* "Get the Facts!" (AKA "Get the FUD!") campaign
- * "We have the way out!" campaign with Unisys
+ * $25M spent for "[[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-870805.html | We have the way out!]]" anti-Unix campaign with Unisys
=== Targeting Linux distributors ===
* The [[http://www.microsoft.com/uk/servers/winclientshearts/ | Windows loves PHP]] campaign to promote the WAMP platform (2008)
+ * [[http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-posts-video-of-customers-criticizing-openoffice.ars Video against OpenOffice]] and OpenSource in general (2010)
=== Targeting OpenSource licenses and development model ===
== True Heroes ==
- * General Executive Board Report and Proceedings [of The] Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1914
-
- "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you"
-
* Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
(photos courtesy of Carla Crosa)
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito, our youngest volunteer, helping one of our trainers }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Sofia, Jose and Aldo}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito, our youngest volunteer, helping one of our trainers }} ||
Today I spent some time with three siblings of Caacupé who has impressed me and the educators very
much with their original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not a school subject, these kids are
learning it on their own driven by their own passion.
* **What's your name?**
- * B: Benedicto
- * N: Nadia
- * A: Alberto
+ * J: Jose
+ * S: Sofia
+ * A: Aldo
* **How old are you?**
- * B: 12
- * N: 11
+ * J: 12
+ * S: 11
* A: 9
* **How did you learn Scratch?**
- * B: We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does.
- * N: Like he said, we experimented with all the functions and check the results.
+ * J: We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does.
+ * S: Like he said, we experimented with all the functions and check the results.
* A: By looking at the animations of the games bundled with Scratch
* **What job would you like to do when you're done with school?**
- * B: Software engineer
- * N: Paediatrician
+ * J: Software engineer
+ * S: Paediatrician
* A: Nada... ;-)
* **Do you like Turtle Art? What can you do with it?**
- * B: Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes.
- * N: Mostly geometric shapes
+ * J: Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes.
+ * S: Mostly geometric shapes
* A: Only basic shapes: square, triangle...
* **How much time do you spend with your laptop every day?**
- * B: A few hours.
- * N: 6 hours, more or less.
+ * J: A few hours.
+ * S: 6 hours, more or less.
* A: Same for me.
* (Mother's note: they don't use the laptop enough in school!)
* **Nobody is teaching you, yeah? You're learning everything on your own?**
- * B: No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together.
- * N: I learned the basics of Turtle Art at the trainer's course.
+ * J: No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together.
+ * S: I learned the basics of Turtle Art at the trainer's course.
* A: Yes, I learned it there too.
* **What other activities do you like besides Scratch and Turtle Art?**
- * B: //Hablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox).
- * N: //eToys//, to edit photos. I need someone to teach me all the rest.
+ * J: //Hablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox).
+ * S: //eToys//, to edit photos. I need someone to teach me all the rest.
* A: //Grabar// (Record), to take videos, interview people...
* **What would you like to add to Sugar?**
- * B: The "Snake" game
- * N: Strategic games
+ * J: The "Snake" game
+ * S: Strategic games
* A: ...hmm...
* (Mom: They need an automatic spell checker... and a **screensaver**, of course).
* **What's the most annoying problem for you with Sugar?**
- * B: Can't use the "robot" function in //Hablar con Sara// (
- * N: I want bigger fonts in //Pintar// (Paint).
+ * J: Can't use the "robot" function in //Hablar con Sara// (
+ * S: I want bigger fonts in //Pintar// (Paint).
* A: //Escribir// (Write ;-)
* **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?**
- * B: Very well!
+ * J: Very well!
-Then Benedicto and I got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
+Then Jose and I got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
I've shown him a few Pippy examples, describing the code briefly before running it, then making small changes to make
-Benedicto grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the
+Jose grasp the possibilities. From his questions and comments, I'm pretty sure that he could figure out the
concepts despite my very poor Spanish fluency and my usual disorganized style.
