https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=JoelSugar Labs - User contributions [en]2026-04-04T01:39:15ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.0https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab&diff=14571User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab2009-01-22T00:18:46Z<p>Joel: /* People */</p>
<hr />
<div>The Adelaide Local Lab is a group of interested people who meet in their<br />
home city of Adelaide, South Australia.<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
Anyone who is involved can put their name here<br />
<br />
* Joel Stanley<br />
* Thomas Sprinkmeier<br />
* David Rowe[http://rowetel.com]<br />
* Mandy Leimann<br />
* Karl Goetz<br />
* Paul Schulz<br />
* Patricia Schulz<br />
* Andrew Zschorn<br />
* Tom Daly <br />
* Bill Kerr<br />
* Kim Hawtin<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
<br />
=== First meet ===<br />
http://jms.id.au/wiki/AdelaideSugarLab<br />
<br />
=== Second meet ===<br />
<br />
Saturday, Jan 10th.<br />
1:00pm.<br />
<br />
Cibo, Rundle Street<br />
<br />
==== Agenda ====<br />
* Introductions - why are we all here?<br />
* Latest politics (see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki)<br />
* David Leeming training schedule - Bill Kerr<br />
I like the way David structured the Nauru teacher training<br />
See http://www.wikieducator.org/OLPC_Oceania/Training/Lesson_Plans/Notes_and_ideas_for_teacher_training#Ideas_from_Nauru_trials.2C_August_2008<br />
* Linux.conf.au 2008</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab&diff=14570User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab2009-01-22T00:18:24Z<p>Joel: /* People */</p>
<hr />
<div>The Adelaide Local Lab is a group of interested people who meet in their<br />
home city of Adelaide, South Australia.<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
Anyone who is involved can put their name here<br />
<br />
* Joel Stanley<br />
* Thomas Sprinkmeier<br />
* David Rowe[http://rowetel.com]<br />
* Mandy Leimann<br />
* Karl Goetz<br />
* Paul Schulz<br />
* Patricia Schulz<br />
* Andrew Zschorn<br />
* Tom Daly <br />
* Bill Kerr<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
<br />
=== First meet ===<br />
http://jms.id.au/wiki/AdelaideSugarLab<br />
<br />
=== Second meet ===<br />
<br />
Saturday, Jan 10th.<br />
1:00pm.<br />
<br />
Cibo, Rundle Street<br />
<br />
==== Agenda ====<br />
* Introductions - why are we all here?<br />
* Latest politics (see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki)<br />
* David Leeming training schedule - Bill Kerr<br />
I like the way David structured the Nauru teacher training<br />
See http://www.wikieducator.org/OLPC_Oceania/Training/Lesson_Plans/Notes_and_ideas_for_teacher_training#Ideas_from_Nauru_trials.2C_August_2008<br />
* Linux.conf.au 2008</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=14569User:Joel2009-01-22T00:14:46Z<p>Joel: /* Projects */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== [[User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar | Who Wrote Sugar?]] ==<br />
<br />
== [[User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab | Adelaide Local Lab]] ==<br />
<br />
== Sugar deployment ==<br />
<br />
I've been helping Bill Kerr[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/], a teacher at a local school who have been trialling Sugar in the classroom, using Live images on USB keys. The Live-USB method allows them to use a slightly-dated lab full of Dell machines that normally run Windows XP to run Sugar, without having to get the school sysadmin involved.<br />
<br />
The class has been using first a 650-based build, and more recently a 0.82 release of Sugar for a semester. They have maintained a wiki[http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/] on the topic.<br />
<br />
== Spreading the word ==<br />
<br />
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms.<br />
<br />
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own record<br />
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007<br />
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007<br />
* '''ForumIT'''[http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/stiri.php#stirea65], Romania, August 2007<br />
* '''OSDC 2007'''[http://www.osdc.com.au/index2007.html], Sydney, November 2007<br />
* '''VITTA 2007'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2007/], Melbourne, November 2007<br />
* '''LinuxSA LUG'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''Adventures working for OLPC'', April 2008<br />
* '''OLPC Australia Tech Fest'''[http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/olpc-australias-first-techfest/], Sydney, July 2008<br />
* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008<br />
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008<br />
* '''VITTA 2008'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2008/], Melbourne, November 2008<br />
<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland Gesthuizen[http://plakboek.livejournal.com/], a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possession of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar&diff=14532User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar2009-01-20T23:17:31Z<p>Joel: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:Cumulative.svg|200px|thumb|A graph showing total lines of code in Sugar since April 19 2006, when the first commit was made to Sugar's git repo.]]<br />
<br />
Using [http://lwn.net/Articles/290957/ gitdm], a set of scripts written to mine the Linux kernel's git<br />
changelogs for contributor information, I have put together some numbers<br />
on contributions to Sugar.<br />
<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-0.82.html<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-0.84dev.html<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-all.html<br />
<br />
== Scripts ==<br />
* git://git.lwn.net/gitdm.git<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=File:Cumulative.svg&diff=14531File:Cumulative.svg2009-01-20T23:14:04Z<p>Joel: A graph showing total lines of code in Sugar since April 19 2006, when the first commit was made to Sugar's git repo.</p>
<hr />
<div>A graph showing total lines of code in Sugar since April 19 2006, when the first commit was made to Sugar's git repo.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar&diff=14479User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar2009-01-20T04:26:35Z<p>Joel: </p>
<hr />
<div>Using [http://lwn.net/Articles/290957/ gitdm], a set of scripts written to mine the Linux kernel's git<br />
changelogs for contributor information, I have put together some numbers<br />
on contributions to Sugar.<br />
<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-0.82.html<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-0.84dev.html<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-all.html<br />
