This was the first meeting after Squeakfest. We talked about Mariana's plan to have a Squeakfest in Uruguay next year and starting a web team. Cherry will apply for the contributors program to get XO 1.5 for testing, she is asking who also needs a machine. For the next Etoys version, we would like to have speech bubbles and graphing (from Richo) added. Rita will ask the developers. We also would like to have support for in Etoys for the video format the XO camera is using. We will start the web team and business team soon to concentrate on education matters in the next edu meetings.
[05.08.10 19:08:44] Rita Freudenberg: hi there
[05.08.10 19:10:36] Cherry Withers: very productive one and I learned a lot
[05.08.10 19:11:25] Rita Freudenberg: Bill will put the videos from Squeakfest in a DVD
[05.08.10 19:12:34] Rita Freudenberg: few people get copies, decide, what to put online
[05.08.10 19:15:38] Rita Freudenberg: ask Marta about Squeakfest Brazil this year
[05.08.10 19:17:46] Rita Freudenberg: have a webteam, communicate with Merik
[05.08.10 19:17:47] stevesargon: What has he offered to do?
[05.08.10 19:18:03] Cherry Withers: He offered the use of his server
[05.08.10 19:18:54] stevesargon: Was he using seaside to store the projects?
[05.08.10 19:19:25] stevesargon: Where is the project server, do you have a link?
[05.08.10 19:19:47] Rita Freudenberg: project server used aida
[05.08.10 19:21:24] stevesargon: First thing is to define the functionality we would like on our site (technology independent)
[05.08.10 19:21:53] Rita Freudenberg: Cherry suggests to look at Drupal
[05.08.10 19:22:04] stevesargon: Then we need to look at our site design (layout, site architecture)
[05.08.10 19:23:24] stevesargon: Need to port the projects and comments
[05.08.10 19:23:33] stevesargon: The code to display them we will toss and redo
[05.08.10 19:26:01] stevesargon: Who are the audiences
[05.08.10 19:26:14] stevesargon: Teachers, Parents, kids, ???
[05.08.10 19:26:25] stevesargon: Volunteers
[05.08.10 19:26:57] Rita Freudenberg: developers
[05.08.10 19:27:12] Cherry Withers: Mentors
[05.08.10 19:27:56] stevesargon: Textbook and/or 1-2 minute screencasts
[05.08.10 19:29:22] stevesargon: What about an Etoys channel on YouTube?
[05.08.10 19:29:50] stevesargon: We profit from each other
[05.08.10 19:31:04] Cherry Withers: Basic Tools
[05.08.10 19:31:14] stevesargon: Categories of Screencasts/Content
[05.08.10 19:31:26] stevesargon: 1) Quick Guides (in screencast format)
[05.08.10 19:31:37] stevesargon: 2) "Great Literature" on how to use Etoys in Teaching
[05.08.10 19:32:12] stevesargon: 3) Ideas on how to use Etoys to facilitate learning of (concept list)
A) fractions
[05.08.10 19:32:17] stevesargon: B) Pi
[05.08.10 19:32:28] stevesargon: C) Phyics (Avigails Presentation)
[05.08.10 19:32:33] stevesargon: D) ...
[05.08.10 19:33:56] stevesargon: Agenda Item (before I forget): You can't do or post Avigail's project (easily, its really hard)
[05.08.10 19:34:19] stevesargon: Agenda Item 2: Feature Freeze for next release past
[05.08.10 19:36:39] stevesargon: Idea for Webstie: Etoys Tours
[05.08.10 19:37:13] stevesargon: First Step we pick, later we can add ranking items
[05.08.10 19:37:28] Rita Freudenberg: Rita will ask on the mailing list who wants to be in the web-team, schedule first meeting
[05.08.10 19:37:56] stevesargon: Etoys Challlenges is an Excellent IDEA
[05.08.10 19:38:13] stevesargon: ITs a greate learning method
[05.08.10 19:38:27] stevesargon: It allows you to hide the complexity
[05.08.10 19:39:57] Cherry Withers: everyone has gmail?
