitment, and a belief that used > properly, this tool can make the difference our rural schools are looking > for. > > It is very easy to knock technology on the head, very easy to question its > legitimacy, its usefulness, but let us not forget that we who can > communicate are the lucky ones, we have the opportunity to have computers, > they have helped us. For the first time similar opportunities are given to > children in the rural areas at Patukae and they are now realising the same > opportunities that some of us have been taking for granted. > > In elevating this ICT innovation to another height, Patukae CHS in > collaboration with most of the leading Primary Schools in Marovo Lagoon > started a project last year through UNESCO which has launched a Marovo Wiki > educator program that can globally accessed. > > http:
Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!
The current collection of sugar apps use pyGtk for interfaces. In the
case of Write, this is a C++ library linked with Gtk-2 with the UI
written with pyGtk.
It seems to me that the minimum requirement for this idea to have the
remotest chance of reusing all the work that has gone into sugar so
far is for Gtk to have android graphics backend. Gtk-3.0 can
apparently now draw to HTML 5.
So maybe it it is possible to build such a thing for android? An
android backend to Gtk-3.0 would be extremely valuable to the Free
Software community. So much so that I wonder if there has been an
attempt to do this.
Does any one know?
Cheers
Martin
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:31 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> Stepping back for a moment, the key question is: how can we get Sugar
>> out of the window manager and network manager and activity update and
>> UI toolkit business, where it's just not keeping up (and wasting our
>> efforts), and concentrate on the stuff we're all really here for:
>> enabling kids to learn and explore and share? How much can we strip
>> away and still have Sugar?
>
> If you want to abstract away, get far away from the computer and the
> OS and target HTML5. You'll have some significant limitations, but
> that's the tradeoff.
>
> The thing is... if you want to be "closer to the metal", you're gonna
> grind against it; and IMHO the best path looks a lot like what we have
> in Fedora+Sugar. We pay a big price for it, but it takes us to the
> highlands in Peru and many deep deep jungles, without and XS and
> without internet.
>
> Forget about kids in those places ("they'll get broadband-quality
> internet... eventually") and yeah, we can do it all with JS and your
> favourite language on the server side.
>
> I look back at when OLPC started, and some things have changed in the
> world _we_ live in. But the kids we want to help with... their world
> hasn't changed much. They still haven't got internet for starters.
> Some things might be a tad closer -- lower costs per laptop, tablets
> are possible -- but connectivity isn't any easier or any cheaper.
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
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[IAEP] Congratulations to OLPC Australia!
I came across this article in the mainstream Australian National Newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/joy-as-computer-power-comes-to-yirrkala/story-e6frg6nf-1225848236378 A massive congratulations to OLPC Australia for this. Those are 3 very powerful heavy hitters you have in your corner! (And normally companies Australians are very cynical of.) Congratulations! Martin ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] apt-get upgrade broke TOAST
Hi Kevin, Ubuntu has decided to demote AbiWord, a core component of sugar, to Universe. As a Ubuntu user you might like to comment on this at bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503578 --- Public bug reported: Binary package hint: abiword Hi, Abiword is currently waiting for some universe b-deps, thus holding the build. There seems to be no good reason for abiword to stay in main. The Desktop team folks don't care for it: I don't care enough abiword to write a mir for it [...] charlie-tca, either move abiword to universe or find somebody interested to get the build-depends sorted Nobody is currently maintaining it in Ubuntu, but it's maintained in Debian, and there is no reason to introduce a delta because it's in main. If Xubuntu is the only derivative to use it, please demote it in universe so we can sync it from Debian (and it'll build correctly). If it's still in main because another random derivative needs it, someone from this derivative development team should decide to maintain it. It's stuck like this (poorly maintained) since xubuntu was demoted to universe (hardy): the desktop team folks (seb128) keep saying "I don't care", we (Xubuntu devs) keep asking to demote it to universe, but it's not done because of an obscure reason (edubuntu?), yet no edubuntu developer stepped up to maintain it (if it's in main, it means that abiword is supported by Canonical, isn't it? This was the reason invoked to demote Xubuntu to universe, so please do the same for abiword). Thanks! ** Affects: abiword (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Demote to universe? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503578 2010/1/7 Kevin Cole : > Hi, > I filed a report on Trisquel's web site: > http://trisquel.info/en/issues/apt-get-upgrade-breaks-sugar-toast > > and the latest suggestion was that the trouble was something that Sugar Labs > people would need to look at. I have no idea if the poster is correct about > that. Rather than repeat the thread here, for those of you who understand > such things, have a look at the bug report link above. > -- > Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo > Washington, DC > http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ > > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] Sugar in Chile
