On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Christophe Guéret <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Christoph, > Good morning, > May I ask what the background of these students is expected to be? >> > This should be students familiar with Computer Science. It's a module that > is open for different Masters diploma. > Okay, cool. > Also (and somewhat related): What kind of class projects do you envision >> the students to tackle? It would of course be excellent if their work could >> fairly directly contribute to what's hapening in the OLPC/Sugar projects >> around the world (plus it could also be an additional motivating factor for >> the students). >> > This could very well be the development of an activity, or the translation > of another one, or the enhancement of some other piece of software - > including Sugar. There could also be some more abstract projects about > deployment plans or so. We will see what ideas the students have but indeed > it would be interesting to aim at a close relation between what they > investigate and what's actually needed. > I know there are these pages with some ideas on it, which I guess I > derived from some needs: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_ideas > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_ideas > Is there more resources we should keep an eye on? > If they're interested in tasks related to touchscreen support then http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Sugar_Shell_Touch_Input and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Activity_Touch_Input are also good resources. But I'm sure others here have more suggestions where to look for such information... > Last but not least: I hadn't realized that there is an ongoing OLPC >> project in Suriname. I only remember some blog posts and e-mails from the >> early days (maybe 2007~2008?) about some Dutch folks considering such an >> effort. Is there further information about the project online somewhere? >> > We are not in touch with them but we have some established contacts with > Surinam. We wanted to plan a deployment somewhere and we picked that > country because of the contacts we have. But things are still in an early > planning stage, the actual deployment will be hopefully taken care of by > the students that will attend the course. > Okay, makes sense and sounds like another great component of that course. Let us know how it goes! :-) Cheers, Christoph > Cheers, > Christophe > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] > > e-mail: [email protected] > > >
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