On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:20 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to apologize for my absence over the last weeks. I have
been trying to determine if Sugar is a viable project and if Sugar Labs
is a viable organization.
I find it always worthwhile to question whether I and
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, Marvin has invented new words, but he hasn't invented many, and
he invents them only for the sake of clarity. Over time, even his new
words will become distorted, the meaning muddied, etc.; alas, that is
the way of
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Farning wrote:
It has been a bit of a plug but it looks like we have reach critical
mass for a self sustaining embedded Sugar community.
I love the idea of getting a critical mass around something, but I don't yet
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:42 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the last weeks I have been looking at how we can improve our
release cycle.
Thanks. Next we will need to look at what happens to our product. This
includes ports to other platforms, packaging (yum and apt), and
getting
Excellent. When can we expect to see the dues requirements for
organizations? I would like to go talk to some likely prospects ASAP.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:50 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have put together a brief list of definitions for Sugar Labs
membership.
Please comment
Let me ask a question.
To what end would we limit individual membership *at all*? Is there any
reason not to be as ridiculously inclusive as possible?
We are not limiting _participation_ *at all*. We are proposing to
recognize significant contributors like yourself, and provide a few
small
: Education, economic
development, global commerce, all in ...
LinuxSpace Your linux and unix community - http://www.linuxspace.info
...
Edward Cherlin expands the vision of OLPC (video)
By VeRTiTO(VeRTiTO)
You may know about One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Sugar, and the many
projects inspired
Does anybody here know UNESCO Assistant Director-General for
Communication and Information Abdul Waheed Khan? Perhaps we should
invite him to some relation with us and our work.
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From: FN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Subject:
I find this a surprising statement. Is this a consensus of the
governing board, or your personal opinion?
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Background
For the past couple of months, we have been working on setting up the
governance infrastructure for
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ankur,
We are planning to use XO laptops with Windows at a girls school in rural
area near Kanpur.
Why?
Is that Windows-only, or dual-boot?
I'm located in New York. Can you help? We can talk on
phone if you are in US or Skype.
Do we know if we are on the agenda?
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From: The Clinton Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Clinton Global Initiative live via webcast this week - Sep 24-26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Edward,
On Wednesday, leaders from
Well, if it's Walter, no problems. He has done an amazing job so far,
and we all know that he has the right instincts.
Now we can discuss whom Walter needs to take care of making things
happen while he is setting directions and goals, raising money,
recruiting people and organizations, and such
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are still a few loose ends to tie with the Turtle Art
modification. I am trying to make it into somewhat of a case study
that can be hopefully a catalyst not just to rote imitation but also
to some deductive or
Why aren't we in this, Nicholas? Haven't you been talking to Bill?
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From: Clinton Global Initiative [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Subject: Matt Damon and Wyclef Jean Announce Commitments for Haiti
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
View this
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my role as 'wiki watcher' I see quite a few people register, ask how
they can help, and disappear when no one responds.
We need to get those notes to the Volunteer Coordinators, or point
people to the relevant pages. I
Anybody know anything about this?
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From: Frederick FN Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Subject: [bytesforall_readers] OLPC eyes 1 mn laptop sales in India
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The person who should know the most about these matters, specifically
what Ministries of Education think (or at least what they say they
think) is Nicholas. I have not found him to be as well-informed as I
hoped, but we must ask him. Also, there is supposed to be a paid
employee at OLPC whose job
This is the first time I have heard that G1G1 will start up again on
Nov 17. As far as I can tell, nobody in the outside world has picked
up on this yet.
Is this a leak? Is it true? Has there been any outside announcement?
Since it doesn't show up in Internet news searches, I am certain that
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Robert Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
wolfram's mathematica page says:
*Mathematica* has been ported to the OLPC $100 laptop
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/MathEducationSoftware.html
I can't see it on the activities page - does
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Ivan Krstić
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
There has been some interest expressed in building a mathematics
environment in Python...
No need to build from scratch; it already exists:
http://www.sagemath.org/
, and getting several books
published. Why anybody at OLPC would want to waste the best marketing
time in the year is utterly beyond me.
If you don't think my opinion counts, ask Amazon.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the first time I have heard
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with Ed Cherlin in that if G1G1v2 begins in 5 weeks, now is
the time to get the campaign going. Five weeks isn't a lot of time.
Note - we are
to be transcoded to web
formats?
Sean.
Thanks.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Update: Some of the computer press has picked up the story.
But we could be all over the Mainstream
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Eduardo.
l
2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi everyone.
My name is Paulo Trezentos.
I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica.
Bemvenido!
