Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:
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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Squeakland/Etoys Testing - San Jose, CA; Hillsborough, NJ; Bigfork,
MN; Champaign, IL
2. GSoC Squeakland Education - Buenos Aires, Argentina
3. Dominican College OLPC Chapter - Orangeburg/NYC, New York
4.
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
1. Squeakland Etoys Testing - San Jose, CA; Hillsborough, NJ; Bigfork,
MN; Champaign, IL
http://tracker.squeakland.org
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65375
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Requests 4 XO-1.5s over 3 months
Project Objectives:
Currently, there is no dedicated user tester group for Squeakland. The
education team, being the most active in the Squeakland community
have been
put to task to test the Etoys program prior to its release.
The main objective of this project is to do a rigorous test of the beta
version of Etoys against the planned release of Sugar and XO 1.5.
2. GSoC Squeakland Education - Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/ESUG/ESUG.html
http://groups.google.com.ar/group/squeakland-education-gsoc-project
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65377
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Requests 1 XOs over 4 months
Project Objectives:
This project involves developing tools in the Etoys/Squeak environment
to aid learners, teachers and developers. I plan to use the XO to test
these tools and assure they work properly in the platform.
In outline, these tools will be:
1) Etoys Paint Tool: The current implementation will be improved in
order to support features like zoom, multiple undo, and a select tool,
among others.
2) Graphing of Data: Tiles for creating vertical and horizontal grid
lines, major and minor tick marks, labels for axes, and a label for the
graph will be created to allow students to graph data they acquire in
science and mathematics projects.
3) Input/Output of Data From/To Files: Tiles will be created to allow
data from the Etoys environment to be output to a file and for
information from an external file to be imported into the Etoys
environment.
4) Learner and Teacher Feedback: Tiles will be created to allow
formative feedback to be provided to learners and teachers as a student
progresses through a project.
5) Better Translation Support: The translation framework would be
improved in order to allow different =93.po=94 files instead of one big
=93Etoys.po=94 file.
6) Wider Font Support: Currently, Etoys has a set of cross-platform
fonts to use. It would be desirable to enlarge this set in order to
include nicer fonts. The problem is that loading lots of fonts would
make the image too big. Code to address this problem already exists, but
it needs to be tested and merged with current Etoys code.
7) EtoyMaker: This tool would let developers select a class name and
choose the slots and commands they want for their Etoy. It would then
compile all the necessary classes and methods to generate the Etoys
tiles, etc. Developers will only need to implement the methods of their
class, everything else will be generated automatically.
3. Dominican College OLPC Chapter - Orangeburg/NYC, New York
http://acrosstheseas-irie.blogspot.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65417
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Requests 10 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
* Establish a University Chapter in which undergraduate US and Ugandan
computer science students collaborate with graduate education students
(via Blackboard, wikis, email, etc.)
* Collaboration will be charged with creating/programming XO activities
in alignment with Ugandan National Curriculum for primary schools.
4. Roadshow In A Box Expansion - Pray, Montana; Los Angeles, California
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Roadshow_in_a_Box
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65468
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Requests 3-6 XO-1.5s over 24+ months
Project Objectives:
The purpose of the Roadshow In A Box project is to bring awareness of
the XO to as many educators, developers, and people interested in
deployments as possible. The machines are used for demonstrations,
presentations and workshops at conferences and schools, exhibit
booths at expos, and showing to individuals who are interested in
becoming a part of the OLPC community. Currently we have only one
XO-1.5 which is checked out to the computer lab director at Montana
State University. We want to expand this part of our project so that
our "clients" can see and try the latest hardware.
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