From sridhar at laptop.org.au Fri Feb 3 07:41:06 2012 From: sridhar at laptop.org.au (Sridhar Dhanapalan) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:41:06 +1100 Subject: [Grassroots-l] OLPC Australia education programme Message-ID: Hello everyone, You may be interested in a review I have written of the OLPC Australia education programme: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2012/02/01/creating-an-education-programme/ It contains the video of a talk I gave at the linux.conf.au conference in January, and a more detailed explanation of that talk. Some of the key points: * We have a com?pre?hens?ive edu?ca?tion pro?gramme that highly val?ues teacher empower?ment and com?munity engagement, with a focus on building sustainability. * The invest?ment to provide a con?nec?ted learn?ing device to every one of the 300 000 chil?dren in remote Aus?tralia is less than 0.1% of the annual edu?ca?tion and con?nectiv?ity budgets. * For low socio-??economic status schools, the cost is only $80 AUD per child. * Our pro?gramme is avail?able to any school in Aus?tralia, for $380 AUD per child. * Our programme is schools-centric, with a strong focus on the teacher. * A teacher must undergo training and earn a certification to qualify to receive XOs for their class. * Training is conducted online, and hence scales very well. * We have an online community to provide peer-driven support, assisted by OLPC Australia personnel. * Technology development and deployment is guided by the principle that it must be manageable by non-technical personnel. * Our technology platform is open and not locked-down, providing maximum opportunity for children to learn and empowering schools/communities to own the deployment for themselves. * We are seeing real educational results from our efforts, and are engaged in longitudinal and detailed evaluation. * Our supporters include corporations and members of parliament at state and federal levels, but we can always use more help :) Please have a read if you are interested, and contact us if you would like to take part in our mission. We will be releasing more information on this educational programme in the coming months. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia From teefal at waveplace.org Wed Feb 15 09:32:51 2012 From: teefal at waveplace.org (Timothy Falconer) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:32:51 -0500 Subject: [Grassroots-l] Waveplace Video Blog Message-ID: <83F977F9-2723-4EF7-B61C-B8B6F289AA6D@waveplace.org> Hi everyone, Quite a lot has happened at Waveplace over the last year or two, though you might not know it, given how little we blog or post videos these days. In summary, we've brought laptops to 33 schools, most of them in Haiti. We've trained 165 adults to become mentors. We've created 16 weeks worth of courseware using Etoys and Sugar. All of that is prequel, though, to what we comes next. I often joke that Waveplace's mission is "Nice laptop, now what?" (training) Well, now it's become, "Nice training, now what?" The answer is ... Assessment, Courseware, Outreach, Reflection, Network ... aka, Project Acorn. As Project Acorn unfolds, I'll make video logs instead of written blogs, posting them in rough form to keep folks informed. You can follow along here: http://waveplace.org/news/ or here: http://youtube.com/waveplace or here: http://www.facebook.com/waveplace (please like us) or here: http://twitter.com//waveplace (please follow) I'll be posting a new video every weekday, always at noon, New York time. My hope is to use the videos as a vehicle for recording some of the experience we've accumulated in the last 4+ years, so that others may benefit. And no, I don't like seeing myself on video or hearing myself talk. Quite the contrary. But it's the simplest fastest way to do this. Take care, Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com Wed Feb 15 09:39:48 2012 From: cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com (Chris Leonard) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:39:48 -0500 Subject: [Grassroots-l] [IAEP] Waveplace Video Blog In-Reply-To: <83F977F9-2723-4EF7-B61C-B8B6F289AA6D@waveplace.org> References: <83F977F9-2723-4EF7-B61C-B8B6F289AA6D@waveplace.org> Message-ID: Please contribute to the localization of the Waveplace courseware materials at: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/Waveplace/ cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Timothy Falconer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Quite a lot has happened at Waveplace over the last year or two, though you > might not know it, given how little we blog or post videos these days. > > In summary, we've brought laptops to 33 schools, most of them in Haiti. > ?We've trained 165 adults to become mentors. ?We've created 16 weeks worth > of courseware using Etoys and Sugar. > > All of that is prequel, though, to what we comes next. ??I often joke that > Waveplace's mission is "Nice laptop, now what?" ?(training) ??Well, now it's > become, "Nice training, now what?" ??The answer is ... Assessment, > Courseware, Outreach, Reflection, Network ... aka, Project Acorn. > > As Project Acorn unfolds, I'll make video logs instead of written blogs, > posting them in rough form to keep folks informed. > > > You can follow along here: ?http://waveplace.org/news/ > > or here:?http://youtube.com/waveplace > > or here:?http://www.facebook.com/waveplace??(please like us) > > or here:?http://twitter.com//waveplace??