Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] butiá robot challenges in sumo.uy event

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:24:50PM -0300, Andres Aguirre wrote: Hi, I want to share with you what we was doing the last week here in Uruguay: http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Review Hi Andres, this looks like more excellant work about the butiabot. I was showing

[IAEP] OLPC / Sugar folks in Finland

2011-09-22 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, I was wondering whether anyone here happens to know of anyone doing OLPC / Sugar stuff in Finland? A quick search through the archives and the Web didn't yield much beyond a short exchange between Sameer, Seth, Walter, and Ed back in 2008... Thanks in advance, Christoph --

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OLPC / Sugar folks in Finland

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:51:18PM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, I was wondering whether anyone here happens to know of anyone doing OLPC / Sugar stuff in Finland? A quick search through the archives and the Web didn't yield much beyond a short exchange between Sameer, Seth,

[IAEP] Fwd: [ANNC] pynguin-0.12 (fixes problems running on Windows)

2011-09-22 Thread Frederick Grose
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com Date: 2011/9/21 Subject: [ANNC] pynguin-0.12 (fixes problems running on Windows) To: python-l...@python.org, edu-...@python.org Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application. It combines an editor,

Re: [IAEP] butiá robot challenges in sumo.uy event

2011-09-22 Thread Cherry Withers
Excellent!! On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Andres Aguirre aguir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to share with you what we was doing the last week here in Uruguay: http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Review cheers -- /\ndrés

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2011-09-22 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 08:44 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: We will be having a Sugar Oversight Board meeting on Friday, September 23 at 15:00 UTC (11 EST) on irc.freenode.org #sugar-meeting. We'll be discussing among other topics the Berlin Lab. If you have a topic you'd like to add to the

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2011-09-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 08:44 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: We will be having a Sugar Oversight Board meeting on Friday, September 23 at 15:00 UTC (11 EST) on irc.freenode.org #sugar-meeting. We'll be discussing among

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2011-09-22 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
+1 to use this calendar again Gonzalo On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 08:44 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: We will be having a Sugar Oversight Board meeting on Friday, September 23 at 15:00 UTC (11 EST) on irc.freenode.org

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2011-09-22 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:33 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 08:44 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: We will be having a Sugar Oversight Board meeting on Friday, September 23 at 15:00 UTC (11 EST) on irc.freenode.org #sugar-meeting. We'll be discussing among other topics the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Help needed for childrens with physicals limitations / ayuda para niños con discapacidades

2011-09-22 Thread Andres Aguirre
it will be great! thank you :) if someone knows sugar applications that could be used with mouse and are simple it will be great to do some tests, now I'm using sokoban that has simple interaction and is very interesting. andrés 2011/9/21 kgordon...@gmail.com: Andres: I have a contact at

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Help needed for childrens with physicals limitations / ayuda para niños con discapacidades

2011-09-22 Thread Walter Bender
2011/9/22 Andres Aguirre aguir...@gmail.com: it will be great! thank you :) if someone knows sugar applications that could be used with mouse and are simple it will be great to do some tests, now I'm using sokoban that has simple interaction and is very interesting. Maze, Memorize,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] butiá robot challenges in sumo.uy event

2011-09-22 Thread Andres Aguirre
Thank you Kevin! There are some more pics in flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/butiarobot/sets/ and some videos in http://www.youtube.com/proyectobutia cheers -- /\ndrés On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:24:50PM -0300,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] butiá robot challenges in sumo.uy event

2011-09-22 Thread Steve Thomas
This is a great use of the XO. So for comparison, how much would it cost for an arduino, with video camera, color display, speakers, speech to text capabilites, wireless internet? Plus you get programming environments like Scratch, Etoys and Turtle Art. My guess an XO would win and it does so

[IAEP] First TamTamMini Lesson Resources

2011-09-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, We had our first Tam Tam Mini lesson with the XOs at the new Contributors Program project at Arrowhead School in Pray Montana. I have written it up on our blog and have added a Resources section where you can get and use any of the resources I prepared for the lesson. You will find

[IAEP] Universe Awareness, astronomy education outreach for young children

2011-09-22 Thread Frederick Grose
http://www.unawe.org/ Since 2005, UNAWE has grown to involve more than 500 volunteers, organizations, and governments in 40 countries. UNAWE grew most during the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) in 2009 and is now an important ingredient of the International Astronomical Union's decadal

Re: [IAEP] Universe Awareness, astronomy education outreach for young children

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Leonard
Fred, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Science#Astronomy might be a good place to hang this information on the wiki. cjl On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.unawe.org/ Since 2005, UNAWE has grown to involve more than 500 volunteers, organizations,

Re: [IAEP] First TamTamMini Lesson Resources

2011-09-22 Thread mokurai
On Thu, September 22, 2011 10:56 pm, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, We had our first Tam Tam Mini lesson with the XOs at the new Contributors Program project at Arrowhead School in Pray Montana. I have written it up on our blog and have added a Resources section where you can get and use