squeakland June 2008

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Web plugin problem
by Young-Jin Lee 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hello, I have been experiencing a Web plugin problem. I am using Mac OS X (v. 10.5.3), FireFox (v. 3.0), Safari (v. 3.1.1), and the current Squeakland image available at squeakland.org. I cannot run any eToy project in a Web browser even though I used to in the past. For instance, when I visit the http://www.squeakland.org/plugin/launch.html Web page, I did not any animation in FireFox, and I only saw a black square in Safari. I re-installed the Squeakland image after removing /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SqueakBrowserPlugin.plugin, but it did not solve the problem. Is there anyone experiencing this problem? Can anyone help me solve this problem? Thanks in advance. Young-Jin Lee

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[Q] add new sound, Kedama in OLPC image
by Young-Jin Lee 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hello, I have a few questions about the OLPC version of eToy, which I downloaded from http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip . First, it looks like the current eToy image that can be downloaded from squekland web site cannot open OLPC-eToy projects. I assume that the Squeakland download version will be replaced with the OLPC version. I guess that my quetion is if I use the OLPC version now, will my eToy project can be opened in the future Squeakland download version? Second, is there a way to import an mp3 file and use it in a sketch? In other words, I want to add a new sound in the "sound" category of the sketch viewer. Is this possible? Third, the Object catablog of the OLPC version does not include Kedama. Does this mean that Kedama is not supported in the OLPC version? I guess not, because I saw Kedama examples, e.g., ParticlesDyeInWater.009.pr, in the ExampleEtoy folder. But, I could not figure out how to do a Kedama project in the OLPC version. Can anyone explain how to do the Kedana project in the OLPC version? Thanks in advance. Young-JIn Lee

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two-part NPR story on the Waveplace XO pilot in Immokalee, Florida
by Timothy Falconer 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hi everyone, Just heard the two-part NPR story on Waveplace's XO and Etoys pilot in Immokalee, Florida. Have a listen: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91891812 Photos from the pilot: http://waveplace.com/mu/waveplace/item/tp142 Video is in the works. Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer http://bigfractaltangle.com 610-393-1889 mobile Immuexa Corporation http://immuexa.com 610-797-3100

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Squeak/Smalltalk at LSM 2008
by Hilaire Fernandes 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

The 9th Libre Software Meeting will be held at Mont de Marsan, Landes, in SW France, from the 1 to the 5 of July. LSM is an international free software event taking place in Jully, each year, in a town of France. The first event took place in 2000 at Bordeaux. This year, Squeak/Smalltalk will be largely represented with conferences and workshops. http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/Squeak-Smalltalk-LSM-2008 Hilaire -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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new Etoys courseware, new pilots in Florida and Nicaragua
by Timothy Falconer 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi everyone, Waveplace has finished its beta "Squeaky Tales" courseware ... 30 lessons (with videos) that teach how to teach Etoys on the XO. To see examples, or to become a beta tester, visit: http://waveplace.com/resources/tutorials/ We took everything we learned in our first pilot (in the Virgin Islands) and started completely over. The pacing is much better, as is the storytelling component, which was crucial in St John. We're using the beta courseware in our three pilots this summer, and will then start completely over and make a physical textbook and DVD series (in English, Spanish, and French). All will be sold at cost for physical materials. (We're a non-profit.) In other news, we held our first intensive teacher workshop last week in Immokalee, Florida. The teachers are very enthusiastic. For the next two months, they'll be using the courseware to teach 42 children, each of whom received their very own XO last week. Larry Abramson from NPR spent a day with us, listening as we taught the teachers and later the children. Lastly, we've just finished prep work for our 4th pilot ... this time on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua in a school that currently has no electricity. If all goes well, we'll be starting that pilot in mid- July. When this pilot finishs, Waveplace will have given both XOs and training to more than 100 children and 20 teachers. For more on the Immokalee and Nicaragua pilots, or to hear about our Haiti pilot, read the current issue of our newsletter: http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=7 You can also subscribe to it by visiting: http://waveplace.com/subscribe/ Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer http://bigfractaltangle.com 610-393-1889 mobile Immuexa Corporation http://immuexa.com 610-797-3100

