[Grassroots-l] Favorite Projects for XO Development?

[david at lang.hm]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Walter Bender wrote:

> There is nothing ambiguous about the Sugar Labs plans:

thank you for this statement, Sugar Labs has been very consistant and 
straightforward with their plans. it's the OLPC side of the house that has 
been shifting.

David Lang

> 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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