Re: [IAEP] In-person, online or both? | OLPC San Francisco

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > How will you participate in the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit > 2014? Let us know, so we can plan accordingly. > > http://www.olpcsf.org/node/212 > > Cheers, > Sameer I got a few queries on how we wer

Re: [IAEP] In-person, online or both? | OLPC San Francisco (Sameer Verma)

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Lionel Laské wrote: > Drupal error :-( > Fixed. Sameer > Lionel. > > > > 2014-08-27 18:00 GMT+02:00 : >> >> >> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:10:59 -0700 >> From: Sameer Verma >> To: OLPC SF , Grassroots

Re: [IAEP] In-person, online or both? | OLPC San Francisco

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > How will you participate in the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit > 2014? Let us know, so we can plan accordingly. > > http://www.olpcsf.org/node/212 > > Cheers, > Sameer Poll had auto-expired, but it's

[IAEP] In-person, online or both? | OLPC San Francisco

How will you participate in the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2014? Let us know, so we can plan accordingly. http://www.olpcsf.org/node/212 Cheers, Sameer ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF August meeting

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Aaron Borden wrote: > Hello folks, > > We're back at the downtown campus for this month's olpc San Francisco > monthly meeting. It's this weekend, Saturday, August 9th, from 10AM - > 1PM, at SFSU downtown campus, 835 Market Street in Room 597 (the fish > bowl). >

[IAEP] Community Summit 2014

So, this is the stub of an idea. Feedback welcome and appreciated. Volunteers for both online and offline sessions are much needed. Please write back and let us know onlist or offlist. If you have experience running online sessions, hangouts, etc. you are in demand! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma,

[IAEP] OLPC SF July 2014 meeting

be smaller, and online is expected to include more global locations. Please send in additional agenda items. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olp

Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

tops. To unlock your laptop, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collection_stick Have a great time at the event! On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Friendly reminder. If you are coming to the meeting today, we meet at > In

Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

Here are some relevant posts: http://www.olpcsf.org/node/208 and http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/902 The recording info about the Hangout is at http://www.olpcsf.org/node/209 cheers, Sameer On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Friendly reminder. If you are com

[IAEP] XOVis posts

Two blog posts are up for XOVis. These should do a good job as an intro to XOVis. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/902 http://www.olpcsf.org/node/208 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [IAEP] Video demonstration of Sugarizer server features

Excellent progress! I'm impressed at how you typed in the user ID on Android :-) Perhaps that part should be an easier to remember id, or we need to re-think the workflow. cheers, Sameer On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Lionel Laské wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Since the last version, Sugarizer allo

Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

Friendly reminder. If you are coming to the meeting today, we meet at Inveneo. 972 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103. Sameer On Jun 17, 2014 1:20 PM, "Aaron Borden" wrote: > Hey folks, please note the new location this month. > > Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly

Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

On Jun 17, 2014 6:22 PM, "Sameer Verma" wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Aaron Borden wrote: > > Hey folks, please note the new location this month. > > > > Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly meeting > > on Satu

Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Aaron Borden wrote: > Hey folks, please note the new location this month. > > Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly meeting > on Saturday, June 21st, from 10AM - 1PM. The address is 972 Mission St, > 5th floor, note this is *not* our usual

Re: [IAEP] Virtual Summits

out and IRC sessions. Ubuntu Online Summit 14.06 is going on >> right now. >> >> Something to consider on our end? >> >> http://summit.ubuntu.com/ >> >> cheers, >> Sameer >> -- >> Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >> Professor, Information System

[IAEP] Virtual Summits

Something to consider on our end? http://summit.ubuntu.com/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ __

[IAEP] ‘Wiring the Amazon’ - NYTimes.com

Michael Kleiman's documentary on OLPC in Palestina, Peru. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/opinion/wiring-the-amazon.html Sameer ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listin

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] olpc-sf May Meeting

I'm bringing a XO 4 with the latest Android/Sugar build. I'm also bringing with me a Printrbot 3D printer. We'll try to run a few prints from the XO and see how that goes. See you there! Sameer On May 13, 2014 8:26 AM, "Aaron Borden" wrote: > olpc San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeti

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF April Meeting: Featuring Gonzalo Odiard

