Re: [IAEP] PyCon 2010 Invitation
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 21:28, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Think there would be interest in the Sugar View Source feature? And how it is being used in the field? And maybe about python-related performance issues we have found in our use of it? AFAIUI, Python has still much to grow in desktop application development. Regards, Tomeu -walter On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@canterburyschool.org wrote: Hello, I'm the coordinator of the poster session for the national Python programmers conference in Atlanta, Feb 19-21 2010, and a long-time lurker on this list. I'm writing to invite anyone with a Pythonic topic to submit a poster proposal and to come to PyCon if you can, or to submit a virtual poster, if you can't make it to Atlanta. Poster sessions are new to us, and we're hoping they will offer more people a chance to present on a more diverse array of topics. We're also looking for virtual posters (5 min videos), particularly from the education community, both students and teachers. For more information about the poster session visit http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/posters/ and for the conference in general (including registration fees, lodging, etc) go to http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/posters/ The official deadline for poster submissions is the end of the month, but the proposal process is a very simple one, only requiring a few paragraphs of description. In addition, it's possible that we will be accepting poster proposals after that date on a space available basis. Also, the virtual poster deadline is considerably later. I'm sorry I didn't get this to the Sugar community sooner - I had assumed, since the Python and Sugar communities overlap a bit, that you probably were aware of what was happening with PyCon, but I now realize that I was probably assuming too much. In any case, I think that both communities might benefit from some Sugar related posters or virtual posters, so I hope that someone will come up with something. I should also mention that there is some financial aid is available to attend PyCon - please check http://us.pycon.org/2010/registration/financial-aid/ for more information. So please share this with developers, colleagues and students, and if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks, Vern Ceder, Poster Session Coordinator, PyCon 2010 -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose - Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vce...@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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 -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] PyCon 2010 Invitation
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 21:28, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Think there would be interest in the Sugar View Source feature? And how it is being used in the field? And maybe about python-related performance issues we have found in our use of it? AFAIUI, Python has still much to grow in desktop application development. Indeed. With the development of Unladen Swallow, performance issues are particularly hot right now, and the View Source feature has always interested programmers. Cheers, Vern Regards, Tomeu -walter On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@canterburyschool.org wrote: Hello, I'm the coordinator of the poster session for the national Python programmers conference in Atlanta, Feb 19-21 2010, and a long-time lurker on this list. I'm writing to invite anyone with a Pythonic topic to submit a poster proposal and to come to PyCon if you can, or to submit a virtual poster, if you can't make it to Atlanta. Poster sessions are new to us, and we're hoping they will offer more people a chance to present on a more diverse array of topics. We're also looking for virtual posters (5 min videos), particularly from the education community, both students and teachers. For more information about the poster session visit http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/posters/ and for the conference in general (including registration fees, lodging, etc) go to http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/posters/ The official deadline for poster submissions is the end of the month, but the proposal process is a very simple one, only requiring a few paragraphs of description. In addition, it's possible that we will be accepting poster proposals after that date on a space available basis. Also, the virtual poster deadline is considerably later. I'm sorry I didn't get this to the Sugar community sooner - I had assumed, since the Python and Sugar communities overlap a bit, that you probably were aware of what was happening with PyCon, but I now realize that I was probably assuming too much. In any case, I think that both communities might benefit from some Sugar related posters or virtual posters, so I hope that someone will come up with something. I should also mention that there is some financial aid is available to attend PyCon - please check http://us.pycon.org/2010/registration/financial-aid/ for more information. So please share this with developers, colleagues and students, and if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks, Vern Ceder, Poster Session Coordinator, PyCon 2010 -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose - Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vce...@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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 -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose - Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vce...@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] PyCon 2010 Invitation