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Werner Westermann > wrote: >> >> Greetings to all. >> >> Patricio Acevedo left the audience shocked after presenting Sugar in the >> 2nd Innovation Workshop: The Creative Teacher, held in the Metropolitan >> Educational University, in Santiago, Chile. The workshop strives to present >> and share educational resources to support learning experiences builted by >> teachers, so Patricio deployed Sugar's creative potential for teachers and >> students. Many questions were asked at the end of the presentation >> (http://prezi.com/139914/), by an excited audience of pedagogical carrers >> students and professors. More details (in spanish): > > This presentation looks really stunning! :) It would be cool to translate > it into english. > I agree! I've never seen a presentation like that. What tool was used to make it? Cheers Martin ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-07-28
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > ===Sugar Digest=== > > Here is where the trouble began. First of all, the version of Turtle > Art I used to build the game is newer than the version they had > installed on their machines. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but > I had used a block that they didn't have, so the sharing halted part > way through. The good news is that Sebastian Dziallias pushed a change > for Sugar on a Stick to contain all activities packaged as XO files, > meaning that all activities can update. (Presently, it is non-trivial > to update activities that had been distributed as RPM.) The bad news > is, Turtle Art, being part of Fructose, had been distributed as RPM on > the Gardner School sticks. So I will have to update them by hand. > > But had sharing worked, I still would have run into some problems, > since once, shared, always shared. I discussed the problem with Ben > Schwartz in IRC: > Hi Walter, Here is what we decided to do for AbiWord collaboration to our web service (http://abicollab.net) when faced with this problem. If a user does a "save as" the document is saved locally (rather than remotely) with a different name. If the user also drops out of the collaboration all the changes she makes will made to the local file. At this point the document is forked and as things currently stand cannot be automatically merged back into the original. Of course it can be manually merged via cut/paste etc. I'm not sure this is sufficient for what you need but I think it is sufficient for documents at least. Cheers Martin ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write
HI Gary, I'll put together a screen cast of the AbiWord linux build showing all the features Real Soon Now. If you have access to a windows machine you can just download our abiword-2.7.7 binary from: http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.7.7/Windows/abiword-setup-2.7.7.exe Unfortunately 2.7.7 is missing one last feature, a popup of the annotation content on mouse over. Unfortunately our Windows devs have not found the time to finish the implementarion of that but I hope it is obvious how it works from the screencast. Cheers Martin >> Giving full control over annotations within the context of Write's >> simplified toolbar will be a challenge and it would be great to get >> feedback on exactly which parts of an an annotation feature should be >> provided. > > I managed to find: > > http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Annotations > > ...but no screen-shots or mock-ups of the feature set. Do you know if there > are any available yet? > > Regards, > --Gary > > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write
Hi Gary,
Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy
use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique
because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-)
Plus I've seen some kids absolutely fly through learning how to use a
computer so even AbiWord's full on gui is accessible rather quickly
anyway.
Just to let you know, one new feature in AbiWord-2.8 we really should
expose to Write are annotations. These will be very useful for
teachers to comment and correct submitted work from children.
Giving full control over annotations within the context of Write's
simplified toolbar will be a challenge and it would be great to get
feedback on exactly which parts of an an annotation feature should be
provided.
Cheers!
Martin
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On 18 Jul 2009, at 22:58, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>> We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of
>> the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add
>> that to the API if there was consensus this would be a useful thing to
>> do. Now is a good time to put in such requests because we're just
>> finishing off the 2.8 release.