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > We are looking forward to a special guest at our OLPC-SF April > meeting. On April 12, 2014 we will hear from Gonzalo Odiard, > contributor extraordinaire to OLPC and Sugar. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:

[IAEP] OLPC-SF April Meeting: Featuring Gonzalo Odiard

1 PM. http://olpcsf.org/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

[IAEP] Guest at April meeting

://godiard.blogspot.com/ Gonzalo lives in Argentina and works with OLPC Australia (https://www.laptop.org.au/). Hope to see you all there! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http

Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf March meeting

DTC 557 - One Laptop Per Child from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM 835 Market St. #557 San Francisco, CA 94103 http://olpcsf.org is currently unreachable via DNS, but it is up and running. Should be fixed soon. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State Un

[IAEP] coffee table books

I'm not sure if I've shared this with the lists before. We produced three coffee table books for our community summits. The books are available for purchase at cost by anyone. Here are some more details: http://www.olpcsf.org/node/206 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, I

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar on any device

-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > Installed the Android APK on the Android build for the XO-4 (which was announced yesterday as well). It's all very slow (video drivers I suppose) but it works. The Gears Activity works. It also shows up in th

[IAEP] Fwd: Message to attendees of OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2013

e> Eventbrite | 651 Brannan St. Suite 110 | San Francisco, CA 94107 -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

[IAEP] keyboarding as a requirement

27;t point out to onscreen vs tactile, but the importance of tactile keyboards for children is an important consideration. Maybe keyboarding will go away altogether once we can speak to our computers like Captain Picard does for his "Tea, Earl Grey, hot", but we are not there yet. cheer

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar oversight board meeting

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Flavio Danesse wrote: > My humble opinion (please stick to one): > > To put into perspective the opinion, I should remember that besides > developing for sugar since 2009, I am also a teacher in high school, so I've > been inside ceibal classrooms during this time.

[IAEP] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

ool. http://volumique.com/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Projec

[IAEP] A robotics session at OLPC SF?

We have the Uruguay Butia robot, a couple of LEGO WeDo kits and a Mindstorms NXT box that we can provide. Any takers on running a session on robotics at the OLPC SF Community Summit 2013? http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/proposal cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor

[IAEP] Community Summit

t's for a great cause). If you need a letter for travel purposes, let us know. olp...@gmail.com If you are not planning on being here, send in a poster! http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/posters Hope to see you all soon! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information S

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:54 PM, John Watlington wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > >> One of the things that makes Sugar the ideal learning platform for >> children (and youth) is the

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

e momentum on the HTML5 activities in Sugar. > > What I'm unsure about is the implementation. Outside of the classic Sugar > shell and activities (say, on a XO), are we envisioning the whole Sugar > experience on Android, UI and all, or are we looking to have Sugar > activities ru

[IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

e classic Sugar shell and activities (say, on a XO), are we envisioning the whole Sugar experience on Android, UI and all, or are we looking to have Sugar activities running on Android (with appropriate mods) but as yet another app? Has there been any conversation on this that I missed? cheers, Sa

[IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2013 - Poster Gallery | OLPC San Francisco

-- Forwarded message -- From: Hilary Naylor Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:46 AM Subject: [OLPC-SF] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2013 - Poster Gallery | OLPC San Francisco To: olpc-sf dear all, Can't make it to the OLPC SF Community Summit this year? Submit to our poster

[IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Call For Proposals: OLPC SF Community Summit 2013

-- Forwarded message -- From: Hilary Naylor Date: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM Subject: [OLPC-SF] Call For Proposals: OLPC SF Community Summit 2013 To: olpc-sf OLPC-SF has opened proposal submission for the 2013 Community Summit held in San Francisco, California during the week

[IAEP] Fwd: Peering into Journal Data

-- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:37 PM Subject: Peering into Journal Data To: XS Devel Cc: Leotis Buchanan Some of you may find this useful. This was written by Leotis Buchanan (cc'd) for OLPC Jamaica projects. We use it to co

[IAEP] an anecdote from Bhagmalpur

ess a lot. So, eventually they pooled money, bought a liter of Diesel and showed up at my Uncle's house, asking him to run the generator, so that they could get on the Internet! What have we done! :-) cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State Unive

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > On 21 May 2013 23:32, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> Speaking of "activities" in the Sugar sense, I was wondering how many >> of the HTML5 apps from FirefoxOS would slide over to our platform with >> li

