Welcome Donna! Thanks for the XO's :-) If you manage to create a meeting in Melbourne I'll do my best to attend.
Cheers Martin On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Donna Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've long been a passionate advocate of the OLPC project, and followed > with interest the development and creation of sugarlabs. > > As conference director for linux.conf.au in Melbourne earlier this year > I oversaw the distribution of 100 XOs to delegates at the conference, > and have recently tried to follow up with them to see how they're doing. > > Am also intending to continue working with XO owners, developers, > teachers and learning researchers on community development, and project > awareness in 2009. > > I'm particularly interested in cross-pollination between education > and learning experts and developers to further the development of sugar > as a platform for learning. I'm also keen to understand the cross- > cultural issues encountered during deployments so we can adapt as > necessary. > > I introduced the idea of building communities of practice to some people > in the Aussie OLPC community, getting local groups of XO owners > gathering with teachers and children to work together on testing, > learning, discovering and documenting their experience. Have already > had a few informal gatherings with some of the developers who got an XO > at LCA - intending on doing more of that too. It would be brilliant to > tap into the broader community to get a TODO list of tasks to accomplish > and hack on. > > I think a handful of you already on the list will recognise me, as I've > been drawn in on the odd conversation, so thought it was time to step > aboard and say Hi Everyone! > > cheers > Donna > > -- > Donna Benjamin - Executive Director > Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au > ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414 > open source - facilitation - web services > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