>>
>> However you can pop up the AbiWord modeless Word Count dialog by doing:
>>
>> self._abiword_canvas.invoke_cmd("dlgWordCount","",0,0)
>
> Thanks. Just added this as a toolbar button to test. For those interested,
> here's what it looks like in Sugar. With Sugars fullscreen interface design,
> the use of dialogues is rather finicky as it's easy to loose the dialogue
> behind to the desktop background layer:
>
>
>
>
>> This will give you document statistics as you type.
>>
>> I can imagine that having the word count auto-updating in the toolbar
>> would be a neat little feature
>> for the Write 0.86. It might one of those "high ceiling" features for
>> users to discover.
>>
>> One might also think of "find", "replace" and "goto" all being
>> implemented in the toolbar.
>
> FWIW, "find" is available under the Edit tab (but no "replace"
> functionality), and "goto" (page) is available on the View tab (but not goto
> line number).
>
>> We have to careful to remember our target audience though.
>
> +1 I think it took some strong restraint to keep the number of features
> exposed down to what we see today in Write :-)
>
> If you have the time – I've been looking for feedback on a new Toolbar
> design that may be arriving in some form for Sugar 0.86. Some of the goals
> are to show the "Stop" activity button at all times (kids often get lost in
> the text tabs); resolve the difficulty of small click targets caused by the
> narrow height text tabs; use icons rather than relying on text tab names
> (lower age, and improved non-illiterate access):
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Toolbars#Top_level_Activity_toolbar_for_Write
>
> The mock-ups specifically keep the current Write functionality and tool
> groupings so it can be more easily compared with the current Write
> implementation.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>
>
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Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write
HI Christoph,
We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of
the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add
that to the API if there was consensus this would be a useful thing to
do. Now is a good time to put in such requests because we're just
finishing off the 2.8 release.
However you can pop up the AbiWord modeless Word Count dialog by doing:
self._abiword_canvas.invoke_cmd("dlgWordCount","",0,0)
This will give you document statistics as you type.
I can imagine that having the word count auto-updating in the toolbar
would be a neat little feature
for the Write 0.86. It might one of those "high ceiling" features for
users to discover.
One might also think of "find", "replace" and "goto" all being
implemented in the toolbar.
We have to careful to remember our target audience though.
Cheers
Martin
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Christoph
Derndorfer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> while using Write today to draft up some articles for olpcnews I
> realized that I was missing a "word count" feature.
>
> Given that a lot of schools have very specific word count goals for
> homeworks, essays and assignments I'm thinking that this could be a
> useful feature to implement in time for the 0.86 release.
>
> What does everyone think about this?
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> --
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> url: www.olpcnews.com
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Re: [IAEP] OLPC Australia press release
Congratulations everyone! I'm very proud be a part of this. It's wonderful to see disadvantaged children in my own Country benefit from our work. Martin Sevior On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Here's a report that does mention Sugar: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/304648/olpc_boosts_outback_education_laptop_deployment?fp=4&fpid=1968336438 > > This one doesn't, but again, check the quote about school attendance: > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/27/2581855.htm?section=australia > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://www.olpc.org.au/news/27May09.shtml >> >> See quote about school attendance. >> >> Here's an example where Sugar can bridge the gap between the >> disadvantaged indigenous communities of Australia and the more >> well-off children there; XOs with Sugar for the former (goal of >> 400,000), SoaS for the latter. >> >> Regrettably, Sugar is not mentioned, although the richness of 30 Activities >> are. >> >> Of interest: the teacher training programme >> > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > ok? I guess this will be contreversial but it must be said and acted > upon (much more importantly) > > Im gonna try and make this easy: > > SoaS - the latest fedora core based > I tried to impress my 9 year old gescwister... (related one) > Speak - it will not even launch why is it then on a disitributed stick? > > ubuntu - > no read > no write > no jiggzawpuzzle > etoys > scratch > epathi > measure > anything tam tam based > until very recently even browse > pdf reader of any kind > measure > distance > slider > video chat > abc flower (thing doesnt even exist) > > ok, that is about 50% of the failed testtube babies... > > It might help to just give up on Ubuntu and just work with Fedora. We've documented the issue with libabiword on Ubuntu and Debian very, very clearly for many months. Martin Sevior ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Montag, 26. Januar 2009, Martin Sevior wrote: >> One of the things that Debian needs to do to package sugar is to >> distribute AbiWord as libAbiword with a small binary wrapper. This