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > On 20 May 2013 12:19, Bastien wrote: >> >> Sean DALY writes: >> >> > I feel that 0.100 is even more unmarketable than 0.98. >> >> Agreed. Mathematically, it reads like a regression. Instead of >> reaching some definite level of maturity,

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > Perfection is the enemy of the good. > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: >> Hello, >> >> we need to decide if we want the next release to be 1.0 or 0.100. >> >> Here is the features we are planning for it. >> >> * Deve

[IAEP] Use case survey for deployments

from this effort into a report that we'll make available on wiki.laptop.org cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.o

[IAEP] OLPC AU's fantastic resource

Saw this over at OLPC AU (One Education) Facebook page, and thought I'd share it here: http://academy.one-education.org/ A whole bunch of lesson plan ideas and guides. Very nicely done! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF April Meeting

top.org/listinfo/olpc-sf > We'll have various platforms running Pathagar (http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/pathagar-a-book-server) , the offline book server. Sheevaplug, Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi, and maybe an XO. We'll also have the latest build running on the XO-4. Maybe we'll do

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] OLPC-SF March Meeting this Saturday

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Aaron Borden wrote: > Hello, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting the our monthly meeting *this* > Saturday, March 16th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 > Market Street, Room 553. > > Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

For all those who were at the OLPC SF meeting today, Andres Aguirre tells me that the CAD design will be updated in a few days to the newest version. The current design is at http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Mec%C3%A1nica_Buti%C3%A1_V1.8 The rest of this email has l

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Martin Abente wrote: > +1 Is there any way to buy an already assembled one? From you or anyone else > inside the project. > One of the things I want to explore is to see if we can produce these locally in San Francisco. Hence the cc to noisebridge. cheers, Samee

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

I'll bring the Butia robot. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Robotics#Buti.C3.A1_Project Anybody from Noisebridge (cc'd) interested in joining? Cheers, Sameer On Feb 12, 2013 9:09 AM, "Aaron Borden" wrote: > Hello, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting this month's meeting on Saturday, > February 23r

[IAEP] Of aluminum poles and fruitcake

I've got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!! http://youtu.be/dS7-jcsB_WQ Happy Festivus!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus cheers, Sameer ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.

[IAEP] XO lesson plans

Just saw this. http://xolp.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/ Sameer ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

I'll let Fareed know the next time I see him... or just let @fareedzakaria know ;-) cheers, Sameer On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: > Irony: It's not captioned... > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

Click on the names in the text of the post..." We've posted the slides: Matt Keller , Richard Smith, C. Scott Ananian

[IAEP] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/09/how-fast-can-you-learn/ Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

[IAEP] gathering use cases

t of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University ht

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > Indeed, and I recall y'all asking for feedback in this very list about > Nell (feedback that I gave but never heard from since :-)) > > Anyway, this is FASCINATING in so many ways. > 1) this is a pilot (or per-pilot?), when OLPC used to dis

[IAEP] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012 on USTREAM

Live stream at 11:30 am and 1:45 pm Pacific time today! http://ustream.tv/channel/olpc-san-francisco-community-summit-2012 Look for schedule details at http://olpcsf.org/summit Sameer + olpcsf gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop pro

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] send in a poster

441 > C: 98511.04280 > S: rabzkarma > http://www.olenepal.org > > * Visit our Digital Library at http://www.pustakalaya.org * > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> Do you run a OLPC [related] project, but can't make it t

[IAEP] send in a poster

Do you run a OLPC [related] project, but can't make it to the OLPC SF Community Summit this year? Submit a poster! http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2012/posters cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/

[IAEP] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012 - Poster Gallery | OLPC San Francisco

Can't make it to the OLPC SF Community Summit this year? Submit to our poster gallery! Blog post with details at http://www.olpcsf.org/node/71 cheers, Sameer ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://l

Re: [IAEP] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012

Note that we will be hosting SugarCamp++ right after the summit. SugarCamp++ will be Oct 22-24 at the same location. cheers, Sameer On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Registration is now open for the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community > Summit 2012. &g

[IAEP] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012

Registration is now open for the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012. http://www.olpcsf.org/node/70 See you there! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org

[IAEP] getting books and media from the Internet Archive...