<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar&diff=14478User:Joel/WhoWroteSugar2009-01-20T04:25:16Z<p>Joel: New page: Using gitdm, a set of scripts written to mine the Linux kernel's git changelogs for contributor information, I have put together some numbers on contributions to Sugar. * http://jms.id.au...</p>
<hr />
<div>Using gitdm, a set of scripts written to mine the Linux kernel's git<br />
changelogs for contributor information, I have put together some numbers<br />
on contributions to Sugar.<br />
<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-0.82.html<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-0.84dev.html<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/results-all.html<br />
<br />
* http://jms.id.au/~shenki/sugar-stats/</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Chroot&diff=14275Development Team/Chroot2009-01-16T00:10:29Z<p>Joel: /* = deboostrap */</p>
<hr />
<div>Sugar ought to be easy to run from chroots. For a variety of silly reasons, this isn't yet the case, but it might be soon. Ping [[User:Mstone|Michael]] with questions.<br />
<br />
=== Chroot Construction ===<br />
<br />
There are lots of ways to create appropriate chroots; e.g. by hand, with debootstrap, with mock, etc.<br />
<br />
==== deboostrap ====<br />
With debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like: <br />
<br />
export CHROOT=`pwd`/sid-root<br />
sudo debootstrap --arch i386 sid $CHROOT http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian<br />
sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l<br />
# and some of the following:<br />
mount -t proc proc $CHROOT/proc<br />
mount -t devpts devpts $CHROOT/dev/pts<br />
mount -t selinuxfs selinux $CHROOT/selinux<br />
<br />
==== mock ====<br />
With mock, it would be more like:<br />
<br />
mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --init<br />
mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --shell<br />
<br />
=== X11 ===<br />
<br />
Most X11 servers are configured to disable TCP connections. This means that in order to get a working X connection we can:<br />
<br />
# bind-mount the X unix socket into the chroot.<br />
# ssh ''into'' the chroot with X11-forwarding enabled.<br />
# enable TCP on an X server, e.g. a nested Xephyr.<br />
<br />
We're going to try option (3) first:<br />
<br />
Xephyr -ac :1<br />
<br />
::''NB: If you figure out how to make Xephyr bind only to localhost sockets (or how to make it use a custom xauth config), speak up!''<br />
<br />
and, inside the chroot:<br />
<br />
export DISPLAY=localhost:1<br />
<br />
=== D-Bus ===<br />
<br />
Sugar wants to be able to use global state stored in both HAL and NetworkManager, both of which live on the system bus. Consequently, we need to bind-mount<br />
<br />
mount --bind /var/run/dbus $CHROOT/var/run/dbus<br />
<br />
before entering the chroot. (Mock uses unshare() to enter a new mount-point namespace since this makes garbage collection of mountpoints much easier.)<br />
<br />
=== User Account ===<br />
<br />
For stupid reasons, it's necessary that Sugar run under a uid inside the chroot which exists as a real account outside the chroot. (Talk to the DBus people.)<br />
<br />
Consequently, run something like this both inside and outside the chroot:<br />
<br />
groupadd -g 64002 sugar<br />
useradd -m -u 64002 -g sugar sugar<br />
<br />
Then, inside the chroot, you can happily run sugar as user 'sugar' with something like<br />
<br />
cat > as_person <<EOF<br />
#!/usr/bin/env python<br />
from os import environ, chdir, setgroups, setgid, setuid, execve<br />
from sys import argv<br />
from pwd import getpwnam<br />
user = getpwnam(argv[1])<br />
environ['HOME'] = user.pw_dir<br />
environ['USER'] = user.pw_name<br />
chdir(user.pw_dir)<br />
setgroups([user.pw_gid])<br />
setgid(user.pw_gid)<br />
setuid(user.pw_uid)<br />
execve(argv[2], argv[2:], environ)<br />
EOF<br />
chmod a+x as_person<br />
./as_person sugar /usr/bin/sugar</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Development_Team/Chroot&diff=14274Development Team/Chroot2009-01-16T00:02:25Z<p>Joel: debootstrap requires root</p>
<hr />
<div>Sugar ought to be easy to run from chroots. For a variety of silly reasons, this isn't yet the case, but it might be soon. Ping [[User:Mstone|Michael]] with questions.<br />
<br />
=== Chroot Construction ===<br />
<br />
There are lots of ways to create appropriate chroots; e.g. by hand, with debootstrap, with mock, etc.<br />
<br />
==== deboostrap ===<br />
With debootstrap, in order to get a working chroot, you want something like: <br />
<br />
export CHROOT=`pwd`/sid-root<br />
sudo debootstrap --arch i386 sid $CHROOT http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian<br />
sudo chroot $CHROOT /bin/bash -l<br />
# and some of the following:<br />
mount -t proc proc $CHROOT/proc<br />
mount -t devpts devpts $CHROOT/dev/pts<br />
mount -t selinuxfs selinux $CHROOT/selinux<br />
<br />
==== mock ====<br />
With mock, it would be more like:<br />
<br />
mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --init<br />
mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --shell<br />
<br />
=== X11 ===<br />
<br />
Most X11 servers are configured to disable TCP connections. This means that in order to get a working X connection we can:<br />
<br />
# bind-mount the X unix socket into the chroot.<br />
# ssh ''into'' the chroot with X11-forwarding enabled.<br />
# enable TCP on an X server, e.g. a nested Xephyr.<br />
<br />
We're going to try option (3) first:<br />
<br />
Xephyr -ac :1<br />
<br />
::''NB: If you figure out how to make Xephyr bind only to localhost sockets (or how to make it use a custom xauth config), speak up!''<br />
<br />
and, inside the chroot:<br />
<br />
export DISPLAY=localhost:1<br />
<br />
=== D-Bus ===<br />
<br />
Sugar wants to be able to use global state stored in both HAL and NetworkManager, both of which live on the system bus. Consequently, we need to bind-mount<br />
<br />
mount --bind /var/run/dbus $CHROOT/var/run/dbus<br />
<br />
before entering the chroot. (Mock uses unshare() to enter a new mount-point namespace since this makes garbage collection of mountpoints much easier.)<br />
<br />
=== User Account ===<br />
<br />
For stupid reasons, it's necessary that Sugar run under a uid inside the chroot which exists as a real account outside the chroot. (Talk to the DBus people.)<br />
<br />
Consequently, run something like this both inside and outside the chroot:<br />
<br />
groupadd -g 64002 sugar<br />
useradd -m -u 64002 -g sugar sugar<br />
<br />
Then, inside the chroot, you can happily run sugar as user 'sugar' with something like<br />
<br />
cat > as_person <<EOF<br />
#!/usr/bin/env python<br />
from os import environ, chdir, setgroups, setgid, setuid, execve<br />
from sys import argv<br />
from pwd import getpwnam<br />
