[Olpc-socal] News for the New Year!

[Ruben Robles]

Hi Caryl,

Happy New Year!  Sounds like you and your team are doing great work!  I
checked out the OLPC wiki and noted that the main dev environment = sugar
and is done in Python.  I'm a big Python enthusiast and I've written a few
utility programs for work (parsing data, generating data, etc.).  Are there
any contributor opportunities out there for some Sugar/Python projects?

Regards,

Ruben Robles

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi DNLE Team, OLPC friends and and Sugar Labs friends,
>
> First of all... Happy New Year to all!
>
> Some of us recently completed a Stanford Venture Lab MOOC course, *Designing
> a New Learning Environment (DNLE)* with lots of fun and a successful
> project that we are proud to say placed #4 of over 140 projects in the peer
> voting process! If you would like to see the website that is a result of
> our project, *LocalFi*, go to http://www.localfi.org  It is still a work
> in progress, and we would welcome folks who find the project interesting to
> join us in further building the website, filling it with content, deploying
> our localfi systems, building teacher training materials, and the like.
> Just let me know and I can introduce you to our team and have your name
> added to our mailing list.
>
> Now that that course is complete, *Coursera* has a shorter one (5 weeks
> vs 10) from the *University of Edinburgh* (Scotland) on *E-Learning and
> Digital Cultures*. It begins on January 28. If you would like more
> information about this free open class you can find it at:
> https://www.coursera.org/course/edc  If any of you would like to join me
> in this new learning adventure, enroll and let me know. I don't think there
> will be any team projects this time, just nice to have some friends in the
> class to share ideas with.
>
> Finally, here's a "heads up" reminder that the 11th Annual Southern
> California Linux Expo will be held at the Hilton LAX Feb 22-24. We will
> have a booth area for OLPC and Sugar Labs (shared area) and I have been
> approved for at least one talk. If you would like to present, the regular
> presentations are closed, but there may be openings in the Education track
> and the fun evening event, "speed geek,"(which they call "UpSCaLE") where
> you get 5 minutes to talk about 20 slides that are advanced automatically,
> one every 15 secs. This is a great place for people with small deployments
> to do a "show and tell." To learn more about SCaLE11X check this web site:
> http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x  If you plan to come, we would
> love to have you help with our booth. In past years volunteers who help get
> their registration fees waived. It will probably be the same this year. Be
> sure to let me know if you are coming and can give a few hours (or more,
> it's fun!)  to help out.
>
> Hope to see you all online soon and at SCaLE in February!
> Caryl
>
>
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