[05.08.10 19:40:10] stevesargon: Yes
[05.08.10 19:40:20] Randall Caton: yes
[05.08.10 19:41:05] Cherry Withers: I can learn Drupal
[05.08.10 19:41:18] Cherry Withers: don't know much about Squeak
[05.08.10 19:42:13] Cherry Withers: I am applying for the Contributor's program for an XO 1.5. Let me know if I should Include more people
[05.08.10 19:42:43] Rita Freudenberg: cherry, great!
[05.08.10 19:43:13] stevesargon: Can you ask him to put it int he inbox for Etoys Dev.4.1
[05.08.10 19:43:15] Cherry Withers: Are there clean-up efforts as well?
[05.08.10 19:44:24] Cherry Withers: hope to changes some names of tiles in kedama
[05.08.10 19:44:29] stevesargon: http:source.squeak.org/etoysinbox
[05.08.10 19:44:49] Cherry Withers: and Kedama is named Particles but it's still "Kedama World" not "Particles World"
[05.08.10 19:47:42] stevesargon: Please
[05.08.10 19:49:57] stevesargon: Sugar Relase schedule: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap
[05.08.10 19:54:56] stevesargon: And the Speech Bubbles
[05.08.10 19:57:21] Rita Freudenberg: include Dr. Geo in next Etoys version? will ask Bert.
[05.08.10 19:59:12] Rita Freudenberg: education team suggests to include graphing and bubbles into next Etoys version
[05.08.10 20:00:06] Cherry Withers: video from XOs are also not supported
[05.08.10 20:00:18] Cherry Withers: it's not seemless
[05.08.10 20:01:55] Cherry Withers: although the video from XOs are not very ideal because of the resolution
[05.08.10 20:02:05] stevesargon: The new v8 format is open source, part of the problem is a lot of the codec's are not free
[05.08.10 20:02:16] Cherry Withers: we at least hit a bit group of users
[05.08.10 20:02:54] stevesargon: That's Excellent
[05.08.10 20:07:56] Rita Freudenberg: start business team again
[05.08.10 20:08:06] stevesargon: Thanks folks
[05.08.10 20:10:42] stevesargon: I have four kids who can help test ;)
[05.08.10 19:08:44] Rita Freudenberg: hi there
[05.08.10 19:10:36] Cherry Withers: very productive one and I learned a lot
[05.08.10 19:11:25] Rita Freudenberg: Bill will put the videos from Squeakfest in a DVD
[05.08.10 19:12:34] Rita Freudenberg: few people get copies, decide, what to put online
[05.08.10 19:15:38] Rita Freudenberg: ask Marta about Squeakfest Brazil this year
[05.08.10 19:17:46] Rita Freudenberg: have a webteam, communicate with Merik
[05.08.10 19:17:47] stevesargon: What has he offered to do?
[05.08.10 19:18:03] Cherry Withers: He offered the use of his server
[05.08.10 19:18:54] stevesargon: Was he using seaside to store the projects?
[05.08.10 19:19:25] stevesargon: Where is the project server, do you have a link?
[05.08.10 19:19:47] Rita Freudenberg: project server used aida
[05.08.10 19:21:24] stevesargon: First thing is to define the functionality we would like on our site (technology independent)
[05.08.10 19:21:53] Rita Freudenberg: Cherry suggests to look at Drupal
[05.08.10 19:22:04] stevesargon: Then we need to look at our site design (layout, site architecture)
[05.08.10 19:23:24] stevesargon: Need to port the projects and comments
[05.08.10 19:23:33] stevesargon: The code to display them we will toss and redo
[05.08.10 19:26:01] stevesargon: Who are the audiences
[05.08.10 19:26:14] stevesargon: Teachers, Parents, kids, ???
[05.08.10 19:26:25] stevesargon: Volunteers
[05.08.10 19:26:57] Rita Freudenberg: developers
[05.08.10 19:27:12] Cherry Withers: Mentors
[05.08.10 19:27:56] stevesargon: Textbook and/or 1-2 minute screencasts
[05.08.10 19:29:22] stevesargon: What about an Etoys channel on YouTube?