user = getpwnam(argv[1])<br />
environ['HOME'] = user.pw_dir<br />
environ['USER'] = user.pw_name<br />
chdir(user.pw_dir)<br />
setgroups([user.pw_gid])<br />
setgid(user.pw_gid)<br />
setuid(user.pw_uid)<br />
execve(argv[2], argv[2:], environ)<br />
EOF<br />
chmod a+x as_person<br />
./as_person sugar /usr/bin/sugar</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab&diff=13936User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab2009-01-08T01:47:15Z<p>Joel: /* Agenda */</p>
<hr />
<div>The Adelaide Local Lab is a group of interested people who meet in their<br />
home city of Adelaide, South Australia.<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
Anyone who is involved can put their name here<br />
<br />
* Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
<br />
=== First meet ===<br />
http://jms.id.au/wiki/AdelaideSugarLab<br />
<br />
=== Second meet ===<br />
<br />
Saturday, Jan 10th.<br />
1:00pm.<br />
<br />
Cibo, Rundle Street<br />
<br />
==== Agenda ====<br />
* Introductions - why are we all here?<br />
* Latest politics (see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki)<br />
* David Leeming training schedule - '''Bill Kerr'''<br />
* Linux.conf.au 2008</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab&diff=13935User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab2009-01-08T01:44:27Z<p>Joel: /* Second meet */</p>
<hr />
<div>The Adelaide Local Lab is a group of interested people who meet in their<br />
home city of Adelaide, South Australia.<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
Anyone who is involved can put their name here<br />
<br />
* Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
<br />
=== First meet ===<br />
http://jms.id.au/wiki/AdelaideSugarLab<br />
<br />
=== Second meet ===<br />
<br />
Saturday, Jan 10th.<br />
1:00pm.<br />
<br />
Cibo, Rundle Street<br />
<br />
==== Agenda ====<br />
* Introductions - why are we all here?<br />
* Latest politics<br />
* David Leeming training schedule - '''Bill Kerr'''<br />
* Linux.conf.au 2008</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab&diff=13934User:Joel/AdelaideLocalLab2009-01-08T01:41:43Z<p>Joel: New page: The Adelaide Local Lab is a group of interested people who meet in their home city of Adelaide, South Australia. == People == Anyone who is involved can put their name here * Joel Stanle...</p>
<hr />
<div>The Adelaide Local Lab is a group of interested people who meet in their<br />
home city of Adelaide, South Australia.<br />
<br />
== People ==<br />
Anyone who is involved can put their name here<br />
<br />
* Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
<br />
=== First meet ===<br />
http://jms.id.au/wiki/AdelaideSugarLab<br />
<br />
=== Second meet ===<br />
<br />
Saturday, Jan 10th.<br />
1:00pm.<br />
<br />
Cibo, Rundle Street</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=12280User:Joel2008-12-01T03:19:22Z<p>Joel: /* Spreading the word */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Sugar deployment ==<br />
<br />
I've been helping Bill Kerr[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/], a teacher at a local school who have been trialling Sugar in the classroom, using Live images on USB keys. The Live-USB method allows them to use a slightly-dated lab full of Dell machines that normally run Windows XP to run Sugar, without having to get the school sysadmin involved.<br />
<br />
The class has been using first a 650-based build, and more recently a 0.82 release of Sugar for a semester. They have maintained a wiki[http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/] on the topic.<br />
<br />
== Spreading the word ==<br />
<br />
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms.<br />
<br />
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own record<br />
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007<br />
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007<br />
* '''ForumIT'''[http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/stiri.php#stirea65], Romania, August 2007<br />
* '''OSDC 2007'''[http://www.osdc.com.au/index2007.html], Sydney, November 2007<br />
* '''VITTA 2007'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2007/], Melbourne, November 2007<br />
* '''LinuxSA LUG'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''Adventures working for OLPC'', April 2008<br />
* '''OLPC Australia Tech Fest'''[http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/olpc-australias-first-techfest/], Sydney, July 2008<br />
* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008<br />
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008<br />
* '''VITTA 2008'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2008/], Melbourne, November 2008<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming ===<br />
<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008 | OSDC 2008]], Sydney<br />
* [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09 | LCA 2008]], Hobart<br />
<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland Gesthuizen[http://plakboek.livejournal.com/], a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possession of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki&diff=11646Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki2008-11-17T13:03:09Z<p>Joel: moved magicwords to end of page to work around unnecssary space at top of page. Revert if this breaks anything.</p>
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<div>{{TeamHeader|Sugar Labs}}<br />
<div style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8"><br />
'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computing and the Internet. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's ''clarity of design'', children and their teachers use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a [[Community/GettingInvolved|community project]].<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==About Sugar==<br />
<br />
[[Image:home_sharing.png|left]]<br />
<br />
=== Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration. ===<br />
<br />
Children write documents, share books and pictures, or make music together with ease.<br />
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<div class="visualClear"></div><br />
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[[Image: home_activities.png|left]]<br />
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=== There are no files, folders, or applications. ===<br />
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The basic unit of interaction is an <em>activity</em>; it includes an application, data, and a history of the interaction that can be used to resume the activity at any time.<br />
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<div class="visualClear"></div><br />
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[[Image: home_backup.png|left]]<br />
