[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess
I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site, http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications... One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs (http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess software, including a tutorial, on the OLPC XO, which is now in the hands of half a million children around the world. We would like to discuss with you an expansion of Scholastic Chess to dozens of countries and in time to many millions of children. In particular, we have the opportunity to create free electronic teaching materials for distribution on the laptops. International Master Josh Waitzkin has offered his book, The Art of Learning, if we can work out the licensing with the publisher. -- 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] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess
Brilliant, Ed! --g On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site, http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications... One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs (http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess software, including a tutorial, on the OLPC XO, which is now in the hands of half a million children around the world. We would like to discuss with you an expansion of Scholastic Chess to dozens of countries and in time to many millions of children. In particular, we have the opportunity to create free electronic teaching materials for distribution on the laptops. International Master Josh Waitzkin has offered his book, The Art of Learning, if we can work out the licensing with the publisher. -- 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
Re: [IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess
This is great. I don't think that gnuchess is installed by default in all country deployments, but I'm pretty sure that it comes standard in at least one large deployment. Providing an awesome translated manual would be amazing. --Seth On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant, Ed! --g On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site, http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications... One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs (http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess software, including a tutorial, on the OLPC XO, which is now in the hands of half a million children around the world. We would like to discuss with you an expansion of Scholastic Chess to dozens of countries and in time to many millions of children. In particular, we have the opportunity to create free electronic teaching materials for distribution on the laptops. International Master Josh Waitzkin has offered his book, The Art of Learning, if we can work out the licensing with the publisher. -- 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 -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess
Hi Seth: This is great. I don't think that gnuchess is installed by default in all country deployments, but I'm pretty sure that it comes standard in at least one large deployment. In the Etoys image for OLPC there is a chess in the game section. Please look at this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QZnAgyWu_a0/R6dvVAPa4bI/AEA/2QHleN1q-XM/s1600/ajedreseoys.PNG Providing an awesome translated manual would be amazing. +1 Luis Pato Acevedo _ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
