<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.laptop.org/chat">http://forum.laptop.org/chat</a> Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. Squeakland/Etoys Testing - San Jose, CA; Hillsborough, NJ; Bigfork, MN; Champaign, IL 2. GSoC Squeakland Education - Buenos Aires, Argentina 3. Dominican College OLPC Chapter - Orangeburg/NYC, New York 4. * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a> * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a> 1. Squeakland Etoys Testing - San Jose, CA; Hillsborough, NJ; Bigfork, MN; Champaign, IL <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tracker.squeakland.org">http://tracker.squeakland.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com"></a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65375">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65375</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 4 XO-1.5s over 3 months Project Objectives: Currently, there is no dedicated user tester group for Squeakland. The education team, being the most active in the Squeakland community have been put to task to test the Etoys program prior to its release. The main objective of this project is to do a rigorous test of the beta version of Etoys against the planned release of Sugar and XO 1.5. 2. GSoC Squeakland Education - Buenos Aires, Argentina <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/ESUG/ESUG.html">http://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~rcaton/ESUG/ESUG.html</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groups.google.com.ar/group/squeakland-education-gsoc-project">http://groups.google.com.ar/group/squeakland-education-gsoc-project</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65377">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65377</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 1 XOs over 4 months Project Objectives: This project involves developing tools in the Etoys/Squeak environment to aid learners, teachers and developers. I plan to use the XO to test these tools and assure they work properly in the platform. In outline, these tools will be: 1) Etoys Paint Tool: The current implementation will be improved in order to support features like zoom, multiple undo, and a select tool, among others. 2) Graphing of Data: Tiles for creating vertical and horizontal grid lines, major and minor tick marks, labels for axes, and a label for the graph will be created to allow students to graph data they acquire in science and mathematics projects. 3) Input/Output of Data From/To Files: Tiles will be created to allow data from the Etoys environment to be output to a file and for information from an external file to be imported into the Etoys environment. 4) Learner and Teacher Feedback: Tiles will be created to allow formative feedback to be provided to learners and teachers as a student progresses through a project. 5) Better Translation Support: The translation framework would be improved in order to allow different =93.po=94 files instead of one big =93Etoys.po=94 file. 6) Wider Font Support: Currently, Etoys has a set of cross-platform fonts to use. It would be desirable to enlarge this set in order to include nicer fonts. The problem is that loading lots of fonts would make the image too big. Code to address this problem already exists, but it needs to be tested and merged with current Etoys code. 7) EtoyMaker: This tool would let developers select a class name and choose the slots and commands they want for their Etoy. It would then compile all the necessary classes and methods to generate the Etoys tiles, etc. Developers will only need to implement the methods of their class, everything else will be generated automatically. 3. Dominican College OLPC Chapter - Orangeburg/NYC, New York <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acrosstheseas-irie.blogspot.com">http://acrosstheseas-irie.blogspot.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65417">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65417</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 10 XOs over 12 months Project Objectives: * Establish a University Chapter in which undergraduate US and Ugandan computer science students collaborate with graduate education students (via Blackboard, wikis, email, etc.) * Collaboration will be charged with creating/programming XO activities in alignment with Ugandan National Curriculum for primary schools. 4. Roadshow In A Box Expansion - Pray, Montana; Los Angeles, California <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Roadshow_in_a_Box">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Roadshow_in_a_Box</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65468">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65468</a> [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a> ] Requests 3-6 XO-1.5s over 24+ months Project Objectives: The purpose of the Roadshow In A Box project is to bring awareness of the XO to as many educators, developers, and people interested in deployments as possible. The machines are used for demonstrations, presentations and workshops at conferences and schools, exhibit booths at expos, and showing to individuals who are interested in becoming a part of the OLPC community. Currently we have only one XO-1.5 which is checked out to the computer lab director at Montana State University. We want to expand this part of our project so that our "clients" can see and try the latest hardware.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>