squeakland March 2010

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Guias Rapidas de Etoys
by kharness＠illinois.edu 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Hello, Guias Rapidas de Etoys are Spanish translations of the Quick Guides by Sdenka Salas Pilco of OLPCPuno-Peru. EtoysIllinois is grateful for her work and for allowing us post them on our site. http://www.etoysillinois.org/library.php?tags=Guias%20Rapidas%20de%20Etoys Find out more about the OLPC project in Peru: http://olpcpuno.ning.com If you are working on translations of the guides, please let me know and we could share the work. If you provide translations, I will make the interactive guide projects. I know the format details very well. Regards, Kathleen Harness

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Re: [squeakland] kedama tutorial by linda kao
by Korakurider 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

It is really great we finally "rescue" historical contents! The tutorial have example projects attached. Where will we maintain them (revised for newer version of Etoys)? of course Showcase is one option, but it seems better if flossmanuals can manage such materials for translation and distribution, /Korakurider On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Kim Rose <kim.rose(a)vpri.org> wrote: > Yes, this work was created by Viewpoints and a graduate student at UCLA who > was an intern for us at the time. > We hope it can prove helpful to any Etoys users. > > Kim > > On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > >> At Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:25:56 +0100, >> Karl Ramberg wrote: >>> >>> On 2009-11-25 18:08, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >>> >>> The "source" of the PDF version, the Word document file was found. >>> So, I uploaded the file to: >>> >>> >>> http://wiki.squeakland.org/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=16844 >>> >>> -- Yoshiki >>> _______________________________________________ >>> squeakland mailing list >>> squeakland(a)squeakland.org >>> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >>> >>> Great, >>> can we use this on http://en.flossmanuals.net/ ? >> >> Kim (the executive director of VPRI, who funded making the >> document) says it is perfectly fine to make it public so it should be >> fine to use it for the FLOSS manual. >> >> -- Yoshiki >> _______________________________________________ >> squeakland mailing list >> squeakland(a)squeakland.org >> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > > > _______________________________________________ > Squeakland mailing list > Squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >

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seymour papert joins squeakland
by Timothy Falconer 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to announce that Seymour Papert is now a part of the Squeakland Foundation: http://squeakland.org/about/people/ The photo is a recent one of Seymour. He's doing well, reading the New York Times each morning, working on projects from home. We are of course thrilled to have him part of the team. Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100 -- "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." ... piaget

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education team meeting March 25
by Rita Freudenberg 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi all, the meetings notes from our last Education team meeting can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/2010/03/29/education+team+meeting+Mar… Greetings, Rita ----------------------------------------------------------- Participants: Kathleen, Randy, Cherry, Rita - Kathleen proposed to add certain organisations to our community page, especially Ceibal, UseIT and HPI Potsdam - Randy suggested to use the event theatre in Etoys instead of screencasts, because it can be better integrated with the project. The students will not just see something they have to follow, but can try on their own and will get help if neede. To have this help available within etoys is preferred to having to open another program. - Rita will ask BJ about a print-on-demand publishing of the powerful ideas book - Cherry has wonderful ideas and is working hard on the Cooney Center Grant, Randy and Kathleen will also help and the three of them will apply as a team. - Tim asked in his email if he should move the lessons he's done for the basic etoys unit and storytelling unit to Waveplace, the participants of this call agree with that. We think that the lessons fit well with workshops or after school courses, but not with classroom use.

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Translation issues
by Humberto Henrique Campos Pinheiro 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi. I'm using the latest etoys (etoys-4.0.2340) in a linux environment and in portuguese. The program runs fine except that some strings don't get translated at all, look http://imgur.com/OXZDd. In this image the string "when this script should run" should be translated to "quando este script deve rodar" according to the portuguese po file. Why some string don't get translated even when there are translations for them in the po file? Besides, I'm a developer and would like to know more about how the squeak works together with the gettext. If there is some way that I can do to help in the translation process please let me know. Humberto Pinheiro

