[Squeakland] Help for getting BotsInc on ODLP

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi Stép, Hi all,

Sorry for the late response.

stéphane ducasse escribió:
>> Hi Stéphane,
>>
>> What you're telling is music to my ears. I have been advocating 
>> something like this in the eToys OLPC mailing list and in this way to 
>> have a laptop which grows with the kids, starting with eToys, passing 
>> to Bots Inc and going to Smalltalk after that. This is the way that 
>> me and my students of first semester are using and is working very nice.
>
> Excellent news

I hope to show some of my students work this year on SqueakFest and 
something about Bots Inc as a bridge between Etoys and Smalltalk and a 
way to get a "maturing" squeak learning environment that grows with the 
children.

>
>> At this moment we're going to start to use Monticello for some 
>> collective project, and would be nice to know how to open Monticello 
>> and use from Bots Inc, or use Bot Inc from some image.
>>
>> I have been trying to load Bots Inc on Squeakland 3.8-05 #552 but I 
>> can't get Monticello working on it (I get the errors in the attached 
>> files).
>
> I know that my code load easily on squeak-38-full but I do not have 
> squeakland 38-05. Where can I find it?

You can get that image in the squeakland.org site, is the one that is 
downloaded by default. At this moment we're trying to create a project 
with all the students in Bots Inc and we would like to use Monticello 
for this. There is a way to use Monticello for Bot Inc projects?

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>
>>
>> Is nice to hear that some chapters of the book will be free.
>
> This was always my intention. The problem is that my english is not 
> good enough so I had to go with an editor to
> get a real copy edit phase. Now you can buy an electronic copy of the 
> book it is cheaper and I guess that you can share it :)
>
>> Using your book here is a real help, but most of students can't pay 
>> for it, and having just a copy for the all group is really 
>> uncomfortable (we're an small group of 10 and I have ask it to the 
>> Mathematics Department but we're out of budget for this semester). A 
>> creative commons license with free distribution and the possibility 
>> to create derived works like translations would be really nice.
>
> For the new material everything will be free CC license.
>

Do you think that your publisher will be willing to release the book as 
Open Content? May be we can work in something like the Street Performer 
Protocol [1] to get some funding for that (may Google or some other OLPC 
sponsor can help us with the money).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Performer_Protocol

Cheers,

Offray