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all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
projects over IRC Live Chat:<br>
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Then type at bottom:
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AGENDA:
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* Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please
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join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:
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1. Squeakland/Etoys Testing - San Jose, CA; Hillsborough, NJ; Bigfork,
MN; Champaign, IL<br>
2. GSoC Squeakland Education - Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
3. Dominican College OLPC Chapter - Orangeburg/NYC, New York <br>
4. <br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a>
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href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a>
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a>
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1. Squeakland Etoys Testing - San Jose, CA; Hillsborough, NJ; Bigfork,
MN; Champaign, IL<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tracker.squeakland.org">http://tracker.squeakland.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com"></a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65375">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65375</a><br>
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Requests 4 XO-1.5s over 3 months<br>
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Project Objectives:
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Currently, there is no dedicated user tester group for Squeakland.
The<br>
education team, being the most active in the Squeakland community
have been<br>
put to task to test the Etoys program prior to its release.<br>
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The main objective of this project is to do a rigorous test of the
beta<br>
version of Etoys against the planned release of Sugar and XO 1.5.<br>
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2. GSoC Squeakland Education - Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/ESUG/ESUG.html">http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/ESUG/ESUG.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groups.google.com.ar/group/squeakland-education-gsoc-project">http://groups.google.com.ar/group/squeakland-education-gsoc-project</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65377">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65377</a><br>
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Requests 1 XOs over 4 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
This project involves developing tools in the Etoys/Squeak
environment<br>
to aid learners, teachers and developers. I plan to use the XO to
test<br>
these tools and assure they work properly in the platform.<br>
In outline, these tools will be:<br>
1) Etoys Paint Tool: The current implementation will be improved in<br>
order to support features like zoom, multiple undo, and a select
tool,<br>
among others.<br>
2) Graphing of Data: Tiles for creating vertical and horizontal grid<br>
lines, major and minor tick marks, labels for axes, and a label for
the<br>
graph will be created to allow students to graph data they acquire in<br>
science and mathematics projects.<br>
3) Input/Output of Data From/To Files: Tiles will be created to allow<br>
data from the Etoys environment to be output to a file and for<br>
information from an external file to be imported into the Etoys<br>
environment.<br>
4) Learner and Teacher Feedback: Tiles will be created to allow<br>
formative feedback to be provided to learners and teachers as a
student<br>
progresses through a project.<br>
5) Better Translation Support: The translation framework would be<br>
improved in order to allow different =93.po=94 files instead of one
big<br>
=93Etoys.po=94 file.<br>
6) Wider Font Support: Currently, Etoys has a set of cross-platform<br>
fonts to use. It would be desirable to enlarge this set in order to<br>
include nicer fonts. The problem is that loading lots of fonts would<br>
make the image too big. Code to address this problem already exists,
but<br>
it needs to be tested and merged with current Etoys code.<br>
7) EtoyMaker: This tool would let developers select a class name and<br>
choose the slots and commands they want for their Etoy. It would then<br>
compile all the necessary classes and methods to generate the Etoys<br>
tiles, etc. Developers will only need to implement the methods of
their<br>
class, everything else will be generated automatically.<br>
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3. Dominican College OLPC Chapter - Orangeburg/NYC, New York<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acrosstheseas-irie.blogspot.com">http://acrosstheseas-irie.blogspot.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65417">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65417</a><br>
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Requests 10 XOs over 12 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
* Establish a University Chapter in which undergraduate US and
Ugandan<br>
computer science students collaborate with graduate education
students<br>
(via Blackboard, wikis, email, etc.)<br>
* Collaboration will be charged with creating/programming XO
activities<br>
in alignment with Ugandan National Curriculum for primary schools.<br>
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4. Roadshow In A Box Expansion - Pray, Montana; Los Angeles, California<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Roadshow_in_a_Box">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Roadshow_in_a_Box</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65468">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65468</a><br>
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Requests 3-6 XO-1.5s over 24+ months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
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The purpose of the Roadshow In A Box project is to bring awareness of<br>
the XO to as many educators, developers, and people interested in<br>
deployments as possible. The machines are used for demonstrations,<br>
presentations and workshops at conferences and schools, exhibit <br>
booths at expos, and showing to individuals who are interested in<br>
becoming a part of the OLPC community. Currently we have only one<br>
XO-1.5 which is checked out to the computer lab director at Montana<br>
State University. We want to expand this part of our project so that
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