squeakland September 2007

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newest etoys image?
by Timothy Falconer 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm making some narrated video walkthroughs of Etoys next week, to help people get up to speed more easily. I'd like to make them with the most current OLPC Etoys image so the video looks identical to the XOs. I'm building Sugar, etc, on a Ubuntu box, and have the Chicago Etoys image (070726). Questions: 1. Should I get the image from the sugar build? (it builds Etoys apparently, but not sure if it's the newest) 2. If not, is there a better place to get the newest one? 3. Are we code complete (at least with Etoys) for XO MP? The videos will be for Project Waveplace (http://waveplace.com), but I'll make them general enough for anyone to use. I'll post them publicly on the waveplace site. Thanks, Tim

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CFP: C5-2008 (extended deadline)
by Serge Stinckwich 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Extended deadline for paper submission to: October 14, 2007 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2008) January 14-16, 2008, Poitiers, France http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-08/ Oraganized by Kyoto University Global COE (Centers of Excellence) Program: Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society European Smalltalk User Group Espace Mendès France Viewpoints Research Institute Impara SCOPE Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we are adding a workshop track for the third day of the conference and are soliciting proposals for interactive workshops. For the first time hosted in Europe, this conference builds on the successes and high standards held by previous C5 conferences : 2003-2005, 2007 in Kyoto (Japan), 2006 in Berkeley (USA). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include but not limited to - Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments - User collaboration using 3D, multimedia, and animation objects - Technologies for creating educational environments - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL) - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and virtual teaming - Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments, instrumentation, robots, and game playing - Development of applications/content for non traditional learning environments, e.g. mentoring, peer-to-peer, "teacherless" environments (in developing countries), low cost and sustainable technologies, e.g., $100 laptop - Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher education, system design by children, digital library and search environment for children PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES C5 2008 invites submissions of long papers in the following categories: - Theoretical papers - Case studies, experiments reports - 'Bringing theory into practice or practice into theory' papers focus on building a bridge between practices and theories in the field of C5. Full papers must report original work that has not been previously published. Papers must present reports of significant work in research, development and applications with regards to one or more of the conference topics of interest. All submissions will be reviewed by a distinguished international program committee. A full paper with 8 page limit formatted in two columns and 10 point font should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. The papers are reviewed by the program comittee and authors will be notified about acceptance. Accepted authors have to submit a camera ready version of the full paper with 8 page limit by the camera-ready copy deadline. Papers should follow the formatting instructions provided by 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format of "IEEE Computer Society Press - Proceedings Author Guidelines" (please refer to INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS in Conference Publishing Service). Submitted papers and camera-ready papers should be sent electronically through our online submission site (will be available soon). The PDF, Postscript and MS-WORD formats are acceptable. PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS Preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed during the conference. The formal version of the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and sent to authors after the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors needs to attend the conference and give presentation, otherwise the paper will not be included in the formal proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: October 14, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 21, 2007 Full paper camera-ready copies: December 15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Co-Chairs Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Makoto Nagao, National Diet Library, Japan Advisory Chairs Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Conference Co-Chairs Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA Serge Stinckwich, GREYC, Universite' de Caen/CNRS, France Program Co-Chairs Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA Local Arrangement Chairs Thierry Pasquier, Espace Mendes France, France Jean-Francois Cerisier, University of Poitiers, France Samuel Besson, Espace Mendes France, France Publicity and Publication Chair Hideyuki Takada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Financial Chair Samuel Besson, Espace Mendes France, France Program Committee Noury Bouraqadi, École des Mines de Douai, France Jean-Francois Cerisier, University of Poitiers, France Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia, Canada Marc Fiuczynski, Princeton University, USA Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Tsuneo Jozen, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan Ton Kalker, HP Labs, USA Shinichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan Pascal Leroux, Université du Maine, France Julian Lombardi, Duke University, USA Maic Masuch, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany Mark McCahill, Duke University, USA John David Miller, Intel Corporation, USA Shinya Nakagawa, HP Labs, Japan Pierre Nonnon, Laboratoire de robotique pédagogique, Université de Montréal, Canada Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA David P. Reed, MIT Media Lab/ HP Labs, USA Martha Russell, Stanford University, USA Phil Stenton, HP Labs, UK Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan Shin'ichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan

