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* Monday, November 17, 2008 | * Monday, November 17, 2008 | ||
* | * 6:30pm - 10pm (we will order food together at the beginning; bring your own $ for dinner) | ||
* | * One Broadway, Cambridge MA 02142 (at the corner of Broadway and 3rd, by the Kendall T stop) | ||
* Call [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] to be let in when you arrive - 847.970.8484 | |||
== About == | == About == | ||
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* Tom Boyle (StarChart, focusing on localization) | * Tom Boyle (StarChart, focusing on localization) | ||
* [[User:Wade|Wade]] (Sugar Activity development) | * [[User:Wade|Wade]] (Sugar Activity development) | ||
* | * Brian Jordan (Sugar Activity development, Pippy love) | ||
* Amanda Peyton (MIT Sloan project looking at the SugarLabs organizational structure) | |||
* Ryan Kabir (new development contributor to Sugar, looking for a place to start) | |||
* Brendan Powers (new contributor,looking for something simple to get used to the project) | |||
* Chris Ball (from 7:30) | |||
* Erik Blankinship (updating the Map Activity) | |||
== Stuff to hack on == | |||
* Spreadsheet activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-February/004225.html | |||
* Mind mapping activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html | |||
* Make the Sugar shell react to changes in the ~/Activities dir using inotify. | |||
* A quiz game with competitive collaboration (cjb) -- e.g. generate arithmetic problems, have a shared countdown, and then the first person to answer correctly gets the most points. Generalizable to quizes about non-math stuff too. | |||
* A simple searching game: "hot/cold" where the XO is hiding somewhere on the screen (not displayed) and as the cursor moves closer or farther from the XO, the computer responds warmer/colder or hot/cold. | |||
== To do == | == To do == | ||
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Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help! | Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help! | ||
* Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes). | * <s>Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes).</s> | ||
* make invitations and send them out | * <s>make invitations and send them out</s> | ||
* find some way to make nametags for everybody | * <s>find some way to make nametags for everybody</s> (Actually, we probably won't need these - we're small enough.) | ||
* make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards | * make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards | ||
* send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp | * send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp | ||