Re: [IAEP] OLPC/Sugar's HIGHEST quality latino/latina gossip
So many events! How can this be possible!!!? Is there a new actor supporting the community work? May it be one of the sponsors of last eduJAM!? http://ceibaljam.org/edujam2011_en BTW, the same bird told me that in Paris, in addition to the Sugarcamp, there will be a 1-day Sugar Code Sprint on Sep 12th with many experienced hackers. And also told me that the late Sept mystery South America location is Argentina, where there was a previous announcement: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/argentina/2011-August/002519.html ;-) On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: A bird just flew thru my office and told me about an amazing string of 7+ Sugar/OLPC summits, hackfests and teachers' forums in the coming weeks, across South, Central North America especially: Sept 10-12 - Paris http://fr.amiando.com/olpcfrance-sugarcamp201 11.htmlhttp://fr.amiando.com/olpcfrance-sugarcamp2011.html Sept 18 - Toronto area http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/toronto-dev/2011-August/000109.html Late Sept? - mystery South America location to be announced soon! Sept 29-30 - mystery Central American location to be announced soon! Oct 21-23 - San Francisco http://olpcSF.org Oct 28-30 - Prague http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Gtk3_Hackfest_2011 Mid-Nov? - mystery South America location to be announced soon! Oh and did I mention how many high-caliber volunteers are now joining me in Haiti to work on schools directly?! *Wish I could say more...but them krazy kuku kommunity birds are just out of control ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo#Calls !) so **best keep your eye on http://planet.laptop.org http://planet.sugarlabs.org in coming weeks ;)* -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ 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] [SLOBS] for today's meeting: certificate program proposal
I wonder if there shouldn't be a certification for Sugar Animators or something like this (actually I'd like to find a better word than animator). I'm thinking on the people that contributes keeping the community or a local lab moving on: Organizing events, coordinating teams of programmers or educators, making public Sugar advocacy, doing bureaucratic stuff needed to keep Sugar Labs or a local lab working, looking for resources, etc. It's not that I want a certification that fits me ;-) IMHO they're important actors that should be recognized. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: Following up on a thread begun in mid July (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html) I would like to discuss the following proposal this morning: Sugar Labs will award certificates to developers to acknowledge and celebrate their contributions to the Sugar Learning Platform. Several certificates will be made available: Sugar X Contributor; Sugar Activity Developer; and Sugar Core Developer. The Sugar X Contributor certificate will be given to an individual who over the course of a sustained effort of at least 6 months contributes to some Sugar community team, e.g., Sugar Translation Contributor. (The teams are listed on the wiki). The specific criteria for certification will be determined by the team coordinators, but in general, it would involve a repeated effort on behalf of the team's goals at a high level of quality (e.g., of quality sufficient to be incorportated into our offerings). The Sugar Activity Developer certificate will be given to an individual who develops at least one Sugar activity that is subsequently posted on the Sugar activity portal and be of sufficient quality to be approved for public release. The activity must also include internationalization, including the submission of a POT file to the Translation Team, and documentation, including the creation of a page in the wiki under the Activity category. As will the Contributor certificates, sign off will be made by the associated team coordinators, in this case the Activity team. The Sugar Core Developer certificate will be given to an individual who over the course of one year makes significant contributions to the Sugar core libraries, e.g., sugar-toolkit or sugar. Sign off will be made by the Developer team coordinators. -walter -- 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] A question about adult education in Uruguay
On a related topic, does Uruguay have anything like free online courses for adults, perhaps available in public libraries? There are all over the country what we call Centros MEC, from the ministry of education, where there are computers with connectivity and focus mostly on digital literacy for adults. However I'm not aware of any online course for adults. One excellent Uruguayan resource for adults to start learning is the cuckoo of the computers (http://ludo.com.uy/cuco/en/), which also has a version that runs on the XOs (in Spanish): ftp://200.40.200.101/juegos/rayuela/cuco/CucoXO.xo Cheers, Alan ___ 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] Por favor ayúdennos a recopilar información (fotos, presentaciones, etc.) del eduJAM! // Please help us collecting information (photos, presentations, etc.) of eduJAM!
Quisieramos armar una página que recopile toda la información posible sobre el eduJAM! Para ello les pedimos ayuda, agregando en http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/EduJAM/2011 todos los links a fotos, presentaciones, videos y otros materiales que consideren oportunos sobre eduJAM! 2011. Gracias!! We would like to build a page collecting as much information as possible from eduJAM! So we ask you for help, adding in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/EduJAM/2011 all the links to photos, presentations, videos and any other material you may find valuable about eduJAM! 2011. Thanks! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] 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 http://ceibaljam.org/?q=edujam2011_en 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 http://ceibaljam.org/node/1108). 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 buildinghttp://ceibaljam.org/node/1171 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 and
