[IAEP] XO alumni become code developers

[S. Daniel Francis]

Hi,
Just something I want to share about that event Flavio organized
yesterday where I attended.

After listening to a talk about Gstreamer and Python (Flavio was the
speaker), I wanted to start a project, not very related with Sugar,
but planning a plugin for Turtleart in a very far future. I wanted to
do it with the best students, but Flavio requested me to do it with
the others. Students interested in Python, but who didn't start never
their own project.

So, if they accept, I will be a co-mentor/supervisor of a group of
students who don't know much more than a "Hello World", showing them
the the ways to start and develop a project. Where the learning
process is more important than the resulting code.

My current interest is about documenting all the work and share the
experience in my abandoned blog. At the moment I'm going to post in
Spanish, and after some posts I'll share a digest in English.

Cheers,
Daniel Francis.

2012/12/2 Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>:
> Let me stand up and rejoice that nowadays you need several hands to count XO
> alumni that went on to write code!
>
> Photographic evidence in the link that Flavio shares
>
> Flavio Danesse has been one of the "game changers" in this, mentoring a few
> at first, and now many more.
>
> Kids mostly use School-issued Classmates running Ubuntu nowadays, as XOs are
> given only to Elementary School kids in UY, and the Classmates are not
> blocked as the XOs are.
>
>
>
> personally for me this means that I need no longer worry so much about
> getting MSP430 to work on XOs or Sugar, as between Nell from OLPC and other
> developments in the field , the platform is moving.
>
>
> El día 1 de diciembre de 2012 23:05, Flavio Danesse
> <fdanesse at gmail.com>  escribió:
>
>> Y cerramos el año !!:
>>
>> (Dejo las fotografías por si alguien quiere verlas)
>>
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/109539712663773273915/1DeDiciembreDe2012CierreDePython_joven2012
>>
>> Felices vacaciones !!
>> Feliz fin de año !! o en su defecto Feliz fin del Mundo !!
>>
>> Mis agradecimientos a quienes colaboraron con este evento:
>>
>> La Directora y la Subdirectora del Liceo de Villa Rodriguez, por abrirnos
>> el
>> liceo y aguantarnos todo el sábado y
>> Al padre de Daniel por traer a Daniel, Ezequiel, Ignacio y Rafael.
>>
>> Y muy especiales felicitaciones a Daniel Francis y Agustín Zubiaga por
>> iniciar su primer experiencia laboral en olpc.
>>
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