-Nadia shows plenty of design talent: she uses Sugar to create short stories featuring her friends. She
+Sofia shows plenty of design talent: she uses Sugar to create short stories featuring her friends. She
cookie-cuts their photos and uses Scratch to animate them on fantasy backgrounds with music, sound
effects and text. Recently, she started creating line-art versions of the photos using eToys, so her
-new creations look more like cartoons. At this point, Benedicto mentioned the [[http://htf.atom.com/ | Happy Tree Friends]],
+new creations look more like cartoons. At this point, Jose mentioned the [[http://htf.atom.com/ | Happy Tree Friends]],
an innocently named Internet series which makes even South Park seem politically correct in comparison!
HTF is Flash-only and doesn't seem to work with Gnash -- at least, we should be above any bigot criticism
for conveying "inapprorpiate content" to young hack^Wchildren.
-Nadia also created a platform videogame in which a dog needs to jump around to find the way out from
+Sofia also created a platform videogame in which a dog needs to jump around to find the way out from
each level, while a bouncing arrow chases him. Technically simple, but shows sensitive use of
game-design principles. I'm not sure if the code is entirely new or comes in part from pre-existing
Scratch games. It doesn't matter: in Free Software, remixing other people's work is the rule.
-We updated Benedicto's and Nadia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]],
-which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Benedicto had been previously
+We updated Jose's and Sofia's laptops to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | F11-XO1 Paraguay, build 65]],
+which contains the latest release of [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Notes | Sugar 0.84]]. Jose had been previously
testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities.
-|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00005-game-written-in-scratch.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Perro Bros }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00016-nadias-work-in-etoys.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Nadia's line-art image }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00005-game-written-in-scratch.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Perro Bros }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00016-nadias-work-in-etoys.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Sofia's line-art image }} ||
== Mon, Mar 8 - Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reasons ==
--- /dev/null
+== August 2010 ==
+
+=== Fri, Sep 28 -- Arrival in Mozambique ===
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/maputo/20100830_002.jpg|maxwidth=800|Praça dos Trabalhadores in Maputo}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/ifp-matola/DSCN0223.JPG|maxwidth=800|Instituto de Formação de Professores de Matola}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/ifp-matola/20100828_002.jpg|maxwidth=800|Our home at the Matola IFP}}
+
+See the photo gallery from [[pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/ifp-matola|IFP Matola]] and [[pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/maputo|Maputo]].
--- /dev/null
+== September 2010 ==
+
+=== Sun, Sep 19 - Kruger Park ===
+
+This week-end I rent a small car and headed to the [[http://www.krugerpark.co.za/|Kruger National Park]]
+for a one-day visit, dawn to dusk (6am to 6pm).
+
+Highly recommended if you like seeing wild animals and nature.
+
+{{pictures/vacation/south_africa_2010/kruger-park/IMG_1418.JPG | maxwidth=640}}
+{{pictures/vacation/south_africa_2010/kruger-park/IMG_1512.JPG | maxwidth=640}}
+
+{{pictures/vacation/south_africa_2010/kruger-park/IMG_1334.JPG | maxwidth=640}}
+{{pictures/vacation/south_africa_2010/kruger-park/IMG_1302.JPG | maxwidth=640}}
+
+See [[pictures/vacation/south_africa_2010/kruger-park | all the photos]].
+
+=== Mon, Sep 13 - OLPC Tech Training ===
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/tech-training/DSCN0237.JPG|maxwidth=800}}
+
+See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/tech-training|all the photos]].
+
+=== Mon, Sep 6 - Schools survey ===
+
+Today we visited 5 candidate schools in the province of Maputo to check the status of their
+infrastructure. All the schools have some electric wiring, but none of them have outlets
+in the classrooms.
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/schools/Matola%20C/IMG_1117.JPG|maxwidth=800}}
+
+See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/schools|all the photos]].
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+== October 2010 ==
+
+=== Fri, Oct 15 -- First classroom sessions ===
+
+Young children really do learn fast. I can hardly believe that how fast some
+of them went from using a computer for the first time to browsing the Internet.
+
+See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/classroom-sessions | all the photos]].
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/classroom-sessions/IMG_1920.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/classroom-sessions/IMG_1898.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/classroom-sessions/IMG_2083.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/classroom-sessions/IMG_2042.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+
+=== Mon, Oct 11 -- Laptops handout! ===
+
+Finally, the long awaited day has come.
+
+Our team distributed laptops to 3rd, 4th and 5th grade children of the pilot school annex to
+the [[http://www.mec.gov.mz/dep.php?p=504|Instituto de Formaçao de Professores de Matola]].