Some background here. http://olpcsf.org/node/61 fetch_IA_item script here: https://github.com/rajbot/fetch_ia_item Try it out and see if it breaks. Then fix it or let the author (rku...@archive.org) know :-) cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco

[IAEP] The Agility of One Laptop Per Child with CTO Ed McNierney 06/05 by IE Radio | Blog Talk Radio

Approx. 30 minutes. Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ieradio/2012/06/05/the-agility-of-one-laptop-per-child-with-cto-ed-mcnierney cheers, Sameer ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugar

[IAEP] a little magic, Jamaica style!

om/watch?v=XMAZlPWCkw4 We're jammin', Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] Scratch released under GPL 2.0

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 17:34 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >> This is great. Does this mean that future versions will also be GPL? > > No guarantee, it's up to the Media Lab to decide. > > >> Is there any further news on the Scratch 2

[IAEP] All continents covered.

t's a XO 1.5 When you heat Sugar it caramelizes. What happens to "Sugar" in extreme cold? Hmm... cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.ed

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC library] OLPC/Sugar Doc Sprint Apr 6-10 @ OLPC HQ in Boston

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Holt wrote: > Plz read all the wiki details & RSVP here if you will contribute+attend, as > we will very shortly reach capacity: > >     http://j.mp/xomanual > > 20 People Expected in Person, from 4+ continents: Sameer Verma, Mike Lee, &g

[IAEP] openhatch

, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] Thanks for the Media links... new request

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Folks! > > Thanks so much for all the great media links so many of you sent. I am now > compiling them into a short slideshow for SCalE 10X which I will happily > share when finished.  I will simply put a title on each slide identifying >

Re: [IAEP] Teachers ask programmers / Maestros preguntan a Programadores

rendoILearn >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > >

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-12-01

> ¿Do the children have the time to wait until Sugar is easily usable by > everyone,  not geeks only? > We have children in India who use Sugar quite nicely without any prior computer experience (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/so-whats-working/). In fact, I would add that my

[IAEP] Hypercard in the news...

t.org/story/11/11/30/1720214/why-was-hypercard-killed cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (no

Re: [IAEP] Teaching with computers / Enseniando con Computadoras

a $100 bill but none of the self-actualization of making pesto :-) It all depends on what we are after - making pesto or going on a date! What is Sugar for? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.

[IAEP] OLPC SF Sunday...

2011 Photos from Saturday - http://on.fb.me/n5DHlt OLPC SF Community Summit 2011 Poster Contest of the many Fantastic Projects around the Globe - http://on.fb.me/pSKK4q Nicholas Charbonnier's videos are showing up at http://olpc.tv and http://armdevices.net/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D.

[IAEP] One Laptop per Child day in San Francisco | OLPC San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor Edwin M Lee has declared October 22, 2011 as One Laptop per Child day in San Francisco. What better way to kick off the OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2011! http://olpcsf.org/node/44 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] OLPC SF 2011 Community Summit - Poster contest

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:11:40AM -0700, Cherry Withers wrote: >> >> Rules: >> >>   • Posters will be 13  x 19  inches in size. >>   • Only 1 entry per project. >>   • All artwork and lettering must be original. Copyrighted images are not >>    

[IAEP] OLPC SF Community Summit - Suggested topics

ranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011#Suggested_Topics Registration will open next week. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education P

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS]: Request for certifications of developing an activity

ivation to continue typically goes away. However, if we are able to inculcate in these students, a desire for working on these projects while they are in the course, and integrate them into the community, then there is hope of continued work. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professo

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] Oct 17-21 Doc Camp @ Google HQ, Mountain View, California

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Holt wrote: > This could be a major opportunity -- many Book Sprints within one week to > create many free/open 'Quick Start' guides. > > Perhaps even more so given its schedule aligns so well with > http://olpcSF.org 's own global community summit Oct 21-23 righ

Re: [IAEP] Cannes Lions award for OLPC Australia

top per Child Australia > M: +61 425 239 701 > E: srid...@laptop.org.au > A: G.P.O. Box 731 >      Sydney, NSW 2001 > W: www.laptop.org.au > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org &g

Re: [IAEP] Historian David McCullough endorses constructionism?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > It is a nagging feeling I have that in the lack of understanding of cause > and effect lies a lot of what is wrong everywhere, especially in countries > that do not seem to be able ever to get out of the "subdesarrollo" > (underdevelopmen

Re: [IAEP] Historian David McCullough endorses constructionism?

a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar

S, I realized the importance of scope and switched over to HTML and PHP etc. Someday bulk of the apps will be based on HTML5 or some such thing and we won't have to worry about Wine. We are getting there, but in the mean time we have Wine and other solutions. Whining is good, as long as

Re: [IAEP] Ancient Manners is on Project Gutenberg!

