[IAEP] Fwd: OpenEd Jam: Call for Proposals
FYI Saludos, Pablo Flores -- Forwarded message -- From: Mariah Noelle Villarreal villarrea...@gmail.com We are looking for *innovative* freely and openly licensed education resources for our first OpenEd Jam! Do you have an idea for an *engaging discussion*, *hands-on demonstration* or *interactive workshop* that will *spark the community* to create and use open education resources inside and outside the classroom? We're looking for activists, developers, educators, engineers, librarians, and makers from all fields to come together for 3 days of collaboration and discussion. We have three tracks: Curriculum, Hardware and Software as well as rounds of Lightning Talks. The deadline to submit your proposal for OpenEd Jam is *April 1st, 2014*. The proposals that we'll select will consider: Does the proposal *advance the overall goal* of the event? Does the proposal give *concrete value* to participants? Does the proposal offer *collaboration* within the open education community? Is the proposal *engaging*? Never facilitated a session at an event before? Don't let that stop you! We encourage proposals from folks who don't often attend events and we're ready to support you to run an awesome session. *To propose your session, create an account and click on Create Content then Create Session on the right sidebar. www.openedjam.org http://www.openedjam.org * *Questions?* Contact Mariah Noelle Villarreal at mar...@openedjam.org mar...@openedjam.org Please feel free to share this call far and wide! ~Adapted from Open Knowledge Festival Propose a Session http://2014.okfestival.org/programme/propose-a-session/ [image: Creative Commons License]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ -- Mariah Noelle ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Activity Central looks for a person for testing developments on Sugar platform
We are looking for someone to work on testing and quality assurance (QA) for Sugar Activities and changes to the Sugar platform itself. The person we're looking for is rigorous, methodical, and patient when searching for bugs in different projects. If you're interested in this position please contact hr@activitycentral.comwith information about your interests and prior experiences. Further dissemination of this message would be much appreciated. http://activitycentral.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Activity Central looks for a developer for working on Sugar-related projects
We are looking for a Python developer with experience in working with GTK. Experience participating in open source projects, particularly in the Sugar Platform, is highly valued. If you're interested in this position please contact hr@activitycentral.comwith information about your interests and prior experiences. Further dissemination of this message would be much appreciated. http://activitycentral.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Code Sprint in eduJAM! update
Hi! We're currently working in the Sugar Code Sprint in Montevideo. Yo can follow-up our work in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/EduJAM/2012/CodeSprint. We're online on #sugar as well. We'll continue working until tomorrow night. See you online guys! Regards, Pablo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities
Sorry to disagree: * I prefer wiki-style pages to mallard as users are used to them (as they use wikipedia) and are more maintainable. * Making a weird question to the user that's asking for help before moving him out to another activity doesn't seem much helpful to me :-S Saludos, Pablo Flores 2012/3/18 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com 2012/3/17 Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com: Hi Manuel, On 17 Mar 2012, at 18:38, Manuel Quiñones wrote: El día 15 de marzo de 2012 10:48, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com escribió: For B. either mallard (like GNOME does) or a wiki page can be used. We can add a shortcut in the activities to open them. IIUC it would be a button that would open Browse with the activity's help pages, right? I like this idea. In this case, there should be for every activity a core documentation that keeps maintained and can be installed (for having help even being offline... and for being sure the documentation corresponds with the version of the activity and sugar that's being used). If we're going this way, having the wiki pages of activities updated would be a high priority when it comes to Sugar documentation (to be considered for the April's documentation sprint participants). It would also require this documentation to be updated every time a new version of the activity is developed with changes to the user experience (to be considered in the development cycles). Yeah, also see mallard, GNOME apps use that: http://projectmallard.org/ BTW I'm afraid jumping into the browser when looking for help may be confusing for unexperienced users, but I don't have a proposed solution for this :( We should come with a real solution for opening one activity from inside another, in a way that is not disturbing for the little user. That is, we should ensure that she/he _wants_ to do it. I think I've mentioned this once before, but how about if we use the Sugar