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OLPC Community

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years ago

OLPC Community

 


 

A Group of Students, Educators, Developers, and System Administrators

 

Working with the XO laptop from the OLPC Project

 

Group members

 

If you wish to join the group, just add your name to the list below. You do not need to include your email address in a link. But you don't please (email me). We plan on having mail lists, etc. Soon!

 

 

Meetings

 

Organizational meeting April 1 plus or minus 1 week. Anybody have preferences for a day time?

 

Agenda

 

  • Prioritize potential projects
  • Form groups around projects
  • Each group schedules meetings and work

 

Health Jam Seattle April 18-20

 

Join us at the HealthJam

 

  • Drew Einhorn
  • Larry Landis
  • David Wicksell

 

Projects

 

Each project should document its work in the wiki.

 

Each project should leave behind a set of products in the wiki: curriculum, student work, installation guides, howto guides, etc.

 

  • List of active projects will be established at organizational meeting

 

Potential Projects

 

This list needs lots of work! The top level bullets should become level 3 headings, ... Need about a paragraph for each heading. NEED more links! Soon!  We are making progress but a lot of work is still needed.

 

Please add your own projects to this list!

 

But I don't have an XO

 

Running sugar on a conventional laptop or desktop.

There are several ways to do it. We need to try them all and prepare installation guides.

 

  • LiveCD
    • on real hardware
    • in a VM (Qemu, Virtual Box, Xen, VMware, etc.)
  • Ubuntu - Gutsy and Hardy Packages
  • sugar_jhbuild for developers

 

Exhibit space

 

  • an XO
  • Sugar on a laptop
  • How To guide from "But I don't have an XO" project (when it is done).
  • Student Work
  • Sensors

 

Group Explorations

 

  • Shared Activities and "White board"
  • Activity of the week

 

Etoys

 

The etoys activity is similar to Starlogo TNG, except:

 

  • it does not require 3D graphics acceleration
  • it runs on the XO hardware

 

It uses the "Block" method of programming. It is built on Squeak/Smalltalk instead of Starlogo/Java.

 

Activity Development

 

I was initially exploring the memory activity and was impressed with the ability to match text and multimedia objects, numbers and expressions, words and definitions, words and pictures, etc.

And what if we connected it to a dictionary.

 

  • A regular dictionary
  • A picture dictionary
  • A multilingual dictionary
  • a wiki based dictionary

 

Someone suggested looking at OmegaWiki

And what if if dynamically assigned student skill levels and word difficulties dynamically similar to freerice.com

 

Production Quality Servers

 

  • Presence
  • Regional Servers
  • School Community Servers
    • XSX COTS
    • XS Hardened Server for the 3rd World
    • Marvel 802.11s Mesh Active Antenna
  • Integrating Moodle

 

OLPC Health

 

  • Sensors
  • Porting the WorldVistA implementation of VistA to the XO
    • CPRS - Borland Delphi (Pascal Dialect)
      • Wine
      • Lazarus/Free Pascal
        • LCL VCL Gaps
      • Mono
      • Python
        • Coco/R
        • CocoPy
      • Ajax

 

Pedagogy - Many of the "Stars" hang out here

 

 

Curating the Wiki

 

  • Content curating is specific to the project
  • Style should be consisten
  • Templates
  • Bots
  • MediaWiki extension
    • <noinclude>{{:Page}}</noinclude>
  • Sementic MediaWiki
  • CmapTools

 

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