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=== Everything is saved automatically. ===<br />
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Our goal is to make it almost impossible to lose any data.<br />
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<div class="visualClear"></div><br />
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[[Image: home_journal.png|left]]<br />
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=== A Journal is used for accessing data. ===<br />
<br />
The Journal is a diary of things that you make and actions you take; it is a place to reflect upon your work.<br />
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<div class="visualClear"></div><br />
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[[Image: linux2.png|left]]<br />
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=== Sugar is available on many GNU/Linux distributions. ===<br />
<br />
Sugar is supported by and [[Documentation/Try_Sugar|easily installed]] on [[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]], [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]], [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]], and [[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]].<br />
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[[Image: home_opensource.png|left]]<br />
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=== Sugar is free software. ===<br />
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Sugar is licensed under [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL]; updates will <em>always</em> respect the freedom of its users.<br />
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[[Image:Home_manual.png|left]]<br />
=== Documented by its users. ===<br />
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Our [http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar manual] was written by members of the Sugar community. You can help!<br />
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<div class="visualClear"></div><br />
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==Latest news==<br />
<div style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8"><br />
* '''Come to [[Sugarcamp|SugarCamp]] in Cambridge 17–20 November.'''<br />
* We continue to make progress on the [[Supported_systems#Starch|LiveCD and LiveUSB]] versions of Sugar.<br />
* Read a Sugar community member's take on [http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/562 Sugar vs XP] and the [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080920181151638 Groklaw] take.<br />
* Check out the [http://en.flossmanuals.net FLOSS manual] for [http://en.flossmanuals.net/write_activity Write] and write a manual for your favorite Activity.<br />
* [[User:Aaron|Aaron Kaplan]] has ported Sugar to the Intel Classmate 2. You can read about it [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugarizing_it_intel_classmate_2.html here].<br />
* [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|Sucrose 0.82]] has been released.<br />
* Sugar wins a silver medal in the [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772 International Design Excellence Awards '08].<br />
For more news about Sugar Labs, please see visit the [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Current Events page]].<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==Try Sugar==<br />
<span class="plainlinks"><br />
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/1/1e/Fedora.jpg]<br />
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/a/a1/Debian.jpg]<br />
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/e/e2/Ubuntu.jpg]<br />
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Gentoo http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/5/5e/Gentoo-logo-small.jpg]<br />
</span><br />
<br />
<div class="visualClear"></div><br />
<br />
''Try'' Sugar by running it on top of your existing system (Please see the [[Documentation/Try_Sugar|Try Sugar]] page).<br />
<br />
There are many ways to ''get'' Sugar: as a '''[[Supported_systems#Starch|separate disk image]]''' on an existing machine; as a '''[[Supported_systems#Sucrose|session on a Linux distribution]]'''; or as part of a '''[[Supported_systems#Systems|complete hardware-software platform]]'''. <br />
<br />
== Some Sugar Activities ==<br />
Sugar applications are called "Activities". Activities include an application as well as sharing and collaboration capabilities, a built-in interface to the Journal, and other features such as the clipboard.<br />
<br />
<table border="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal Journal] === <br />
Object and activity browser<br />
</td><br />
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<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy Pippy] === <br />
Python Programming language/environment<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse Browse] === <br />
Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys Etoys] === <br />
Learning / programming / authoring environment<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read] === <br />
Book/PDF reader<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art Turtle Art] === <br />
Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write Write] === <br />
Word processor<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Calculate Calculate] === <br />
Basic calculator<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/News_Reader News Reader] === <br />
News reader<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure Measure] === <br />
Oscilloscope and Data Logging<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Paint Paint] === <br />
Simple paint activity<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distance Distance] === <br />
Measure distance between two laptops<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record Record] === <br />
Still, video, and audio capture<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Analyze Analyze] === <br />
An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Log Log] === <br />
An activity version of the Sugar logging tool<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Terminal Terminal] === <br />
An activity version of the Sugar terminal<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam TamTam] === <br />
Music composition and synthesis.<br />
</td><br />
<br />
<td width="33%" style="text-align: center;"><br />
[[Image:activity-chat.png|40px]]<br />
=== [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat Chat] === <br />
Collaborative discussion<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td colspan="3" style="text-align: center;"><br />
=== And more ===<br />
[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities many dozens more are available].<br />
</td><br />
<br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
* [[What is Sugar? | Learn more about Sugar...]]<br />
