[ubuntu-us-ma] greeting

Caroline Meeks caroline at solutiongrove.com
Tue Feb 23 16:36:37 GMT 2010


Thanks!

What will be going on on Thursday March 4th at Harvard Democracy Center?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM, James Gray <jamespgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Caroline - hope this information is helpful:
>
> Regarding packaging, this might be of interest:
>
> http://ubuntupackaging.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/re-booting-the-packaging-training-sessions/
>
> You might stop by during one of our meetings or other events on our
> calendar or stop by our irc channel.
>
> http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=8fjaig5v8cbm8ohol0tmkf0pvg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Caroline Meeks
> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >> >
> >>
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
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