alert strip UI, much like we use it in Browse 'Show in Journal' when an object is downloaded? It would be something like a 'Start object_title with default_activity?' message. This would allow the user to Cancel if triggered by mistake (or maliciously/automatically), and mean the user is directly interacting with the dialogue to trigger the activity Start. It would need to be a new type of Sugar shell alert, I guess, for security (e.g. Sugar shell enforces the user interaction handover before the object is started by the new activity). +1 if used with some discretion. We should come up with some clear guidelines as to when to do this. Note that this generates a NEW activity object in the Journal each and every time an activity is used to launch another with an object. You would need to use the Journal (or home view) to resume an already created object if you didn't want another new instance generated (ideally the FS or datastore is/would be smart enough when identical unmodified objects are created to save storage space). Regards, --Gary -- .. manuq .. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- 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
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities
For B. either mallard (like GNOME does) or a wiki page can be used. We can add a shortcut in the activities to open them. IIUC it would be a button that would open Browse with the activity's help pages, right? I like this idea. In this case, there should be for every activity a core documentation that keeps maintained and can be installed (for having help even being offline... and for being sure the documentation corresponds with the version of the activity and sugar that's being used). If we're going this way, having the wiki pages of activities updated would be a high priority when it comes to Sugar documentation (to be considered for the April's documentation sprint participants). It would also require this documentation to be updated every time a new version of the activity is developed with changes to the user experience (to be considered in the development cycles). BTW I'm afraid jumping into the browser when looking for help may be confusing for unexperienced users, but I don't have a proposed solution for this :( Saludos, Pablo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities
I like manuq's proposal, although it may be somehow difficult to maintain. A couple of very personal thoughts: * I don't like much having the help icon just as any other icon. Instead, it could be better having an icon in a different color or different size (for instance, the question mark in red without the circle around?), and not having to click on it for having it launched. * It could be very good having in the unfolded help a link to open the wiki pages of the activity help, which could be online or offline (maybe each deployment should decide). This would be an incentive for keeping a core set of help wiki pages updated. Saludos, Pablo Flores On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Walter, Stephen, Probably the same solution will not work for all our activities. TurtleArt and Etoys are complete environments, probably with the more complex and powerful UI. Another possible solution would be to implement help similar to the way it is done in Scratch, where you right click on a scripting tile and a help dialog pops up for that tile. This may be easier to integrate into other environments and could allow for others to work on the help dialogs, the end product being an image simple text + image if the environment does not support interactivity. This could allow a separate group of folks to work on the help. Stephen ___ 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] Fwd: [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] ¿Que documentación de Sugar necesitan los despliegues?
Comparto comentarios vertidos en la lista olpc-uruguay de Eduardo Ricobaldi y Flavio Danesse. Sharing opinions submitted in olpc-uruguay mailing list from Eduardo Ricobaldi and Flavio Danesse. Saludos, Pablo Flores -- Forwarded message -- From: Eduardo Ricobaldi eduar...@ubuntu.org.uy Date: 2012/1/30 Subject: Re: [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] ¿Que documentación de Sugar necesitan los despliegues? To: olpc-urug...@lists.laptop.org Creo que falta documentación relativa a aplicaciones colaborativas. Esas máquinas son ideales para funcionar en red local, pero las usan autónomas. Confunden problemas de conectividad a internet, con soluciones de red local. Una escuela puede no tener conexión a Internet (ni mala siquiera), pero es perfectamente probable que se fomente el uso de un CMS en la escuela, con contenido local. Wiki, calendarios compartidos, Biblioteca con libros y actividades para descargar, mail local, y chat también. Escuché en Perú que están mucho peor de conectividad, que tenían un chasque, un tipo con un pendrive que cuando visitaba la escuela, volcaba contenido nuevo. Creo que si un grupo de XO van a un parque sin internet, igual se pueden hacer muchas cosas conectados punto a punto o a una máquina del profesor con un AP creando una red local. He visto que cuando se comparte una actividad se abre un pipe para que otro se conecte a él. Pero me pareció, que nunca lo terminaron