(Well, that's nearly it for my Portuguese, except for some
I posted a comment on Bryan's call for textbook/narrative creation.
http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html
Let's do this, Bryan.
Where should we set up the workshop? What tools do we need? Wiki,
mailing lists, forums, repository...? I and others
I didn't even know there was an OLPC Mali. There certainly wasn't an
OLPC Wiki page for it until I just now made one. It isn't mentioned on
the Deployments page, either.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/olpc-mali-kids-take-home-the-xo-laptops
OLPC Mali: Kids Take Home the XO Laptops
After introducing
+1 for organization.
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay. How can we learn from this? (Ignore, if you like, who and what the
campaign is for - my point is that we should learn from their tactics
whether or not we agree with their cause.)
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth -- more
than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and
revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to
privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought
is anarchic and lawless, indifferent
What sorts of events would people like to see? SCALE (Southern
California Linux Expo)? Linux World Expo/Open Source Expo? PyCon?
Education conferences? Bioneers? Solfest? ICT4D? Microfinance?
embedded systems? or should we consider splitting the calendar (yet)?
We could have one for events dealing
I just voted for G1G1 on this survey.
Laptop: OLPC XO (amazon.com/xo)
Please join me, and tell your friends. You might have to create your
own account in order to vote.
Also, please let us know of any other such opportunities.
-- Forwarded message --
From: TechRepublic News
to you.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just voted for G1G1 on this survey.
Laptop: OLPC XO (amazon.com/xo)
Please join me, and tell your friends. You might have to create your
own account in order to vote.
Also, please let us know of any other
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward, Could you put the events you come across on the google calander?
Then we can transfer them to the wiki if we are going to have a Sugar
19, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can we set up a place for Gnash-readable videos, and a way to convert
Flash to Ogg Theora? Or can we just upload them to olpc.tv?
--
Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name, And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling
good event listings on various topics.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward, Could you put the events you
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:21 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sugar Lab's has been working on clarifying it's image. How we interact with
our partners defines who we are and for what we stand.
In the past few months, hardware vendors, Linux distributors, and
application developers
I'm not clear on what software we could have ready in time, beyond the
last release. G1G1 starts in three weeks.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Caroline Meeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to do a bit
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from walter, in the recent digest 2008-10-27:
2. What would creating a Sugar Activity require from me and what
benefits would it bring?
I was asked this two-part question from a software developer. The
Sugar Almanac is a
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Caroline Meeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This is a request for technical assistance for Sugar on a Stick.
It looks like we have a pilot school for our USB boot project,
Earth Treasury is making arrangements for two more, in Ghana and
Uganda. Perhaps we can
This is a conference made to order for us, right in our own backyard.
Who would like to propose a presentation? And can we fund people to
come from our deployments to make presentations?
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Human-Centered Computing in International Development
Workshop at CHI '09 Conference
Here we have an open hardware reference design for a laptop that will
run all popular Linux distributions. Has anybody here talked to them
about Sugar?
http://www.viaopenbook.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=1Itemid=2
--
Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:35 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:18 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The problem here is that edubuntu and its packages are in Ubuntu Main,
and for sugar to be in there, there must be no non-free software in
it,
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like an *excellent* plan to me! I'd be certainly glad to
participate and I'm sure will be the same for Tomeu. We can also
involve some Boston local
Some people might find this relevant to our work.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rakesh Biswas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Subject: Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and
Organizational Synergy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Forwarding this
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Aleksey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:44:38AM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
People who could not attend, we also have some photos
from Ryan:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp/Photos
thats fine, but... that could be more valuable
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Luke Faraone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
In order to facilitate non-developer use, I'd like to propose the addition
of the following:
#sugar-users - a channel for non-development how do I use this questions,
akin to #olpc-help
I don't see a need to
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:09 PM, C.W. Holeman II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are some comments on the Sugar Camp Brainstorm session.
Sugarcamp (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_proposal) had a link to:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua/proposals#Sugarcamp_brainstorm
SugarLabs the easiest
Who wants to participate?
SCALE 7x Call For Papers - 2 weeks left
From:
Ilan Rabinovitch
Date:
November 18, 2008
To:
Edward Cherlin
Status:
Pending
Hello,
I hope you are doing well. I wanted to take a moment to send you a
quick reminder about the call for presentations for the 7th Annual
I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site,
http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF
activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications...
One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs
(http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess
FYI.
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From: Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Subject: [PyCon-Organizers] Teaching math using Python
To: pycon-organizers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Tutorial List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The tutorial committee worked this afternoon
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Robert McQueen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Expose JIDs in the UI and allow them to be typed in and approved by
normal subscription requests, allowing collaboration with anyone
whose JID you know
With this, we and our target countries need to start
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Ivan Krstić
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 27, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
OLPC remains incredibly excited by Sugar and looks forward to a long
and
productive working relationship with all the other people who share
this
excitement.
