Hi Yoshiki,
On 15/11/2007, Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki@vpri.org wrote:
BTW, you know Madhur Shrestha and Hayasaka-san, right? There are a lot of heavy Etoys users in Japan. It would be fantastic if JICA or some organization can fund one of these hackers to fly...
Yes, thanks to Alan and Kim I do know Madhur and I've visited his nifty Squeak saturday-school. I don't know Hayasaka-san but Madhur did mention that a Japanese friend had put him on to Squeak in the first place.
Let me make a standing invitation that if any Squeak/Etoys guru finds themself in south asia we'd be more than happy to entertain them in the beautiful Kathmandu valley while they teach us a few programming tricks - but they must be prepared for tough questions :-)
By the way! Squeakers may get a kick to see the job advertisment that we're currently running in Kathmandu to bring our full-time Nepali Squeak-programmer staff up from two people to four (plus me):
Job description:
Develop children's learning activities for the One Laptop Per Child XO using Squeak Smalltalk and Etoys.
Skills:
* Experience with an object-oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, Python, or Ruby. * Demonstrated ability to write good software quickly. * Self-motivated, eager to learn new technologies, experienced at working in a team environment.
Preferred:
* Experience with Linux and working on open-source projects. * Interest in education.
You will quickly learn Squeak Smalltalk programming and Etoys end-user scripting on the job. You can get a sense of what this is like from reading our blog and running our demonstration.