squeakland November 2009

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Re: [squeakland] kedama tutorial by linda kao
by p.a.dreyfuss＠excite.com 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi, I'm revisiting our pages about Kedama on the french squeak wiki .(in french) http://community.ofset.org/index.php/Kedama I have found an older tutorial that we have translated: http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/kedama/ Kedama prime sieve and moving bakground on showcase are the first projects adapted to Etoy's particules. This mean that I can do the job of revisiting the tutorials. I just need a short information about the changes of the new Kedama. Regards -----Original Message----- From: "Karl Ramberg" [karlramberg(a)gmail.com] Date: 11/26/2009 01:53 AM To: "Yoshiki Ohshima" <yoshiki(a)vpri.org> CC: "squeakland.org mailing list" <squeakland(a)squeakland.org> Subject: Re: [squeakland] kedama tutorial by linda kao 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@squeakland.orghttp://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland Great, can we use this on http://en.flossmanuals.net/ ? Karl ------------------------------------------------------------ Earn a bachelors degree online in Nursing. Get free info now! Liberty University Online http://tagline.excite.com/c?cp=M4uBxPoNmfY9TJP9ic7c3AAAKZTc_H0oxVXqotT806Qw…

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kedama tutorial by linda kao
by Bill Kerr 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

there was a great kedama tutorial by linda kao on the old squeakland site but I can't find it anywhere now does anyone have an url or copy for it / of it?

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100 tickets for Etoys 5
by Timothy Falconer 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi everyone, We've gone through the list of 190+ tickets in JIRA and reduced that to an even 100 for Etoys 5, expected June 2010. http://tracker.squeakland.org If you'd like to champion particular issues, try voting in JIRA, which is now much more obvious because of the Popular Issues tab in JIRA. Simply click on the issue you want, the look to the left and click "Vote for it". This will raise the issue in our awareness :) And if you have any new ideas, simple create the issue. You need a JIRA account to vote or create issues. (It's free and quick to sign up). 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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!! input needed ... priorities for next version
by Timothy Falconer 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi everyone, At todays Squeakland software meet, we discussed how to prioritize the tasks for the next release, slated for mid-June. Here are some criteria that came up. Choose issues that: 1. have high educational value 2. will enhance collaboration and community 3. support volunteers that currently have momentum 4. will inspire new developers to dive in and contribute 5. will help smooth out the rough edges in Etoys I asked everyone to pick their Top Ten issues from the current list of 180: http://tracker.squeakland.org/dev Mine are: 1. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-455 2. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-374 3. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-114 4. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-452 (with showcase integration) 5. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-515 6. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-456 7. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-417 8. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-407 9. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-46 10. http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-60 Please pick your top ten issues and respond to this email. We'll be comparing notes next Monday and choosing what issues to emphasize in coming months. This is the best time for you to have a voice in the next version of Etoys. If you think of something that's not in the tracker already, add the issue yourself and choose it in your list. 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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JIRA 4 is up and running
by Timothy Falconer 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hi everyone, Just finished the upgrade to JIRA 4, the newest version of our issue tracker. http://tracker.squeakland.org If you get the old tracker (you'll notice a difference), then the URL hasn't propagated yet. Try again later. If things seem to slow, try http://tracker.squeakland.org:8080. There's a config problem which I'll tend to Monday. Don't hyperlink any 8080 URLs. For a quick overview of JIRA 4 goodness, watch this: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/videos/jira4-overview.jsp Or read the release notes here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.0+Release+Notes Or the documentation here (especially JIRA 101): http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.0+Release+Notes The marketing text here also has some good stuff: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ Have fun! 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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Join our first book sprint!
by Rita Freudenberg 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Squeakland will it's first Book Sprint to create a Reference Manual for Etoys! Please join us online during the week of December, 7 to December12, 2009. The book will serve as - the manual you can look up every part of Etoys, - the documentation of what we commit to support in Etoys and - the starting point for other, more elaborate materials. For writing we intend to use FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ The manual will be available online (html and pdf format), and as a real book per print-on-demand. It will be licensed under MIT, so that we can also ship it within Etoys. We will work on it for a whole week from December, 7th until December, 12th. At this point, we are not planning a central in-person meeting, but the whole event will take place virtually on the internet. We will chat on an irc channel, and we will haveaudio chats every day to provide the opportunity for a talk. Of course, if you can organize a local meeting somewhere, that would be great! You can find more information at http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Book+Sprint We will examine if we really need all the objects we currently have in the Etoys image. This documentation will be a list of all things our users can expect to be working fine in Etoys, we should leave out objects we will not support in terms of maintaining. That doesn't mean we will remove it from Etoys, but we will not include it in the documentation. So we really need developers to participate at least in the first discussion on December, 7 at 2 pm EST (which happens to be the time of the regular software meeting :). To join the sprint, please put your name on the wiki http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Book+Sprint Greetings, Rita -- Rita Freudenberg Squeakland Foundation http://www.squeakland.org

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students doing projects in Etoys and Scratch and blog about it
by Rita Freudenberg 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Bill Kerr from Australia did a "scratchy etoys challenge" with his students: "I have asked my students to complete a challenge in Scratch, then build a similar challenge in etoys and then compare and analyse the work involved. For this task they are allowed to work in groups of two." You can find more information about that in his blog: http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/ And now the students are blogging about their experience: http://vinuann.blogspot.com/2009/11/about-etoys-and-scratch.html http://control-tech-sama.blogspot.com/2009/11/comparisons-scratch-v-etoys.h… http://sreesanth007.blogspot.com/2009/11/comparison-between-scratch-and-eto… http://bongbong123.blogspot.com/2009/11/partners-bongbong123.html It is an interesting read, and we get insight and valuable feedback about how students are using Etoys and Scratch! Greetings, Rita -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html

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tracker is read-only for a little while
by Timothy Falconer 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi everyone, I'm upgrading to the new version of JIRA, so you won't be able to make changes to the tracker for a bit. I'll email everyone when it's writable again. 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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Re: Frustrated with Showcase
by mrsteve 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Tim, No problem, very impressive you are willing to take responsibility, the sign of a true leader. The sight is much more stable now, thanks for all your efforts. -------------------- m2f -------------------- (from forum) http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13305#13305 -------------------- m2f --------------------

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Re: !! input needed ... priorities for next version
by mrsteve 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

My Top 4 1) Bug Free Event Theatre http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-561 2) Visual Debugger http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-560 3) Showcase upload automatically public (as done in Scratch) 4) Ability to have User Defined Galleries (with ability to restrict access, ex: only students in the class can see it) -------------------- m2f -------------------- (from forum) http://squeakland.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13274#13274 -------------------- m2f --------------------

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