Earlier this
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Aleksey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging process
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert
Can you add something about testing these packages and reporting bugs
in Sugar on specific
FYI. We should list ourselves there. I'll go do that.
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From: Subbiah Arunachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Subject: [bytesforall_readers] USAID has launched GlobalDevelopmentCommons.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL
I take it back. They don't accept outside contributions. They don't
appear to accept new ideas from outside at all. %-[
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI. We should list ourselves there. I'll go do that.
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From
, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I take it back. They don't accept outside contributions. They don't
appear to accept new ideas from outside at all. %-[
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI. We should list ourselves there. I'll
working relationship with all the other people who share
this
excitement.
Edward Cherlin wrote:
We have a three-legged relationhip here:
OLPC Management
OLPC Community
Sugar Labs
My experience at Sugar Camp and elsewhere leads me to the notion that
Michael is correctly describing
Who wants to join in?
-- Forwarded message --
From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008/12/1
Subject: [Edu-sig] Python for Teachers approved, woo hoo
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So I just learned we've gotten a green light for Python for Teachers already.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who's coming?
http://www.fosdem.org/
I'm very likely to make it. Would we want to have talks? A booth, even?
Only lightning talks are still open. We need to get notifications of
conferences at least when the first
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Caroline Meeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The new getting involved page is nice but it doesn't really address the
naive visitor's question of I want to help, what should I do? It seems
Sugar Labs Centric not volunteer Centric.
Maybe supplement it with a How can
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:48 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out the new wiki feature Bernie add to w.s.o.
http://sugarlabs.org/go/WikiTeam/Meetings
We can now embed gcalendars directly into the wiki:)
I added a page for a calendar of conferences of interest to our
Added to OLPC Event Suggestions calendar on Google, see also
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Events.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:52 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great news, Fedora has invited Sugar Labs and OLPC to participate in
FudCon[1] January 2009.
Paul Frields, Fedora project leader,
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Sebastian Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guys,
Rafael and me have been working hard on this proposal we submitted to
USAID. Perhaps we'd like to hear your thoughts on it and comments
since we still have one day for modifications.
+1
This is part of the core
I added a link to this on Alan's Wiki page.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Bill Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/12/alan-kay-after-40-years-dynabook-is-not.html
I have transcribed a section of Alan Kay's recent presentation marking 40
years anniversary of the
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Caroline Meeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I think it would be cool to be able to give everyone SoaS USBs as Conference
Swag at events where Sugar Labs is presenting.
What do we need to do this?
1. A SoaS image we are proud of. I think we are almost there.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Caroline Meeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I think it would be cool to be able to give everyone SoaS USBs as Conference
Swag at events where Sugar Labs is presenting.
What do we need
The Obama Transition is encouraging people to organize house parties
around issues, and let the online community know what they think. They
have explicitly asked people to register their views on what kind of
health care system we want.
And also, this.
http://change.gov/agenda/education_agenda/
Anybody going to be at the Program for the Future conference at the
Tech Museum in San Jose on Monday evening?
-- Forwarded message --
From: Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: Demo opportunity [Re: Program for the Future Conference
at the Tech Museum and Adobe in San Jose Monday
evening. Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, and other luminaries will be there.
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Caroline Meeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I think it would be cool
I missed the beginning of this discussion on slobs. We have a
continuing offer of free server space from Luke Crawford. The only
restriction is on bandwidth. What size of downloads are you looking
at?
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:20 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at
://sourceforge.net/projects/calcrpnpy/ and tell
me what you need done to it?
Regards,
Reinier
Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10 Dec 2008, at 18:41, Walter Bender wrote:
I haven't looked at it in a while, but what plotting engine
I talked with Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, and a member of Creative
Commons (at the 40th anniversary celebration of Doug's Mother of all
Demos) about starting a project to create Free interactive electronic
textbooks. I have also discussed these ideas here, with FLOSS Manuals,
and with some people at
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org wrote:
Hi all,
quote who=Edward Cherlin
The basic idea
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org wrote:
Hi Edward,
quote who=Edward Cherlin
Yes, Moodle will be part of the OLPC School Server, so we will
naturally make full use of it.
