squeakland May 2010

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Waveplace Call For Mentors
by Timothy Falconer 12 May '10

12 May '10

WAVEPLACE CALL FOR MENTORS For three years, Waveplace mentors have taught children and adults throughout Haiti and the Caribbean. This summer, help us reach the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cze4ha2ioN8 Space still available for the: Waveplace Mentor Workshop May 24th to June 2nd, 2010 St John, US Virgin Islands Airfare, food, and $500 gets you lodging and training for ten days. Just steps from the beach. (Roundtrip from Newark is still $360) You may also attend the concurrent four day OLPC Realness Summit (May 28-31), with speakers from five continents and the Caribbean with deep experience using OLPC XOs with children. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER AT: http://realness.org -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 624 3760

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Application to SFC sent today!
by Rita Freudenberg 11 May '10

11 May '10

Thanks to the diligent work of Cathie and others, we were able to send the application of Squakland Foundation to become part of the Software Freedom Conservancy today! We know that the process will take some time, since the SFC has a backlog for acceptance of projects of up to three to six months. But this process has now started! Rita Freudenberg rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

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Etoys developer chat today
by Bert Freudenberg 11 May '10

11 May '10

Please join our weekly Etoys developer chat today. Follow this link to see the time in your local time zone: http://tinyurl.com/3xfx4es To participate, enter your name as nickname on http://chat.squeakland.org/ and press "Login". Then say hi :-) Alternatively, use an IRC client of your choice to join #etoys on irc.freenode.net Everyone is welcome! - Bert -

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Call for papers ICEL 2011 - Squeak in Chile 2011
by Carlos Rabassa 10 May '10

10 May '10

This is a message received from Jorge Franco, Primary School Teacher in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jorge wants to let everyone know how interesting this conference in Chile will be http://www.adventurelearning.cl/icel2011/ This message is a nice testimonial to how good and useful was Squeakfest Brasil 2009. It is also nice to hear from someone who enjoyed meeting the uruguayan teachers who attended that event. This is Jorge´s message: Hello, Carlos Thank you for the support. Yes, we had a nice dinner in Porto Alegre. It is the first time that the conference happens in South America. And it is an opportunity for integrating educators, students, and practicioners from all over the world. The work I´ve seen being developed by educators in Uruguai since I met you in Porto Alegre can be shared in this international forum. I think that among other educational experiences will be nice to share projects examples based on Squeak software. This year in the primary school where I work we are starting to trainining and reflecting about how to use softwares such as Squeak and Scratch. I've shared my short experience related to my particpation in the Squeak meeting last year and a further research of dowloading and experimenting bits of the Squeak book examples. Best wishes Jorge Franco

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GSoC Squeakland project
by Ricardo Moran 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi, as you may already know, this year Squeak was accepted for the Google Summer of Code program as part of the ESUG organization. I'm currently working on the Squeakland Education project (details here: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/projects/squeakland-education) and I would be glad if you could check out my progress. I don't mean to bother you but if you're interested and you're willing to help, you can subscribe to the following group http://groups.google.com.ar/group/squeakland-education-gsoc-project where I will try to keep all the discussions, project examples and so on. Thanks in advance! Richo Ps: Sorry for crossposting...

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Re: squeakland Digest, Vol 85, Issue 3
by Carlos Rabassa 07 May '10

