[IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-19 Thread Mel Chua
SoaS engineering just proposed a major change-in-direction for the upcoming (Mirabelle) release. See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-March/000906.html for more information - we're asking people to continue discussion on that thread, so please reply there (rather than here). The sh

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I have not been able to get the download to work. Is there a reason this is happening? Caryl From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:28:06 -0400 To: walter.ben...@gmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Ann

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] non-free activities on ASLO

2010-03-19 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Chris Ball wrote: Yes.  We ratified at a SLOBS meeting that non-free activities (or content) should *not* be hosted on ASLO, and attempted to specify what we mean by non-free: I personally think it is v

[IAEP] OLPC/Sugar Contributors Program Mtg (NOW! on #olpc-meeting, 2:30PM Boston Time, Friday)

2010-03-19 Thread Holt
Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * XO-1.5 early production machines now available & shipping: http://blog.laptop.org/2010/02/25/xo-1-5-early-produ

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Alfonso de la Guarda
Hello, I will contact her for spanish translation. This will be fine for my students ! Saludos, Alfonso de la Guarda Centro Open Source(COS) http://www.cos-la.net http://alfonsodg.net Telef. 991935157 1024D/B23B24A4 5469 ED92 75A3 BBDB FD6B 58A5 54A1 851D B

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Gerald Ardito
I thought this was a good intro to the basic principles. I was thinking of my students working with TurtleArt, Scratch, and Etoys and using this to help abstract some of the more general concepts of programming from what they had been doing. Gerald On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Walter Bender w

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 19.03.2010, at 13:19, Walter Bender wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: >> Looks nice :) > > Pretty good. A few places it could be improved. For example, in his > compression example, Page 28, he gets confused about bits and bytes. > And his page on Open Sourc

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Gerald Ardito
Walter, I am looking it over this morning, and seeing how to use it with some of our students. As soon as I have some feedback, I'll send it along. Gerald On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: > > Looks nice :) > > Pr

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Looks nice :) Pretty good. A few places it could be improved. For example, in his compression example, Page 28, he gets confused about bits and bytes. And his page on Open Source is a bit off the mark IMHO. Still, it may appeal to some.

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] non-free activities on ASLO

2010-03-19 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:41:28PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi David, > >> There is a growing ecosystem of non-free activities for the sugar >> and the .xo . Is there an official policy on hosting non-free >> activities on activities.sugarlabs.org? > > Yes. We ratified at a SLOBS

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Accepted as GSoC 2010 Organisation

2010-03-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 21:39, Tim McNamara wrote: > Chris - > You must have known something! Sugar Labs is part of the fold. [1] > Thanks all for helping me along. Now the real fun starts :) Congratulations and good luck! Tomeu > Tim > @timClicks > > [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:36, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Looks nice :) Pity most of our kids don't understand enough english yet :/ If someone wanted to get in contact with the author about translations, it's possible that some teachers in olpc-sur would be interested in helping. Regards, Tome

[IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement

2010-03-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Looks nice :) - Bert - Begin forwarded message: > > From: Andre Lessa > Date: 19. März 2010 05:28:54 MEZ > To: edu-...@python.org > Subject: [Edu-sig] "Computer Science For Kids" Book Announcement > > Hey Python Community, > > I just self published this brand new book and I'm making its PDF >