[Marketing] Linuxtag - Postcards

[Walter Bender]

Maybe add Rwanda to the list of countries?

-walter

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> - the postcards (A6) will have: front page in color
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/f/f7/Sugar_Blueberry_Poster_A0.png),
> and the text at the back, we will have an English (200 copies) and a
> German (200 copies) version
> - the text for the German postcard is ready and proof read
> - I have drafted now an English version (from the layout similar to the
> German one). Please let me know what you think or if I have used false
> friends or whatever.
> - if someone has adobe distiller and can put me the tiffs and pdf
> together to a printable pdf with print marks - that would be awesome as
> we get a 15 euro reduction like that
> - I have to hand it in tomorrow by 7.00 (UTC)
>
> Thanks,
>    Simon
>
>
> What is Sugar? Sugar...
> ...is a learning platform designed for children
> ...was originally designed for the XO-1 laptop of the OLPC project
> ...runs on most netbooks and PCs
> ...is for example used by students in Peru, Uruguay and Nepal
> ...is Free Software
> ...is available in more than 25 languages
>
> What is special about Sugar?
> Collaborative learning is a main concept of the platform: Students can
> connect with each other and work on an exercise together. Sugar is
> task-based and provides each student with a Journal, where every action
> or activity is automatically recorded.  The Journal engages children in
> the process of reflecting on their work.
>
> Sugar includes a wide variety of subprograms, called Activities. There
> are Activities like Write, Read and a Browser, but as well more complex
> systems like Etoys. Etoys is a visual Authoring system to create
> simulations, write interactive stories or program little games. Etoys is
> a nice way to get the students interested into programming. A similar
> approach uses Turtleart, an activity to draw images. The students
> control a pen with the shape of a turtle using graphical programming
> blocks. New activities can be downloaded from activities.sugarlabs.org -
> and if a student does not find what he is looking for he is encouraged
> to modify an existing activity or write one himself. Sugar and most of
> the activities are written in the scripting language python. One goal
> of Sugar is to encourage users to appropriate the technology. The
> students should not be satisfied to be just consumers of Sugar; we would
> like them to understand how Sugar works and to feel empowered to make
> improvements.
>
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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