de implementar en las actividades y luego todo está a medias. Intenté entenderlo y no encontré salvo documentación muy vaga sobre el tema. Ok, es muy nerd lo mío. Esperabas unas palmaditas en la espalda y que te dijéramos que esta todo bien y muchas gracias, no lo siento. Jeje... Por otro lado, los manuales del Plan Ceibal, con que vinieron las máquinas (algunos, solo en PDF), deberían tener una continuación porque terminan en algo muy básico. Pero, están con Todos los derechos reservados (C), así que rompen el ecosistema de colaboración y frenan todo apoyo voluntario de mejorarlos. Si SugarLabs quiere hacer similares, deberían hacer algunos para gente que ya sabe lo que es una computadora y evitar el rechazo de los desarrolladores profesionales porque no se explican algunas cosas básicas. Y es una poderosa fuerza de trabajo voluntaria que se está desperdiciando. -- Eduardo Ricobaldi Consejo Ubuntu Uruguay http://www.ubuntu.org.uy Enviado desde Ubuntu Linux - 11.04 Natty Narwhal -- Forwarded message -- From: Flavio Danesse Yo creo que en lugar de armar manuales que expliquen como se utiliza el software, habría que armar algo al estilo planificación docente. Es decir, diseñar clases sobre diversos temas donde se utilicen las aplicaciones de sugar y explicar si, como utilizar esas aplicaciones para conseguir determinado objetivo. No un manual informático, sino, como utilizar una u otra aplicación para enseñar algo. Responder a la pregunta de: ¿Para qué sirve o puede servir? determinada aplicación y como se utiliza en ese caso. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] What Sugar documentation do deployments need?
This question is meant for people working on OLPC/Sugar deployment teams: What documentation do you think is important to have about Sugar and to keep updated? This arises from the idea that's being discussed in the mailing lists about making a documentation sprint on April in Boston. Initially we talked about updating http://laptop.org/manual/, as it got outdated with the recent changes to Sugar interface. After that, some ideas arose about developing solutions for making the manual's translations to other languages easier, of packaging it in different ways and of creating a pedagogic-oriented guide, among others. I would like to know what deployments do think that would be useful for them. Thanks! Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fixing activities documentation for the new UI
Making a documentation sprint in April in Boston sounds good. However, it wouldn't solve most of OLPC-Australia problem, as they want to start training teachers for the new versions in March. I wonder if some people from Australia, New Zeland and other Pacific countries may be interested in doing a documentation sprint before that... Saludos, Pablo Flores On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Now I always scheduled sprints/summits on civic/religious long weeks/wkds in the past so the max peop could sneak out of their day jobs, wouldn't a Passover Sprint open to all per the Jewish tradition *All who are hungry, come and eat* just be perfect? In any case Nancie don't worry we won't make you cook or host...or will we, hah ;) On 1/20/2012 7:15 PM, Nancie Severs wrote: Hi Adam, and all, Just a heads up: This year Passover is April 6 (seder evening) and April 7 is the first day. Easter Sunday is April 8. That's not a good weekend Adam. The weekend before or after look ok though. Nancie:) Nancie Severs OLPC Support Volunteer -- *From:* George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com georgejh...@gmail.com *To:* Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org support-g...@lists.laptop.orgsupport-g...@lists.laptop.org *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:09 PM *Subject:* Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Fixing activities documentation for the new UI Two thoughts, If the get together was a week earlier, I could attend. For manipulating screen shots, the xophoto activity I did might be useful (see http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html). It's a little clunky, and didn't make it out of the sugarlabs sandbox. The download is available at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4377. And early documentation is at http://xophoto.wordpress.com/ Maybe, after being away from it for a year, I'll see ways to make xophoto more user friendly, and useful for the new tablet. George On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: Clustering a book sprint around (and including) the wkd of Apr 7/8 when several including myself, Christoph, Nancie S. etc should be in Boston, might make a ton of sense? But others should speak up if they have better ideas! As I'm spending a lot of time in Haiti these days and lost track of the rich world's schedules, but will happily join if Caryl/Christoph/Pablo/ALL driving forward enthusiasm to make this real =) On 1/16/2012 6:44 AM, adam wrote: hi Adam On 01/16/2012 12:32 PM, Holt wrote: Caryl Bigenho, Christoph Derndorfer, I others have been laying groundwork since Oct/SF but as we all know this is Hell^h^h^h^hGod's thankless work :) Can we bring this together with a focused doc event? a 5 dayer to complete the work and move it on to a new level? adam Everyone who can pitch in taking screenshots of critical/latest Activities is an absolute hero, particularly for these Activities included in Release 11.3.0? