Thanks Tomeu Yeah - I'm already thinking a little about the way he uses it - and maybe something for the preschoolers (I know it's target is 6-12 but some kids are quite adept). By the time I get around to something he'll have probably outgrown it - but hopefully my baby daughter will be at Beta tester stage by then ;) I'm still unsure on what to do about a presentation though... have to have a good think about it tomorrow and do a bit more research. Closing date for submission of talk summary is 30th - so might have to just leave it if I have nothing concrete. Regards Steve <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2009/6/26 Steve Dalton <<a href="mailto:steve.dalton@gmail.com">steve.dalton@gmail.com</a>>: <div class="im">> Hi All > > Just went on IRC channel - but no-one around - so I'll try here. > > Steve Dalton here from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. I'm an experienced developer - mainly C/C++/Java/Groovy - but also dabble with Ruby/Python, just starting out playing with Sugar development > > I was kindly donated 5 XOs a while back and I have been trying to get a bit of a local OLPC developers group started here in QLD. Have young kids and my (almost) 4 year old is already getting stuck into Sugar and working things out which makes me think you guys are onto something really awesome - I'd love to help in some way. > > Anyway - one way I think I might be able to stimulate some local activity is by doing some sort of live demo on developing with Sugar. I was hoping to demo something at Barcamp Brisbane next month and possibly something at the OSDC (Open Source Developers Conference) in Brisbane later this year if it works. I have made one of my paper submission for OSDC a Sugar one but It's sitting in my drafts folder until I can be sure I have something that has half a chance of working out (I like jumping in at the deep-end but don't want to make a complete fool of myself). > > Does anyone have any good suggestions on what to do? I've done the Hello world demo and had a look at some of the activities already developed... but was hoping to do something a little more interesting with some "cool" value to get people interested. Are there any canned demos or tutorials around that anyone can recommend? Might give me some ideas. </div>Not that I know, though my recommendation would be to check out how your kid is using Sugar and think of how the learning experience could be improved. Most experienced developers will be happier to help if it's something that addresses a real need than if it's something done out of pure curiosity. Regards, Tomeu <div class="im"> > Many thanks in advance > Steve > > -- > I did have a signature, but the dog ate it. > > google:steve.dalton | skype:spidieman | msn: <a href="mailto:msn@steve.dalts.net">msn@steve.dalts.net</a> | yahoo:daltonsp | aol: spidie100 | twitter: @spidie | mynetfone:09203861 > </div>> _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > </blockquote></div> -- I did have a signature, but the dog ate it. google:steve.dalton | skype:spidieman | msn: <a href="mailto:msn@steve.dalts.net">msn@steve.dalts.net</a> | yahoo:daltonsp | aol: spidie100 | twitter: @spidie | mynetfone:09203861