07 May '10

Rita said: >> We plan to have monthly board meetings, and publish meeting notes afterwards. Let us know if you are interested in joining the meetings! << Of course, I am interested. Just please bear in mind I probably will need some help in getting up to speed. One problem I might be facing during the next few days: We are currently home guests of our son and his family. They are using a relatively new system to connect to internet, a company that connects via the 3G network. In the very near future they will be moving, and us with them, to an area where there is no coverage yet. We all hate the idea, after using this fantastic system, of having to contract and wait for the installation a traditional connection via cable. Carlos On May 7, 2010, at 12:00 PM, squeakland-request(a)squeakland.org wrote: > Send squeakland mailing list submissions to > squeakland(a)squeakland.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > squeakland-request(a)squeakland.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > squeakland-owner(a)squeakland.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of squeakland digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. New Squeakland Board (Rita Freudenberg) > 2. Re: New Squeakland Board (Yoshiki Ohshima) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:48:11 +0200 > From: Rita Freudenberg <rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> > Subject: [squeakland] New Squeakland Board > To: squeakland list <squeakland(a)squeakland.org> > Message-ID: > <0C98A079-D881-48EA-8A3A-F28DE323A695(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Dear Squeakers, > > I'm happy to tell you that we have a new Squeakland Board in place! On > our last board meeting at April, 27 we came up with a list of > candidates, and everyone accepted. We now have Rita Freudenberg, > Cathleen Galas, Walter Bender, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler, Randall > Caton, Elliot Miranda, Cherry Withers, Kathleen Harness, Marta > Voelker, Milan Zimmerman, Carlos Rabassa, and Korakurider on the board. > > http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/ > > I want to thank everyone on the previous board for all the work you > did during the last year, especially the leaving board members Kim > Rose, Yoshiki Oshima, and Tim Falconer. > > On the meeting, we also discussed how to proceed with the > incorporation of Squeakland. We decided to apply to become a member of > the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This is a 501(c)(3) > organisation, and all members will get this status, too. Also, SFC > will handle the tax issues. SFC is focused on free and open source > software projects. We will find out, if Squeakland is eligible, since > we do not only focus on software, but on education, too. We plan to > have monthly board meetings, and publish meeting notes afterwards. Let > us know if you are interested in joining the meetings! > > Greetings, > Rita > > Rita Freudenberg > rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 15:29:54 -0700 > From: Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki(a)vpri.org> > Subject: Re: [squeakland] New Squeakland Board > To: squeakland list <squeakland(a)squeakland.org> > Message-ID: <uljbwvf31.wl%yoshiki(a)vpri.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > At Thu, 6 May 2010 23:48:11 +0200, > Rita Freudenberg wrote: >> >> Dear Squeakers, >> >> I'm happy to tell you that we have a new Squeakland Board in place! On >> our last board meeting at April, 27 we came up with a list of >> candidates, and everyone accepted. We now have Rita Freudenberg, >> Cathleen Galas, Walter Bender, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler, Randall >> Caton, Elliot Miranda, Cherry Withers, Kathleen Harness, Marta >> Voelker, Milan Zimmerman, Carlos Rabassa, and Korakurider on the board. >> >> http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/ > > Cool! > >> I want to thank everyone on the previous board for all the work you >> did during the last year, especially the leaving board members Kim >> Rose, Yoshiki Oshima, and Tim Falconer. > > Sure and thank you. > >> On the meeting, we also discussed how to proceed with the >> incorporation of Squeakland. We decided to apply to become a member of >> the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This is a 501(c)(3) >> organisation, and all members will get this status, too. Also, SFC >> will handle the tax issues. SFC is focused on free and open source >> software projects. We will find out, if Squeakland is eligible, since >> we do not only focus on software, but on education, too. We plan to >> have monthly board meetings, and publish meeting notes afterwards. Let >> us know if you are interested in joining the meetings! > > Ok... SFC has to make sure that Etoys meets their standard or not. > It may take sometime (either to clarify the status of the current > implemention in the way the trunk people did, or get the new > distribution out on the package based implementation; I guess the > former is easier). But hopefully it doesn't take too long. > > -- Yoshiki > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > squeakland mailing list > squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland > > > End of squeakland Digest, Vol 85, Issue 3 > *****************************************

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New Squeakland Board
by Rita Freudenberg 07 May '10

