<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Christophe Guéret <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl" target="_blank">c.d.m.gueret@vu.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Christoph,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good morning,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>May I ask what the background of these students is expected to be? </div>
</div></blockquote></div><div>This should be students familiar with Computer Science. It's a module that is open for different Masters diploma. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay, cool.</div><div> </div>
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<div><div>Also (and somewhat related): What kind of class projects do you envision the students to tackle? It would of course be excellent if their work could fairly directly contribute to what's
hapening in the OLPC/Sugar projects around the world (plus it could also be an additional motivating factor for the students).</div></div></blockquote></div><div>This could very well be the development of an activity, or the translation of another one, or the enhancement of some other piece of software - including Sugar. There could also be some more abstract projects about deployment plans or so. We will see what ideas the students have but indeed it would be interesting to aim at a close relation between what they investigate and what's actually needed.<br>
I know there are these pages with some ideas on it, which I guess I derived from some needs:<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_ideas" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_ideas</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_ideas" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_ideas</a><br>
Is there more resources we should keep an eye on?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If they're interested in tasks related to touchscreen support then <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Sugar_Shell_Touch_Input">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Sugar_Shell_Touch_Input</a> and <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Activity_Touch_Input">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Activity_Touch_Input</a> are also good resources.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But I'm sure others here have more suggestions where to look for such information...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Last but not least: I hadn't realized that there is an ongoing OLPC project in Suriname. I only remember some blog posts and e-mails from the early days (maybe 2007~2008?) about some Dutch folks considering such an effort. Is there further information
about the project online somewhere?</div></div></blockquote></div><div>We are not in touch with them but we have some established contacts with Surinam. We wanted to plan a deployment somewhere and we picked that country because of the contacts we have. But things are still in an early planning stage, the actual deployment will be hopefully taken care of by the students that will attend the course.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay, makes sense and sounds like another great component of that course. Let us know how it goes! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Cheers,<br>Christophe<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<div><br></div><div><div>volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at/" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]<br>
<div>editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>contributor, TechnikBasteln [<a href="http://www.technikbasteln.net/" target="_blank">www.technikbasteln.net</a>]</div></div>
<div><br></div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank">christoph@derndorfer.eu</a></div></div><br>
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