[IAEP] Picture/Story book about Sugar and OLPC

2008-12-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
Good Morning, Walter and I are going to the Gardner School this morning to take part in a reading program, where adults go into classes and read with kids. We hve the option of brining a favorite book. It makes me think that it would be very cool to have a kids book about Sugar. Has anyone

[IAEP] Doc and Wiki teams

2008-12-11 Thread David Farning
Is there anyone interested in looking after the Documentation and Wiki teams? I have gotten pretty burned out theses last couple of weeks and would like to get back to writing code for awhile. thanks david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a

[IAEP] jobs section in the wiki

2008-12-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, should we have a space so that people can request and offer paid services related to Sugar? I'm not under contract with OLPC any more and I'm available for jobs related to Sugar. I think Chema (cc'ed) was as well? Regards, Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's

Re: [IAEP] jobs section in the wiki

2008-12-11 Thread Walter Bender
I think it is a very good idea. As Sugar deployments spread, there will be the need for support of all sorts and having a list resources people can draw upon would be very useful. One question: do we vet these posting in any way? I think it would be difficult, so we should be clear in terms of

Re: [IAEP] introduction - hi I'm Donna

2008-12-11 Thread Walter Bender
Please join the weekly deployment team discussions on IRC (Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC -- we can switch the times around if it is too difficult for those of you in OZ). We have been discussing the various goals and mechanics of local Sugar Labs and your voices should be heard. thanks. -walter On

Re: [IAEP] jobs section in the wiki

2008-12-11 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Walter Bender wrote: I think it is a very good idea. As Sugar deployments spread, there will be the need for support of all sorts and having a list resources people can draw upon would be very useful. One question: do we vet these posting in any way? I think it would be

Re: [IAEP] Doc and Wiki teams

2008-12-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:12 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Is there anyone interested in looking after the Documentation and Wiki teams? I have gotten pretty burned out theses last couple of weeks and would like to get back to writing code for awhile. I don't think I can

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs QA MINUTES (Wednesday December 10 2008 - 16.30 (UTC))

2008-12-11 Thread Mel Chua
I put the agenda and the log and Simon's notes here. http://sugarlabs.org/go/TestingTeam/Meetings/Agendas/2008-12-10 http://sugarlabs.org/go/TestingTeam/Meetings/Minutes/2008-12-10 Cheers, --Mel Simon Schampijer wrote: logs: http://meeting.laptop.org/sugar-meeting.log.20081210_1206.html

[IAEP] Textbooks

2008-12-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
I talked with Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, and a member of Creative Commons (at the 40th anniversary celebration of Doug's Mother of all Demos) about starting a project to create Free interactive electronic textbooks. I have also discussed these ideas here, with FLOSS Manuals, and with some people at

Re: [IAEP] Textbooks

2008-12-11 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, quote who=Edward Cherlin The basic idea is to integrate Sugar software into lessons wherever appropriate, and then integrate the textbooks into a new curriculum, based on the much younger ages at which we will be able to teach powerful ideas. This is not the programmed learning

Re: [IAEP] Textbooks

2008-12-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org wrote: Hi all, quote who=Edward Cherlin The basic idea is to integrate Sugar software into lessons wherever appropriate, and then integrate the

Re: [IAEP] Textbooks

2008-12-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org wrote: Hi all, quote who=Edward Cherlin The basic idea is to

Re: [IAEP] Textbooks

2008-12-11 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Edward, quote who=Edward Cherlin Yes, Moodle will be part of the OLPC School Server, so we will naturally make full use of it. Great, it might also be worthwhile looking at the existing Moodle resources and lessons plans rather than starting from scratch. There is a large educator

Re: [IAEP] Textbooks

2008-12-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org wrote: Hi Edward, quote who=Edward Cherlin Yes, Moodle will be part of the OLPC School Server, so we will naturally make full use of it. Great, it might also be worthwhile looking at the existing Moodle resources and lessons

[IAEP] USB based access in Australia

2008-12-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
hi Donna and other Aussies, Do you know the folks at Cybersource? http://www.cyber.com.au/press/government_laptop_best_value_solution.html Here is a good article on it: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22209/53/ It looks like they are working on the idea I was calling School Key when we met

Re: [IAEP] USB based access in Australia

2008-12-11 Thread forster
hi Donna and other Aussies, Do you know the folks at Cybersource? http://www.cyber.com.au/press/government_laptop_best_value_solution.html hi Donna and other Aussies, Do you know the folks at Cybersource? http://www.cyber.com.au/press/government_laptop_best_value_solution.html Con has