[IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.
Hi, After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10. Thank you for your work. After some testing, I wrote a small blog-entry with some screenshots on OLPC France's blog, here: http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/10/un-cartable-numerique-pur-sucre/ The Ubuntu variant used ist UNR 9.10. Regards, Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Vikidia - forward to olpc-sur?
Hola, Tengo aqui una informacion comunicada por Bastien Guerry (OLPC France). Se trata del proyecto de wiki redactado por y para los niños mismos. Existe también una version de este proyecto en español. Muy atentamente, Samy Selon Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com: Hi all, Vikidia is a free online enclyclopia for children 8-13, written by both children and adults: http://vikidia.org/ There are currently a french project and a spanish one: http://fr.vikidia.org/index.php/Accueil http://es.vikidia.org/index.php/Vikidia:Portada Can anyone forward this information to olpc-sur? I guess many spanish teachers will be interested in contributing to this nice project. There is a plan to have a slice of this Vikidia available as a Sugar activity, similar to WikiBrowse. I don't have enough time for this right now, but I would love to see this project achieved. Best to all, -- Bastien ___ 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] Trans.: [info-fsf Digest] Turtles all the way down to the source code
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:24:56 -0400 From: Deborah Nicholson members...@fsf.org Subject: [FSF] Turtles all the way down to the source code: FSF's Boston Software Freedom Day event to feature Walter Bender To: info-...@gnu.org, info-pr...@gnu.org Message-ID: 1253053496.31389.43.ca...@ant Content-Type: text/plain BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 -- On Saturday, September 19th, Boston's casual free software users and the technologically curious will gather together for a Software Freedom Day event hosted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Software Freedom Day is the international holiday dedicated to recognizing and promoting software that respects computer users' freedom. While the FSF is hosting its day-long public gathering in Boston, other teams all over the globe will be celebrating in their own cities, towns and villages as well. Saturday's event schedule includes workshops, demonstrations, lightning talks by attendees, and hands-on free software activism. In addition, Walter Bender, the founder and executive director of Sugar Labs, will be the morning's featured speaker. He'll be talking about Turtle Art, which is a fun and creative educational free software activity for kids that runs in the Sugar environment on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child project's XO. In the afternoon, Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and president of the FSF, will speak to participants about how and why to make the move to free software. It's usually a relaxed affair, attracting both new and experienced users from the community, getting together in the same space and sharing tips and tricks, said Matt Lee, FSF campaigns manager. This is the FSF's third year hosting a Software Freedom Day event in Boston. The event will take place on September 19th from 10am-5pm, and participation is open to the public at no charge. More info about the schedule is available at http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day, and RSVPs to members...@fsf.org are appreciated. The location is in Chinatown at the Encuentro 5 Community Center (http://www.encuentro5.org/), 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111. More information about other Software Freedom Day events around the world can be found at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org. ### About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. ### Media Contacts Matt Lee Campaigns Manager Free Software Foundation +1 (617) 542 5942 campai...@fsf.org John Sullivan Operations Manager Free Software Foundation +1 (617) 542 5942 campai...@fsf.org -- ___ info-fsf mailing list info-...@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf End of info-fsf Digest, Vol 41, Issue 2 *** - Fin du message transféré - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOO4kids running
Hi Caroline, Selon Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com: How far are we from OO4Kids being ready for activities.sugarlabs.org? Eric Bachard is planning to sugarize OOO4Kids http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/labels/Sugar.html The project has a roadmap here: http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/RoadMap thought I didn't see a reference to sugar. I copy this mail to Eric. Kind regards Samy On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi all, OpenOffice for Kids (OOO4Kids) is available ( http://download.ooo4kids.org/fr ) and can be tested now. So far, I got it running on a SOAS/strawberry and from a Sugar session launched with sugar-emulator. Some screenshots here: http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Ooo4kids1.png http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Ooo4kids2.png However, I didnt manage to launch it on a XO1 or from a standard old PC with damnsmalllinux on it. It complained about a GLIB_2.3.4 and a GLIB_2.4 and a :kbstdc++. Kind regards Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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] OOO4kids running
