[IAEP] (fwd) Open Source Schools Think Tank [March, in the UK]
Hi! There are a lot of projects listed we cooperate with (GCompris, Scratch, Ooo4Kids, ...), but I can't see Sugar mentioned anywhere on their page. Maybe someone should tell them about us? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/---BeginMessage--- Caroline Ford of Tux Paint received this, and I suggested passing it along to the T4K lists to see if anyone in the neighborhood would be interested in attending. (Also including Schoolforge). Miles -- I hope that's ok! Thanks for contacting us good luck! -bill! (in California) - Forwarded message from Caroline Ford - From: Miles Berry mi...@opensourceschools.org.uk Date: 28 February 2010 16:33:30 GMT To: caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com Subject: Open Source Schools Think Tank Dear Caroline, The Open Source Schools team would be delighted if you could join us for a cross-sector 'think tank' event on open source in schools on Friday 26th March. We would like to bring together a few of the key members of our own community, including both teachers, technical staff and those with more strategic roles together with representatives of the wider open source world to explore a few common concerns from a range of perspectives, and would be very pleased if you were able to participate in this meeting. We'd like your input on what could and should be done now to support and extend the use of open source applications in education, at a range of scales from handheld devices and open source on Windows, to region wide web-based services. We'd also appreciate some input on the future direction of the Open Source Schools community, in particular addressing why you chose to become involved and what could be done to increase participation amongst those in a similar role to yourselves. Our intention is that the day will result in a set of practical recommendations to Becta for how to strengthen the position of open source in the schools technology ecosystem, together with some idea of the role that the Open Source Schools community might play in this. The 'think tank' will meet at the British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, in their Council Room. We're confident that venue will be conducive to convivial conversations. We have in mind running the meeting from 10 am to 4:30 pm. I do hope you'll be able to attend. Best wishes, Miles. PS - we've been using TuxPaint with our undergraduate and PGCE teacher training students at Roehampton - it's been universally popular, and I suspect more than a few will be taking it into school with them. Many thanks! -- Miles Berry Senior Lecturer, ICT | Roehampton University | roehampton.ac.uk | 0208 392 3241 Community Manager | Open Source Schools | opensourceschools.org.uk | 07779 628656 Blogger | milesberry.net Twit | twitter.com/mberrys, Miles. - End forwarded message - -- -bill! Sent from my computer -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Tuxpaint-devel mailing list tuxpaint-de...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-devel ---End Message--- signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] (fwd) Open Source Schools Think Tank [March, in the UK]
Interesting you should mention this just now, Sascha. After yesterday's meeting, am working on the community page for the Math 2.0 Interest Group at the moment. I can get a picture and a description from the site. What I need from the Sugar community members: Names of contact people: leaders and other community members responsible for, or habitually responding to, communications from the outside Keywords or tags describing the project's relationships with math. Maybe a few active people can respond to this email. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-i...@silbe.org wrote: Hi! There are a lot of projects listed we cooperate with (GCompris, Scratch, Ooo4Kids, ...), but I can't see Sugar mentioned anywhere on their page. Maybe someone should tell them about us? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Kendrick n...@sonic.net To: Tux Paint tuxpaint-de...@lists.sourceforge.net, Schoolforge Discuss schoolforge-disc...@schoolforge.net, Tux Math tuxmath-de...@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:19:38 -0800 Subject: [Tuxpaint-devel] Fwd: Open Source Schools Think Tank [March, in the UK] Caroline Ford of Tux Paint received this, and I suggested passing it along to the T4K lists to see if anyone in the neighborhood would be interested in attending. (Also including Schoolforge). Miles -- I hope that's ok! Thanks for contacting us good luck! -bill! (in California) - Forwarded message from Caroline Ford - From: Miles Berry mi...@opensourceschools.org.uk Date: 28 February 2010 16:33:30 GMT To: caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com Subject: Open Source Schools Think Tank Dear Caroline, The Open Source Schools team would be delighted if you could join us for a cross-sector 'think tank' event on open source in schools on Friday 26th March. We would like to bring together a few of the key members of our own community, including both teachers, technical staff and those with more strategic roles together with representatives of the wider open source world to explore a few common concerns from a range of perspectives, and would be very pleased if you were able to participate in this meeting. We'd like your input on what could and should be done now to support and extend the use of open source applications in education, at a range of scales from handheld devices and open source on Windows, to region wide web-based services. We'd also appreciate some input on the future direction of the Open Source Schools community, in particular addressing why you chose to become involved and what could be done to increase participation amongst those in a similar role to yourselves. Our intention is that the day will result in a set of practical recommendations to Becta for how to strengthen the position of open source in the schools technology ecosystem, together with some idea of the role that the Open Source Schools community might play in this. The 'think tank' will meet at the British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, in their Council Room. We're confident that venue will be conducive to convivial conversations. We have in mind running the meeting from 10 am to 4:30 pm. I do hope you'll be able to attend. Best wishes, Miles. PS - we've been using TuxPaint with our undergraduate and PGCE teacher training students at Roehampton - it's been universally popular, and I suspect more than a few will be taking it into school with them. Many thanks! -- Miles Berry Senior Lecturer, ICT | Roehampton University | roehampton.ac.uk | 0208 392 3241 Community Manager | Open Source Schools | opensourceschools.org.uk | 07779 628656 Blogger | milesberry.net Twit | twitter.com/mberrys, Miles. - End forwarded message - -- -bill! Sent from my computer -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Tuxpaint-devel mailing list tuxpaint-de...