[ubuntu-us-ma] greeting

Caroline Meeks caroline at solutiongrove.com
Tue Feb 23 16:18:36 GMT 2010


Hi Martin,

Thanks for the info on the Learning Team! Are there classes where people
learn to package?

I have class at Harvard till 7pm on Tuesdays all semester. Is there another
time I can meet people?

Thanks!
Caroline

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Caroline,
>
> There are various people on here and I hope they will introduce
> themselves. Most of the work we do is advocacy and education so only a
> few of us are programmers, sysadmins etc.
>
> We had a wonderful talk from Walter Bender a few years back and I fully
> support the work Sugar labs is doing.
>
> I'm a board member for the world wide Ubuntu Learning project, we are
> attempting to create a community of writers who can produce learning
> materials which can teach various skills in relation to Ubuntu. I'd
> appreciate your thoughts on that project.
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning
>
> We're also doing a session on Tuesday evening and it might be a good
> opportunity to meet up in person and have a talk afterwards about what
> our groups are up to. This would be near Coply Sq. Boston.
>
> Martin,
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 21:43 -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> > Hello Massachusetts Ubuntuees!
> >
> >
> > I am Caroline Meeks, I am working on the Sugar project, specifically
> > making Sugar on a Stick useful in Massachusetts Schools.
> >
> >
> > Sugar is the kids operating system designed for the One Laptop per
> > Child project.  www.sugarlabs.org - The video is a great
> > introduction.
> >
> >
> > From a teachers point of view its free, has tons of pedagogically
> > sound, interesting and free activities, supports collaboration and
> > portfolios.  activities.sugarlabs.org has tons of free activities.
> >
> >
> > From a kids point of view its colorful, fun, they can play games with
> > classmates and create cool things. Kids love it.
> >
> >
> > From a Linux Geek point of view its a UI that can be on top of any
> > flavor of Linux. It was built on Fedora but there is an active project
> > to port it to Ubuntu.  We could use help! The url for the project
> > is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix
> >
> >
> > One of our biggest needs right now is help packaging.  Please contact
> > me if you are a packager or even if you want to learn to be a
> > packager. ;)
> >
> >
> > We are also running pilots here in Boston, but right now we are on
> > hold until we complete the move to Ubunutu for better hardware
> > coverage and also work on reliability issues. Hopefully this summer
> > and next fall we will need people to work with kids and families in
> > the Boston area.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Caroline
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Hello there,
> >
> >         Do ask any questions you have about Ubuntu.
> >
> >         Martin,
> >
> >         On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:13 -0500, gaitdoctor at aol.com wrote:
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >
> >
> >
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

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