(please follow) > > > I'll be posting a new video every weekday, always at noon, New York time. > > My hope is to use the videos as a vehicle for recording some of the > experience we've accumulated in the last 4+ years, so that others may > benefit. > > And no, I don't like seeing myself on video or hearing myself talk. ?Quite > the contrary. ??But it's the simplest fastest way to do this. > > Take care, > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep From mokurai at earthtreasury.org Wed Feb 15 14:33:21 2012 From: mokurai at earthtreasury.org (mokurai at earthtreasury.org) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:33:21 -0500 Subject: [Grassroots-l] Waveplace Video Blog In-Reply-To: <83F977F9-2723-4EF7-B61C-B8B6F289AA6D@waveplace.org> References: <83F977F9-2723-4EF7-B61C-B8B6F289AA6D@waveplace.org> Message-ID: On Wed, February 15, 2012 9:32 am, Timothy Falconer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Quite a lot has happened at Waveplace over the last year or two, though > you might not know it, given how little we blog or post videos these days. Is it possible for any of us to make contact with your teachers and students? > In summary, we've brought laptops to 33 schools, most of them in Haiti. Has there been any thought of creating sister school relationships around the world? > We've trained 165 adults to become mentors. Are any of them on the mailing lists? Have you showed them my page, The Undiscoverable? > We've created 16 weeks worth > of courseware using Etoys and Sugar. English, French, or Krey?l? What subjects at what levels? Links? Can we add this material to the Replacing Textbooks site for translation to other languages and adaptation to other countries? > All of that is prequel, though, to what we comes next. I often joke that > Waveplace's mission is "Nice laptop, now what?" (training) Well, now > it's become, "Nice training, now what?" The answer is ... Assessment, > Courseware, Outreach, Reflection, Network ... aka, Project Acorn. > > As Project Acorn unfolds, I'll make video logs instead of written blogs, > posting them in rough form to keep folks informed. > > > You can follow along here: http://waveplace.org/news/ > > or here: http://youtube.com/waveplace > > or here: http://www.facebook.com/waveplace (please like us) > > or here: http://twitter.com//waveplace (please follow) > > > I'll be posting a new video every weekday, always at noon, New York time. > > My hope is to use the videos as a vehicle for recording some of the > experience we've accumulated in the last 4+ years, so that others may > benefit. > > And no, I don't like seeing myself on video or hearing myself talk. Quite > the contrary. But it's the simplest fastest way to do this. > > Take care, > Tim > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > Grassroots at lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks From teefal at immuexa.com Wed Feb 15 09:17:25 2012 From: teefal at immuexa.com (Timothy Falconer) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:17:25 -0500 Subject: [Grassroots-l] Waveplace Video Blog Message-ID: Hi everyone, Quite a lot has happened at Waveplace over the last year or two, though you might not know it, given how little we blog or post videos these days. In summary, we've brought laptops to 33 schools, most of them in Haiti. We've trained 165 adults to become mentors. We've created 16 weeks worth of courseware using Etoys and Sugar. All of that is prequel, though, to what we comes next. I often joke that Waveplace's mission is "Nice laptop, now what?" (training) Well, now it's become, "Nice training, now what?" The answer is ... Assessment, Courseware, Outreach, Reflection, Network ... aka, Project Acorn. As Project Acorn unfolds, I'll make video logs instead of written blogs, posting them in rough form to keep folks informed. You can follow along here: http://waveplace.org/news/ or here: http://youtube.com/waveplace or here: http://www.facebook.com/waveplace (please like us) or here: http://twitter.com//waveplace (please follow) I'll be posting a new video every weekday, always at noon, New York time. My hope is to use the videos as a vehicle for recording some of the experience we've accumulated in the last 4+ years, so that others may benefit. And no, I don't like seeing myself on video or hearing myself talk. Quite the contrary. But it's the simplest fastest way to do this. Take care, Tim From rihoward1 at gmail.com Thu Feb 16 01:08:28 2012 From: rihoward1 at gmail.com (rihoward1 at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:08:28 -0800 Subject: [Grassroots-l] OLPC-SF Community Summit coming October 2012 Message-ID: <572F823E-B2EC-404E-AB7C-C016A20B8251@gmail.com> The OLPC-SF Community Summit is coming October 2012. Time to start thinking of topics and fun. Watch for updates at http://olpcsf.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sverma at sfsu.edu Thu Feb 16 13:59:18 2012 From: sverma at sfsu.edu (Sameer Verma) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:59:18 -0800 Subject: [Grassroots-l] All continents covered. Message-ID: Really? It appears so. Thanks to Tony Forster's blog posting. http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/02/xo-laptop-in-antarctica.html We now have a XO 1.5 in Antarctica! You can click on the photo and look for three dots on the hinge in the larger version. Three dots on the hinge indicate that it's a XO 1.5 When you heat Sugar it caramelizes. What happens to "Sugar" in extreme cold? Hmm... cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ From cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com Thu Feb 16 15:12:23 2012 From: cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com (Chris Leonard) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:12:23 -0500 Subject: [Grassroots-l] [IAEP] All continents covered. