[Grassroots-l] Grassroots bootcamp, Day 2

[Stefan Reitz]

Hey Mel,



could you please provide contact Info for Jonathan Austin?

I haven't found him on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Birmingham

and I am allways interested in getting in touch with people doing local (olpc) stuff in BHM. The building local communities thing interests me particularly since I encountered such little interest on the side of the BHM Board of Education.



I wish I could have attended the bootcamp. Pippy (and TurtleArt!) gives me wonderfull fluctuating goosebumpy sensations.



Stefan

> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:19:40 -0400
> From: mel at laptop.org
> To: grassroots at lists.laptop.org; interns at laptop.org; olpc-open at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: [Grassroots-l] Grassroots bootcamp, Day 2
> 
> The grassroots bootcamp continued today with:
> 
> * A discussion led by Jonathan Austin (from the upcoming Birmingham, 
> Alabama deployment) on training volunteers, getting funding, and 
> building local communities. This led into side discussions on grassroots 
> finances and more...
> 
> * Chris Ball gave us all a crash course on Pippy, a learn-by-example 
> programming Activity, and how it can be used to develop Activities and 
> scripts for the XO. Again, the topic was so compelling that a cluster 
> could be found huddled in the back corner talking about 
> internationalization of Pippy, even after plates of food had been placed 
> less than 10 feet away.
> 
> Special guests included Pam Cooney from World Computer Exchange and 
> Cynthia Solomon from the OLPC Learning Team, one of the co-creators of 
> Logo. Cynthia and Francesca Slade also led a roleplay during the 
> afternoon where the rest of us pretended to be 8-year-olds learning 
> Scratch (actually learning Scratch in the process). I don't know about 
> the rest of the "students," but Chris Carrick, Nikki Lee, and I ended up 
> engrossed in exploring forensic ballistics* with a Scratch activity that 
> Chris had created to go alongside...
> 
> All this and more (including - yes, you guessed it, transcripts!) are at 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results#Tuesday
> 
> All errors/emissions/typos in these notes are almost certainly my fault. 
> Please correct/clarify if you see an occasion to improve any of these notes.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -Mel Chua
> 
> *we were strange 8-year-olds, yes.
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