Sounds like a lot of fun :-) <div class="gmail_quote">El sep 10, 2011 6:44 p.m., "Christoph Derndorfer" <<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>> escribió: > Hi all, > > the formal part of day 1 of Sugar Camp #2 is slowly but surely coming to an > end. Back in May I found David's daily updates from eduJAM! very useful so I > thought I'd also briefly write up my impressions from today's events. > > Today was focused on a series of presentations: > > (1) Deployment panel > > We started into the day with a one hour panel providing an overview of > several deployments. I spoke about the current status quo of Plan Ceibal and > looked at some of their plans for 2011. Tony introduce OLE Nepal's project > and then shed some light on developments in Rwanda such as their server and > content bid. Mitch then spoke about eKindling's efforts in the Philippines. > Finally Jonathan gave a brief overview of the Nosy Komba project he and many > others in the French community have been working on. We tried to keep things > short and sweet but ended up talking a little too long, yet there was still > quite some time for discussing questions from Bastien and the audience. One > OLPC Europe staff member opened a pandora's box about evaluation which led > to some particularly interesting exchanges and comments. From my point of > view this was a good start into the day, especially since it provided a > broad overview of some of the things which are happening in the OLPC / Sugar > world. > > (2) Astronomy > > After the OPPP ("One Pizza Per Participant" - Copyleft Gary Martin;-) lunch > session Pierre Léna, a French astrophysicist and member of the Academy of > Science, who presented a very cool and inspiring way to use the XO to learn > about the moon. The core ingredients were a small telescope providing an x16 > zoom factor in combination with some good learning materials. I honestly > loved the idea and found it to be one of the coolest uses of the XO in quite > a while. You can find more information about this effort at > <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon#Learning_Resources">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon#Learning_Resources</a> > > (3) Nosy Komba > > Jonathan and Xavier presented the deployment on Nosy Komba which is one of > three OLPC projects on Madagascar (another one is supported by the OLPC SF > community and supposedly there is also an OLPCorps project there which might > have survived). They currently have 215 XOs and regularly have volunteers > from a business school here in Paris go down there to support the project. > Xavier provided an in-depth report of a 15km wireless link which they built > to connect the school to the Internet and highlighted some of the > interesting challenges this effort ran into. Even though I had heard about > the deployment from Bastien during eduJAM! it was great to learn many more > details and see plenty of photos. It definitely sounds like the project is > going well and I can't wait to see how the project will progress over the > coming months and years. > > (4) Nutrition > > As part of her Master's thesis Stefanie Nobel developed a nutrition focused > program (supported by Danone Research) which is planned to run on Sugar but > is currently implemented as a Web application. While I write these lines > Sascha Silbe is working with her to deal with some of the bugs she's running > into on Sugar. The program is definitely very interesting and somewhat > reminds me of the Saludame project in Uruguay so I hope that we'll see it > run on Sugar soon. > > (5) Story telling (A toi de jouer) > > The last presentation of the day was focused on a story telling activity > called "A toi de jouer" which is currently being developed by Florent Pigout > in collaboration with Bastien and Lionel from OLPC France. Again, things are > still a little rough around the edges but it's a very promising effort which > I'm sure many children and teachers around the world will find useful once > it becomes available. > > As always plenty of interesting discussions and conversations were had > during the breaks and it was great to catch up with many people I hadn't > seen in a while, plus finally be able to meet rgs, Mitch, Stefanie, etc. > > Anyway, in my opinion it was definitely a great first day and now I'm really > looking forward to the many work tasks which we'll be tackling tomorrow and > on Monday:-) > > Cheers, > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a>] > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at">www.olpc.at</a>] > > e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu">christoph@derndorfer.eu</a> </div>