Switzerland/Subjects for phone conference
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Discussion subjects
feel free to complete the list
- Quick poll to determine language
- Short presentation (max. 1' / person?) of the participants of the phone conference (please give a short presentation of your person and what you're specially interested in.. see list below)
- Was bisher geschah (what happened until now)
- How to get XO's for the pilots
- Communication with OLPC
- Next OLPC-CH Meeting in Bern / Lausanne / ? / Mai 08..
- Discussion of objective 4 of OLPc.ch: Promote the programming environment Squeak in the German speaking area by adequate examples and ideas developed in Swiss pedagogic universities and tested in Swiss schools.:
- Why Squeak and not programming oder programming environments for children or constructionist use of ICT by children?
- Why only in the german speaking area (what about french and italian)?
- Priorities for the next 3 months
- Recall of decided specific next steps and individual action items
Participants
- Michele: Moderator, initiator of OLPC-ch interested in pedagogical concepts, coordination of activities of the group, contact to OLPC-Europe AND.. The two XO's mostly 'live with me' ;-): Chatname: micheleno
- Michael Vorburger
- Beat
- Susanne (guess it's me? Susanne Triner?)
- François
- Philippe
- Felix: takes notes; got an XO-1 over G1G1; studies Theology; hacks since age of 8; got picked up by Michael and Niklaus at the OpenExpo 2008 in Berne. I mostly 'live with the XO' ;-)
- User:Sj
- Mala ?
- Lorenz ?
- Jonas (Skype: jonasschaller)
- Niklaus Giger. Unfornately I have no time to be with you.
My plans for the near future are: * Prepare for questions from teachers like: - We/I already have a PC/laptop (not uncommon in Switzerland). Can I use the SW? - What is the difference for a school with normal PCs at school with OLPC loaded on them and OLPC for everybody - Most pupils have access to normal PCs at home. Can they install OLPC on them? - How do the programs on the OLPC compare to my ??? * Look for LiveCD/USB-Stick of the XO to enable interested people to work on a "normal" PC with the OLPC (see e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD) * Get a sugar-jbuild running on my Debian system. Need some more insight into package handling/translation. * Mai: If I can get the 2 XOs here. Prepare a presentation at the local school (techears/Schulart) to get feedback for ideas like: * Why don't we prepare a solid plan to the Konferenz der Erziehungsdirektoren (Conference of cantonal heads of education, as in Switzerland primary education is run not at federal but at canton/state level) to propose introduction of OLPC here in Switzerland.