Hi all, OpenOffice for Kids (OOO4Kids) is available (http://download.ooo4kids.org/fr ) and can be tested now. So far, I got it running on a SOAS/strawberry and from a Sugar session launched with sugar-emulator. Some screenshots here: http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Ooo4kids1.png http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Ooo4kids2.png However, I didnt manage to launch it on a XO1 or from a standard old PC with damnsmalllinux on it. It complained about a GLIB_2.3.4 and a GLIB_2.4 and a :kbstdc++. Kind regards Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Electricity and magentism
Hi Caroline, On 10.09.2009, at 02:02, Caroline Meeks wrote: At GPA we will be working with the 4th grade. Their fall science topic is Electricity and magentism. We have the GCompris activity: GCompris Electric 11 Any other suggestions? Maybe the experiences in electricity and magnetism set-up by Tony Forster: http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/03/xo-electricity-and-magnetism.html Kind regards, Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] interviews for community building
Hi Christoph, The effort toward the demostration of the solutions provided by the free software community is very actual in relation to the Sugar/OLPC communities. The interview of Tiago Casal the Orca contributor is an brillant example of it, which might interest wider deployments such as in Uruguay, where the LATU is coordinating the digital inclusion of scholars with visual disabilities. See: http://latu21.latu.org.uy/es/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=607:se-distribuyen-las-primeras-xo-para-ninos-con-discapacidad-visualcatid=36:noticias-de-ceibalItemid=262 If I reckon correctly, the solutions implemented by the LATU are windows based software/hardware solutions. Do they are aware of the solutions cited by Tiago Casal? Best regards Samy Selon Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at: Tomeu, thanks for bringing this idea up I again - I wish I had a cent for every time I've discussed such a project with someone. (Then again, I deserve to pay a penalty for never following through...) While I'd love to work on something like this my other commitments realistically won't allow me to do this anytime soon. However I would assume Wayan and Yama (CC'ed) would also be okay with making such an interview a regular feature on olpcnews if that were deemed useful;-) I'd also suggest experimenting with different media, it needn't always be a text interview. After some practice it should be reasonably easy and quick for someone to compile something nice based on a Skype audio or even video call for example. Christoph Tomeu Vizoso schrieb: Hi, from time to time interviews to contributors are published in GNOME-related media. I think this is very useful for achieving a coherent community in which nobody is totally unaware of the activity of other teams/subgroups. In this one a translator interviews another translator with an emphasis on accessibility: http://leonardof.org/2009/08/09/interview-with-brazilian-orca-translator-tiago-casal/en/ I think this is even more relevant for us than for most other FOSS projects because we have a very varied community and we really need to integrate people with very little initial technology knowledge and that have never heard of FOSS. So, do we have anyone with the skills and inclination to start publishing short interviews that reflect how contributors work in our community? Thanks, Tomeu -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] ICTs in Education Prize: Call for nominations
Hi, Should the Sugar Labs apply to the next Unesco-prize for ICT in education? Seen in: ICTs in Education Prize: Call for nominations Teaching, Learning and e-Pedagogy: Teacher Professional Development for Knowledge Societies is the theme of the 2009 UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. Funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain, the US$50,000 prize is divided between two winners. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2009. Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29044URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html Kind regards, Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] An interview with Ch. Kane
Hi, An interesting interview with Charles Kane has just been published in Australian IT: Cheap PCs for kids spinoff http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25843285-24169,00.html Regards Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop
Hi Ashar, Selon Ashar Iqbal s.ashar.iq...@gmail.com: I have got a laptop with a VIA C3 cpu. This needs i386 based software. Any suggestions as to how to install / run Sugar on this? I got Fedora 10 installed, but get an error on starting X windows. The only distro I got to work with a GUI on the machine is Mandrake 10... I installed Sugar on a eeepc 1000H running Mandriva 2009.0 (aka spring) which has been released some weeks ago. I just installed the package task-sugar, then I run sugar-emulator in a console. The sugar version is 0.84 and the porting has been realised in particular by Akeksey Lim. It runs from within gnome via the sugar-emulator command or may be selected from the desktop chooser. Best regards Samy Ashar ___ 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] How to sugarize Learning Now / Apprendre maintenant?
