[IAEP] XO alumni become code developers

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hey Daniel,

thanks a lot for the information, I'm really looking forward to
hearing/reading about your experiences on this project. :-)

Saludos,
Christoph


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:42 PM, S. Daniel Francis <francis at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> 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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-- 
Christoph Derndorfer

volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net]

e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
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