[IAEP] OLPC's Negroponte offers to help India realize $35 tablet

2010-08-04 Thread Kevin Cole
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/7rWFpqPC7HE/olpcs-negroponte-offers-to-help-india-realize-35-tablet.ars ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish

2010-08-04 Thread James Simmons
Since I announced that the FLOSS Manual Make Your Own Sugar Activities! is available on Lulu there have been several emails expressing interest in getting the book translated into Spanish. This makes sense; some of the more successful OLPC deployments have been in South America. I don't speak or

[IAEP] Forward: Points of View - a tribute to Alan Kay, second printing available

2010-08-04 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
From Ian... -- Yoshiki ---BeginMessage--- Folks, Some of you missed the first printing of our book Points of View -- a tribute to Alan Kay, supplies of which were depleted less than six hours after the announcement. We have made a second printing of the book that is now available (in

Re: [IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activities! in Spanish

2010-08-04 Thread James Simmons
Werner, Thanks for your interest. I'll notify the lists when the project is set up. In the meantime any interested persons can sign up for an account on FLOSS Manuals. Anyone with an account can edit any book. You can also sign up to get emails when a book is updated. I don't use a lot of

[IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness

2010-08-04 Thread Holt
Thanks to the great volunteers who joined the conf-call: Now comes the fun part pulling together what may well be the biggest community summit OLPC/Sugar have ever had -- with a core focus on Deployment Realness around the SF Bay area /and/ deep testimonials / skill-building / expert

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit Oct 22-24 -- highlighting Sugar Labs / Realness

2010-08-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Alas! There were several weekends under consideration. This is the only one I couldn't make. I will be traveling out of state that whole week. I really wish I could be there. For those of you that can attend, Southwest Airlines has a bargain fare sale going on right now (until Aug 5), so