Dear Subir, Martin Can you please update about the meeting venue and other details to the community mailing list?
Regards Hempal Shrestha On Apr 26, 2014 6:20 PM, "Martin Dluhos" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello dear FOSSians, > > It's my pleasure to announce that Walter Bender, will be arriving to > Kathmandu for one week on May 7. As many of you know, Walter is a long-time > Sugar developer and a cofounder of Sugarlabs who has working tirelessly to > demonstrate the value of active learning using educational technology all > around the world. > > Apart from spearheading the activities of Sugar Labs, Walter is the heart > and soul of Turtle Art, a programming environment for kids young and old, > that has evolved from the Logo programming language developed at MIT. While > in Kathmandu, Walter, with the support of OLE, will be giving a two-day > Turtle Art workshop for grade 5 kids on May 9-10 at Bloom Nepal school in > Patan. Besides Walter, also Bernie Innocenti who volunteered at OLE a few > years back will be joining for the event as a mentor. > > The workshop is scheduled to conclude at Bloom on Saturday May 10 at 3 pm. > After the workshop, Walter is planning give a talk to those from the local > FOSS community who are also interested in the intersection of technology > and education. Last week, I learned from Hempal Strestha that some of you > have even been involved in Sugar development and have collaborated with > Walter in the past. I think that you might be especially interested in > meeting Walter and learning about the latest developments in the Sugar > community from him. For example, a recent project I personally find very > interesting is Sugarizer, port of Sugar to HTML and Javascript which can > run in any modern browser. > > We are planning for the presentation to last about one hour and I would > like to ask those of you who would like to attend to let us know which > specific technical topics/projects you would be most interested in learning > from Walter about. Please respond to this thread with your ideas and we > will coordinate with Walter. > > After the presentation, we will hold a social event at a nearby restaurant > during which you will have an opportunity to meet with Walter and talk to > him informally. We will provide more information about that once we settle > on an appropriate time and location. > > I am very thrilled about Walter's arrival and looking forward to spurring > some stimulating discussions. > > Cheerios, > Martin > > -- > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FOSS Nepal" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
