On 6/14/2011 9:50 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:
On 2011-06-14, at 9:36 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
The thing that irritates me about this attitude of don't consider kids as equal is that
we DO consider them as equal in other frames... we expect so much of them in terms of linguistic
and cognitive
but, yeah... being young, time seems to go by very slowly, and just sitting
around fiddling with something, one accomplishes a lot of stuff in a
relatively short period of time.
as one gets older though, time goes by ever faster, and one can observe
that less and less happens in a given
Why not use a wiki to collaborate and organize thoughts and information?
-Carl
From: fonc-boun...@vpri.org [mailto:fonc-boun...@vpri.org] On Behalf Of CHM
de Beer
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:21 AM
To: fonc@vpri.org
Subject: [fonc] Consolidation and collaboration
Hello fonc
That was also what I was thinking.
In fact the suggestion of Marius reminds me of the combination of ad-hoc
documentation and discussion that is happening on the c2.com wiki, see
for example this article about documenting Alan Kay's definition of OO:
Would there be value in a platform for us to; capture all the ideas and
initiatives, distil them into groups, reduce them to a handful concepts to
explore, and finally focus all our efforts on.
I believe so, for all definitions of platform.
Back in 196x, we considered this, but elected to
On 2011-06-15, at 8:55 AM, Ian Piumarta wrote:
If a wiki is the kind of database you had in mind, please feel free to make
use of:
http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki
Thanks for setting this up, Ian. When I go to Log in/ create account I don't
see any way to actually create an account. I tried both
+1
For an example of how wonderful and also not-Wikipedia this can be, check
out:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortlandPatternRepository
If you haven't seen this yet, it's the best wiki ever, a sprawling
hyperlinked conversation that covers just about every concept in
programming, with lots of
Thank Ward Cunningham, nearly fifteen years ago, long before the appearance
of Jimmy Wales and his ilk. Of course, the idea of a Pattern Language is
due to Christopher Alexander, in the seventies. And as for where he got
it...
Dethe,
When I go to Log in/ create account I don't see any way to actually create an
account.
Sorry about that. I have enabled account creation. (IIRC it was disabled
following the vpri wiki being hacked.)
Regards,
Ian
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I believe it is the first wiki and it was created with purpose: allow a
community to share ideas on line.
iPhone means iTypo - please forgive
On Jun 15, 2011, at 13:14, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote:
+1
For an example of how wonderful and also not-Wikipedia this can be,
On 6/15/2011 9:06 AM, Dethe Elza wrote:
On 2011-06-15, at 8:55 AM, Ian Piumarta wrote:
If a wiki is the kind of database you had in mind, please feel free to make
use of:
http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki
Thanks for setting this up, Ian. When I go to Log in/ create account I don't
see any way to
We're having some invited talks this Friday at One Laptop per Child's
offices on Narrative Interfaces. Full talk description here:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/64747.html
I've been working on building a small modular growable direct system
along the lines of several others discussed on
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Ian Piumarta piuma...@speakeasy.netwrote:
Dethe,
When I go to Log in/ create account I don't see any way to actually
create an account.
Sorry about that. I have enabled account creation. (IIRC it was disabled
following the vpri wiki being hacked.)
On 2011-06-15, at 2:44 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
The talks will be live-streamed and also available for download after
the event. I hope the audience here finds the topic of interest.
--scott
Very interested, thanks for the links!
--Dethe
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On 2011-06-15, at 3:42 PM, Dale Schumacher wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Dethe Elza de...@livingcode.org wrote:
In fact, I'm interested enough in the block structure visualization that
I've been porting just the blocks, without the Scratch semantics and
runtime, to the web. You
Great subject and looks very interesting!
Cheers,
Alan
From: C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org
To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org
Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 2:44:56 PM
Subject: [fonc] Narrative Interfaces
We're having some invited talks this
I like it. My son is very keen on Scratch (although he prefers Lua
these days), but we picked up an Arduino kit last month, and I'm
looking forward to playing with that.
His eyes kind of glazed over looking at the C code, as simple as it is
for Arduino. I got the impression he was just happy to
On Monday 13 Jun 2011 8:47:49 PM Alan Kay wrote:
It would be great if everyone on this list would think deeply about how to
have an eternal system, and only be amplified by it.
The picture I had in mind was a interconnection of systems that grow in an
interdependent way by absorbing
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Dethe Elza de...@livingcode.org wrote:
Glad you like it. How old is your son? Maybe we should organize a Vancouver
Geek Kids, or meet up at
Maker Faire next week. Or there is this: http://www.tedxkidsbc.com/
TEDx kids looks wonderful - thanks for that link.
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