* A Sugar [[taxonomy]] and a matrix of [[supported systems]]<br />
* A list of Sugar [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All Activities] and a proposal for an [[Activity portal]].<br />
* The Sugar [[DevelopmentTeam/Release]] and [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap]] discussion pages<br />
* Other pages of interest to [[:Category:Developer|developers]]<br />
* A [[Sugar Labs/Background|background]] discussion on [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar]] and [[Sugar Labs]]<br />
* [[Community/FAQ|Frequently asked questions]]<br />
* [[About|About Sugar Labs]]<br />
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[[Category:General public]]<br />
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__NOEDITSECTION__</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=11029User:Joel2008-11-11T14:11:47Z<p>Joel: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Sugar deployment ==<br />
<br />
I've been helping Bill Kerr[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/], a teacher at a local school who have been trialling Sugar in the classroom, using Live images on USB keys. The Live-USB method allows them to use a slightly-dated lab full of Dell machines that normally run Windows XP to run Sugar, without having to get the school sysadmin involved.<br />
<br />
The class has been using first a 650-based build, and more recently a 0.82 release of Sugar for a semester. They have maintained a wiki[http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/] on the topic.<br />
<br />
== Spreading the word ==<br />
<br />
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms.<br />
<br />
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own record<br />
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007<br />
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007<br />
* '''ForumIT'''[http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/stiri.php#stirea65], Romania, August 2007<br />
* '''OSDC 2007'''[http://www.osdc.com.au/index2007.html], Sydney, November 2007<br />
* '''VITTA 2007'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2007/], Melbourne, November 2007<br />
* '''LinuxSA LUG'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''Adventures working for OLPC'', April 2008<br />
* '''OLPC Australia Tech Fest'''[http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/olpc-australias-first-techfest/], Sydney, July 2008<br />
* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008<br />
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming ===<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/VITTA2008 | VITTA 2008]], Melbourne<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008 | OSDC 2008]], Sydney<br />
* [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09 | LCA 2008]], Hobart<br />
<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland Gesthuizen[http://plakboek.livejournal.com/], a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possession of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=11028User:Joel2008-11-11T14:09:33Z<p>Joel: /* Projects */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Sugar deployment ==<br />
<br />
I've been helping Bill Kerr[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/], a teacher at a local school who have been trialling Sugar in the classroom, using Live images on USB keys. The Live-USB method allows them to use a slightly-dated lab full of Dell machines that normally run Windows XP to run Sugar, without having to get the school sysadmin involved.<br />
<br />
The class has been using first a 650-based build, and more recently a 0.82 release of Sugar for a semester. They have maintained a wiki[http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/] on the topic.<br />
<br />
== Spreading the word ==<br />
<br />
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms.<br />
<br />
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own record<br />
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007<br />
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007<br />
* '''ForumIT'''[http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/stiri.php#stirea65], Romania, August 2007<br />
* '''OSDC 2007'''[http://www.osdc.com.au/index2007.html], Sydney, November 2007<br />
* '''VITTA 2007'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2007/], Melbourne, November 2007<br />
* '''LinuxSA LUG'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''Adventures working for OLPC'', April 2008<br />
* '''OLPC Australia Tech Fest'''[http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/olpc-australias-first-techfest/], Sydney, July 2008<br />
* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008<br />
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming ===<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/VITTA2008 | VITTA 2008]], Melbourne<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008 | OSDC 2008]], Sydney<br />
* [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09 | LCA 2008]], Hobart<br />
<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possesion of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=11027User:Joel2008-11-11T14:02:45Z<p>Joel: /* Spreading the word */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Spreading the word ==<br />
<br />
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms.<br />
<br />
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own memory<br />
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007<br />
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007<br />
* '''ForumIT'''[http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/stiri.php#stirea65], Romania, August 2007<br />
* '''OSDC 2007'''[http://www.osdc.com.au/index2007.html], Sydney, November 2007<br />
* '''VITTA 2007'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2007/], Melbourne, November 2007<br />
* '''LinuxSA LUG'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''Adventures working for OLPC'', April 2008<br />
* '''OLPC Australia Tech Fest'''[http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/olpc-australias-first-techfest/], Sydney, July 2008<br />
* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008<br />
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming ===<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/VITTA2008 | VITTA 2008]], Melbourne<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008 | OSDC 2008]], Sydney<br />
* [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09 | LCA 2008]], Hobart<br />
<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possesion of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=11026User:Joel2008-11-11T13:58:14Z<p>Joel: /* Projects */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Spreading the word ==<br />
<br />
I'm slowly developing my public speaking skills by giving talks to groups - teachers, hackers, uni and highschool students - initially about OLPC, but now about Sugar in it's many forms.<br />
