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From: Bill Gearhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Oct 15, 2007 9:29 AM
Subject: Children's documentation
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Todd Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Anne,
You mentioned looking for good children's doc w/Webkinz, etc.
The prior gold standard was Lego
I am amazed and inspired by all the wonderful projects and activities that
have arisen from the laptop project -- and though I was skeptical at first,
I have also come to appreciate the constructivist approach to education; I
didn't "get it" until I came to appreciate the notion of allowing childre
Hi. Recently saw an OLPC computer at Ontario Linux
Fest, courtesy of a great presentation by Michael C.
Fletcher. He suggested a brief self-intro as protocol
for joining the list, etc.
Here goes:
Canadian high school teacher, record can be found
here:
http://www.oct.ca/PublicRegister/memberDetails
Hi Ed and all,
I fully appreciate the detail. However, IMHO I think that there is some
re-thinking required re: the traditional "user" documentation. The core of
the OLPC (literally one laptop per child; the model does not work as well if
there is not possession of a laptop for each child) is t
Hi, Michael,
Just a few comments for consideration by everyone:
> ...
> Doc writing conventions:
>
> Some linguistic research has been done on "simplified English" as a
> subset of English to use for low-level learners, and I think that it
> might be a good place to look for ways to simplify the
Wonderful!
Helping to put together volunteers; 3 technical writers have made themselves
available for assisting with documentation; anyone who is interested in
helping work out the "collaborative tools/localization tools" -- please
touch base. They are interested in serving the OLPC project and am
I sent these ideas to Jim Gettys, who suggested that I send them to
the development and localization mailing lists.
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Summary:
* Write/ Edit primary documentation according to an explicit set
of writing conventions designed to minimize ambiguity and complexity
in order to facilitate tran
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 at 11:43:48 -0400, Ed Trager wrote:
> Based on my understanding of a recent discussion I had with licensing
> experts at the institution where I currently work (USA), LGPLv2 or
> Apache or other software licenses which Albert menti
