[SoaS] [Marketing] Fwd: next sf-olpc meeting

Sebastian Dziallas sebastian at when.com
Wed Jun 16 07:30:26 EDT 2010


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> FYI. We'll probably have Al at our next OLPC-SF meeting.

This is awesome - thanks a lot for forwarding it! Actually, I think
it's really impressive that we're being contacted about that. It looks
like this is under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. If I recall
correctly, the non-commercial part was what hit us badly in the time
of the Blueberry launch preparations for a good chunk of our content,
though.

--Sebastian

> cheers,
> Sameer
>
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> Director, Campus Business Solutions
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Al Sweigart <al at inventwithpython.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:01 PM
> Subject: Fwd: next sf-olpc meeting
> To: sv3rma at gmail.com
>
>
> Hello Sameer,
>
> I'd like to make my kid's book on Python programming (Invent Your Own
> Computer Games with Python) available as part of the Sugar on a Stick
> distribution. Right now the book is in HTML and PDF format. The PDF is
> about 4.5 mb and the HTML is 84 MB (but only 1 MB is actual HTML, the
> rest are images.)
>
> The book's website (http://inventwithpython.com) contains some nice
> features such as a diff tool and tracing program. I could modify them
> to be placed on Sugar on a Stick as well.
>
> I've downloaded the Sugar on a Stick iso to familiarize myself with
> it. I'll be checking the website for information on how I can include
> this book with the project.
>
> The book is also for sale on Amazon, and has over a dozen reviews:
> http://www.amazon.com/Invent-Your-Computer-Games-Python/dp/0982106017/
>
> -Al
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