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Etoys workshop in London: want to help?
by Luke Gorrie 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi! Any Squeakers in London who want to help run a small "introduction to Etoys" workshop in a couple of weeks? Me and Christophe Rhodes are doing one at Goldsmiths College on the afternoon of Thursday June 26th. We'll do a simple "drive a car"-based tutorial and the attendees will mostly be faculty who might like to incorporate Etoys into their intro-to-programming courses. This is a rendition of workshops we've done in Kathmandu earlier and they're a lot of fun. It'd be handy to have one or two more people wandering around helping people when they get stuck or a debugger window pops up, etc. Let me know if you're interested! We may not have many spare seats on this occasion so I'm only inviting helpers. I'd also quite like to borrow an XO in London over 25th-26th so let me know if you have a spare one. :-) Cheers, -Luke

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Save the Date: C5-09
by Kim Rose 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Save the Date! Plan to participate in the Seventh Annual International C5 Conference. Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing January 19 - 22, 2009 Kyoto, Japan http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-09/ Join us at the 7th annual gathering to learn and share about recent work in the areas of collaborative systems, connecting people around the world through computing, and creating new media for business, social development, learning and play! The C5 conference is for researchers, software developers, educators, designers, 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. Conference sessions will include invited talks, including one from Dr. Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, formal paper presentations, hands-on workshops, informal "un-conference" and "lightning" sessions as well social and sightseeing events. Our call for papers (CFP) will be published shortly, with your timeframe for submission, but for now, please save the date and plan to join us in lovely, Kyoto, Japan! -- The C5-Organizing Committee

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update server for Squeakland-OLPC
by K. K. Subramaniam 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi, I don't have an XO but use the Squeakland-OLPC etoys image on a Linux box. The update URL in this etoys image points to tinlizzie.org/updates/squeakland. Etoys bug fixes are going into tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys but not into updates/squeakland. Will the Etoys image for XO and non-XO hardware start diverging? Or is the plan to keep them the same? Subbu

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Please help us for translation (An experimental version of OLPC image for non-XO environments)
by Yoshiki Ohshima 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello, We are still trying to package the Etoys for non-XO environments, along with, of course, for XO. Currently, end of June is the *real* target of release day of non-XO packages. The idea is to put relatively small set of languages in it, and it looks like English, German and French are most complete ones. (Thank you!) But, for the US audience, (new world's) Spanish is also important. And Portugese (br and pt) seems to be fairly good to me, but of course I can't tell the quality right away. Can you help us giving the information of the translation quality and completeness for these languages? For the non-XO environment, we will not have good font rendering mechanism other than what we have now, so still the main target is the Latin languages. The completeness doesn't have to be so close to 100%, as now many of the phrases are not for Etoys (rather for the Smalltalk development). But we would like to hear the opinions of the native speakers. Please visit https://dev.laptop.org/translate/ and see how far the translation are going in terms of quality and coverages. Bert told us that there is an old style .translation file for Spanish. We can convert it to .po file, but not sure again if we should merge them to the site, as it might wipe out newly translated phrases. Does anybody has good ideas how to proceed? Thank you! -- Yoshiki

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How to run a sript made in the world
by Paula Alexandra Gomes da Silva 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi all I need to execute a script that i made in the world. I did it in the world because i needed to use the input commands. But now i need to create another script that runs this script i created in the world as well as others i created on other objects. For objects in general i can use the scripting options to "call a script", but this is not available for the world. Can someone please help me solving this? Thanks a lot, palexa -- Paula Alexandra Silva http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~palexa/ http://dme.uma.pt/pt/people/faculty/Paula.Alexandra.Silva.html

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