Dear Squeaklanders,
here is a short overview about interesting activities this week. It was a shorter week, due to the thanksgiving festivities in the US. I hope you all have good time! Even here in Germany, we will have a big turkey dinner with friends tomorrow :)
#1. The etoys chat channel now has a translation service, thanks to Alexey Lim from sugar labs! Come and try it on the Monday developer chat, it is a bit less frequented in the last weeks. Remember, you can always read the log files here [1]
#2. We had a post from Caryl Bigenho this week about a project at a high school, where students are creating games to be used by children in Ghana. They used Scratch last year and were not satisfeid, and will try Etoys now. The discussion grew on the IAEP-list, the Sugar Labs mailing list. Steve made some nice suggestions. You can read the thread it in their archives [2]
#3. Bert made an experimental Etoys-To-Go version with Russian font, using a patch submitted by Nikolay Suslov. Thanks to both of you! [3]
#4. The education meeting this week didn't happen (would have been on Thanksgiving :) But we tried something else, a meeting for an online Etoys session. We tried Teleplace, the 3D meeting environment former known as Qwaq. We didn't get to start the real course within one hour, because we all needed time to adjust in the environment. But we will keep it going, try other systems to find out how distant teaching could work. Let us know if you are doing it already, if you are interested, and what you think or want to know about it!
#5. Hilaire Fernandez released a new version of Dr. Geo! Find out more about it in his blog, including a video demonstration and change list [4]
[1] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/etoys/ [2] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-November/012020.html [3] http://tracker.squeakland.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=bert [4] http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2010/11/20/Dr.-Geo-sketch-previ...