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: OLPC = One Laptop Penguin Chair? cjl On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Really? It appears so. Thanks to Tony Forster's blog posting. > http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/02/xo-laptop-in-antarctica.html > We now have a XO 1.5 in Antarctica! You can click on the photo and > look for three dots on the hinge in the larger version. Three dots on > the hinge indicate that it's a XO 1.5 > > When you heat Sugar it caramelizes. What happens to "Sugar" in extreme > cold? Hmm... > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Professor, Information Systems > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://commons.sfsu.edu/ > http://olpcsf.org/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep From cbigenho at hotmail.com Thu Feb 16 18:07:01 2012 From: cbigenho at hotmail.com (Caryl Bigenho) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:07:01 -0800 Subject: [Grassroots-l] [IAEP] All continents covered. In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: I think it's obviously "One Laptop/Penguin Chick" Note the baby penguin in the background! GrannieB > From: cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:12:23 -0500 > To: sverma at sfsu.edu > CC: olpc-jamaica at lists.laptop.org; olpc-open at lists.laptop.org; marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org; grassroots at lists.laptop.org; olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; india at lists.laptop.org > Subject: Re: [IAEP] All continents covered. > > OLPC = One Laptop Penguin Chair? > > cjl > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > Really? It appears so. Thanks to Tony Forster's blog posting. > > http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/02/xo-laptop-in-antarctica.html > > We now have a XO 1.5 in Antarctica! You can click on the photo and > > look for three dots on the hinge in the larger version. Three dots on > > the hinge indicate that it's a XO 1.5 > > > > When you heat Sugar it caramelizes. What happens to "Sugar" in extreme > > cold? 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URL: From sverma at sfsu.edu Mon Feb 20 19:47:45 2012 From: sverma at sfsu.edu (Sameer Verma) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:47:45 -0800 Subject: [Grassroots-l] Fwd: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 "Ometepe" released In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Drake Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM Subject: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 "Ometepe" released To: XS Devel Hi, Named after the island for which it was developed, XS-0.7 "Ometepe" is released. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 Changes since beta 2: - Fixed xs-activation listening on IPv6 local Thanks to everyone who has looked at this, and especially to Martin for his help/guidance, and for putting up with high pressure on a tight schedule to get this out the door on time. Today we are installing this on 13 servers to be sent to the island of Ometepe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometepe), with the remaining 19 to follow soon after. I'll send some photos of the deployment early next month. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel at lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel From cwithers at ekindling.org Wed Feb 22 18:57:26 2012 From: cwithers at ekindling.org (Cherry Withers) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:57:26 -0800 Subject: [Grassroots-l] [OLPC-SF] Fwd: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 "Ometepe" released In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Doing this the first time and must admit I'm a Linux novice. I had trouble with the prep of my usb device on this step: ./mkusbinstall.sh /path/to/OLPC-School-Server-0.7-i386.iso /dev/sdb1 in mkusbinstall.sh : livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --reset-mbr "$1" "$2" should be: livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr "$1" "$2" as --format and --msdos are not options in livecd-iso-to-disk Thanks, Cherry On 2/20/12, Sameer Verma wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Daniel Drake > Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM > Subject: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 "Ometepe" released > To: XS Devel > > > Hi, > > Named after the island for which it was developed, XS-0.7 "Ometepe" is > released. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 > > Changes since beta 2: > - Fixed xs-activation listening on IPv6 local > > Thanks to everyone who has looked at this, and especially to Martin > for his help/guidance, and for putting up with high pressure on a > tight schedule to get this out the door on time. > > Today we are installing this on 13 servers to be sent to the island of > Ometepe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometepe), with the remaining 19 > to follow soon after. I'll send some photos of the deployment early > next month. > > Thanks, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel at lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-SF mailing list > OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf > From dsd at laptop.org Wed Feb 22 19:44:48 2012 From: dsd at laptop.org (Daniel Drake) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:44:48 -0600 Subject: [Grassroots-l] [OLPC-SF] Fwd: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 "Ometepe" released In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Cherry, On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Cherry Withers wrote: > as --format and --msdos are not options in livecd-iso-to-disk This means you aren't running Fedora 16 as is noted in the documentation: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Installing_from_USB You may be able to hack around this as you have noted, but I don't know if you will succeed. The important things are to reset the MBR and format as VFAT because I've seen various systems that won't boot off other configurations. Feel free to add sub-notes to the wiki if you are successful. You don't need to create an overlay - this is an install disk, not live media. Thanks for testing! Daniel