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, James Simmons wrote: > If you've read any of my FLOSS Manual "E-Book Enlightenment" you know > that I've been preparing free e-books and contributing them to the > Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg Canada, and Distributed > Proofreaders Canada.  Yesterday I reach

Re: [IAEP] Membership fees (was: Re: Next slobs meeting?)

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Sun Jun 05 06:33:40 +0200 2011: > >> > >  * Membership fees >> > >> > Could you elaborate what you have in mind here? :-) >> >> It's a prototype idea, not yet discussed anywhere yet. I'd like to know

[IAEP] Jamaica pilots

PC XO 1.5 laptops. We now have a channel on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/olpcjamaica and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129075173804215 The project site is at http://olpcjamaica.org.jm More to come soon. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Prof

Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!

hange. Maybe the reasoning exists, but its not coming forth. It appears to be supply-driven as in Tablets+Android+Cool Stuff. I don't buy that. At least not yet. Definitely interesting discussion, though. Oh, and I do wonder how many people involved in these discussions have *actua

Re: [IAEP] Fieldwork and Research by SomosAzucar's German Volunteer Antje Breitkopf

_ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > Is the original version available somewhere online? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Re: [IAEP] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jim Tittsler wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 20:11, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math >> lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/  ) and use them offline on the XO-1. > [...] >> Could the videos be stored

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Anna wrote: > I've actually made "flash videos" available in a school environment.  As we > all know, Adobe Flash does not work well on the XO.  I download requested > YouTube videos on my Ubuntu desktop at home and use mencoder to transcode > the flv to an avi.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math > lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/  ) and use them offline on the XO-1. > Khan, not Kahn. As in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54 :-) Sameer _

[IAEP] Proclamation, wine, laptops and learning!

. http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625222079022/ and http://picasaweb.google.com/tuxwingsgroup/Olpc# You can join us online today at 11:30AM and 13:45pm Pacific. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/olpcsf-community-summit-2010 cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate

[IAEP] Pathagar: A Book Server

Slides from yesterday's presentation at OLPC-SF. Some of you may find this interesting. http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/689 http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/pathagar-a-book-server http://wiki.laptop.org/images/1/1c/Pathagar-bookserver.zip cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Asso

[IAEP] notes from today's OLPC-SF meeting

big "thank you" to all those who could attend. Notes and photos of the white board are up at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010 Please clean up (see photos for reference) and ...feel free to add items. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer V

[IAEP] Fall 2010...

tan (Carol Ruth Silver, MTSA) – India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma, SFSU) – Jamaica (Sameer Verma & Univ. of the West Indies) – Madagascar (June Kleider, XO-ology) – Senegal (Drew & Lick-Wilmerding Schools) – South Africa (EduWeavers) – San Francisco (Starr King Elementary) – Uganda (UC Ber

Re: [IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > Now that the 10.1.1 release for XO-1.5 is out, it's a good time to > talk about OLPC's software strategy for the future.  We've got a few > announcements to make: > > XO-1: > = > > OLPC wasn't planning to make a Fedora 11 release of t

Re: [IAEP] Problems with "Best OS Image Ever"

> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > Caryl, Double check your dev key. Its possible to erase it out when reinstalling an image. You can always reinstall the dev key. Sameer

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Fri, 18-06-2010 a las 18:24 +0000, Sameer Verma escribió: > >> How do I install this image? I tried the USB method on a XO1 with dev >> key and security disabled, but it still complains about not finding >> the

Re: [IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

org/ >  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/

Re: [IAEP] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria

scoring approach way back for G1G1 activities. Here's that thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org/msg00641.html The idea is to score each attribute on a more granular scale than 0/1 and then weight each attribute based on importance for a particular implementation. che

Re: [IAEP] Working with a commercial entity.

e with SL? I'd be happy to put on my B-school hat and help out with the process, if necessary. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.

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