Re: [IAEP] XOCamp diplomas? + beg for housing
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: 2. Housing beg I will be in Boston from the night of the 12th (Monday, arriving on a late train) to that of the 17th (leaving by train on the morning of the 18th). I am confident that I can, if necessary, find housing independently of this list; but it would be nicer to be staying with other XO people. If anybody has a couch/room available, please let me know privately. Thanks. We need an [[XO couchsurfing]] page. I'll get back to you on the availability of our Cambridge couch. Please post to the list rather than privately - or at least keep me in the loop too. :-) Hey, it's a big couch (-: Jonas, I take it you need a place too? I and Andrius Kulikauskus, too. Please update with your own couch info: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_couchsurfing When is R night? SJ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] FOSDEM'09 Community Meetup
Dear all, OLPC Europe kindly agreed to allow us to use their facilities for the community meetup! :-) Please add your name to the list at http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Events/FOSDEM_2009 by January 31st if you're planning to attend and (if you're using a nickname on the SugarLabs wiki) send me your full name offlist since name badges are required to get to the offices (it's in a secure facility). Also, I will be booking my flight to Brussels today... Looking forward to seeing you there. Cheers, Christoph Tomeu Vizoso schrieb: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 04:47, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi all, plans are underway when it comes to representing OLPC / Sugar at FOSDEM'09 (http://www.fosdem.org/2009/) taking place in Brussels (Belgium) on the weekend of February 7... Also the idea to have a community meetup in the Brussels on the day before FOSDEM has been floated and it sounds like there's enough interest to really make it happen. I've started collecting some information on http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Events/FOSDEM_2009 - please add your thoughts, comments and ideas there or discuss them on the list. Added myself and have proposed talks during the FOSDEM to the GNOME and Fedora dev rooms. To the people who plan to attend that extra day around FOSDEM, what would you like to see discussed? Also, do people prefer talks, workshops, round tables, ... ? Thanks, Tomeu -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Aiban's thoughts on SL funding/bounties
There was a comment on my blog post I thought folks might be interested in (from http://blog.melchua.com/2009/01/08/melavailabilityfree/). SLOBS might need to do the first, as I imagine #1 would involve The Legal Paperwork Stuff, but #2 and #3 can be community, for sure. Thoughts? -- Good for you. But no need to limit this new opportunity to exclusively a voluntary role. For people like me, it is now easier to determine where my OLPC related donations and mindshare should go to in order to support OSS-education. Some ideas: 1) Sugarlabs should create a way to become a supporting “member.” One time donations are great, but harder to budget payroll on for an enthusiastic team of developers. Plus, it gives donors bragging rights when they pull out their “membership card” to show their buddies. 2) How about an activity bounties page? I know some people who would be more than happy to put a bounty on for improvements on the video chat activity. 3) OLPC will happen, and very soon, but probably not through the XO brand (at least not exclusively). OSS and cheap hardware will be key to this, and it will not be limited to 3rd world countries. Seems like a nice niche for consulting. I know who I would NOT be calling if I happen to be sponsoring a school to establish OSS based learning. Let the world know you are available and you might be pleasantly surprised. Anyway, I strongly believe that history will show this is all for the better for all of us. Cheers! By Aibun on Jan 8, 2009 | Edit ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] XOCamp diplomas? + beg for housing
ok, our couch is taken up by jameson (and other folks the other nights o the week)... others pls continue updating that page with couch info! cheers, SJ On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Brian Jordan bcjor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: 2. Housing beg I will be in Boston from the night of the 12th (Monday, arriving on a late train) to that of the 17th (leaving by train on the morning of the 18th). I am confident that I can, if necessary, find housing independently of this list; but it would be nicer to be staying with other XO people. If anybody has a couch/room available, please let me know privately. Thanks. We need an [[XO couchsurfing]] page. I'll get back to you on the availability of our Cambridge couch. Please post to the list rather than privately - or at least keep me in the loop too. :-) Hey, it's a big couch (-: Jonas, I take it you need a place too? I and Andrius Kulikauskus, too. Please update with your own couch info: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_couchsurfing When is R night? Thursday (as in MTWRF) SJ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar update
Over the last two days, many people involved in developing and distributing Sugar have taken the opportunity provided by FUDCon to meet, talk, find common ground, and most importantly, find a way forward. We started off the day with a brief situation analysis lead by Walter Bender. Not much needs to change with the 'upstream' Sugar learning platform .84 release. Some hoped for features might not make it into the release. But, the release will happen on time. The bigger question is, 'What are we going to do about the upcoming 9.1 XOos release.' By XOos I am referring to the customized version of Fedora that OLPC was optimizing for the XO. A group of Sugar developers, past and present OLPC employees, and members of Fedora community spent a rather long and exhausting day with GregDek sorting out the difference between XOos and stock Fedora. By leveraging our strengths, and admitting our weakness, we can release Xoos 9.1 as a custom Fedora spin under the standard Fedora release process. Dependencies need to be pruned. Patches need to be pushed upstream. And again, some things may not make the quickly approaching feature freezes. Most importantly, the release will happen. Thanks Fedora. David ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
