On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:33 AM, David Van Horn wrote: > On 2/15/12 8:27 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: >> >>> On 2012-02-14 09:58:12 -0800, John Clements wrote: >>>> I sent an e-mail to Asumu about a week ago that sneakily tried to get him >>>> to take responsibility, and it sounds like he might be on it. If not, I'll >>>> take the lead. Asumu? >>> >>> I'm still up for it. The application process starts on the 27th but we >>> should do some preparation for it. >>> >>> First of all though, are people interested in this? If we're accepted, >>> any students we get are paired up with mentors, so we'll need some >>> people to volunteer for that. Probably not too many though. >> >> Call for names on dev and user. > > I'm happy to volunteer.
Ditto, if we can get good students to work on online tools for learning Racket. This is tied in with the web-ide.org project I have going with David Janzen. Here are the pieces that I think we need: - a markdown or scribble language for scripting student interactions - a nice way to integrate Whalesong with online learning - window dressing Google's been involved with our project on the App Inventor side, as well, so this could be a good fit also. John > >>> The mentor's responsibility is to get their student up to speed with the >>> codebase/language& community, check up on progress (once or more a >>> week), and formally evaluate the student. >>> >>> Other things we'd need: >>> * an ideas list (the github page should do, with some modifications) >>> * organization admin (I could do this, or anyone else more >>> appropriate) and backup admin. >>> * people willing to review student applications >> >> >> Call for ideas. Set up public code review system as for Chrome. > > I'd like to have Android programs that speak the 2htdp/universe protocol and > support World-style programming. I have a quick mock-up of both; I can play > simple games where one player is running a BSL client on a laptop and the > other player is running a Java client on their phone. I can make this more > concrete if you'd. Google has supported me in the past by supplying phones. > This seems like a good fit. > > David > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
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