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.3 Update our manual-refresh's wiki here please if so, no matter how you choose to help! http://j.mp/xomanual http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011/Help_Activity_Refresh On 1/16/2012 6:10 AM, adam wrote: hi I would like to propose a doc summit for sugar/olpc. Fm can facilitate a series of sprints to get everything up to date. However we would need to work together to raise the funds to make it happen. I am happy to put work into this from our side (FM) - who can take the lead from Sugars side? adam On 01/15/2012 03:13 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 14 January 2012 07:02, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Pablo Florespflor...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday we discussed with Sridhar Dhanapalan and other OLPC-Australia team people the impact of updating the Sugar version on their deployment. One of the unforeseen impacts comes to the documentation they have made for training their teachers, as it has plenty of screenshots and videos that got outdated because of all the UI changes made recently. This will bring an important amount of work for updating... One of the things that could be very helpful for them would be having the floss manuals updated. I took a look at the manuals of classic activities and they weren't updated. It would be great if some of the contributors who worked on those manuals could lend a hand for having them updated. Looking further, I think there should be some way for keeping the activities documentation updated, or at least having a single place to see for each activity how much updated its documentation is. Looking for ideas for having this done. Would it make sense including documentation updating in the upstreaming process somehow? Perhaps a coincidence? I was corresponding with Adam this morning about
[IAEP] Fixing activities documentation for the new UI
Yesterday we discussed with Sridhar Dhanapalan and other OLPC-Australia team people the impact of updating the Sugar version on their deployment. One of the unforeseen impacts comes to the documentation they have made for training their teachers, as it has plenty of screenshots and videos that got outdated because of all the UI changes made recently. This will bring an important amount of work for updating... One of the things that could be very helpful for them would be having the floss manuals updated. I took a look at the manuals of classic activities and they weren't updated. It would be great if some of the contributors who worked on those manuals could lend a hand for having them updated. Looking further, I think there should be some way for keeping the activities documentation updated, or at least having a single place to see for each activity how much updated its documentation is. Looking for ideas for having this done. Would it make sense including documentation updating in the upstreaming process somehow? Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central
Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big challenge of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its business providing services for deployments using the Sugar learning platform. I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more info about me, please see my profilehttp://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/aboutand follow me in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a strong focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could work in promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City Sugar workshop and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great work that the whole community systematically does for it, to which I hope AC can contribute even more in this new stage. AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth by supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers, upstreaming code and sharing knowledge. In my vision, these professional services are required to keep the ecosystem healthy and it's our biggest challenge doing this sustainably. I won’t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take some days off before assuming the new position, but I’m very open to receiving by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions, criticisms or ideas, as I want to keep the contact fluid. Stay in touch! Regards, Pablo Flores activitycentral.com On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.comwrote: I am proud to announce that we are promoting Pablo Flores as the new CEO of Activity Central. Pablo has a strong background in all things OLPC and Sugar from his time at Plan Ceibal, leadership in Ceibal Jam, and most recently as community architect for Activity Central. Pablo and the rest of the Activity Central team will continue the core AC mission of providing service and support for deployments. I will continue my work in the Sugar/OLPC ecosystem by focusing on the junction point between deployment technical teams and education teams. My research so far has lead me to the notion of learning objects. While poorly defined in the education literature, the vocabulary around learning objects seems to lends itself to the intersection of technical personal and education personal in early childhood education. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] About Activity Central and Dextrose (was: [ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development build: Alpha-1 (dx3ng36))
