participants: Randy, Cherry, Avigail, Stephen, Rita
Rita Freudenberg: cherry is preparing the cooney center proposal, Steve will help with the .pdf
stevesargon:By when do we need this in PDF? In EST?
Cherry Withers: Steve I will need them at least by 10pm PST, deadline is April 1st
Cherry Withers needs some input for the grant proposal, especially for: How does your concept promote literacy amongst children aged 6 to 9? How have you been/will you measure educational impact?
Rita Freudenberg: maybe we should ask for japanese papers?
Rita Freudenberg: Avigail suggested a reference to what BJ said in the Squeakers video
Rita Freudenberg: Randy mentioned a paper from 1998 wiglinsky
Rita Freudenberg: Idit Harel
Rita Freudenberg: Yasmin Kafai
Rita Freudenberg: Randy and Avigail are looking up references for research papers
Rita Freudenberg: Rita will ask Yoshiki and Abe-san about japanese research
Rita Freudenberg: Cherry will send the draft
Rita Freudenberg: Randy reported that the NASA connect projects are not working on the NASA website, because the method on Squeakland has changed. He has to replace nearly 200 links with the new method to get it working again.
Rita Freudenberg: GSoC: Randy reported that Rico already did the graphing tool
Rita Freudenberg: Rico would like to do more, for instance, providing a tool that makes it easy to create their own tiles. Hehas been suggested by Bert to work on getting Etoys back to Squeak.
stevesargon: So is this the moving to Pharo and Monitcello issue?
Rita Freudenberg: steve, yes
Rita Freudenberg: we will have a software meeting on monday and talk about ideas with Rico
stevesargon: How can I get an XO?
Cherry Withers: Steve, it's through the contributor's program of OLPC
Cherry Withers: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program
Cherry Withers: they now have XO 1.5
Rita Freudenberg: Randy asked about language support in Etoys, especially for Haitian Creole. How will the text of his lessons be translated? Would it be possible to work with translatable text in Etoys? That could be a problem, since changing the language to ht isn't working.
Rita Freudenberg: Avigail tells how to leave pen trails on a map by stamping the map on the background and having it ready to stamp it again if needed.
Cherry Withers: How can you let an object flip over on the screen?
stevesargon: 1) Change Forwad Direction to 90
stevesargon: Then Search for rotation
stevesargon: And Change <Rotation Style> to <flip left right>
stevesargon: Then turn 180
stevesargon: Idea for Squeakfest, have a "Bring us your Etoys Problem/Challenge Table"
It would help us (me at least) get a better idea of the challenges folks have using Etoys and help decide what kinds of support materials to develop. I would be willing to staff the table, assuming I can go
Cherry Withers: How do you recover from a deleted paint tool?
stevesargon: Bug, the paint tool should have "resist being deleted" checked
stevesargon: Also in World Viewer Category "playfield" has "round up strays"
Rita Freudenberg: We figured out how to get the deleted paint tool back: round up strays on the world, start painting. it will appear in the top left corner.
Cherry Withers: Or at the very least the trash can be accessed and the paint tool fished out from it.