<br />
A list of the formal talks I've done, for my own memory<br />
* '''LinuxSA'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''One Laptop per Child'', February 2007<br />
* '''Game makeing cluster'''[http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/06/joel-stanley.html], Melbourne, ??? 2007<br />
* '''ForumIT'''[http://tabara.forumit.ro/2007/stiri.php#stirea65], Romania, August 2007<br />
* '''OSDC 2007'''[http://www.osdc.com.au/index2007.html], Sydney, November 2007<br />
* '''VITTA 2007'''[http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2007/], Melbourne, November 2007<br />
* '''LinuxSA LUG'''[http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/], Adelaide, ''Adventures working for OLPC'', April 2008<br />
* '''OLPC Australia Tech Fest''', Sydney, July 2008<br />
* '''Woodville Highschool''', Adelaide, September 2008<br />
* '''UniSA'''[http://godot.unisa.edu.au/digitalage/], Adelaide, Guest lectured for class ''Exploring the Digital Age'', October 2008<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming ===<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/VITTA2008 | VITTA 2008]], Melbourne<br />
* [[User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008 | OSDC 2008]], Sydney<br />
* [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09 | LCA 2008]], Hobart<br />
<br />
<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possesion of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=11023User:Joel2008-11-11T13:16:57Z<p>Joel: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au<br />
<br />
http://jms.id.au<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possesion of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008&diff=10885User:Joel/Events/OSDC20082008-11-11T00:25:09Z<p>Joel: New page: = OSDC 2008 = == Event Details == For more information, go to the [http://osdc.com.au/2008/ OSDC 2008 conference website]. == Sugar Organizer == Joel Stanley (joel dot ...</p>
<hr />
<div>= OSDC 2008 =<br />
<br />
== Event Details ==<br />
<br />
For more information, go to the [http://osdc.com.au/2008/ OSDC 2008 conference website].<br />
<br />
== Sugar Organizer ==<br />
<br />
[[User:Joel | Joel Stanley]] (joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au) will be present.<br />
<br />
Nothing formal is planned at this point. Pia Waugh will be giving the closing keynote and a talk on OLPC.<br />
<br />
I do plan on having some Sugar enabled laptops (Dell Mini, XO) for people to look at, and will give a lightning talk on SugarLabs.<br />
<br />
== Attendees ==<br />
<br />
Are you planning to attend? Add your name and contact info below!<br />
<br />
# Joel Stanley<br />
# Your name here<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
More info as it becomes available.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Event]]</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09&diff=10883User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au092008-11-11T00:20:42Z<p>Joel: </p>
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<div>= LCA 09 =<br />
<br />
== Event Details ==<br />
<br />
For more information, go to the [http://linux.conf.au/ LCA 09 website].<br />
<br />
== Sugar Organizer ==<br />
<br />
[[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] (walter at sugarlabs dot org) will be organizing Sugar's presence at LCA 09<br />
<br />
== Attendees ==<br />
<br />
Are you planning to attend? Add your name and contact info below!<br />
<br />
# Walter Bender (walter at sugarlabs dot org)<br />
# Joel Stanley (joel dot stanley at adeladie dot edu dot au)<br />
# Your name here<br />
<br />
== Lodging ==<br />
<br />
More info as it becomes available.<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
More info as it becomes available.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Event]]</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Marketing_Team/Events&diff=10882Marketing Team/Events2008-11-11T00:18:46Z<p>Joel: </p>
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{{TeamHeader|MarketingTeam}}</noinclude><br />
<br />
= Events =<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Events ==<br />
<br />
Sugar Labs has committed to having a presence at the following events.<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Date !! Event !! Location !! Owner !! Details<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-10-26 – 2008-10-28 || [http://www.sarasotadesignsummit.com Sarasota International Design Summit] || Sarasota, FL, USA || [[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] || [[User:Walter/Events/Sarasota-Design-Summit|Sarasota Design Summit]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-10-27 – 2008-10-30 || [http://www.cmp-egevents.com/web/escb ESC 2008] || Boston, MA, USA || [[User:Bernie | Bernie Innocenti]] || [https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=8164 Constructionist learning with Sugar and the Beagle Board]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-11-13 – 2008-11-14 || [http://www.sfscon.it/2008/ South Tyrol Free Software conference (SFScon)] || Balzano, Italy || [[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] || [[User:Walter/Events/SFScon08|SFScon 08]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-11-24 – 2008-11-26 || [http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo Victorian IT Teachers Association (VITTA) conference] || Melbourne, Australia || [[User:joel | Joel Stanley]] || [[User:Joel/Events/VITTA2008 | VITTA 2008]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-12-02 – 2008-12-05 || [http://osdc.com.au/2008/ Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC)] || Sydney, Australia || [[User:joel | Joel Stanley]] || [[User:Joel/Events/OSDC2008 | OSDC 2008]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2009-01-19 – 2009-01-24 || [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au 09] || Hobart, Tasmania || [[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] || [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09|LCA 09]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2009-03-25 – 2009-04-02 || [http://us.pycon.org/2009/about/ PyCon 2009] || Chicago, IL, USA || [[User:Gdk | Greg DeKoenigsberg]] || [[User:Gdk/Events/PyCon2009|PyCon 2009]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Events: Google Calendar ==<br />
<br />
Official Sugar community events are also posted in a public calendar within the Google Calendar system. This calendar is available in a variety of formats: <span class="plainlinks"> [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/b/b9/XML.gif] [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/1/19/ICal.gif] [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/0/0c/HTML.gif].</span><br />
<br />
== Add an Event ==<br />
<br />