Since in Activity Central (AC) we're announcing our work in a new release of Dextrose, I found it's a good moment for saying some words about Dextrose itself, the company and the way we work. Dextrose is a Sugar downstream begun by Bernie, working together with AC and Paraguay Educa folks to focus on the most important needs of deployments. Stability is prioritized over adding new features and there is a focus on having a close loop between deployments and developers. With time Dextrose got adapted by other deployments, like Plan Ceibal in Uruguay, who also made important contributions to the system. Since the Dextrose2 release, the development has been guided by AC’s team, mainly led by Anish and Alsroot's work. All its code continues to be free (all the software produced by AC is GPL'ed), and upstreamed as much as possible with the great work made by Silbe in collaboration with many community actors (although there are still some parts which take more time to upstream but are also included as they're useful for deployments). With the new release, we're looking to continue AC's goal of catalyzing Sugar development, working together with partners, deployments, and the community. AC work is about providing Sugar software development and support services, and the best way to do it is the open source way. BTW, in AC we'll soon have a new Web site where we can explain our work in a better way. All feedback is welcome! Regards, Pablo Flores Activity Central On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.orgwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It gives me pleasure to announce the release of our first dextrose-3 development image, alpha-1. I thank ActivityCentral, OLPC, OLPC-Australia and Sugarlabs for working in close coordination and making this release possible. The key points of this release are: * Based on fedora-14 * Based on sugar version 0.92.4 * Porting of most dextrose-2 patches into dextrose-3. * Upstreaming of a few dextrose-2 patches. We're trying to upstream as much as we can, but its a slow process. * Uses the 0.9x collaboration code. * These images don't contain gnome. The next development release (alpha-2) will contain gnome. Broadly, Dextrose-3 is close to FeatureFreeze [1], and is following this roadmap [2]. Here are the download links for the install images: === xo-1 === http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/xo1/dx3ng036.img http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/xo1/dx3ng036.crc === xo1.5 === http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/xo1.5/dx3ng036.zd http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/xo1.5/dx3ng036.zd.md5 Note: * You will need an unlocked XO to test/install these images * This is a development alpha-release, there are and will be rough edges, particularly in the area of collaboration, and some dextrose-specific features. * Folks are encouraged to test this release and file tickets on bugs.sugarlabs.org and tag them by assigning the 'dx3' keyword. The dextrose team will triage them and start fixing. * Though dx-3-alpha-1 uses sugar 0.92.x, it is not yet certain future dextrose releases will do the same [3]. That is being worked out at the moment through discussion. ==Release Notes== This release is intended to be in sync with OLPC-11.2.0, the release notes for which can be found here [4]. There will be differences in activity lists and sugar itself, which would have dextrose specific patches (latest-patchset date 2011-08-15) ===Activities=== * Abacus-22 * Arithmetic-2 * Browse-123 * Calculate-37 * Chat-70 * Colors-15 * Distance-25 * Etoys-113 * Flipsticks-8 * Fototoon-8 * Get_books-9 * Image_viewer-17 * Implode-10 * Irc-10 * Jukebox-22 * Labyrinth-11 * Log-25 * Maze-11 * Measure-33 * Memorize-36 * Moon-12 * Paint-36 * Physics-8 * Pippy-40 * Poll-27 * Read-90 * Record-92 * Ruler-11 * Speak-30 * Spirolaterals-22 * Stopwatch-11 * Tamtammini-59 * Terminal-34 * Turtle_art-114 * Turtle_machine-22 * Typing_turtle-27 * Visual_match-29 * Words-11 * Write-75 ===Issues fixed=== * sl#2803 [dx3] Build dx3ng010 for xo-1 tries to install q3a62 firmware (which is actually meant for xo-1.5) * sl#2483 Neighborhood view is sometimes greyed out or owner buddy is missing * sl#2805 Opening neighborhood view just reveals a gray screen * sl#2806 [dx3] Missing central-xo icon in neighborhood view * sl#2878 python-beautiful soup dependency lacking on dextrose (was:Read-89 does not start on Sugar 0.88) * sl#2889 Speak Detection of australian-english * au#825 Software Update fails to upgrade content bundles ...and... * sl#2807 [dx3] dx3ng010-xo1.5: boot animation has too many hydrogen atoms ;) ;) Note: This list won't be very exhaustive since it is the first release in the dx3 series. ===Known Issues=== * Accessibility won't work very well since its supporting packages weren't included in this build
[IAEP] Tools for the community 2nd meeting. Today at 9PM UTC on #sugar-meeting.
