[IAEP] OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM,  <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Tomeu,
>
> Great!
>
> I can handle the translation between the spanish teachers and the french
> developers if the need arises.
>
> Podré apoyar las comunicaciones entre los profesores de Uruguay, Panama y Peru
> por una parte, y los desarroladores en Paris, por si alguien necesita.

Wow, this is getting interesting ;)

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Bests, saludos
>
>
> Samy
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> Quoting Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:
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>> Hi Lionel and all OLPC France,
>>
>> excuse me if this comes too late or isn't to the point, but would like
>> to propose to hack on a mind mapping activity during the CodeCamp in
>> Paris.
>>
>> I think this project has the appeal of being in direct connection to
>> the needs in the field. Teachers from Uruguay, Peru and Panama have
>> asked for such a tool, and have been exploring alternatives that may
>> not be the best: drawing in Paint, using the connectors in Etoys,
>> executing a java app (CMaps) inside the X Activity or using web apps.
>>
>> Happens that a pygtk application for mind mapping already exists and
>> its architecture makes for an easy port to sugar. It's called
>> Labyrinth [0] and was proposed more than one year ago by Jim Gettys
>> [1] though no resources were allocated. Recently, teachers in the
>> olpc-sur mailing lists asked again for it [2] and I gave a quick (2
>> hours) try to sugarize it with some success [3].
>>
>> In [3] you can find links to the activity bundle, a screenshot and a
>> patch to the code in the svn repository.
>>
>> [0] http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html
>> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4577
>> [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001168.html
>> [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html
>>
>> My proposal is for the CodeCamp participants to divide in pairs and
>> each pair to choose one feature to add or bug to fix. At the end of
>> the session, everybody would integrate all the changes and produce a
>> single bundle.
>>
>> Most of the functionality is already in the original pygtk app, it's
>> "just" a matter of exposing that functionality through the Sugar UI.
>>
>> I will try to be in #sugar at FreeNode during the CodeCamp to answer
>> questions.
>>
>> After the CodeCamp, we could send the bundle to teachers in olpc-sur
>> and ask them to try it and give feedback. Also, at some point whoever
>> is interested in following up could contact the authors of Labyrinth
>> and see the best way to upstream the changes.
>>
>> What do you say, looks like a challenge?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) <LLASKE at c2s.fr>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC CodeCamp in Paris on November
>> > 15th.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Five workshops are planned:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ·         Sugar: development and experimentation on Sugar/python,
>> >
>> > ·         School Server: setting up and test of school server on multiple
>> > platform (standard PC, Booba server, CherryPal, …),
>> >
>> > ·         Mono: development of new activities using Mono,
>> >
>> > ·         Pedagogic usage: Feedbacks from Haïti, Ethiopia and Palestine
>> > deployment. Brainstorming with French teachers to find usage and class
>> > activity for the XO.
>> >
>> > ·         French localization: French translators will work all the days to
>> > translate in French, sugar, activities and FLOSS manual.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > If you're interested to meet the French OLPC community and to have a nice
>> > trip to Paris: you're welcome !
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > More information on:
>> >
>> http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=OLPC_France_CodeCamp_15_november
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards from France.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >             Lionel Laské
>> >
>> >
>> >
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