And there is actually quite a bit of healthy competition for performance between the various python VMs. PyPy for example is generally faster (http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-benchmarking.html) than Unladen Swallow, CPython or even CPython+psyco, but lacks compatibility to the CPython C API (just ctypes). Sorry for the offtopicness. 2009/11/24 Vern Ceder vce...@canterburyschool.org: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 21:28, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Think there would be interest in the Sugar View Source feature? And how it is being used in the field? And maybe about python-related performance issues we have found in our use of it? AFAIUI, Python has still much to grow in desktop application development. Indeed. With the development of Unladen Swallow, performance issues are particularly hot right now, and the View Source feature has always interested programmers. Cheers, Vern Regards, Tomeu -walter On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Vern Ceder vce...@canterburyschool.org wrote: Hello, I'm the coordinator of the poster session for the national Python programmers conference in Atlanta, Feb 19-21 2010, and a long-time lurker on this list. I'm writing to invite anyone with a Pythonic topic to submit a poster proposal and to come to PyCon if you can, or to submit a virtual poster, if you can't make it to Atlanta. Poster sessions are new to us, and we're hoping they will offer more people a chance to present on a more diverse array of topics. We're also looking for virtual posters (5 min videos), particularly from the education community, both students and teachers. For more information about the poster session visit http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/posters/ and for the conference in general (including registration fees, lodging, etc) go to http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/posters/ The official deadline for poster submissions is the end of the month, but the proposal process is a very simple one, only requiring a few paragraphs of description. In addition, it's possible that we will be accepting poster proposals after that date on a space available basis. Also, the virtual poster deadline is considerably later. I'm sorry I didn't get this to the Sugar community sooner - I had assumed, since the Python and Sugar communities overlap a bit, that you probably were aware of what was happening with PyCon, but I now realize that I was probably assuming too much. In any case, I think that both communities might benefit from some Sugar related posters or virtual posters, so I hope that someone will come up with something. I should also mention that there is some financial aid is available to attend PyCon - please check http://us.pycon.org/2010/registration/financial-aid/ for more information. So please share this with developers, colleagues and students, and if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks, Vern Ceder, Poster Session Coordinator, PyCon 2010 -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose - Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vce...@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- 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 -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose - Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vce...@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 ___ 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] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5
Chris, I agree with Gerald on either Get Books or Get IA Books (not both). Get Books is still being worked on by Sayamindu Dasgupta but perhaps he could get it in shape for inclusion in time. Right now it doesn't work on .82, but I can't see that being an issue. Get IA Books works on either but is limited to the books in the Internet Archive. There are only about a million books there! It is, however, ready to go. It isn't a popular download on ASLO but it deserves to be. You might also consider Read Etexts, because of its text to speech with highlighting feature and its own built in book search. It only works with Project Gutenberg titles, so no pictures. The present version is useable, but I'm working on a new version that supports word wrapping on PG texts and saving font size and speech preferences (pitch and rate). This is a popular download on ASLO. I've never tried the IRC Activity so I'm not knocking it, but I wonder if children would find that useful. They already have Chat and Speak. If you're going to include Read you should consider what evince modules, etc. to include with it. With the right modules Read can do DJVU, .cbz, and EPUB documents as well as PDFs. DJVU in particular is useful for Internet Archive books. James Simmons Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:26:22 -0500 From: Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5 To: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, de...@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 9403b1570911231226j58f91cafhbce60f25d00c...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Chris, I would suggest at least one of the Activities to get books, like Get IA Books. Otherwise, this list looks good. Thanks. Gerald ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: Gallaudet participates in Google program to caption YouTube videos
I've mentioned previously about the need for captioning in web video... This just in: News from today's Daily Digest (an internal Gallaudet PR web rag) http://news.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Gallaudet_participates_in_Google_program_to_caption_YouTube_videos.html Gallaudet is one of 14 universities and other organizations partnering with Google to test its new speech recognition software that is able to automatically create captions for YouTube videos. WAMU radio recently interviewed President Davila, Dr. Cindy King, dean of ATLAS, and Cheryl Heppner, a member of Gallaudet's Board of Trustees and the executive director of the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons, about this new program. President Davila said in the interview: It was really amazing, another indication for what technology can do to improve quality of life for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, Online news article featuring President Davila and Dr. King: Gallaudet Uses New Technology, Opening Youtube To Deaf And Hard Of Hearing http://.wamu.org/news/09/11/19.php Online news article featuring Ms. Heppner: Despite New Technology, Internet Accessibility Lags for Deaf and Hard of Hearing http://wamu.org/news/09/11/20.php Both news articles link to Real Audio and Windows Media versions. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