Join today at 9PM UTC (4PM EST) our second meeting for discussing tools for the community, on #sugar-meeting. Today I'd like to focus on the idea of making a portal for sharing info. Let's think of an enhanced planet, which aggregates blogs and microblogging posts, and helps users to broadcast and tag interesting information. I propose to discuss according to the sources of information that could be integrated to the portal: 1. Aggregate feeds from blogs, websites, wikis aslo. 2. Show what's happening in mailing lists, highlight important discussions 3. Broadcast some info of what happens on IRC channels 4. Integrate social networks (identi.ca/twitter, facebook, uhloh, ...) info. 5. Integrate OLPCmap info It would also be great to integrate info from coding environments, like git commits and trac submits, but for timing reasons I'd prefer to discuss it in another moment. Don't be shy and come in with your ideas and opinions!! :) Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Tools for the community meeting
Last Wednesday we had an IRC meeting for analyzing which tools would be useful to build for the community. Meeting log is in http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-01-26T21:06:33. Here are my highlights: Centralized Authentication (CAS) - The current multitude of accounts for services at Sugar Labs (and related organisations) is considered an obstacle to participation. We should work on a seamless / automatic log-in system, though the priority of this is not yet clear - Sascha is already working on CAS for sugarlabs.org sites, so it's an ongoing project (he'll write up an overview of how his imagined seamless login system is going to work, so others are able to join the effort if they like to) Metadata, data aggregation and search tools: - The holly grial would be to have a centralized aggregator where one could see at a glance what's happening around in the community. Even better if all information was correctly tagged. However, it's not easy to implement the idea. - This would be useful for all kind of users (developers, educators, ...). For instance JT4sugar suggests for information around Teaching is to have information separated into Age/Grade level. Other ideas suggested: - Making a portal for sharing info - autotranslation of some of the mailing lists, like sur-sur-en and iaep-iaep-es (we already have a web-to-IRC gateway and IRC translation, both courtesy of alsroot) - share/maintain list of known blogs, so bloggers can screen and promote what they find interesting Next meeting: We're continuing the discussion next Wednesday at the same time (9PM UTC, 4PM EST) in #sugar-meeting. I'd like to focus on the idea of making a portal for sharing info. Which info should it have? Should it aggregate info and/or receive users contributions? How can it be easy to contribute there? How can we keep info organized? All feedback is welcome! Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Tools for the community (#sugar-meeting, Wednesday 4PM Boston time)
I like this idea, but besides we should use the information for making a better user experience. In ceibalJAM we have a form for the new users, where we can get good information of the profile, but in this moment it's only being helpful for statistical purposes, as we couldn't work more on portal features to customize some pages to the user's profile... Saludos, Pablo Flores On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pablo As community Architect. I was wondering if its too complicated to do, when you are designing systems and when you do the structure and scaffolding is it possible to look a at a model where someone getting into the project can decide what level they want to come in at... to keep the discussion relevant for them. - Basement - Ground floor - First floor - Second floor - Pent house - Roof top! Warm Regards Harriet Harriet Vidyasagar INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! As some of you know, I started working in AC (www.activitycentral.com) as Community Architect. Last weeks I've been looking at a lot of information, discussing ideas with team members and friends (Walter, Adam, Bernie, dfarning, alsroot...) and trying to find out what a community architect should do :) I still don't know the answer, but there are some ideas worth to be discussed openly. One of my first concerns is promoting the community growth, so newcomers become very important: How to make it easier for them to learn what's going on in the community and find the right places to participate? The other big concern is having better community members intercommunication. For all of this, there are some tools and standards that could be helpful. Please join us on Wednesday at 4PM EST in #sugar-meeting to discuss some of this issues: 1. Centralized Authentication Service? 2. Metadata (taxonomy, hashtags, ...) 3. Users tracker (throughout different platflorms) 4. Aggregating information (feeds, archives, logs, tweets, ...) 5. Search tools Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ 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] Tools for the community (#sugar-meeting, Wednesday 4PM Boston time)
Hi all! As some of you know, I started working in AC (www.activitycentral.com) as Community Architect. Last weeks I've been looking at a lot of information, discussing ideas with team members and friends (Walter, Adam, Bernie, dfarning, alsroot...) and trying to find out what a community architect should do :) I still don't know the answer, but there are some ideas worth to be discussed openly. One of my first concerns is promoting the community growth, so newcomers become very important: How to make it easier for them to learn what's going on in the community and find the right places to participate? The other big concern is having better community members intercommunication. For all of this, there are some tools and standards that could be helpful. Please join us on Wednesday at 4PM EST in #sugar-meeting to discuss some of this issues: 1. Centralized Authentication Service? 2. Metadata (taxonomy, hashtags, ...) 3. Users tracker (throughout different platflorms) 4. Aggregating information (feeds, archives, logs, tweets, ...) 5. Search tools Saludos, Pablo Flores ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Olpc-uruguay] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?
