[Grassroots-l] Favorite Projects for XO Development?

[Walter Bender]

There is nothing ambiguous about the Sugar Labs plans:

In Sugar, have in hand the tools to reinvent how computers are used
for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are readily
integrated directly into the learning experience. Children and
teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms,
reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful
learning activities. Learning can be focused on sharing, criticism,
and exploration. We have a lot of work ahead of us to refine these
tools and to refine the practice around them, but we have a solid
beginning.

We can raise a generation of critical thinkers, armed with the
complementary tools of science and the arts. All of the necessary
tools are freely available under free software licenses. But we do
need to invest in engaging teachers, parents, and children in learning
learning. So let's make it happen.

-walter

2009/2/17  <david at lang.hm>:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>
>> Hello Friends,
>>
>> OLPC will have a booth this weekend (2/20-2/22) at the Southern California
>> Area LInux Expo (SCaLE).  This is a large conference (up to 1000) of
>> open-source aficionados including programmers.  It is a great chance to
>> recruit folks for our team of volunteer developers of Activities for the XO.
>
> I spent a large chunk of time in the OLPC booth last year, and one
> significant problem was that many people in the booth (including myself)
> didn't have a good understanding of the politics and/or current status of
> things.
>
> this year things are _much_ messier, I've been trying to understand things,
> but it's been hard.
>
> could folks who know what's going on make it a point to check mail
> frequently this weekend so that as questions come up that the people there
> disagree on the answer to the question can be fired off and gat a fairly
> prompt answer? it won't stop the wrong answer then, but it can at least get
> clarified rather than repeating the wrong thing all weekend (or worse,
> giving several answers)
>
> if there is a good 'state of OLPC/Sugar/XO/etc' document to point at (such
> as the info that came out in the 'Please update etoys in 8.2.1' thread a
> couple of weeks ago), it would really help make sure everyone is on the same
> page.
>
> I will have my two XO's there, I will try to have them running different
> flavors of DebXO (from USB sticks if nothing else, but quite possibly from
> the NAND), since the future direction is to have them run relativly standard
> distros, having examples of the different distros would be nice.
>
> David Lang
>
>> I am putting together a brochure to pass out at the conference and want to
>> include information about some of the projects and proposals we have.  Could
>> you all take a look at the page listed below and make any additions and
>> updates you would like included?  I need this done by Wednesday Noon (PT).
>> Thanks!
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects_and_proposals
>>
>> Caryl  OLPC Support Volunteer
>>
>> P.S. Excuse the multiple copies of this if you are subscribed to more than
>> one list.  I will get several copies myself.
>
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