OLPC:News/2008/Week 8
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the week in review: Week 8, 2008* |
^ Overview
Progress in Mongolia with ICDL libraries. A strong grassroots community is coming together in Peru, thanks to user:sebastian. Over 50 people came to the first gathering, and about half that number have written into voluntario /at/ laptop asking to help out.
x Synergies
opportunities, people, engagements
I met with David Jasmin of LAMS/LAMAP, a pedagogical organization based in France aimed at improving learning and teaching in French schools, on Sunday. We ended up talking for a few hours; and found a good deal in common. He has been trying to make collaborative online authoring projects succeed, in French and other languages, since the 1990s. He feels that these days there are good zero-barrier-to-entry projects and that the older structured projects may find some new life. See the article for more.
The Google Literacy Project is organizing something cool for the Day of the Book. Our Speak activity and related literacy projects have been nominated as one of the projects to feature; we should find out the details and what is entailed soon (next week?).
· Artefacts
projects, events, news, materials
- NB: feel free to add yourself as being interested in any artefact that shows up; or to create a separate page for it for further discussion
Anthony Asael of artinallofus has offered to help make collections from his massive global project, with 150,000 photographs and 80,000 poems from children around the world. We are discussing how to make the current contribution process — which he personally travels around the world to facilitate — into an activity, or a set of games.
- Interested parties: UNICEF, Anthony, sethwoodworth.
= Fundament
status, deadlines, assumptions, processes
Testing : Monday will see a number of people in the office for an on-site testing jam, starting with the mesh in various configurations.
Journal : Following Tomeu's updates here on the wiki of the immediate Sugar and journal roadmaps, there may be a parallel set of Journal implementation discussions.
+ Priorities
milestones, sequences, first and next
Content bundle localization : Content bundles aren't internationalized the same way as other bundles are -- for instance, not being Python, they need to use a set of po files differently from collections of code. We are working on a spec to support pointing to different index pages by language choice as well as a recommended toolchain for using pootle to manage translations and rebuilding an arbitrary set of content pages from the results.
- Next week, this process will be sent out for discussion and review by translators; and recommendations for bundle maintainers will be out the week after that. The library-core in joyride will also be updated to include proper localization soon.
Milestones
Kliptown : we have early March milestones here; for preparing the community for the trial and having the non-school in Kliptown set up. They also have their own set of books they want to use, not clearly under a free license, but approved by the government for use there. Something for our rights team to clarify.
Sequences
Once we revise our testing framework early next week, we will again need more people to join the test process. Give a holler if you are interested in taking part in this.
Contributor/community laptop programs
We are getting closer to revising our contributors/developers program. There are also a number of groups of developers and researchers who want to purchase more than a few laptops for their own work and testing; some community members are developing a proposal for making this happen.
o Reflection
review, updates, analysis, feedback
As always, please send in any and all feedback; by mail, or via the talk page. --Sj talk 12:48, 23 February 2008 (EST)