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-devel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLj5arAAoJELpz82VMF3DaVLEH/RlCb7KCj4Tn4tOxnMIib1Oh 1yuRjNkehegwA+jnyapNDal2xd9cFFqffsFbk+Ctq2b93K2s9er1TcjyY7IQPgA2 lo1RZa5+2ugpJUqBT/rREnbJBC0XERuptETb02M6MYeZ1yUFvfDMO0AxiorAmiMN 4hweuvZAxV+mEGmjZ2H26/lmjpw/8fco4Zzgt8v17YvNdi6qN4NaDzW1r/3Bg91h
Re: [IAEP] (fwd) Open Source Schools Think Tank [March, in the UK]
olpc-uk list: anybody already going to this event? I'm in London so could go if anyone thought it'd be useful. Martin On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:17:06PM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: Hi! There are a lot of projects listed we cooperate with (GCompris, Scratch, Ooo4Kids, ...), but I can't see Sugar mentioned anywhere on their page. Maybe someone should tell them about us? CU Sascha Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:19:38 -0800 From: Bill Kendrick n...@sonic.net To: Tux Paint tuxpaint-de...@lists.sourceforge.net, Schoolforge Discuss schoolforge-disc...@schoolforge.net, Tux Math tuxmath-de...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: mi...@opensourceschools.org.uk Subject: [Tuxpaint-devel] Fwd: Open Source Schools Think Tank [March, in the UK] Caroline Ford of Tux Paint received this, and I suggested passing it along to the T4K lists to see if anyone in the neighborhood would be interested in attending. (Also including Schoolforge). Miles -- I hope that's ok! Thanks for contacting us good luck! -bill! (in California) - Forwarded message from Caroline Ford - From: Miles Berry mi...@opensourceschools.org.uk Date: 28 February 2010 16:33:30 GMT To: caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com Subject: Open Source Schools Think Tank Dear Caroline, The Open Source Schools team would be delighted if you could join us for a cross-sector 'think tank' event on open source in schools on Friday 26th March. We would like to bring together a few of the key members of our own community, including both teachers, technical staff and those with more strategic roles together with representatives of the wider open source world to explore a few common concerns from a range of perspectives, and would be very pleased if you were able to participate in this meeting. We'd like your input on what could and should be done now to support and extend the use of open source applications in education, at a range of scales from handheld devices and open source on Windows, to region wide web-based services. We'd also appreciate some input on the future direction of the Open Source Schools community, in particular addressing why you chose to become involved and what could be done to increase participation amongst those in a similar role to yourselves. Our intention is that the day will result in a set of practical recommendations to Becta for how to strengthen the position of open source in the schools technology ecosystem, together with some idea of the role that the Open Source Schools community might play in this. The 'think tank' will meet at the British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, in their Council Room. We're confident that venue will be conducive to convivial conversations. We have in mind running the meeting from 10 am to 4:30 pm. I do hope you'll be able to attend. Best wishes, Miles. PS - we've been using TuxPaint with our undergraduate and PGCE teacher training students at Roehampton - it's been universally popular, and I suspect more than a few will be taking it into school with them. Many thanks! -- Miles Berry Senior Lecturer, ICT | Roehampton University | roehampton.ac.uk | 0208 392 3241 Community Manager | Open Source Schools | opensourceschools.org.uk | 07779 628656 Blogger | milesberry.net Twit | twitter.com/mberrys, Miles. - End forwarded message - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep pgpOGhO7Qq61T.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Chapter complete version of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! is available for review
I took some time off this week and took the opportunity to knock out the final planned chapters of my book. which is available here: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.03.05-04.59.13.pdf The title page actually says Make Your Own Sugar Activities! this time, so it looks like someone worked on OBJAVI recently. The new chapters are on using Sugargame to write an Activity based on PyGame and on writing an Activity that supports both new and old toolbars. I did something to hide the Keep button in the new toolbar example that may raise some eyebrows. The PyGame example is a really inadequate flight simulator I threw together. I'm going to ask the FLOSS Manuals people to publish my latest changes. Until they do the PDF will contain material not available on the website. I don't consider the book to be actually finished. I'll probably be polishing the chapters and examples for awhile, and I'm hoping that some of you will want to contribute guest chapters (and author bios for the About The Authors chapter). I still need a cover image for Lulu too. Having said that, I think the book as it stands now is good enough to use. Thanks, James Simmons ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