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Squeakfest 2010 - Save the Date!
by Rita Freudenberg 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Greetings, we are happy to announce that University of North Carolina Wilmington will be the host for this year's Squeakfest! We invite you all to a face to face gathering, sharing of experiences and materials relative to the usage of Etoys. We will have two great keynote speakers this year: Walter Bender from Sugar Labs and Julian Lombardi from Duke University. Squeakfest USA July 26, 27 and 28th Wilmington, NC University of Wilmington We'll have more info on the Squeakfest website shortly, but until then, please save the date! Please forward this email and share with friends and colleagues. This will be a gathering of users and practitioners of Etoys -- teachers, researchers, and developers to share and learn. Newcomers to Etoys are most welcome too! We hope to see you in Wilmington in July! More to come...

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education team meeting
by Rita Freudenberg 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

This is a reminder for our education meeting today 12:30 EST. http://www.squeakland.org/news/calendar/ We will talk about latest news regarding GSoC, Squeakfest planning, our current grant writing activities, how to proceed with the etoys manual. Let me know if you have additional topics. Greetings, Rita

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Quick Guides Set 4
by kharness＠illinois.edu 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hello, I just put ten new guides on EtoysIllinois.org They are in the Library Collection tagged Quick Guides Set 4. http://www.etoysillinois.org/library.php?tags=Quick%20Guides%20Set%204 Regards, Kathleen

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Re: [etoys-dev] Re: [JIRA] Commented: (SQ-682) 'forward by' when snap to grid is true move one gridspace forward.
by karl ramberg 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Rita Freudenberg <rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote: > > Am 21.03.2010 um 16:05 schrieb karl ramberg: > >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Bert Freudenberg (JIRA) >> <tracker(a)squeakland.org> wrote: >>> >>> [ >>> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-682?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.… >>> ] >>> >>> Bert Freudenberg commented on SQ-682: >>> ------------------------------------- >>> >>> I don't think this would be a good idea. The gridding is for manual >>> placement of objects. >>> >>> But feel free to discuss on the squeakland list (since this is changing >>> behavior, it's not just for developers). >> >> I agree it's a big change and maybe you are right. >> Maybe it' just complicates stuff unnecessary. >> >> But we kind of do this on the pixel grid already by moving one pixel >> forward ;-) >> >> Another related change is defining movement to for example centimeters >> instead of pixels. >> >> But it is a fundamental change and need more discussion. > > Hi Karl, > > I would like to discuss that on the squeakland list. Randy is working on a > project about perimeter and area, so he might have ideas if this would be > useful. > > Rita Ugh, i picked the wrong list.... Let's discuss :-) Karl >> >> Karl >> >>> >>>> 'forward by' when snap to grid is true move one gridspace forward. >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> Key: SQ-682 >>>> URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-682 >>>> Project: squeakland >>>> Issue Type: Feature >>>> Components: etoys >>>> Reporter: Karl Ramberg >>>> >>>> When snap to grid is turned on it would be nice if forward by moved the >>>> player one grid space forward. Like wise for all the height, width turn etc >>>> that they reflected the preference griding and showed the grid values >>>> instead of the pixel values. >>> >>> -- >>> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. >>> - >>> If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: >>> http://tracker.squeakland.org/secure/Administrators.jspa >>> - >>> For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> etoys-dev mailing list >> etoys-dev(a)squeakland.org >> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev >> > > Rita Freudenberg > rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de > > > >

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GSoC - I would like to participate as a student
by Ricardo Moran 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi, I'm interested in working as a student for the "Squeakland education project". I think I can do a nice job, I have some experience in Smalltalk and Etoys and I know how to develop tiles for specific purposes. I'm very interested in Etoys and, of course, I think this is a great opportunity for me. I've never participated in GSoC before, so I'm not really aware of the process. I'm reading all the articles I could find, though. Regarding the project proposal, I think I understand most of it but I would like to know a little more detail of what you're thinking (especially in the "Learner and Teacher Feedback" part). I hope you find me worthy of consideration to participate in the program :) Cheers Richo

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