For many people, the easiest starting point for reporting tests of SoaS is on the Wiki, at the appropriate subpage of http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Getting_Involved, such as http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Getting_Involved/Testing/Soas-beta_20090423
Instructions for download, installation, and testing are provided there. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are welcome to email to the Sugar developers list or post a ticket > in Trac (dev.sugarlabs.org) or post it on irc.freenode.net #sugar or > send it to Sebastian, but the latter is probably the least scalable of > the options. > > -walter > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Kathy Pusztavari > <ka...@kathyandcalvin.com> wrote: >> Walter, how does one report problems with Soas - directly to Sebastian >> Dziallas or is there a place for that? If to Sebastian, what is the email >> address? >> >> -Kathy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> [mailto:iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Walter Bender >> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:40 AM >> To: community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> Cc: iaep; sugar List >> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-05-11 >> >> ===Sugar Digest === >> >> The discussion about pedagogy on the IAEP list intensified this week. >> My takeaway from the discussion is that while we won't (and don't need >> to) reach consensus about "one right way" to teach, we must have consensus >> around our goals as a community or our efforts will become too diffuse to be >> of any practical use; we are not engaged in an academic exercise-we are >> touching the lives of real children on a global scale. Indeed, the primary >> reason we spun One Laptop per Child from MIT (and Sugar Labs from One Laptop >> per Child) is because we intend to deliver "things to think with" to >> learners everywhere. >> >> As a community, we have consensus that Sugar and Sugar activities should be >> freely and readily available to learners everywhere. This would suggest that >> the developer community continues to strive to make it "simple" to create >> and share Sugar activities and its efforts to create versions of Sugar that >> run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. >> >> But what is Sugar? At one level, Sugar is an API that provides a unified >> framework for activity developers to support collaboration, reflection, and >> sharing in their programs. But those features were chosen with a purpose: to >> encourage learners to engage in authentic problem-solving and a critical >> dialogue about whatever problem in which they are engaged. This engaged, >> learners will develop skills that help them in all aspects of life. >> >> Sometimes that dialog is with your peers, sometimes it is with a teacher or >> mentor. Sometimes it is open-ended and sometimes it is within the context of >> structured instruction. In every case, it involves expressing, debugging, >> critiquing, and reflecting. In every case, it is enhanced by "the hard >> things to learn", Alan Kay's "non-universals", e.g., reading and writing; >> deductive abstract mathematics; model-based science; etc. >> >> The culture of FLOSS, with its emphasis on ''en plein air'' debugging and >> critique, is part of our pedagogy. Sugar embodies the message that everyone >> has an opportunity and responsibility to contribute to our knowledge >> commons. That contribution need not be Python code. Members of the Sugar >> community must: >> >> * explore, share, evaluate, and debate best practices; >> * provide technical and pedagogical support; and >> * create new learning activities and pedagogical practice. >> >> ---- >> >> Roland Gesthuizen has a concrete set of suggestions for teacher >> participation in our community: >> >> * report back issues that make using the Sugar interface difficult when used >> it in the classroom (collaborate) >> * develop and share lessons built around applications that work on Sugar >> (curriculum) >> * share by word of mouth, blog and twitter with colleagues that we are using >> Sugar (communication) >> * ask deep and hard questions about the learning that goes on when students >> use Sugar (pedagogy) >> * work to answer these questions (research) >> * and more... >> >> ===Help Wanted=== >> >> In the run up to the June Beta release of Sugar on a Stick, Sebastian >> Dziallas has asked for help with testing all of the activities being >> considered for inclusion. We'd like to be more thorough in finding any >> problems so that we can be sure to address them in time for the final >> release in September/October. >> >> ===In the community=== >> >> The OLPC France Sugar Camp meeting will be held in Paris on May 16 (See >> http://sugarcamp.eventbrite.com/). >> >> There will also be a Sugar meeting on the 17th (See >> Marketing_Team/Events/MiniCamp_Paris_2009). >> >> A team of Babson College management students will be working with Sugar Labs >> beginning this fall as part of a Management Consulting Field Experience >> (MCFE) Program. >> >> ===Tech Talk=== >> >> Christian Schmidt led a Design Team meeting this weekend that covered topics >> such as improvements to the Home View, a clock extension on the Frame; >> support for printing within Sugar; a global strategy for keyboard shortcuts; >> and a global dictionary (See >> http://meeting.laptop.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090509_1013.html). >> >> The Food Force team has a new release and is looking for feedback (Download >> the .xo bundle from http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/downloads/list). >> >> ===Sugar Labs === >> >> Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP >> mailing list (Please see [[Image:2009-May-2-8-som.jpg]]). It is worth a >> close look this week. >> >> -walter >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. 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