Hi all, The SugarCamap event in Paris will enjoy the participation of Fabrice Menoyot, the developer of Learning Now / Apprendre maintenant! Let's quote from it's website http://freeeducationcenter.com/ : Learning Now v1 (Apprendre Maintenant v1)* is a brand new educational tool originally designed for a 15 to 35 years-old public. Today's version can be used for a larger audience. It is a great new (Freeware - open source) software for building interactive and multimedia books, courses, presentations, digital rooms and educational games for all ages. The project initiated in Jamaica in September 2004 with the support of the UNESCO in Kingston. How could we sugarize it's educational suite? The application is developed in Adobe Flashplayer 10. I got it working with the Web browser Epiphany but not with gnash. Do you see any chance to share this educational tool for the XO users? If you manage to particpate to the SugarCamp in Paris, feel free to aks how we could work together toward the sugarization of Learning Now. Thank you for your comments Samy ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris
Hi Tomeu, Great! I can handle the translation between the spanish teachers and the french developers if the need arises. Podré apoyar las comunicaciones entre los profesores de Uruguay, Panama y Peru por una parte, y los desarroladores en Paris, por si alguien necesita. Bests, saludos Samy Quoting Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lionel and all OLPC France, excuse me if this comes too late or isn't to the point, but would like to propose to hack on a mind mapping activity during the CodeCamp in Paris. I think this project has the appeal of being in direct connection to the needs in the field. Teachers from Uruguay, Peru and Panama have asked for such a tool, and have been exploring alternatives that may not be the best: drawing in Paint, using the connectors in Etoys, executing a java app (CMaps) inside the X Activity or using web apps. Happens that a pygtk application for mind mapping already exists and its architecture makes for an easy port to sugar. It's called Labyrinth [0] and was proposed more than one year ago by Jim Gettys [1] though no resources were allocated. Recently, teachers in the olpc-sur mailing lists asked again for it [2] and I gave a quick (2 hours) try to sugarize it with some success [3]. In [3] you can find links to the activity bundle, a screenshot and a patch to the code in the svn repository. [0] http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4577 [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001168.html [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html My proposal is for the CodeCamp participants to divide in pairs and each pair to choose one feature to add or bug to fix. At the end of the session, everybody would integrate all the changes and produce a single bundle. Most of the functionality is already in the original pygtk app, it's just a matter of exposing that functionality through the Sugar UI. I will try to be in #sugar at FreeNode during the CodeCamp to answer questions. After the CodeCamp, we could send the bundle to teachers in olpc-sur and ask them to try it and give feedback. Also, at some point whoever is interested in following up could contact the authors of Labyrinth and see the best way to upstream the changes. What do you say, looks like a challenge? Regards, Tomeu 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC CodeCamp in Paris on November 15th. Five workshops are planned: · Sugar: development and experimentation on Sugar/python, · School Server: setting up and test of school server on multiple platform (standard PC, Booba server, CherryPal, ), · Mono: development of new activities using Mono, · Pedagogic usage: Feedbacks from Haïti, Ethiopia and Palestine deployment. Brainstorming with French teachers to find usage and class activity for the XO. · French localization: French translators will work all the days to translate in French, sugar, activities and FLOSS manual. If you're interested to meet the French OLPC community and to have a nice trip to Paris: you're welcome ! More information on: http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=OLPC_France_CodeCamp_15_november Best regards from France. Lionel Laské ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ 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] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal
Quoting Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe we should ping education ministries as well, these are the ones that are being questioned right now by the public opinion about the convenience of spending so much money on laptops. They may be receptive to putting some more education (for free) on the machines ;) That is exactly the state of our reflexion, here at OLPC France. We are planning on 15-16 Nov. a CodeCamp ( http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=CodeCamp_OLPC_France/La_Cantine ). One of the possible workshop will be a sugarize-workshop during which we will experiment the installation of sugar on various platforms with various methods (external media, HD installation, emulation, liveCD, etc.). We have contacted some netbook-manufacturers to this end... but we are at the very beginning of our reflexion. We want to demonstrate the versatility of the sugar environment and the activities initially developped for the xo an to ping more ministers (Lionel Laské and Bastien Guerry meet a few weeks ago with the cabinet of the French Minister in charge of the économie numérique and we will continue. Bests Samy Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've pinged Intel about Sugar on these machines... (and the original Portugal order as well)... -walter On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php The blue-and-white laptops based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC design are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries. No word on software - does anyone know more? I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in portugal: http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there? Regards, Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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
