Hello,
I came back from an OLPC event held in Cambridge, MA and saw a lot of people from Latin America countries. Uruguay and Peru are officially deploying hundreds of thousands of XO laptops, and other countries are trying to do similar or smaller scale pilot test. The "vibe" (as Alan wrote) or the feeling of "making progress" was very strong.
During the event, I was asked a lot of times about documentation in Spanish. I know there are bunch of documentation done in Spanish (in Latin America and in Spain), but I couldn't point out many of them by myself. I merely managed to point to the translation of the Powerful Ideas book but that was it.
I think it would be nice to have a place to share these documentations, and have a single location to look at. Let us say if we have a good "documentation and curriculum" section on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys/lang-es, and people who have done documentations in Spanish add theirs to it, that would be nice.
If you think it is a good idea, please start the section on the wiki and add the documentations? I will later check the page and let the people who are doing deployment and contents making in these countries know about it.
Thank you!
-- Yoshiki
Excellent. I really hope that these kids will really learned a lot! For BotsInc I'm aware of a private spanish translation. I'm still trying to negociate to get the rights for the book. For squeakbyexample, I do not know the status of the translation.
Stef
On May 26, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Hello,
I came back from an OLPC event held in Cambridge, MA and saw a lot of people from Latin America countries. Uruguay and Peru are officially deploying hundreds of thousands of XO laptops, and other countries are trying to do similar or smaller scale pilot test. The "vibe" (as Alan wrote) or the feeling of "making progress" was very strong.
During the event, I was asked a lot of times about documentation in Spanish. I know there are bunch of documentation done in Spanish (in Latin America and in Spain), but I couldn't point out many of them by myself. I merely managed to point to the translation of the Powerful Ideas book but that was it.
I think it would be nice to have a place to share these documentations, and have a single location to look at. Let us say if we have a good "documentation and curriculum" section on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys/lang-es, and people who have done documentations in Spanish add theirs to it, that would be nice.
If you think it is a good idea, please start the section on the wiki and add the documentations? I will later check the page and let the people who are doing deployment and contents making in these countries know about it.
Thank you!
-- Yoshiki
Squeakland mailing list Squeakland@squeakland.org http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
Hi all,
stéphane ducasse escribió:
Excellent. I really hope that these kids will really learned a lot! For BotsInc I'm aware of a private spanish translation. I'm still trying to negociate to get the rights for the book.
Please, tell us when you get it back. I'm using your book with my students, but having a free/open version would be very helpful.
For squeakbyexample, I do not know the status of the translation.
We have finished the first chapter and preamble, but until mid-year vacations will not be much advances. I will keep you posted in this Spanish Squeak related pages in our FLOSS community wiki:
* http://www.el-directorio.org/SqueakMedianteEjemplos <-- For Squeak By Example translation related info. * http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak <-- An intro to Squeak. * http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak/Enlaces <-- Links with information about Squeak (education, programming, GUI, etc) * http://www.el-directorio.org/CategorySqueak <-- List all the pages in the Squeak category: people, blogs, related projects: plopp, croquet and so on.
I really hope to have more of the translation in the first days of July.
Cheers,
Offray
- http://www.el-directorio.org/SqueakMedianteEjemplos <-- For Squeak
By Example translation related info.
- http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak <-- An intro to Squeak.
- http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak/Enlaces <-- Links with
information about Squeak (education, programming, GUI, etc)
- http://www.el-directorio.org/CategorySqueak <-- List all the pages in
the Squeak category: people, blogs, related projects: plopp, croquet and so on.
Offray, would you mind to add them to the wiki page? I wouldn't be able to quite elaborate on the page which page is which.
The name change (from mixture of "Squeak", "Etoys" in various capitalization, "Squeak Etoys", "SqueakToys", etc. to "Etoys") probably has been confusing the readers of existing documents a lot. Especially when some document on "Squeak" is really on "Squeak Smalltalk". I put short explanation on the wiki but should be largely expanded...
-- Yoshiki
Yoshiki,
There is an excellent list of books in Spanish on the "Squeakoplis site" here: (Perhaps this is the same place you found the "Powerful Ideas" book, though?)
http://squeak.educarex.es/Squeakpolis/38
-- Kim
On May 25, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Hello,
I came back from an OLPC event held in Cambridge, MA and saw a lot of people from Latin America countries. Uruguay and Peru are officially deploying hundreds of thousands of XO laptops, and other countries are trying to do similar or smaller scale pilot test. The "vibe" (as Alan wrote) or the feeling of "making progress" was very strong.
During the event, I was asked a lot of times about documentation in Spanish. I know there are bunch of documentation done in Spanish (in Latin America and in Spain), but I couldn't point out many of them by myself. I merely managed to point to the translation of the Powerful Ideas book but that was it.
I think it would be nice to have a place to share these documentations, and have a single location to look at. Let us say if we have a good "documentation and curriculum" section on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys/lang-es, and people who have done documentations in Spanish add theirs to it, that would be nice.
If you think it is a good idea, please start the section on the wiki and add the documentations? I will later check the page and let the people who are doing deployment and contents making in these countries know about it.
Thank you!
-- Yoshiki
Squeakland mailing list Squeakland@squeakland.org http://squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland
Thank you for the information.
I edited the English page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys) and made a section for Spanish documentation. Please add more, and update the Spanish page as well! (There should be tons of more Etoys related documentation. Or, perhaps linking to the presentations done at past SqueakFests might be good.)
-- Yoshiki
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