Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting
In that vein, I'd love for someone to document how to add new graph-reviewing, labelling, and import/export options to Measure. Using graphs one has made, or looking at a history of graphs made and data gathered, is hard -- not necc. easy enough to use in an ongoing science experiment. --SJ On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:17 -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this >> Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. >> >> >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings >> >> > > Wade, great idea! I would love to attend but unfortunately 3 PM EST > translates to 2 AM Saturday morning. > > I do have an item to add to the agenda, which you and I have discussed > previously. > > I would love for someone on the activityTeam to document how to easily > add new instruments to TamTam. I have added this as a High-impact task > on the ToDo List > > We do have a Nepali volunteer Vrishank Khanal who is trying to figure > this out. Vrishank is brand-new to linux, programming, and open-source > so adding instruments to TamTam may be beyond his current abilities if > the task requires C Programming and/or CSound scripting. He has > contacted Jean Piche. Let's hope he hears back soon. > > > -- > Bryan W. Berry > Technology Director > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org > > ___ > Devel mailing list > de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Activities] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting
I should add - with an in-person meeting in Cambridge http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-open/2009-January/001318.html People who will be focused on the activities chat but want to get together in person are welcome. SJ On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Note: there will also be a global volunteering meeting at the same > time in #olpc from 3-5, and we will drop in and join for some of the > activity discussion. > > SJ > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this >> Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings >> All are encouraged to attend. I will be especially happy to see the >> following kinds of people well represented: >> - Current and former activity developers, maintainers, packagers, testers! >> - Kind souls willing to help slog through and categorize the hundreds of >> Sugar activities at >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/ActivityStatus. >> - Deployment representatives who need activities & activity features >> yesterday. >> - G1G1 participants who want to get involved. >> - Representatives from the other SL teams. >> Hope to see you there, >> -Wade >> ___ >> Activities mailing list >> activit...@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities >> >> > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Activities] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting
Check your time zones: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=30&year=2009&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=1160 See you all at the meeting! -- Prakhar Agarwal Linux User# 474643 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Prakhar "Life is the greatest teacher" ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-01-29
=== Sugar Digest === 1. I have a bad habit of losing myself in programing. Not that I am much of programmer these days, but once I start in on a project, I have a hard time attending to things happening around me. I don't regret my decision to use Turtle Art Portfolio for my presentation at LCA (linux.conf.au) in Hobart last week, but I haven't been able to let it go. I spent too much of my time Down Under debugging Python code rather than debating the larger questions facing Sugar Labs. Nonetheless, I did manage to get things working reasonably well for my talk last week. (I cannot seem to find the link to the videos, but they are posted on line somewhere.) The talk itself was not my most inspired. I let myself get bogged down in some some questions at the end regarding human-centric versus learning-centric design. Had I been on top of my game, I would have been a bit more clear with my answers. Thanks to Mike Usmar, who is the force behind the Computer Clubhouse efforts in New Zealand, I had a second (third and fourth) chance to debug both my code and my talk. From the post talk discussions, I think things went better in Wellington and Auckland. I had a chance to meet the wonderful Wellington Testing Group led by Tabitha Roper at the office of Catalyst, Ltd. There were representatives from the ministry of education there as well. It was a good discussion, about pedagogy and the pragmatics of getting things going in the region. The ministry doesn't tell schools what do to, but they can play a role in helping to spread the Sugar meme by supporting teacher workshops and offering credits toward continuing education when teachers work with Sugar. In Auckland, I had a chance to meet students and faculty at the university. Tabitha's father, who coincidently is studying portfolio assessment, had some great feedback—collectively we have a ways to go, but we are progressing and the vector is pointed in the right direction. (I also saw some student work that has good potential as an alternative Journal/portfolio view—a potential Summer of Code project?) I also met with the teachers of an Auckland school. An independent-minded and inspired group, they are going to start a one-to-one program for middle- and high-school students. My one small contribution to their plans was to relay to them a lesson I learned from Carla Monroy Gomez: use the introduction of the computers as a reason to hold a community celebration that draws the parents into the school as stakeholders. A highlight of my trip was the day I spent with Bill Kerr and Tony Forster in Melbourne on my way between Hobart and Auckland. Tony lives in the countryside about 45 minutes outside of the city. We sat and talked, coded, debugged, debated, and ate a delicious barbecue. I have a long list of things that need improvement. It is real pleasure to spend time with people who are both grounded in the day-to-day needs of the classroom and are fluent in the works of the likes of Marvin Minsky. I learned a great deal from some gifted teachers. (Had I not been up to my nose in Python code, I probably would have learned even more.) 2. Speaking of Minsky, I posted his latest essay learning this week (See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Education_and_Psychology]) in which he discusses ways in which we can "provide our children with ideas they could use to invent their own theories about themselves." 3. A new a non-profit organization, Squeakland Foundation Inc, will take over from Viewpoints Research as the guardians of Squeak Etoys. The new board includes: Tim Falconer, Kim Rose, Walter Bender, Rita Freudenberg, Kathleen Harness, Marta Voelcker, Scott Wallace, Yoshiki Ohshima, and Milan Zimmerman (See [http://squeakland.org/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=9]) === Sugar Labs === 4. Gary Martin has generated another SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:Image:2009-January-17-23-som.jpg|SOM]]). -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 15:57, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Yeah, perhaps we can get something done at FOSDEM? Friday afternoon? > > Sounds like a plan :) I will arrive Friday noon in Brussels and have the > afternoon free for sugar... is there a space to meet and hack now? Yup: http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Events/FOSDEM_2009#Pre-conference_community_meetup See you there! Tomeu >> > We'll have more meetings coming up this year, so if you cant make this >> > one, maybe the next? >> Sure, keep me posted. > > Will do. > > > regards, >Holger > > ___ > 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
Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009
Hi, On Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Yeah, perhaps we can get something done at FOSDEM? Friday afternoon? Sounds like a plan :) I will arrive Friday noon in Brussels and have the afternoon free for sugar... is there a space to meet and hack now? > > We'll have more meetings coming up this year, so if you cant make this > > one, maybe the next? > Sure, keep me posted. Will do. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] SoaS at FOSDEM
David Van Assche wrote: > Bernie, > Can u bring your beagleboard and what you coded for it with you to > Fossdem? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be fascinated to see > what u did Ok! -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Activities] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:17, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi everyone, > Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this > Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings > All are encouraged to attend. I will be especially happy to see the > following kinds of people well represented: > - Current and former activity developers, maintainers, packagers, testers! > - Kind souls willing to help slog through and categorize the hundreds of > Sugar activities at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/ActivityStatus. > - Deployment representatives who need activities & activity features > yesterday. > - G1G1 participants who want to get involved. > - Representatives from the other SL teams. I'd love to be involved, but that's 10PM on a Friday for me... please take good minutes and I'll try to contribute on the lists. Perhaps future meetings could alternate with an earlier time? Regards Morgan ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] SoaS at FOSDEM
Bernie, Can u bring your beagleboard and what you coded for it with you to Fossdem? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be fascinated to see what u did kind Regards, David On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:54, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> It would be cool to demo SoaS at FOSDEM running on a variety of >>> laptops, including the XO, the EEE PC (me and Tomeu have one) and the >>> Classmate PC (Christoph or Aaron should have one). >> >> Pity it's a bit too late to prepare a MIPS soas for the Gdium ;) > > Well, if we had the hardware today we could try a rush. It didn't > take much with the Beagle Board. > > Do we know what Linux distro they use already? > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > ___ > 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
