On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Yang Nguyen <cmp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 05/13/2010 09:55 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> >> Hi all HNLugers, >> >> i'm part of the OLPC Vietnam group and we are looking for people >> (developers, graphic designers, educators, translators, ...) to help >> us develop applications, contents for XO machine in Vietnam and also >> to translate existing software in vietnamese. If you have some great >> ideas, you are welcome to join us in the OLPC Vietnam mailing-list >> (see below). >> >> You don't need an XO machine to develop, you can use Sugar (XO UI) on >> every platform: http://www.sugarlabs.org/ >> I'm very knowledgeable in Squeak/EToys on the XO platform: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys >> If some people want to develop application in Smalltalk, i could made >> demos and some training in HN. >> >> If you dunno what is EToys, you can look at this presentation i made >> last year in HN: >> http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/an-instrument-whose-music-is-ideas-2036947 >> and more recently this Smalltalk presentation: >> http://www.slideshare.net/SergeStinckwich/pharo-an-innovative-and-opensource-smalltalk >> >> OLPC Vietnam: http://olpc.vn/ >> OLPC Vietnam mailing-list: http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-vietnam >> OLPC Vietnam in OLPC wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Vietnam >> >> If some of you are interested, we could organize a small meeting in HN >> very soon in order to know each other a little better. >> Best regards, >> >> >> Hi Serg Stinckwich and everyone, >> >> I heard about the project One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) a while ago and this >> is >> the first time I have heard about Etoys and XO machine. I really love the >> idea of the project. Now it comes to Vietnam and I hope can contribute >> something for it. > > Hi Yang, > thank you for your reply. > >> To be straight, I want to be a part of the developer community and tester >> for >> the XO machine and/or a translator (which I believe I could do relatively >> well). I don't know much about Smalltalk. The closest programming language >> to Smalltalk with which I have experiences is Common Lisp. I have watched >> your presentation about Smalltalk, I think I'm beginning to understand the >> structure and the ideas of the language, but to develop with it needs time. >> Thought, I'm not afraid of giving it a shot. It would be great if you could >> make some demos and training in Hanoi. I will definitely join. > > Yes Smalltalk is very to Lisp in his spirit. > BTW, Smalltalk is not the only way yo develop applications for the XO. > There is several alternatives described here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Programming_languages like Python, C/CC+, ... > I could help mainly on the Smalltalk side. We have also a mailing-list > for Smalltalk activities in Vietnam: > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/smalltalk-vn > >> To conclude, I'm much interested in OLPC and I want to contribute by >> developing applications (if possible), testing it and/or translate it. Let >> us >> know if you're planning to organize a meeting in Hanoi. > > Regarding translation, most of the existing software on XO is already > translated in vietnamese thank to the great help of Clytie Sydall: > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/vi/ > > I launch a doodle to find a date (29th may or 5th June). > Please add your name here: http://www.doodle.com/ytmxb3pff4zhexbu
3 people reply right now for a meeting about OLPC in Vietnam. I plan to visit the OLPC pilot experience in Vung Vieng fishing village the 29th May. So we could made a meeting one week after, the 5th June and i could made a short report of my visit. Best regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/ _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