has >> been done for Fedora. We've told the AbiWord Debian packager about >> this but it hasn't happened yet. > > Did you file a bug? > No, I believe others have done so. Let me check... Just did.. Yes. it's filed as #512777 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512777 It explains the problem very precisely. This is a pure Debian issue and not something we upstream developers can solve though we're happy to provide pointers and help. Cheers Martin > > regards, >Holger > > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > this is one of these mails which stayed in "I should reply to this" too > long... :/ > > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> > So your, or any other sugar developers, attendency would certainly be >> > welcome. >> Ok, how could I help? Any subject I could talk about? Workshops to prepare? > > I guess its too late now, the meeting will start in 4 days and you probably > will not be able to make it anymore? > > That said, I think two things would be most useful: a.) help with deciding and > polishing the 0.82 sugar stuff we have for lenny b.) give a presentation > about what sugar is (teacher centric) and how to write applications for it > (beginner programmer centric). > > We'll have more meetings coming up this year, so if you cant make this one, > maybe the next? > Hi Holger and the rest of the Debian community... One of the things that Debian needs to do to package sugar is to distribute AbiWord as libAbiword with a small binary wrapper. This has been done for Fedora. We've told the AbiWord Debian packager about this but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe some extra encouragement from within the Debian community could help this happen faster. Cheers! Martin Sevior > > regards, >Holger > > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick
Hi Caroline, I clicked on the various links to see the status of Write but I couldn't see anything. Is it already on SoaS? Cheers Martin On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Dear Sugar Activity Maintainers and other volunteers with packaging > abilities, > > We would love your help in packaging your Sugar Activities so they can be > used with Sugar on a Stick. > > What is Sugar on a Stick? It is a Live USB based distribution of Sugar. The > idea is to give each student a full Sugar experience on any computer they > have access to with just the cost of a 1 or 2 GB USB stick. This could make > make Sugar very affordable in US urban schools, many of which have older > computers already, and are in the shadows of corporations that throw out > hunderds and thousands of computers each year. > > We will be starting a Pilot of Sugar on a Stick at Gardner School, an urban > Boston School with 90% eligibility for free and reduced lunch. We have > people around the world ready to try it. It could be a promising way to use > containers full of computers in Africa, it could be a great way to let > people try Sugar at conferences and an easy way for people to learn to use > Sugar. > > We have the basics working - http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick > > But Sugar without activities is boring!! We need you and your activities! > Please help us get activities quickly ported to Sugar on a Stick, we have a > lot of people pounding on our doors to try it. > > Here is the status of activities packaging: > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Activities_packaging - Marco is > coordinating the technical effort if you have any questions or need help. > > Thanks! > Caroline & Marco > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] introduction - hi I'm Donna
Welcome Donna! Thanks for the XO's :-) If you manage to create a meeting in Melbourne I'll do my best to attend. Cheers Martin On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Donna Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've long been a passionate advocate of the OLPC project, and followed > with interest the development and creation of sugarlabs. > > As conference director for linux.conf.au in Melbourne earlier this year > I oversaw the distribution of 100 XOs to delegates at the conference, > and have recently tried to follow up with them to see how they're doing. > > Am also intending to continue working with XO owners, developers, > teachers and learning researchers on community development, and project > awareness in 2009. > > I'm particularly interested in cross-pollination between education > and learning experts and developers to further the development of sugar > as a platform for learning. I'm also keen to understand the cross- > cultural issues encountered during deployments so we can adapt as > necessary. > > I introduced the idea of building communities of practice to some people > in the Aussie OLPC community, getting local groups of XO owners > gathering with teachers and children to work together on testing, > learning, discovering and documenting their experience. Have already > had a few informal gatherings with some of the developers who got an XO > at LCA - intending on doing more of that too. It would be brilliant to > tap into the broader community to get a TODO list of tasks to accomplish > and hack on. > > I think a handful of you already on the list will recognise me, as I've > been drawn in on the odd conversation, so thought it was time to step > aboard and say Hi Everyone! > > cheers > Donna > > -- > Donna Benjamin - Executive Director > Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au > ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414 > open source - facilitation - web services > > ___ > 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
