On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Walter Bender wrote: > There is nothing ambiguous about the Sugar Labs plans:
thank you for this statement, Sugar Labs has been very consistant and straightforward with their plans. it's the OLPC side of the house that has been shifting. David Lang > In Sugar, have in hand the tools to reinvent how computers are used > for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are readily > integrated directly into the learning experience. Children and > teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms, > reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful > learning activities. Learning can be focused on sharing, criticism, > and exploration. We have a lot of work ahead of us to refine these > tools and to refine the practice around them, but we have a solid > beginning. > > We can raise a generation of critical thinkers, armed with the > complementary tools of science and the arts. All of the necessary > tools are freely available under free software licenses. But we do > need to invest in engaging teachers, parents, and children in learning > learning. So let's make it happen. > > -walter > > 2009/2/17 <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> >>> Hello Friends, >>> >>> OLPC will have a booth this weekend (2/20-2/22) at the Southern California >>> Area LInux Expo (SCaLE). This is a large conference (up to 1000) of >>> open-source aficionados including programmers. It is a great chance to >>> recruit folks for our team of volunteer developers of Activities for the XO. >> >> I spent a large chunk of time in the OLPC booth last year, and one >> significant problem was that many people in the booth (including myself) >> didn't have a good understanding of the politics and/or current status of >> things. >> >> this year things are _much_ messier, I've been trying to understand things, >> but it's been hard. >> >> could folks who know what's going on make it a point to check mail >> frequently this weekend so that as questions come up that the people there >> disagree on the answer to the question can be fired off and gat a fairly >> prompt answer? it won't stop the wrong answer then, but it can at least get >> clarified rather than repeating the wrong thing all weekend (or worse, >> giving several answers) >> >> if there is a good 'state of OLPC/Sugar/XO/etc' document to point at (such >> as the info that came out in the 'Please update etoys in 8.2.1' thread a >> couple of weeks ago), it would really help make sure everyone is on the same >> page. >> >> I will have my two XO's there, I will try to have them running different >> flavors of DebXO (from USB sticks if nothing else, but quite possibly from >> the NAND), since the future direction is to have them run relativly standard >> distros, having examples of the different distros would be nice. >> >> David Lang >> >>> I am putting together a brochure to pass out at the conference and want to >>> include information about some of the projects and proposals we have. Could >>> you all take a look at the page listed below and make any additions and >>> updates you would like included? I need this done by Wednesday Noon (PT). >>> Thanks! >>> >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals >>> >>> Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer >>> >>> P.S. Excuse the multiple copies of this if you are subscribed to more than >>> one list. I will get several copies myself. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