Would you like to represent Sugar Labs at an event near you? Follow this simple process.<br />
<br />
# Create a new page on the wiki, using [[User:Gdk/Events/PyCon2009]] as an example.<br />
# Link to the event in the [[#Upcoming Events]] section, above.<br />
# Send an email to '''events at sugarlabs dot org''' to have the event added to the official Google calendar of events.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel/Events/VITTA2008&diff=10880User:Joel/Events/VITTA20082008-11-11T00:16:54Z<p>Joel: New page: = VITTA 2008 = == Event Details == For more information, go to the [http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo VITTA 2008 conference website]. == Sugar Organizer == [[User:Joel | Joel Stan...</p>
<hr />
<div>= VITTA 2008 =<br />
<br />
== Event Details ==<br />
<br />
For more information, go to the [http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo VITTA 2008 conference website].<br />
<br />
== Sugar Organizer ==<br />
<br />
[[User:Joel | Joel Stanley]] (joel dot stanley at adelaide dot edu dot au) will be co-presenting two talks. The conference attendees are principals, teachers and school IT staff.<br />
<br />
One is on Scratch and Python, with Roland. The other is on OLPC and an introduction to Sugar.<br />
<br />
== Attendees ==<br />
<br />
Are you planning to attend? Add your name and contact info below!<br />
<br />
# Joel Stanley<br />
# Your name here<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
More info as it becomes available.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Event]]</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Marketing_Team/Events&diff=10878Marketing Team/Events2008-11-11T00:11:58Z<p>Joel: /* Upcoming Events */</p>
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{{TeamHeader|MarketingTeam}}</noinclude><br />
<br />
= Events =<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Events ==<br />
<br />
Sugar Labs has committed to having a presence at the following events.<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Date !! Event !! Location !! Owner !! Details<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-10-26 – 2008-10-28 || [http://www.sarasotadesignsummit.com Sarasota International Design Summit] || Sarasota, FL, USA || [[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] || [[User:Walter/Events/Sarasota-Design-Summit|Sarasota Design Summit]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-10-27 – 2008-10-30 || [http://www.cmp-egevents.com/web/escb ESC 2008] || Boston, MA, USA || [[User:Bernie | Bernie Innocenti]] || [https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=8164 Constructionist learning with Sugar and the Beagle Board]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-11-13 – 2008-11-14 || [http://www.sfscon.it/2008/ South Tyrol Free Software conference (SFScon)] || Balzano, Italy || [[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] || [[User:Walter/Events/SFScon08|SFScon 08]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-11-24 – 2008-11-26 || [http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo Victorian IT Teachers Association (VITTA) conference] || Melbourne, Australia || [[User:joel | Joel Stanley]] || Co-presenting two sessions for teachers: Python, and an intro to Sugar<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-12-02 – 2008-12-05 || [http://osdc.com.au/2008/ Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC)] || Sydney, Australia || [[User:joel | Joel Stanley]] || Will give a lightning talk on SugarLabs<br />
|-<br />
| 2009-01-19 – 2009-01-24 || [http://linux.conf.au/ linux.conf.au 09] || Hobart, Tasmania || [[User:Walter | Walter Bender]] || [[User:Walter/Events/Linux.conf.au09|LCA 09]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2009-03-25 – 2009-04-02 || [http://us.pycon.org/2009/about/ PyCon 2009] || Chicago, IL, USA || [[User:Gdk | Greg DeKoenigsberg]] || [[User:Gdk/Events/PyCon2009|PyCon 2009]]<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Events: Google Calendar ==<br />
<br />
Official Sugar community events are also posted in a public calendar within the Google Calendar system. This calendar is available in a variety of formats: <span class="plainlinks"> [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/b/b9/XML.gif] [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/1/19/ICal.gif] [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/0/0c/HTML.gif].</span><br />
<br />
== Add an Event ==<br />
<br />
Would you like to represent Sugar Labs at an event near you? Follow this simple process.<br />
<br />
# Create a new page on the wiki, using [[User:Gdk/Events/PyCon2009]] as an example.<br />
# Link to the event in the [[#Upcoming Events]] section, above.<br />
# Send an email to '''events at sugarlabs dot org''' to have the event added to the official Google calendar of events.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Marketing_Team/Contacts&diff=10876Marketing Team/Contacts2008-11-11T00:00:02Z<p>Joel: </p>
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{{TeamHeader|MarketingTeam}}</noinclude><br />
== Mailing List ==<br />
tbd<br />
<br />
== IRC Channel ==<br />
tbd<br />
<br />
== Team Members ==<br />
{|<br />
! Area of Specialty''' !! '''Wiki Username'''<br />
|-<br />
| "I'm willing to help; what needs to be done?" || [[user:jcarroll]]<br />
|-<br />
| Giving talks on Sugar in Australia || [[user:joel | Joel]]<br />
|-<br />
| Everything || Your name here!<br />
|}<br />
[[Category:MarketingTeam]]</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Oversight_Board/Minutes&diff=7713Oversight Board/Minutes2008-07-31T12:06:20Z<p>Joel: /* Friday 1 August 2008 - 14.00 (UTC) */ added link to timeanddate for meeting time</p>
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==About==<br />
<br />
* <br />
<br />
==When and where==<br />
* to be determined (probably on the order of 1–2 times per month<br />
* Friday<br />
* 17.00 (UTC)<br />
* irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting<br />
<br />
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: <br />
date -d '[current date] [time] UTC' <br />
date -d '2008-06-03 17:00 UTC'<br />
<br />
==Who==<br />
<br />
The meeting is mainly targeted to Sugar Oversight Board, but everyone interested is welcome to join. It's primary purpose is to discuss general issues related to Sugar and the Sugar community; however, it is not intended as a replacement for the weekly developer meetings.<br />
<br />
==How to add topics==<br />
You can add the topics that you want to discuss during the week to the topics section for the meeting. They will be collected during the week and send out in the meeting announcement on _____. A reminder to add topics will be sent out _____.<br />
<br />
==Meetings==<br />
===Friday July 18 2008 - 17.00 (UTC) ===<br />
====Logs ====<br />
<br />
[[Sugar Labs/OversightBoard/Log-2008-07-18]]<br />
<br />
====Attending====<br />
