etoys-dev February 2008

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[Etoys] new waveplace website, haiti video, etc.
by Timothy Falconer 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi everyone, Waveplace raises money to buy XOs for Caribbean children. We're creating courseware to teach digital media skills. We're training teachers to use XOs in constructionist ways. And we have a new website: http://waveplace.com Of interest since last time ... 1) Waveplace went to Haiti and made a wonderful video showing Susie Krabacher (subject of an upcoming major motion picture) with her kids and an XO: http://waveplace.com/locations/haiti/ 2) we're a few weeks into our first pilot in St John ... the twenty kids are loving their XOs and Squeak Etoys. See our press: http://waveplace.com/news/press/ 3) we've just published our first newsletter, which talks about these two efforts as well as another upcoming pilot on St Vincent: http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/ 4) Alan Kay and Kim Rose joined our board of advisors! This is a very good thing, since we're focusing entirely on Squeak Etoys in our courseware. If you haven't been to the site before, there's twenty video tutorials on Squeak Etoys, which people seem to like. Another twenty are scheduled to appear this month. Anyway, sign up for our monthly newsletter if you're interested, and pass the word if you have time. We need all the help we can get. Thanks, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation Inc. http://waveplace.com

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[Etoys] DrGeoII witih localisation
by Hilaire Fernandes 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

I have a working DrGeoII.xo bundle with localisation and examples. Read http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DrGeo for more info. Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]

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[Etoys] Squeaklets/
by Luke Gorrie 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Howdy! I've hit a snag while bundling up a proper EPaati.xo activity bundle. The issue is that when I try to load a project from a file Squeak is trying to cache the project file in (imagedir)/Squeaklets/ and it's failing due to a permissions problem. The directories all have permissions rwxrwxr-x and Sugar seems to run the epaati activity as some "other" user who lacks write permissions. So I'm looking for a way to either prevent Squeak from caching the projects in Squeaklets/ (waste of time and space in this case -- they're already on disk) or to arrange for the permissions to work out so that Squeak can create Squeaklets/ or will already have it correctly setup. Any tips? I'd post the buggy .xo bundle but bandwidth doesn't allow. Cheers! -Luke

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etoys-dev February 2008