Un excelente ejemplo de cómo trabajar las lenguas es Global Voices ( globalvoicesonline.org) y su proyecto Lingua ( http://es.globalvoicesonline.org/proyecto-lingua/). Ellos trabajan con voluntarios y contratados para hacer un verdadero diálogo global. Sería muy bueno aprender de su experiencia. An excellent example of the way of dealing with different laguages is Global Voices (globalvoicesonline.org) and their project Lingua ( http://globalvoicesonline.org/proyecto-lingua/). They work with volunteers and hired people for making an actual global talk. It would be very good learning their experience. Saludos, Pablo Flores On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero raf...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This should be one of the ''duties'' of a community manager, making that liasons between different language communities continue and strenght over time. But more thatn that there is a need of translation bridges done by community members, for this case Caryl and Pablo are examples. Esta debe ser una de las ''responsabilidades'' de un director de la comunidad, hacer que estas las uniones entre comunidades con diferentes lenguajes crezcan y se fortalezcan con el tiempo. Pero mas alla de esto simpre son necesarios puentes de traduccion hechos por personas pertenecientes a la comunidad, para este caso Caryl o Pablo son un ejemplo. Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 28.09.2010, at 11:05, Tim McNamara wrote: On 25 September 2010 02:22, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote: My support to Rosamel too! The translation is not a minor issue and it would be good to challenge ourselves to find solutions so we can integrate in discussions people that speak different languages. Isn't there some kind of add-on for mailman for making automatic translations? También mi apoto a Rosamel ! El tema de las traducciones no es algo menor, y estaría bueno que nos desafiáramos a nosotros mismos a buscar soluciones que permitan integrar en las discusiones a gente que habla en distintos idiomas. No hay algún tipo de add-on para mailman que haga traducciones automáticas? Saludos, Pablo Flores Esperanto? ;) English does what Esperanto promised. To collaborate worldwide, learning English is essential. At the same time, empowering local Sugar Labs is essential. They should be the local-language contact, and mediators to the world-wide community. - Bert - ___ 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] [Sur] [Olpc-uruguay] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?
My support to Rosamel too! The translation is not a minor issue and it would be good to challenge ourselves to find solutions so we can integrate in discussions people that speak different languages. Isn't there some kind of add-on for mailman for making automatic translations? También mi apoto a Rosamel ! El tema de las traducciones no es algo menor, y estaría bueno que nos desafiáramos a nosotros mismos a buscar soluciones que permitan integrar en las discusiones a gente que habla en distintos idiomas. No hay algún tipo de add-on para mailman que haga traducciones automáticas? Saludos, Pablo Flores On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:37 PM, rosamel norma ramirez mendez rosano...@hotmail.com wrote: Who can traducir the mails Thank you ,Rosamel From: raf...@sugarlabs.org Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:27:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-uruguay] [Sur] Sugar Labs Oversight Board? To: tabi...@tabitha.net.nz CC: fgr...@gmail.com; rosano...@hotmail.com; olpc-...@lists.laptop.org; i...@solarsail.media.mit.edu; commun...@solarsail.media.mit.edu; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; olpc-urug...@lists.laptop.org; support-g...@lists.laptop.org My vote to rosa! Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: Mibbit is a web chat service that supports inline translation, http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/Input_Options#Translation_Menu. The #schoolserver channel, irc://irc.oftc.net#schoolserver, might be a good place to use it. Here is a Mibbit link to it, https://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.oftc.netchannel=%23schoolserver --Fred Thanks Fred - maybe we can try to use that in our next meeting ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