+
+Considering that this was the first experience for everyone in the national OLPC team, today's
+operations went remarkably smoothly. We organized an assembly line with multiple stages:
+box opening, firmware upgrades, labeling, inventorying and checkout.
+
+Tomorrow the school will be closed for teacher's day. On Wednesday, we'll start to see some
+action in the classrooms!
+
+See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout | all the photos]].
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout/IMG_1729.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout/IMG_1765.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout/IMG_1751.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout/IMG_1772.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout/IMG_1766.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
+{{pictures/sugar/deployment/mozambique/laptops-handout/IMG_1864.JPG | maxwidth=480}}
=== Lossless compression algorithms ===
+{{{
+time lzop <file >/dev/null
+time gzip <file >/dev/null
+time bzip2 <file >/dev/null
+time xz <file >/dev/null
+}}}
+
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|| r2d2 || PowerEdge R410 || Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU || E5520 || 2.27GHz || x86_64 ||
|| ummak || Lenovo Laptop || Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU || T9300 || 2.50GHz || x86_64 ||
-**Editing <<HttpGet|q>> for <<CgiVar|REMOTE_USER>> from <<CgiVar|REMOTE_HOST>>**
+Editing **<<CgiVar|QUERY_STRING>>** for **<<CgiVar|REMOTE_USER>>** from **<<CgiVar|REMOTE_HOST>>**:
<div class="editor">
-<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<<HttpGet|q>>" >
+<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<<CgiVar|SCRIPT_NAME>>/<<CgiVar|QUERY_STRING>>" >
<input type="hidden" name="a" value="edit">
<input type="hidden" name="q" value="<<HttpGet|q>>">
-<textarea wrap="off" autofocus="true" spellcheck="true" id="editor" name="savetext" rows="17" cols="100" accesskey="e"><<EDIT_BODY>></textarea>
+<textarea wrap="off" autofocus="true" spellcheck="true" class="editor" name="savetext" rows="17" cols="100" accesskey="e"><<EDIT_BODY>></textarea>
<label for="file" accesskey="u">Or upload a file:</label> <input type="file" name="file" value="<<HttpPost|file>>" />
\\
-<input type="input" id="editor" name="changelog" value="Edit page <<HttpGet|q>>" accesskey="c" />
+<label for="changelog" accesskey="s"><u>S</u>ummary:</label> <input type="text" class="changelog" name="changelog" value="Edit page <<CgiVar|QUERY_STRING>>" accesskey="c" />
\\
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Save" accesskey="s" />
<input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview" accesskey="p" />
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a:visited { color: #501080; }
a.nonexistent { color: #D04040; }
-a.navlink { color: #000088; font-size: smaller; font-weight: bold}
+a.navlink, a.login { font-size: smaller; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; }
+a.navlink:hover, a.login:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
+a.navlink { color: #000088; }
+a.login { color: #bb0000; }
a.external { font-style: italic; }
a.heading { text-decoration: none; color: #aaaaaa; font-size: smaller; }
background-color: #aaccee;*/
border-color: #888888;
background-color: #cccccc;
- border-style: solid;
+ border-style: solid
border-top-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
border-left-width: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
}
-.nav hr {
- display: none;
+.nav li {
+ display: inline;
}
-.nav .login {
- font-size: small;
- color: red;
+.nav ul
+{
+ list-style-type: none;
+ margin: 0;
+ padding: 0;
+ padding-top: 6px;
+ padding-bottom: 6px;
+}
+
+
+.nav hr {
+ display: none;
}
#footer div {
margin: 0px;
}
-#editor {
+.editor input[type='text'], .editor textarea {
font-family: monospace;
- width: 100%;
color: black;
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid #8cacbb;
}
+.editor textarea.editor { width: 100%; }
+.editor input.changelog { width: 50%; }
/* thumbnails */
if args[1].startswith('HTTP_'):
return os.environ.get(args[1], '')
return {
+ 'SCRIPT_NAME': script_name(),
'REMOTE_USER': remote_user(),
'REMOTE_HOST': get_hostname(remote_host()),
'REMOTE_ADDR': remote_host(),
- 'QUERY_STRING': relative_url(query_string()),
+ 'QUERY_STRING': query_string(),
}[args[1]]
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