[IAEP] Haitian Creole for Education Community Dinner -- Saturday with OLPC/Sugar NYC

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Holt
HAITI FEAST ON EDUCATION INVITATION Even if you cannot make it to Saturday's full-day NYC Crisis Camp events (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/558710117) plz join our Haitian Creole for Education Community Dinner right afterwards, co-hosted with the One Laptop per Child/Sugar Labs NYC Volunteer

Re: [IAEP] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors for OLPC/XO classrooms

2010-02-03 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 11:58:27 pm Adam Holt wrote: > Aside from this wonderful home-made prototype, that unfortunately > overheats, what's achievable? > http://blog.laptop.org/2008/11/16/hardware-hacking-first-pass-at-an-xo-proj > ector/ Have you considered LED monitors? Monitors (>= 23")

Re: [IAEP] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors for OLPC/XO classrooms

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Holt
Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: > RoyalTek RPJ-2000 Pico Projector and a usb-to-vga (sisusb) card work > perfectly well > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA > > http://www.royaltek.com/ > > the projector is 640x480 , Osram’s LED that last over 2 hours , 3M > optica

[IAEP] Fwd: DML Competition open for resubmissions! All applicants must resubmit by Feb 15th at noon EST

2010-02-03 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
For our attention. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mandy Dailey Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:01 PM Subject: DML Competition open for resubmissions! All applicants must resubmit by Feb 15th at noon EST To: dmlc2010-applica...@duke.edu The application system for the 2010 HASTAC/Ma

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-Haiti] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors forOLPC/XO classrooms

2010-02-03 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 03.02.2010, at 11:51, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > I also wonder if > http://www.amazon.com/Porta-Trace-Mini-Sketch-5x-Opaque-Projector/dp/B000A3E2T2 > might work, if just placed on an XO screen. There might still be heat > issues, but it's cheap enough that an experiment might be warranted.

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-02-03 (addendum)

2010-02-03 Thread Walter Bender
I forgot to mention a few things in yesterday's Digest: (1) We need to put together our Google Summer of Code proposal... please contact me if you are interested in helping. (2) We have several SL proposals submitted to organizations that require "voting". Please visit http://www.dmlcompetition.ne

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-Haiti] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors forOLPC/XO classrooms

2010-02-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM, John Rigdon wrote: > I have not seen the XO, but I think we should be rather thinking about these > new cheap netbooks for these other tasks and use the XO for what it is > designed.  I am now evaluating a netbook I bought on Ebay for $79 and > another that is price

[IAEP] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors for OLPC/XO classrooms

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Holt
WavePlace and other Haiti Education efforts keep asking me the same thing, in NYC and elsewhere--who can answer: How can in-classroom (and out-of-classroom?!) cheap portable overhead projectors be rigged to XOs -- by hook or by crook -- /and what models/arrangements are best?/ Aside from this

[IAEP] More new and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Simmons
In this latest draft I have added a not quite complete chapter on Making Shared Activities. The part that is missing is on using DBus Tubes to remotely call methods, and it's missing because I've never done it. I do plan to learn how to do this, come up with a decent example program (something fa

[IAEP] email account hacked

2010-02-03 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Apologies if you received spam messages from my email address--it appears that my Gmail account was hacked last night... Sorry, and hope all is well, Christian -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmid