Another day of EduJAM is over. The Event coordinators from Ceibal Jam set an impressively high bar for future conferences.
The morning centered around Status and Plans reports from deployments. Plan Ceibal started the day with a session on the technical status and efficacy of the project. Representatives of Nepal, Rwanda, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina participated in a panel discussion about the status and plans for their deployments. The reports were mainly from people implementing technical aspects of the project rather than official spokes people. As such, they were remarkably open and constructive. The third session was about Sugar on non-XO hardware. It is an open question which several deployments are studying. The afternoon was an unconference. There were three tracks in which speakers gave a series of 30 minute talks. The format worked well. Other Sugar and OLPC events have gotten a bit unruly as people's passions overflowed. This event had a lot of listening and learning followed by conversations over dinner. The unconference session gave a chance for many people to give uninterrupted 30 minute talks of personal interest. Participants were able to 'vote with their feet' about what they personally found valuable. Tomorrow kicks off the first day of the code sprint. Wish us luck. Thanks to everyone that participated. I made a (significant to me) investment in this event. The Return on Investment for the community and Activity Central was quite a bit above what I expected! david _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel