[IAEP] Useful resource about organizing future OLPC / Sugar hackathons

2011-06-10 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, I just stumbled across an article called Hosting Hackathons: The Organizer's Checklist ( http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons-the-organizers-checklist) and it contains some great information which could be very helpful for the organization of future OLPC / Sugar related events. Please

[IAEP] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

2011-06-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such systems, please submit applications. -- Yoshiki

Re: [IAEP] Useful resource about organizing future OLPC / Sugar hackathons

2011-06-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Good stuff, but really the same-old, same old Plan Ahead! And, I might add one thing... find ways to make sure you reach those who might need a little extra encouragement to get them to attend... women and people of color. Check the photos of their otherwise well attended event to see what I

[IAEP] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri June 10, 2:45PM EDT)

2011-06-10 Thread Holt
Please join us now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project allocations mentoring relationships--starting right here: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 7 latest

Re: [IAEP] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

2011-06-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Hello, There is a symposium called Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC). They are looking for posters and demos, including graphical educational systemss such as Etoys. If anybody interested in showing such

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Call for Posters and Demonstrations: Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

2011-06-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
Turtle Art would be great for this, especially my version with icons instead of words on the blocks. Unfortunately, I am not in a position to do a presentation. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:27, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote: At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:27:03 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:  

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Etoys Video's for Khan Academy

2011-06-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:47, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I have a page at Sugar Labs called The Undiscoverable, which mentions Etoys but does not give many details. I would like help filling it in.

Re: [IAEP] Turtles All The Way Out

2011-06-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Don Hopkins worked on a PostScript-based window system (HyperLook) that would let you flip over an object on the screen to see behind it a control panel with the guts of its implementation visible.  You could modify those, then