07 May '10

Dear Squeakers, I'm happy to tell you that we have a new Squeakland Board in place! On our last board meeting at April, 27 we came up with a list of candidates, and everyone accepted. We now have Rita Freudenberg, Cathleen Galas, Walter Bender, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler, Randall Caton, Elliot Miranda, Cherry Withers, Kathleen Harness, Marta Voelker, Milan Zimmerman, Carlos Rabassa, and Korakurider on the board. http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/ I want to thank everyone on the previous board for all the work you did during the last year, especially the leaving board members Kim Rose, Yoshiki Oshima, and Tim Falconer. On the meeting, we also discussed how to proceed with the incorporation of Squeakland. We decided to apply to become a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This is a 501(c)(3) organisation, and all members will get this status, too. Also, SFC will handle the tax issues. SFC is focused on free and open source software projects. We will find out, if Squeakland is eligible, since we do not only focus on software, but on education, too. We plan to have monthly board meetings, and publish meeting notes afterwards. Let us know if you are interested in joining the meetings! Greetings, Rita Rita Freudenberg rita(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

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education team meeting notes
by Rita Freudenberg 04 May '10

04 May '10

Here are the meeting notes from April, 29. You can also find it on the wiki: http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/2010/05/04 Greetings, Rita ------------------------------------------------------------ Rita, Christine, Bruno, Randy, Kathleen, Avigail, Steve, Cathie, Cherry #1 Squeakfest: Rita showed an outline from Sridhar about how the Squeakfest could be strucured. Avigail asked if we will exclude elementary school teachers? We will not exclude them, it depends on what kind of presentations we will get. The call for papers should start soon, submisison via email to UNCW and education team. #2 Squeakfest website: Rita will try to update the website, if this will not work, we will start a new one. #3 blog and newsletter: Cathie suggested to start a blog somewhere and collect information. Since the blog on Squeakland still isn't working properly, we will start a Google blog and link to it from the website. By talking about Google we came to the conclusion to switch to Google Groups with the education mailing list and try it out. Steve created it immediately :) #4: textbooks: There is a need for a new textbook, a replacement for the powerful ideas. We started to talk about how this could look like, this is still in progress.

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ANN: olpc realness summit > end of may > realness.org
by Timothy Falconer 01 May '10

01 May '10

Waveplace is pleased to announce the OLPC REALNESS SUMMIT. No hype, no bashing, no wireless, no room service. Just straight talk about what works, what doesn't, and why we do what we do. WHERE: Maho Bay Camps on the island of St John, US Virgin Islands (steps from the beach) WHEN: May 28, 29, 30, 31 HOW MUCH: $300 for four nights, including lodging Twelve invited talks and discussions, three a day, from five continents and the Caribbean: * WAVEPLACE: Tim Falconer * OLPC: Adam Holt * SUGAR LABS: Bernie Innocenti * ASIA: Mike Dawson from the OLPC Afghanistan * SOUTH AMERICA: Marta Voelcker from Brazil and Carlos Rabassa from Plan Ceibal, Uruguay * AFRICA: Beth Santos from the Step Up OLPC (São Tomé and Príncipe) * EUROPE: Christoph Derndorfer from OLPC Austria * CARIBBEAN: Lunise Cerin from Haiti, formerly of USAID and Save the Children, and John Engle of Haiti Partners * NORTH AMERICA: Christine Murakami from Columbus School for Girls, Ohio All of this will be happening at the same time as our St John mentor workshop and pilots, which take place over ten days (May 24 to June 2). We'll be training 40 new mentors, many for Haiti, and working with 60 elementary children from the islands three schools. So all summit attendees will get to see XOs in action, with mentors and children working together. You can also sign up to take the full ten day workshop, which would make you eligible to travel for Waveplace to one of our upcoming pilots. We're very excited about this event! I hope many who love XOs from around the world can attend so we can compare stories and solutions. Find out more and register at http://realness.org. Please help spread the word by forwarding this announcement to people, groups, and mailing lists you know. Thanks, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 624 3760

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