EduJAM/2013

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EduJam 2013!!!

This page is for planning the EduJAM! summit in Paraguay October 10th to 13th 2013.

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Main goals

• Sharing experiences among global Sugar and OLPC deployments
• Encouraging the creation of local communities and strengthening existing ones
• Getting updates on the current activities of OLPC, Sugar, TurtleArt and technology and learning projects of MIT
• Encouraging the participation of local communities in the overall project

Program

A first sketch of the event (preliminary, see also update here!) is as follows: Program committee:

• Gonzalo Odiard
• Walter Bender
• Leticia Romero
• Martín Abente
• Claudia Urrea
• Mary Gomez

Attendees

If you want to attend, please write us: edujam@googlegroups.com

Including Volunteer Organizers: Martín Abente, Walter Bender, Pablo Flores, Gonzalo Odiard, Leticia Romero, Micaela Acosta

Add yourself to this list:

• Claudia Urrea
• Leticia Romero
• Micaela Acosta
• Martín Abente
• Walter Bender
• Pablo Flores
• Gonzalo Odiard
• Manuel Quiñones
• Tony Forster
• Ignacio Escudero
• Henry Coca Garamendi
• Andres Aguirre
• Juan Bautista Sartorio
• Gary Servin
• Carla Oros
• María Elena García

See also https://www.facebook.com/events/437684979683491/ , 49 going, 17 maybe as at 26 September

Hackaton

At Sunday 13th, we will do a Hackaton, a developing workshop, with tasks for every level. The idea is allow participation of every one who want learn how to, or help in Sugar and activities development.

Some proposals:

• Instalation and test of new features in Sugar 0.100
• Bugs triage
• Finance activity (proposed by PY)
• Create a Wikipedia Guaraní activity.
• Translation of Help activity to "es"
• Activities improvements
• Web activities workshop.
• Collaboration blocks for Butia
• Turtle Blocks export to HTML5/Javascript

NOTE: If participants go with their own computers for development, is encouraged the installation of sugar-build (http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html)

SPANISH:

El domingo 13, vamos a realizar un Hackaton, una actividad de desarrollo, con tareas para cada nivel. La idea es permitir la participación de todo el que quiera aprender o ayudar en el desarrollo de Sugar.

Algunas ideas:

• Instalacion y prueba de nuevas caracteristicas de sugar 0.100
• Control de bugs.
• Actividad Finance (lo que pidieron ustedes)
• Armar una wikipedia Guaraní.
• Traduccion de la actividad Help en -> es
• Mejoras en actividades
• Taller de actividades web
• Bloques de colaboracion por Butia
• Turtle Blocks exportar a HTML5/Javascript

NOTA: A quienes llevan sus computadoras para desarrollar se les recomienda instalar sugar-build (http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html)

Location

Thursday and Friday:

Facultad Politecnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asuncion (UNA)

Saturday:

Universidad del Norte de Caacupe

Sunday:

ABC Color

The program is also showing events at Paraguay Educa and the Sheraton

Accommodation

We'll put here some more information about possible places for staying.

map

The following 4 are from edujam.wix:

• Quinta Ykua Sati
• El viajero Hostel
• El Circo Hostel
• Los Alpes Hotel

Near UNA (Universidad Nacional de Asunción):

• Badenia Hotel Garni 2, Fernando De La Mora, Paraguay
• Hotel del Sur Av Mariscal José Félix Estigarribia, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
• Liz Hotel Gral Genes, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
• Hotel Universitario P. J. Carles, San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Paraguay (generally) uses 220V European electrical outlets so please consider bringing a small converter.

Wifi access will be sought where possible, but not guaranteed.

Transport

• http://wikitravel.org/en/Asunci%C3%B3n#Get_around
• http://voices.yahoo.com/asuncion-paraguay-transportation-33843.html?cat=16

Saturday's Turtle Art Day is in Caacupe, 30 km from Asuncion. A bus is being provided. See registration below.

Registration

http://bit.ly/edujam2013

Paraguay

Visas are not required for most US, Canada, Europe.

My advice on phoning the embassy is that Australian and New Zealand citizens need a visa [1]which costs US$135 for Australians or US$140 New Zealanders. The embassy is in Canberra and processing takes 2-5 days plus mailing time. However Wikipedia indicates that you can get a visa on arrival at the Asuncion main airport [2] this may be true and the phone advice incomplete or Wikipedia may be out of date.

Links

• http://edujam.wix.com/2013
• https://www.facebook.com/events/437684979683491/
• http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/Guia_Ingles_10-08-2013.pdf (en)TA Day Event Planning Guide
• http://people.sugarlabs.org/walter/Guia_Esp_12-08-2013.pdf (es) TA Day Guía planificación de eventos