Thanks Tomeu Yeah - I'm already thinking a little about the way he uses it - and maybe something for the preschoolers (I know it's target is 6-12 but some kids are quite adept). By the time I get around to something he'll have probably outgrown it - but hopefully my baby daughter will be at Beta tester stage by then ;)
I'm still unsure on what to do about a presentation though... have to have a good think about it tomorrow and do a bit more research. Closing date for submission of talk summary is 30th - so might have to just leave it if I have nothing concrete. Regards Steve On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > 2009/6/26 Steve Dalton <steve.dal...@gmail.com>: > > Hi All > > > > Just went on IRC channel - but no-one around - so I'll try here. > > > > Steve Dalton here from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. I'm an > experienced developer - mainly C/C++/Java/Groovy - but also dabble with > Ruby/Python, just starting out playing with Sugar development > > > > I was kindly donated 5 XOs a while back and I have been trying to get a > bit of a local OLPC developers group started here in QLD. Have young kids > and my (almost) 4 year old is already getting stuck into Sugar and working > things out which makes me think you guys are onto something really awesome - > I'd love to help in some way. > > > > Anyway - one way I think I might be able to stimulate some local activity > is by doing some sort of live demo on developing with Sugar. I was hoping to > demo something at Barcamp Brisbane next month and possibly something at the > OSDC (Open Source Developers Conference) in Brisbane later this year if it > works. I have made one of my paper submission for OSDC a Sugar one but It's > sitting in my drafts folder until I can be sure I have something that has > half a chance of working out (I like jumping in at the deep-end but don't > want to make a complete fool of myself). > > > > Does anyone have any good suggestions on what to do? I've done the Hello > world demo and had a look at some of the activities already developed... but > was hoping to do something a little more interesting with some "cool" value > to get people interested. Are there any canned demos or tutorials around > that anyone can recommend? Might give me some ideas. > > Not that I know, though my recommendation would be to check out how > your kid is using Sugar and think of how the learning experience could > be improved. Most experienced developers will be happier to help if > it's something that addresses a real need than if it's something done > out of pure curiosity. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > Many thanks in advance > > Steve > > > > -- > > I did have a signature, but the dog ate it. > > > > google:steve.dalton | skype:spidieman | msn: m...@steve.dalts.net | > yahoo:daltonsp | aol: spidie100 | twitter: @spidie | mynetfone:09203861 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > -- I did have a signature, but the dog ate it. google:steve.dalton | skype:spidieman | msn: m...@steve.dalts.net | yahoo:daltonsp | aol: spidie100 | twitter: @spidie | mynetfone:09203861
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