Re: [IAEP] Feedback needed: pippy use cases?

2011-02-23 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Thanks, Scott. Gerald On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/pippy-examples/tree/ has a set of pippy examples in both English and Spanish, based on the example code in the Commodore 64 user's manual (which taught me

Re: [IAEP] Feedback needed: pippy use cases?

2011-02-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
These might make a great free textbook, if someone wants to write up the pedagogy. I learned to program from typing the examples in from the paper manual. --Scott On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Robert Fadel
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 23:06, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I agree with Walter. About two million. I don't have access to the internal figures. See also 1,834,500 in a probably partial list of laptop orders:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 23.02.2011 14:19, schrieb Robert Fadel: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 23:06, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I agree with Walter. About two million. I don't have access to the internal figures. See also 1,834,500 in a probably partial list of laptop orders:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Robert Fadel
I still don't buy that 2.1 million figure. Ordered maybe, shipped by Quanta possibly, but definitely not in the hands of children and teachers. The data on http://one.laptop.org/map also adds up to about 1,800,000 with no significant omissions that I can find (definitely none that add up

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Yes, it's *great* that this note is on that wiki page however I'm mainly concerned about the major public interfaces such as http://one.laptop.org/map as well as Nicholas and Rodrigo constantly refer to 2,100,000 children and teachers have XO laptops when that is quite clearly not the case. As

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 23.02.2011 15:44, schrieb Robert Fadel: I still don't buy that 2.1 million figure. Ordered maybe, shipped by Quanta possibly, but definitely not in the hands of children and teachers. The data on http://one.laptop.org/map also adds up to about 1,800,000 with no significant omissions

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Am 23.02.2011 16:09, schrieb Robert Fadel: On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Yes, it's *great* that this note is on that wiki page however I'm mainly concerned about the major public interfaces such as http://one.laptop.org/map as well as Nicholas and Rodrigo

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Argentina may be getting Classmates for their high school students, but rest assured that the good folks at Sugar Labs Argentina will make sure Sugar is available to run on them. I will paste in a note from Pato Acevedo, in Chile, below. And, don't forget Uruguay's commitment to the

Re: [IAEP] Feedback needed: pippy use cases?

2011-02-23 Thread Anish Mangal
[cc += iaep, sugar-devel, quozl] On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:43, Nicholas Doiron ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: Hi Anish, I taught an exploratory Pippy class in Uganda and would be happy to share feedback on the activity.  I also wrote a lesson plan for the Digital Literacy Project. 1. The

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-23 Thread Robert Fadel
On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Am 23.02.2011 15:44, schrieb Robert Fadel: I still don't buy that 2.1 million figure. Ordered maybe, shipped by Quanta possibly, but definitely not in the hands of children and teachers. The data on http://one.laptop.org/map also

[IAEP] Desde la frontera Brasileño Uruguaya /From the Brazilian Uruguayan Borderline

2011-02-23 Thread Carlos Rabassa
English text after follows Spanish text Compartimos un breve video dirigido por Andrés Álvaro Rodríguez, traductor público, que visitó en su bicicleta, más de mil de los monumentos de piedra que marcan la frontera entre Brasil y Uruguay: Frontera Uruguay Brasil - Arboles de Piedra

[IAEP] Clean Water or Education

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Thomas
Folks, With so many needs in Haiti and limited funds, Bill Steltzer asked a mentor in Haiti if they should be doing a computer program in Haiti when they really need clean water, food and shelter. So with limited funds which do you choose? Clean Water or Education? Why not both? That is what we