marcopg, walter, erikos, cjb, cjl, dfarning, tomeu, bemasc, erikg<br />
<br />
====Topics====<br />
=====Topic=====<br />
Sugar Labs status<br />
* SF Conservancy [[SFC-SugarLabs Agreement]]<br />
:''We await feedback from the SFC and OLPC, but there was consensus that it is an adequate expression of the needs of Sugar Labs.''<br />
* [[Sugar Labs/initial members list|Membership]]<br />
:''There was consensus that we have made sufficient outreach to the community that the initial list is a fair representation of Sugar Labs; we look forward to having the Membership Committee take it from here.''<br />
** http://selectricity.org/<br />
:''There was consensus that Walter would put together a strawman election process based upon the Selectricity tool. We are targeting an August election.''<br />
* [[Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees|Committees]]<br />
:''There was consensus that we begin with just Oversight and Members committees.''<br />
* Image<br />
** [[:Image:Luca-logo-5wb4.png]]<br />
:''We agreed for the need to solict more feedback in rhe wiki for the design direction being proposed by Luca.''<br />
* Budget/Funding<br />
** Trademarks<br />
:''We agreed that further discussions with the SFLA about the merits of trademark protection is needed.''<br />
** Conferences<br />
*** Linux [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_conference]<br />
:''We agreed on the desirability of Sugar Labs participation at conferences around the world, but hope to meet the need by utilizing locals to whatever extent possible. We also discussed the desireability to have a meeting of Sugar Labs developers a couple of times per year. We discussed the possibility of an on-line meeting that leverages resources above and beyond IRC.''<br />
*** Education [http://www.conferencealerts.com/school.htm]<br />
:''We agreed on the necessity of Sugar Labs participation in the learning community, but don't yet have a good handle on the best and most efficient means of accomplishing this.''<br />
** Infrastructure<br />
:''We briefly reviewed the current situation and will solicit a report from the ad hoc infrastructure committee for next week's continuation of the discussion.''<br />
** Staff<br />
:''We adjourned after agreeing to reconvene on the 25 July.''<br />
<br />
===[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=1&year=2008&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 Friday 1 August 2008 - 14.00 (UTC)]===<br />
<br />
====Logs ====<br />
<br />
====Attending====<br />
<br />
====Topics====<br />
<br />
=====Topic=====<br />
Administrative<br />
<br />
* Review minutes from last meeting<br />
* Set next meeting date<br />
* Set date for election<br />
** Solicit candidates for election<br />
<br />
=====Topic=====<br />
Infrastructure status<br />
* Hardware<br />
* Hosting<br />
* etc.<br />
<br />
=====Topic=====<br />
Key issues<br />
* Engineering<br />
** Stability<br />
** QA<br />
** Updates<br />
** growing the community of contributors<br />
* Learning<br />
** Outreach<br />
** Feedback<br />
** growing the community of contributors</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=6886User:Joel2008-06-30T10:14:58Z<p>Joel: /* Itch */ added screenshot of the work-in-progress itch gui</p>
<hr />
<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
<br />
Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
<br />
<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
<br />
joel dot stan at gmail dot com<br />
<br />
= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
<br />
I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
<br />
= Projects =<br />
== Itch ==<br />
[[Image:Screenshot-Itch.png | right]]<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possesion of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
<br />
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
<br />
I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=File:Screenshot-Itch.png&diff=6885File:Screenshot-Itch.png2008-06-30T10:09:53Z<p>Joel: A screenshot of Joel's Itch program for the Pico board</p>
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<div>A screenshot of Joel's Itch program for the Pico board</div>Joelhttps://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=User:Joel&diff=6884User:Joel2008-06-30T09:17:29Z<p>Joel: Added my details</p>
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<div>= Contact =<br />
Joel Stanley<br />
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Located in Adelaide, Australia (GMT+9:30).<br />
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<i>shenki</i> on irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net<br />
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joel dot stan at gmail dot com<br />
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= About =<br />
My Sugar experience began with a OLPC internship and Summer of Code project in July-September 2007. I worked with smithbone, cjb, mitch, arjs and wad on the XO hardware. I also learnt python thanks to coderanger and mstone, Forth thanks to mitch, and linux c programming thanks to bernie. My work is in [http://dev.laptop.org/git git] - most of it consists of small standalone scripts, but a notable part was the power measuring work went on to be integrated in cjb's [http://learn.laptop.org/ tinderbox].<br />
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I have interests in facilitating Sugar deployments locally. Part of this is making both teachers and FOSS people aware of the project, and encouraging them to contribute. There is no lack of energy or enthusiasm for the opportunity that Sugar presents, but there needs to be obvious, open, paths for involvement from any direction.<br />
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I spend most of my time studying for my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Computer Systems at the University of Adelaide, and working as a software engineer at ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company).<br />
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= Projects =<br />
== Itch ==<br />
Thanks to Roland, a teacher who I met while giving a talk on OLPC, I came into possesion of a Scratch Board - now named [http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html Pico Board]. It's a small serial based breakout board, with a bunch of sensor inputs. I've hacked together some python to read this data out and display it. This has evolved into an activity for the XO.<br />
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http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/joel/itch-activity;a=summary<br />
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I would like to see this become integrated with [[User:Arjs | Arjun]]'s sensor work in Measure and Turtle Art. Perhaps next would be turning the python into a library suitable for using the sensor data in these programs, and/or Pippy.</div>Joel