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scrollable playfield
by Randy Heiland 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

I'm planning a project to create an infinitely tiled plane :) Is there a mechanism in OLPC etoys for making a scrollable playfield, i.e. one with scrollbars for objects that go off the edge? -Randy

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Importing wav files
by subbukk 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hi, How do I import a wav file into Squeak? The filelist dialog doesn't recognize wav files as sound files. The SoundRecorder widget only generates sound tiles but cannot export/import wav :-( TIA .. Subbu

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quitting OLPC etoys
by Randy Heiland 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

I honestly can't remember now what it was like w/ etoys "classic" on Windows, but for OLPC etoys on OSX, I'll just comment that it seems confusing that the "Quit Squeak VM" menu item is disable and one quits via File->"Quit do not save". In spite of the fact that I know I've just saved/kept a current project, being told to "Quit do not save" strikes me as the wrong thing to say and would seem to really confuse a child. just an observation :) -Randy

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copying a script
by Randy Heiland 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Object A has a script and I'd like to mimic the very same script for object B. Is there a way to do this easily in OLPC? -Randy

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[Q] How to create a Java applet from a Squeak *.pr file and how to search mail archive
by Young-Jin Lee 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi, I have a question about how to create a Java applet from a Squeak *.pr file. Is there a document explaining how to do it? In addition, I want to know how to search Squeakland mail archive. I thought that this might be answered in the past, but could not figure out how to search the mailing list archive. Thanks in advance. Young-Jin Lee

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Re: [Squeakland] Randy Pausch gives last lecture
by mmille10＠comcast.net 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Thanks for this link, Bill. I watched the whole thing. Randy is great. ---Mark mmille10(a)comcast.net -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Bill Kerr" <billkerr(a)gmail.com> also mark guzdial who attended Randy Pausch's last lecture has written a moving blog about it which includes links to videos of the lecture http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK1LG69K8X6WGH9 -- Bill Kerr On 9/23/07, mmille10(a)comcast.net <mmille10(a)comcast.net > wrote: I heard about this today. Randy Pausch, the author of Alice, is dying of pancreatic cancer. It's become commonplace for universities to have "last lectures" from dignitaries, but on the news of his fate Pausch gave a touching last lecture recently. Here's an article on it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html ---Mark mmille10(a)comcast.net _______________________________________________ Squeakland mailing list Squeakland(a)squeakland.org http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

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Re: [Squeakland] Randy Pausch gives last lecture
by Alan Kay 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Randy is a great guy -- no professor has done more for his students in every way. Best wishes, Alan ---------- At 01:08 AM 9/23/2007, Bill Kerr wrote: >also mark guzdial who attended Randy Pausch's last lecture has >written a moving blog about it which includes links to videos of the lecture ><http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK1LG69K8X6WGH9>http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK1LG69K8X6WGH9 > >-- >Bill Kerr > >On 9/23/07, <mailto:mmille10@comcast.net>mmille10(a)comcast.net ><<mailto:mmille10@comcast.net>mmille10(a)comcast.net > wrote: >I heard about this today. Randy Pausch, the author of Alice, is >dying of pancreatic cancer. It's become commonplace for universities >to have "last lectures" from dignitaries, but on the news of his >fate Pausch gave a touching last lecture recently. Here's an article on it: > ><http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html > >---Mark ><mailto:mmille10@comcast.net>mmille10(a)comcast.net > > >_______________________________________________ >Squeakland mailing list ><mailto:Squeakland@squeakland.org>Squeakland(a)squeakland.org >http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Squeakland mailing list >Squeakland(a)squeakland.org >http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

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Randy Pausch gives last lecture
by mmille10＠comcast.net 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I heard about this today. Randy Pausch, the author of Alice, is dying of pancreatic cancer. It's become commonplace for universities to have "last lectures" from dignitaries, but on the news of his fate Pausch gave a touching last lecture recently. Here's an article on it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html ---Mark mmille10(a)comcast.net

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