Great, it might also be worthwhile looking at the existing Moodle resources
and lessons
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
Edward Cherlin wrote:
I missed the beginning of this discussion on slobs. We have a
continuing offer of free server space from Luke Crawford. The only
restriction is on bandwidth. What size of downloads are you looking
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Sebastian Silva
sebast...@fuentelibre.org wrote:
Friends of our community,
I'd like to introduce you to a project that Rafael, me, Alejandro
(proj.man.) , Antonio (django wiz), Alfredo (theather educ) and Jose
(mathematics professor at the UNMSM) have been
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
hi Donna and other Aussies,
Do you know the folks at Cybersource?
http://www.cyber.com.au/press/government_laptop_best_value_solution.html
Here is a good article on it:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Anil Jaggi jaggia...@gmail.com wrote:
Pls. follow this links to understand the present ongoing education
systems and mental status o parents like me.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20081209/dplus1.htm
appreciate to get your comments, feedback
Happy
I find it incomprehensible that your MAA-sponsored Web site
http://www.math.metrostate.edu/welcome/ is only for Windows and
Internet Explorer, given the importance of Mac OS and Linux in
education. I see that the page has not been updated since 2003. Do you
need help? I can probably get some Free
work to Nicholas any more.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/17/226807/macedonia-rolls-out-ncomputing-clients-for-all-school.htm
180,000 units
1.8 M in India...
-walter
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anybody evaluated Ncomputing's
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 13 Dec 2008, at 01:53, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 11 Dec 2008, at 00:24, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Reinier
Add to this Earth Treasury's mission: to do whatever is vital to the
success of OLPC and Sugar Labs, but out of their scope. Our projects
include
o Electricity and Internet for villages.
o Microfinance for international business, such as e-commerce.
o Two diskless computers and a USB stick per
Welcome.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Donna Benjamin do...@cc.com.au wrote:
I think there is a steadily
growing number of people keen to _do_ something productive to contribute
to the project. For some people that might just be buying a machine via
G1G1 - but I'm more interested in
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_as_Service_Learning
I've spoken to a number of people about creating an on ramp and eventually a
marketing channel by having developed country students, with good computer
and
FYI. I just now applied on the issues of education and global poverty.
http://www.change.org/jobs/bloggers
Be a Blogger for Change.org!
Want to blog on an issue you are passionate about for an audience of
hundreds of thousands of activists and nonprofit leaders?
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
=== Sugar Digest ===
5. There is also Proposals Section (See
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/GettingInvolved#Proposals)
in the wiki for aggregating information about potential grant
opportunities for
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote:
Hello,
Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Donna Benjamin do...@cc.com.au wrote:
I think there is a steadily
growing number of people keen to _do_ something productive to contribute
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and
teacher training materials.
Ed, can you please include a URL when you make
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:19:54PM -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote:
It's getting to be time to buy tickets for XOCamp 2, which is in under
a month now. Those of us who'd like to come
NEWSLETTER FOR GO TEACHERS LAUNCHED: The American Go Foundation has
created a newsletter targeted at go teachers. The Sensei newsletter
addresses an audience of enthusiasts who are teaching go in
after-school programs, at libraries or community centers or during
classroom visits, editor Roy Laird
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone -
The Human Interface Guidelines [1] have been stagnant for some time,
and I'm starting an initiative to remedy the situation. This effort,
as I see it, has two components: 1) update the contents of
I just now put up the idea of One Laptop Per Child in US schools on
the Barack Obama issues site, change.org. I also suggested that One
Whole Education Per Child in the US independent of economic status
would support the same development worldwide. You can vote for my
proposal at the URL below if
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
=== Sugar Digest ===
5. There is also Proposals Section
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
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Hi again,
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:02:22PM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04
to help
with the education resource activities on for CSIRAC, the last
first-generation computer.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/
I'll help with any such project.
Regards Roland
2008/12/16 Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein meta
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
*Big Bold Disclaimer - these opinions are strictly Martin's. No
statement here is formal, I'm just waiting for a timing-bug to rear
its ugly head.*
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Edward Cherlin echer
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there specific projects that students @ yale's Access to Knowledge
program
might address around OLPC?
Short answer: a multitude. But first, link please? I have found the
first three conferences, but nothing for a2k4 in
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:27 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
I have been looking at how we communicate scheduled events and meeting.
Embedding gcalendars in mediawiki are a little flacky:( An example
can be seen at http://sugarlabs.org/go/WikiTeam/Meetings .
Does anybody know
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From: John Dada johnd...@fantsuam.org
Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: Textbook project
To: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
Dear Edward
Our training program had taken on the challenge of training pre school
children and children up to 18 years,
http
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Sebastian Silva
sebast...@fuentelibre.org wrote:
2008/12/17 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Caroline Meeks
solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
wrote:
funding
possibilities? Several companies put in a million dollars each to get
OLPC started. How about a few thousand here and there to speed up
actual deployments and make them more effective?
Thanks,
Jameson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15
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