[05.08.10 19:29:50] stevesargon: We profit from each other
[05.08.10 19:31:04] Cherry Withers: Basic Tools
[05.08.10 19:31:14] stevesargon: Categories of Screencasts/Content
[05.08.10 19:31:26] stevesargon: 1) Quick Guides (in screencast format)
[05.08.10 19:31:37] stevesargon: 2) "Great Literature" on how to use Etoys in Teaching
[05.08.10 19:32:12] stevesargon: 3) Ideas on how to use Etoys to facilitate learning of (concept list)
A) fractions
[05.08.10 19:32:17] stevesargon: B) Pi
[05.08.10 19:32:28] stevesargon: C) Phyics (Avigails Presentation)
[05.08.10 19:32:33] stevesargon: D) ...
[05.08.10 19:33:56] stevesargon: Agenda Item (before I forget): You can't do or post Avigail's project (easily, its really hard)
[05.08.10 19:34:19] stevesargon: Agenda Item 2: Feature Freeze for next release past
[05.08.10 19:36:39] stevesargon: Idea for Webstie: Etoys Tours
[05.08.10 19:37:13] stevesargon: First Step we pick, later we can add ranking items
[05.08.10 19:37:28] Rita Freudenberg: Rita will ask on the mailing list who wants to be in the web-team, schedule first meeting
[05.08.10 19:37:56] stevesargon: Etoys Challlenges is an Excellent IDEA
[05.08.10 19:38:13] stevesargon: ITs a greate learning method
[05.08.10 19:38:27] stevesargon: It allows you to hide the complexity
[05.08.10 19:39:57] Cherry Withers: everyone has gmail?
[05.08.10 19:40:10] stevesargon: Yes
[05.08.10 19:40:20] Randall Caton: yes
[05.08.10 19:41:05] Cherry Withers: I can learn Drupal
[05.08.10 19:41:18] Cherry Withers: don't know much about Squeak
[05.08.10 19:42:13] Cherry Withers: I am applying for the Contributor's program for an XO 1.5. Let me know if I should Include more people
[05.08.10 19:42:43] Rita Freudenberg: cherry, great!
[05.08.10 19:43:13] stevesargon: Can you ask him to put it int he inbox for Etoys Dev.4.1
[05.08.10 19:43:15] Cherry Withers: Are there clean-up efforts as well?
[05.08.10 19:44:24] Cherry Withers: hope to changes some names of tiles in kedama
[05.08.10 19:44:29] stevesargon: http:source.squeak.org/etoysinbox
[05.08.10 19:44:49] Cherry Withers: and Kedama is named Particles but it's still "Kedama World" not "Particles World"
[05.08.10 19:47:42] stevesargon: Please
[05.08.10 19:49:57] stevesargon: Sugar Relase schedule: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap
[05.08.10 19:54:56] stevesargon: And the Speech Bubbles
[05.08.10 19:57:21] Rita Freudenberg: include Dr. Geo in next Etoys version? will ask Bert.
[05.08.10 19:59:12] Rita Freudenberg: education team suggests to include graphing and bubbles into next Etoys version
[05.08.10 20:00:06] Cherry Withers: video from XOs are also not supported
[05.08.10 20:00:18] Cherry Withers: it's not seemless
[05.08.10 20:01:55] Cherry Withers: although the video from XOs are not very ideal because of the resolution
[05.08.10 20:02:05] stevesargon: The new v8 format is open source, part of the problem is a lot of the codec's are not free
[05.08.10 20:02:16] Cherry Withers: we at least hit a bit group of users
[05.08.10 20:02:54] stevesargon: That's Excellent
[05.08.10 20:07:56] Rita Freudenberg: start business team again
[05.08.10 20:08:06] stevesargon: Thanks folks
[05.08.10 20:10:42] stevesargon: I have four kids who can help test ;)